Matos de Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore
("Guitar Player", December 1997)

"...It's my preamp, which is an old souped-up Aiwa reel-to-reel tape recorder that I originally used as a tape delay. It has an input and an output stage, so I plugged into it and noticed that it gave me a fatter sound - about a 3-watt boost. I used it from that day on. If I don't use it, the sound is too shrill. It seems to calm the sound down and give it more midrange. I just thought it was a normal tape deck, but now it's become this little soul on the side of the stage. It's like my little friend."

http://www.deep-purple.ru/hist(...).html

C'est bien ce que je disais... Ritchie est un fourbe qui raconte tout et n'importe quoi...

Il est connu pour ne pas beaucoup aimer la presse en tout cas (et c'est un euphémisme). Néanmoins, je pense qu'aux alentours de '73-'74, il est passé du treble booster à son magnéto Aiwa, tout simplement.

Et bien moi, d'après ce que je sais, il n' utilisé le treble booster qu'au tout début de sa carrière. L'aiwa est arrivé peu de temps après, et a fait le reste, que l'on connaît bien.

Dixit un sujet créé par un gars très bien quelques lignes plus haut (en post-it)

Dans l'interview de 78 même site que mon autre post, il dit ça à propos du magnéto :

"What type of recorder is it?

I don't really know. I tried using a Revox and it didn't work. I'd really be in trouble if somebody stole my recorder. I've been using it for the last four or five years."

Ce qui correspond bien... enfin peut être le fin mot de l'histoire..

Ce qui nous ramène à 73-74 .

Ben oui, c'est pour ça que j'ai posté, ouaah moi aussi j'peux faire MIB

Il n'y a pas de raison que je ne poste pas non plus mon article :

Ritchie's best known effects unit is the Aiwa open reel tape deck used both in the studio and live which acts as an echo unit and a preamp. Ritchie introduced the Aiwa on the Burn tour, although in various interviews Ritchie has said he used it earlier than 1974, live photographs contradict this.
Ritchie apparently tried a Revox but found this didn't work and he is shown at home in Didi Zill's book with a Watkins Copicat tape echo (both Lord and Coverdale are also shown with them) but clearly found it inappropriate as well.
The use of open reel tape decks for echo was a fairly common technique at the time, part of Mike Oldfield's sound on Tubular Bells was apparently his Gibson SG played through an Akai open reel machine. Lindsay Buckingham (of Fleetwood Mac) also used a Sony tape deck as a preamp.
In the 1970's, open reel tape decks with valve electronics (I don't know if Ritchie's used valves) were in widespread use, these could be used as guitar preamps as well an echo units. The echo effect comes from the delay between the record head and the playback head with the recorder in monitor mode to produce a delay. If the deck can do it, plug the guitar in and set the left channel to monitor the recorded signal and the right channel to the original signal. The faster the tape is run, the shorter the echo/delay.
In September 1978, Ritchie told Guitar Player: "I like a little bit of distortion which is controlled through my tape recorder. I built my own tape recorder; well, I didn't build it, but I modified it from a regular tape recorder to an echo unit. It also preamps and boosts the signal going to the amp. If I want a fuzzy effect I just turn up the output stage of the tape recorder. I just keep it on 'record' so it records, and it's like a continual echo because I couldn't get that echo with any echo machine. A continual boom, boom, boom, repeat. Most echo machines are awful; it's like you're in a hallway. The tape recorder doesn't interfere with the note you're playing. I used to do that at home; I used to take my tape recorder and use it as an echo. So I thought if I could use it at home I could use it onstage and it sounded right onstage. I tried using a Revox and it didn't work. I'd really be in trouble if somebody stole my recorder. I've been using it for the last four or five years.
There's a cord from the guitar into the tape recorder input, and the output stage just goes back to the amp. And I can control the volume, too; I can have it loud with no distortion or visa versa. I have a little footpedal that I can stop and start it with. A lot of people think when they see the tape going the solos are recorded. Lots of people ask that. Some guy shouted in New York, 'Turn the tape recorder off.' Actually all that inspired me, I turned it off and really whizzed around."
Recent photographs of Blackmore's Night show the Aiwa is still in use although without tape reels so it is now used solely as a preamp. Ritchie has said that the tape deck now has a psychological benefit providing him with comfort a factor.

aussi

En même temps, c'est vrai, qu'en page 49 du fameux topic en post-it, un certain lemg nous avait déjà présenté son article, alors sur le coup c'est lui le roi du MIB

Heu, en ce qui concerne une péoque plus récente, je sais que le patron de Engl a vu jouer l'ami Ritchie sur une Engl Savage mi-90 (genre 95 ou 96), et lui a proposé de réaliser l'ampli de ses rêve.

Ainsi naquit en 1996 le Engl Ritchie Blackmore Signature.

Et moi je fais du Death MEtal avec ça, mercie Ritchie!