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Re: [L-OT] guitar gods --> Pat Matheney

2001-06-23 by Per Boysen

> Från: Murray McDowall <murraymc@...>
>  At the time I read an interview with him where he said he didn't
> like chorus -- it just sounded out of tune to him. To me, his guitar sound
> seemed to have some sort of doubling/ADT and -- of course -- reverb.
> 
> Yes, you're right. Even at the early days he did not use chorus effect,
> although it kind of sounded that way. I was told he simply split his guitar
> signal into two lines adding a slightly of pitch digital delay to both of them
> before the two amps (Peavey combos when I saw him in Kopenhagen 1981). And
> lots of reverb of course.
> 
> 
>  Pat
> was an impressive player but what I remember most about that night was the
> incredible stack of keyboards Lyle Mays had and the warm Oberheim horn
> sounds he used.

Did you notice those small keyed fiddles he kept on top of the grand piano?
Before I saw Lyle using them live I had no idea how they did that sound on
the records. The were tuned into some wide chord and had a drone like sound.

Regards

Per Boysen



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