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eddie's amp head

nothingmankevin10nothingmankevin10 Posts: 85
edited June 2011 in Musicians and Gearheads
hey guys,hope all is well,i was woundering if anyone knew the exack head that eddie use's????i'm pretty sure he uses a marshell cab but i have no idea of the head other than the brand,so if anyone could help me out,with the model,series,anything like that i would be very greatfull,so thanks for your time and all the best kevin
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  • ryanevolutionryanevolution Posts: 782
    I think he uses 3 amps together, and 2 are vintage fender bassmans. not sure though
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    ryanevolution wrote:
    I think he uses 3 amps together, and 2 are vintage fender bassmans. not sure though
    I think he uses two old Fender Deluxes and I'm not sure what the 3rd is.
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  • mccreadyisgodmccreadyisgod Posts: 6,395
    On his tours with the band recently, he's using two Fender Deluxe tweed amps (either original, or the '57 reissues) for dirty/distorted tones, and one Fender Twin tweed amp (either original, or '57 reissue) for clean tones. He uses an A/B box to switch between them (switch labeled "Dirt/Soap").

    Ed used to play through a Hiwatt, I believe a Lead 50, prior to the Fenders. It was a half-stack, a head over one 4x12 cab, usually with the bat wings. I know for sure that he used that amp for the Yield and Binaural tours, but I think he'd switched to Fender by Riot Act tour.
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  • RedMosquito22RedMosquito22 Posts: 8,158
    mccreadyisgod wrote:
    On his tours with the band recently, he's using two Fender Deluxe tweed amps (either original, or the '57 reissues) for dirty/distorted tones, and one Fender Twin tweed amp (either original, or '57 reissue) for clean tones. He uses an A/B box to switch between them (switch labeled "Dirt/Soap").

    Only one of them is mic'd though(the fender blues deluxe on the right). Does he run direct outs from the other 2.

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  • mccreadyisgodmccreadyisgod Posts: 6,395
    RedMosquito22 wrote:
    Only one of them is mic'd though(the fender blues deluxe on the right). Does he run direct outs from the other 2.

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    Okay, no. First, that's Ed's solo tour, not a PJ tour.

    Second, the Twin in the middle is, indeed, mic'ed. There is a Z-bar with a microphone that you can see on the bottom edge of the Twin, just below his left leg in that photo. The mic itself is covered in that photo by Ed's leg.

    Third, the Deluxe amps are NOT Blues Deluxe or Hot Rod Deluxe amps, but rather Fender Deluxe amps from the late 1950's (or, as mentioned above, reissues thereof) with the 5E3 circuit. Similarly, the Twin is not a Twin Reverb or anything like that, but rather the late-50's design with the 5E8 circuit (again, not sure if it's vintage or reissue; Fender has reissued both the Deluxe and Twin amps from 1957 designs as the '57 reissues: http://www.fender.com/products/index.ph ... amplifiers )

    Fourth, I'm not aware of Pearl Jam or its members ever using a direct output on a guitar amplifier. They always mic electric guitar amps. They have been taking direct signals from acoustic instruments (ac. guitars, ukes), from Jeff's two bass rigs (electric and upright), and from the keyboards. But direct signals from guitar amps tend to be very dry and sterile; very good for things like speed metal, where intelligibility is key, but terrible for most everything else. Also, I know that they mic Jeff's electric bass rig, and they almost certainly mic the Leslie cab hooked to Boom's Hammond organ. They probably blend those signals with the direct lines, or use one in the house and one in the monitors, or something like that.

    Not sure, in that photo, what the unit is underneath the bat wings; could just be a stage prop, could be an amp of some sort, could be an effects unit like an echo... but the amps in that photo are the Fender Twin and two Deluxes (Twin in middle, Deluxe on either side) that he's been using with PJ for the last couple tours.
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  • RedMosquito22RedMosquito22 Posts: 8,158
    Ed uses the same setup for Pearl Jam. I've now seen him use 2 mic'd and just one.
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  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    I miss that HiWatt.

    Now lets talk about Stone and Mike.
    They've been getting in to some BAD ASS amps recently.
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  • opsopcopolisopsopcopolis Posts: 1,197
    mccreadyisgod wrote:

    Not sure, in that photo, what the unit is underneath the bat wings; could just be a stage prop, could be an amp of some sort, could be an effects unit like an echo... but the amps in that photo are the Fender Twin and two Deluxes (Twin in middle, Deluxe on either side) that he's been using with PJ for the last couple tours.

    The amp in the back was definitely in use. The tech was in and out turning knobs on it a few times.
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