Re: When Did Chris First Go Stereo?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 7:32 am
Thank you for your comments!
I was thinking about you, Michael, that you could have some good answers! Thank you! I wasn't really aware of Chris option to leave the HS tone always open. I do the same but in Chris' case it's even more understandable since he claimed that the HS had a really weak signal so there wouldn't be much to filter even further. On the jazz bass we still don't know but we have some clues.
As for Chris wiring his basses in stereo, as Michael said, it's a modification Chris might have made on all of his basses (with 2 pickups) since he routes specific effects on individual pickups. I looked back for my guitar world old issue of September 87 where Mike Tobias says the red five string has only one output jack because Chris always runs it in stereo.
Evidence for stereo on the jazz bass can be found on pictures of Chris playing live and two separate cables can be seen... I thing earlier in this thread is that photo.
But it's because I was studying "to be over" that this question appeared to me... It's quite audible in several sections of the song that Chris is splitting the signal with a more distorted "Ritual" kind of over drive on one channel and the cleaner sound on the other... Although the use of the jazz bass and the lower mixed bass makes the oval result considerably mellower than Ritual. Can you hear it too?
thanks everyone!
I was thinking about you, Michael, that you could have some good answers! Thank you! I wasn't really aware of Chris option to leave the HS tone always open. I do the same but in Chris' case it's even more understandable since he claimed that the HS had a really weak signal so there wouldn't be much to filter even further. On the jazz bass we still don't know but we have some clues.
As for Chris wiring his basses in stereo, as Michael said, it's a modification Chris might have made on all of his basses (with 2 pickups) since he routes specific effects on individual pickups. I looked back for my guitar world old issue of September 87 where Mike Tobias says the red five string has only one output jack because Chris always runs it in stereo.
Evidence for stereo on the jazz bass can be found on pictures of Chris playing live and two separate cables can be seen... I thing earlier in this thread is that photo.
But it's because I was studying "to be over" that this question appeared to me... It's quite audible in several sections of the song that Chris is splitting the signal with a more distorted "Ritual" kind of over drive on one channel and the cleaner sound on the other... Although the use of the jazz bass and the lower mixed bass makes the oval result considerably mellower than Ritual. Can you hear it too?
thanks everyone!