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EQUIPMENT
"I'm using a Johnny Smith Gibson electric guitar. I've got a couple of models - a '68 and a '77 - those are the years they were made. I carry one at a time. I'm playing the red one right now, which I like just because it's red, and so beautiful. But fortunately, it has a great sound, too."
"I use a Sony M7, which means I don't have to schlepp an amp around. As opposed to just having bass and treble on your amp, it's got some very nice equalization on the inside, and from that I can go directly out to a board or to a tape console. Though in the studio, I use monitors - playback from the board, or I'll plug into an amp just to have the physical sound. Like when you hear the drums, you want to hear them in your body, not just your headphones. And that's it."
"I use a little guitar synthesizer on the new album, in a very discrete way: little bits on 'Tokyo Decadence' and also on 'Shin Jin Rui', the piece with David Sanborn. Actually, I'm just doubling James Genus' bass." His guitar synthesizer is a Roland, with the electronics modified by New England Digital, makers of the Synclavier."
"My acoustic guitar is made by the great Abraham Wechter, a luthier from Michigan, and the microtechnology is by Larry Fishman, a Massachusetts transducer maker: it's a little preamp, with a cardoid mic for the purest sound possible. Microchips allow me to take a signal from the bridge and send it to the MIDI interface."
Le M7, c'est un multi spécialisé dans les modulations, donc c'est de là que provient l'effet entendu. Effectivement, ça sonne comme une univibe, ou éventuellement une Leslie en vitesse lente, ou même un flanger. On est dans cette plage de sons commune à différents effets.
