Jeff Ament's pedalboard

zefrenchbass

Hello,

I'm a french fan of Pearl Jam's music since the first album and I'm also a (fretless) bass player.

I'm looking for informations about Jeff Ament's pedalboard : pedals and effects used, when ?

Can anybody help me ?

Thanks and see you !

RiotZact

zefrenchbass wrote:

Hello,

I'm a french fan of Pearl Jam's music since the first album and I'm also a (fretless) bass player.

I'm looking for informations about Jeff Ament's pedalboard : pedals and effects used, when ?

Can anybody help me ?

Thanks and see you !

I'm a drummer but im pretty sure jeff is very old school and uses almost nothing but his fingers and an amp (sometimes not even the amp)

zefrenchbass

I'm sorry but Jeff Ament really use effects since the Ten album (auto-wah and distortion on Deep song for example).

I recently watched several videos (Live in Vernice, Story tellers etc.) where Jeff Ament had a huge pedalboard en stage (and it's not McReady's one !!).

My question is : wich effects ?

mrk2

This is Jeff's board, trying to find a better pic, but it's a start http://www.flickr.com/photos/pearljamof ... 4/sizes/o/

PJ_Lukin

Fixed incorrect pedal board ....



From the receiver, Ament’s signal enters a complicated chain he and Webb have fine-tuned over the years (Fig. 1). Jeff’s pedalboard includes two MXR M-108 10-band EQs: One is dialed in for a bright sound, and the other has the high end rolled off and the lows boosted for a thicker tone. Each runs on its own effect loop out of an Aspect Designs switch box, so Jeff can run his signal through one EQ, both, or neither. When Ament steps on a second switch box, another MXR EQ, this one with six bands, feeds a Fulltone ’70 pedal. “It’s more of a guitar distortion,” says George of the pedal. “He gets an old, Acoustic 360-like fuzz tone from that loop.” The signal then passes through two Fulltone Bass-Drive pedals (“one is really overdriven, the other not so much”) followed by a Boss reverb/delay. “He uses that for a kind of synth-like, reverse-gated-reverb tone. He’ll hit a note and it’ll go from nothing into this sweeping sound.”





Returning to his rack, Jeff’s signal goes through a second channel on the Furman VU meter (not shown in diagram) and then gets divided into four paths by a Jester Enterprises Hydra tube splitter. The first path goes to Ament’s vintage Ampeg SVT head, which powers two SWR custom 6x10s without horns. The second path goes to a backup SVT. Path three goes to a SVT-2PRO head, which powers a 6x10 monitor sitting next to Matt Cameron’s drum riser. Path four goes to another SVT that sits atop Jeff’s rack; it powers George’s own 2x10 monitor (so he can make sure Jeff’s stage rig is working), as well as a floor-fill 4x10 wedge for the front of the stage.

When Ament plays his Azola electric upright, the chain is much simpler: A cord runs into an Ashdown ABM 500 EVO head, which powers its own 6x10. Jeff gives the house four signals: A main-bass direct signal from his Avalon, a main-bass mic signal from one of the 6x10s, an electric-upright direct from the Ashdown head, and a mic from the electric-upright’s 6x10.

musicman

Found this.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=368535

zefrenchbass

Thanks a lot guys !!

Here's my ridiculous and small pedalboard :



Now it's 09:00 PM in France, so good night guys !!

See you !

Paul Andrews

Jeff's recent set up

Guitarhero27

PJ_Lukin wrote:

Not sure about nowadays... but here is circa 2003


that's stone's board.

demetrios

Paul Andrews wrote:

Jeff's recent set up

Miller Lite? Poor kitty! :(

zefrenchbass

Thanks a lot again ... poor cats !

I've got another question : can anyone tell me why Jeff Ament plays less and less fretless bass guitar ?

See you !