Xpensive Wino
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I like that champ setup. The iridium show with Imelda May was cool. Is he using the 4 x 12 cabs, too?
I thought you meant "Beck"
Nobody is more qualified to talk about Jeff Beck’s gear than Stevie Prior.
On the DVD, Beck is playing through a pair of Fender Pro Juniors. Fender’s Shane Nicholas clarifies, “One was finished in Sonic Blue to match a Custom Shop guitar at the NAMM show, and somehow Jeff ended up with it.”
“The Sonic Blue one has a Jensen P10R Alnico I retrofitted just to get a bit more treble. On the tour now, we’re using these marvelous Lazy J amps built by Jesse Hoff."
“I’m also running a pair of reissue Marshall JTM 45s,” Prior continues. “I’ve stuck them to Marshall custom-made floor wedges, which are 4x12s loaded with Greenbacks, split into two boxes. So one of the JTM 45s runs a pair of wedges downstage, which are effectively a 16-ohm load, and one of the JTM 45s runs a Greenback-loaded 1960BX cabinet onstage. I run all amps through a couple of buffered, isolated splitter boxes, which allow me to run however many rigs I need to. They were built by a guy in the U.K. who worked for Marshall for 30-odd years – now Mike Hill Services (MHS).”
For Beck’s “own” shows, Prior controls an offstage rack that includes such things as a Maestro Ring Modulator, a Mu-Tron octave divider, and an old, gray MXR Power Flanger, “like Eddie Van Halen used.” A pair of limited-edition Marshall JTM 45 100s – “essentially the front end of a JTM 45 with two output stages” – is also employed. From all that, it goes into the MHS buffered, isolated splitting box, then into however many amps we’re using. And we put a pair of Sennheiser 509s on the amplifiers, and generally a 57 or something like that on the 4x12s.”
http://www.vintageguitar.com/9486/jeff-beck/
Common misnomerI thought you meant "Beck"
What.. no Vox AC-30's that The Yardbirds use in their early days or the "Plush Amps" that Jeff and Ronnie used in the first Jeff Beck tours? They looked like Kustom's but were all valve. I think he could plugged up to a stack of turds and sound great!I think I was 15 when the LP "Truth" came out. I had a brown Princeton, a Radio Shack Reverb unit, a Japanese copy of a Gretsch and a Jordan Bosstone (fuzz) an ealy Vox Wah Wah and could almost get that sound like he had on Truth! All I had to do was grow his fingers..