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Stone's Acoustic Tone (2000-2010)

Guitarhero27Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
edited August 2010 in Musicians and Gearheads
Hey guys, many of you know I play Stone in the New Jersey based pearl jam tribute band, No Code (www.nocodejam.com)

From 1992-2000, Stone favored the Hamer Duotone as his main "acoustic" guitar for songs like Daughter and the like.

In 2000, (as evidenced by Daughter on TB2k dvd), you'll see that Stone is playing a Fender guitar for his acoustic tone.

Here's the latest information via George Webb, Pearl Jam's full time technician:

Stone has three (3) 2000 American Vintage '62 reissue Fender Stratocasters (black, Sherwood green, and sunburst) all fitted with Fishman Powerbridges for dual acoustic/electric functionality. However, Stone's guitars do no not use the stock Fishman pre-amp supplied with the Powerbridge. We use a special EMG on-board pre-amp with the Powerbridge to gain extra flexibility in adjusting output volume, treble, mids, and lows (of the acoustic tone only). We ourselves "borrowed" this set-up from Pete Townshend who (at least at the time, if not still) used it in his own Strats for acoustic/electric combinations.

Output from the instrument has to be done using a TRS (tip/ring/sleeve, or "stereo") cable, whereupon it is then split off into two separate mono signals - one carrying the electric signal, and one carrying the acoustic.
9/29/96, 8/29/98, 9/8,11/98, 7/28/99, 8/23,24,25/00, 10/13/00, 4/15/03, 4/30/03, 7/8,9,12,14/03, 10/1/04, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 5/4,5,13,27,28/06, 6/1,3/06, 6/19,20,22,24,25,27/08, 7/1/08, 8/4,5,7,16/08, 8/21/09, 10/27,28,30,31/09, 5/15,17,18,20,21/10, 9/2/12, 10/18,19,21,22,25/13
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  • mccreadyisgodmccreadyisgod Posts: 6,395
    I was pretty sure Stone was playing Taylors on stage the last few tours... I think he's still using a Fishman-equipped Strat for Daughter (maybe others?) but he's playing an actual acoustic-electric on a lot of stuff, too.
    ...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    The fishman strat is also used on Nothing As It Seems.
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,425
    He was using acoustic guitars on most stuff in 03 and 04
  • Guitarhero27Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    he used the taylor a lot in 08, specifically for WMA and a few others and the chain was mentioned in the thread of 2008 gear answers
    9/29/96, 8/29/98, 9/8,11/98, 7/28/99, 8/23,24,25/00, 10/13/00, 4/15/03, 4/30/03, 7/8,9,12,14/03, 10/1/04, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 5/4,5,13,27,28/06, 6/1,3/06, 6/19,20,22,24,25,27/08, 7/1/08, 8/4,5,7,16/08, 8/21/09, 10/27,28,30,31/09, 5/15,17,18,20,21/10, 9/2/12, 10/18,19,21,22,25/13
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