STEPHEN STILLS
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Working with Stephen Stills offers up a different set of challenges for Michael, partly due to the fact that Stills can be using such a massive range of gear during the course of just a single show to cover his many different tones. "To run through Stephen Stills' gear would take forever because we've used so many different things!" laughs Michael. "At times, we've had as many as six amps on stage, all used in different combinations! He's used the Marshall 1962 reissue (which is also called the Bluesbreaker), the Marshall 1974X reissue, and there are almost always two 1959 Fender Vibrolux amps on stage. We've also used a 100W Silvertone, which was a cheap and cheerful amp sold in department stores in the US in the '60s. For the Gretsch hollow-body guitar, we've used a 100W 610 amplifier. And we used a Marshall Triple Super Lead 602 for a while, which is a 60W 2 x 12 combo with a custom switching system. Effects-wise, there's always a tremolo somewhere and an echo and a reverb.
"You try to get the right devices so Stephen can get the palette of sounds that he's looking for. He will rarely say, 'I want to use this piece of gear!' He'll say, 'I want to have this kind of sound,' so it's up to the tech to figure out how to give him the sound that he's looking for at the right time. We're very fortunate that he has many of the guitars that he's been playing since the 1960s, so there's quite a number of very old and very valuable Fenders and Gibsons from the '50s, as well as a lot of newer guitars. Often with Stephen, I could be travelling with maybe 30 guitars just for him and many of them would be very, very valuable!"
Sur le site de Custom Audio Electronics vous trouverez des photos de son système.
Le rack comprend :
_ une alimentation
_ deux racks que je ne reconnais pas (c'est la même unité en deux exemplaires)
_ un TC Electronic G-major estampillé "reverb"
_ un Yamah SPX-2000 estampillé "GIZZ"
_ un Tube works Blue Tube
_ un tiroir avec différentes pédales
_ un switcher CAE
_ un Sabine FBX-SOLO (pour l'acoustique j'imagine)
Le tiroir à pédales comprend :
_ un Line6 DL-4
_ deux tremolos Demeter Tremulator, un avec réglage rapide (SLO-TREM), l'autre avec réglage rapide (FAST-TREM)
_ un boost/overdrive CAE/MXR MC402
_ deux boost/line drivers CAE/MXR MC401 : un marqué G-MAJOR, l'autre SPX-2000
_ deux ISP decimator : un marqué DRIVE LOOP, l'autre CAE BOOST
_ une alimentation Voodoo Lab PP2+
Ajoutons à cela deux pédaliers custom :
_ le premier avec 4 switches, un pour chaque ampli
_ le second avec dix switches pilotant les effets (GIZZ, REVERB, DELAY, SLO TREM, FAST TREM, DRIVE, BOOST, WAH, FB, REVERB)
Ah, j'oubliais...
Accordeur Peterson et Reverb Fender encore en plus.
lemgement lemg
