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Post subject: Hollywood recording studios-OT
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:35 am
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Hey you guys, been talking with an old friend, I grew up with. He's the second call lead guitar session player(next behind Waddy Wachtel) in the Hollywood recording scene. Asked, what kind of amps they're using in the studio. He said a newer Champ(2010). Told him I'd send him my nearly completed Valco. He said fine, "but we don't have anyone to work on the old tube amps and the studios can't afford to keep a stash of old amps". "It's all compensated for on the sound board, but sure I'll use it". I know Jackson Browne and Ry Cooder are located in Santa Monica and use the real stuff. They got to bring in their own amps. But you guys are all over the continent, what are you finding? Say---Austin, Nashville, New Orleans, Montreal, Detroit. I remember, as a kid, the studios always had an assortment of equipment(I was lucky enough to get into the RCA studios in Hollywood, after a Nelson Eddy session). It might be a sign of the times, don't know? Art (grew up in the Santa Monica Mountains-just a reference)

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Post subject: Re: Hollywood recording studios-OT
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:20 pm
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I'm sure that some studios will still have a collection of amps, but I'm gonna guess they're on the smaller wattage side of things. While I'm sure great session players can coax great sound out of anything, there will hopefully always be some studios that have some great old amps that you don't have at home in addition to the room sound, mic locker and other doodads.

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Post subject: Re: Hollywood recording studios-OT
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:50 pm
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It's been a good long time since I've been in a studio in Nashville,probably at least ten years,and back then there was some pretty cool amps,mostly the smaller Princeton Reverbs and Deluxe Reverbs,a mixture of blackface and silverface...for awhile in the '80s it seemed like this area was flooded with Peavey amps both onstage and in the studio,the country pickers went overboard with them and I sold mine never looking back.
I came back to Fender in the early '90s because nothing ever captured the tone I had in my head except the blackface amps...the first amp I bought back then is the '66 Deluxe Reverb that saved my bacon at the gig the other night,it's my old standby...it's a great one.


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Post subject: Re: Hollywood recording studios-OT
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:04 am
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From what he tells me, the recording studios are hard pressed to make ends meet. Artists have to bring in their own gear, or rent them from one of the better prop houses. Playing is his only source of income and even though he's got seniority, it's pretty tough. Sure he's got 20 guitars, but for the studio, just the Champ. When he plays gigs(don't tell Supro) all he has is a Hot Rod Deluxe. It just amazes me, how there can be such disregard for(amps) the other half of the sound equation! Art

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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:31 am
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I'm fairly jaded with all the crap coming out of Nashville since it seems they have gotten farther away from the twang that made country music what it was when it went electric way back when.....I just can't listen to it,when you hear everything so overproduced except for a short guitar break that is processed and homogenized and generic in tone,and all the catchy hook lines...well I can't stand it.
One of my friends played in Waylon's band for many years in their heyday,he played through Fender Super Reverbs,he told my son that he changed the baffle on a couple to have 15" speakers for the big sound he had...he told me that he stayed right with the bass drum just drivin' away.
You can hear that band on "Waylon Live",even though the instruments are somewhat back in the mix,you hear that Fender sound....now that's the country music I like.


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