Hi Steve, I saw you play with Phil at the two July shows at the Warfield, I wonder if you have a memory of what your general rig was with that mutating band around that time?
The basic setup back then was two amps/stereo: 50 watt Dumble on a 2×12 with some kind of unknown Celestion samples on one side and a 180 watt Mesa Baron power amp on either one or two 2×12’s with reconed Vox Blue Bulldogs.
For slide, lapsteel, or anything at meltdown distortion levels there was an R5T DeArmond I could slave to the effects input.
MuTron III, maybe an octave divider, Vox Tone Bender, that might have been about it in front of the amp.
So, gtr > MuTron III > Tone Bender > Octave > Dumble input
then. .
Dumble preamp out > input Lexicon LXP1
or
DeArmond speaker out > LXP1
LXP1 stereo outs to Dumble effects return and Mesa Baron input.
That’s pretty much that era rig no matter what was going on.
The one bit I don’t remember at the Warfield was if was using the RV-2, my fave ping-pong delay pedal.
I used it all the time in Zero, still use it today, but it disappeared for a while to Germany for a couple of years; Billy took mine, left me his, said “they’re all the same”.
Of course they weren’t the same, mine was better, but it took years to swap back. .
Electronics aside for a moment, the biggest single contributor to the sound of that rig was string gauge.
Everything was pretty heavy.
2 Jun 2020
6:42pm
Comment:
Steve, do you think you were also using the Dearmond around this time?
The basic setup back then was two amps/stereo: 50 watt Dumble on a 2×12 with some kind of unknown Celestion samples on one side and a 180 watt Mesa Baron power amp on either one or two 2×12’s with reconed Vox Blue Bulldogs.
For slide, lapsteel, or anything at meltdown distortion levels there was an R5T DeArmond I could slave to the effects input.
MuTron III, maybe an octave divider, Vox Tone Bender, that might have been about it in front of the amp.
So, gtr > MuTron III > Tone Bender > Octave > Dumble input
then. .
Dumble preamp out > input Lexicon LXP1
or
DeArmond speaker out > LXP1
LXP1 stereo outs to Dumble effects return and Mesa Baron input.
That’s pretty much that era rig no matter what was going on.
The one bit I don’t remember at the Warfield was if was using the RV-2, my fave ping-pong delay pedal.
I used it all the time in Zero, still use it today, but it disappeared for a while to Germany for a couple of years; Billy took mine, left me his, said “they’re all the same”.
Of course they weren’t the same, mine was better, but it took years to swap back. .
Electronics aside for a moment, the biggest single contributor to the sound of that rig was string gauge.
Everything was pretty heavy.
Steve, do you think you were also using the Dearmond around this time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3OXugv9rwI