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Re: Rockman Tone in 2017
I've always wondered about that record. The cleans are obviously Rockman, but it is hard to tell what George used sometimes. He used to have a fairly detailed outline of his gear on his webpage, and thanks to Archive.org we can still recover it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031226...ockstudio.html
"I use an old Ibanez Tube Screamer or a Boss GE-7 to preamp my amps a little. Other than that, I don't use pedals except an A/B switch to throw on another guitar. I go stereo out of a Lexicon PCM-41 with 28 milliseconds of delay to fatten up my rhythms." Also pictured here two Rocktron HUSH II-C's to keep things quiet on both sides of stereo application. A Rockman Distortion Generator was used to push the signal a little more to the power section. Used in A/B switching, there is also a Rockman X100-B in a Rockmount for a chorused clean signal. While using the clean alongside the high gain in an A + B application in tandem, Lynch describes the sound as "giving it a a bit of a shimmer and percussion"…
This is the image of the rig as presented:
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There is also a slightly larger version of the rack:
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Now, we can't tell for certain if what is shown here is exactly what he ended up using everywhere, as I would guess that they went through a significant amount of gear in the process, but I cannot get what I see here to fit exactly with what George is saying. It is obvious that neither unit pictured is a Distortion Generator:
The images themselves aren't terribly clear, but it looks to me like we have an early, blue-face Sustainor (the whiteface was not yet in production) and a Stereo Echo/Chorus:
Below is obviously the X100 in a Rockmount.
From the phrasing, it sounds like he used the Sustainor as a distortion unit to power his Marshalls. His rig did, at least, not seem to contain any dedicated power amps.
…and yes, George did indeed use a Tube Screamer to go with it!
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Now, George doesn't say anything about having used them on the road, but on this picture from the following tour it looks like he has two Rockmounts at the top of his rack (see where the cables are put in; there can't be many units where the input is located there):
If his page is to be believed, George shortly dropped the Rockmans thereafter, but who knows? He has always had magnificent tones, though, and his cleans in particular have always been very characteristic… even if they came from a box that supposedly only can do Scholz.
I've always wondered about that record. The cleans are obviously Rockman, but it is hard to tell what George used sometimes. He used to have a fairly detailed outline of his gear on his webpage, and thanks to Archive.org we can still recover it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031226...ockstudio.html
"I use an old Ibanez Tube Screamer or a Boss GE-7 to preamp my amps a little. Other than that, I don't use pedals except an A/B switch to throw on another guitar. I go stereo out of a Lexicon PCM-41 with 28 milliseconds of delay to fatten up my rhythms." Also pictured here two Rocktron HUSH II-C's to keep things quiet on both sides of stereo application. A Rockman Distortion Generator was used to push the signal a little more to the power section. Used in A/B switching, there is also a Rockman X100-B in a Rockmount for a chorused clean signal. While using the clean alongside the high gain in an A + B application in tandem, Lynch describes the sound as "giving it a a bit of a shimmer and percussion"…
This is the image of the rig as presented:
There is also a slightly larger version of the rack:
Now, we can't tell for certain if what is shown here is exactly what he ended up using everywhere, as I would guess that they went through a significant amount of gear in the process, but I cannot get what I see here to fit exactly with what George is saying. It is obvious that neither unit pictured is a Distortion Generator:
The images themselves aren't terribly clear, but it looks to me like we have an early, blue-face Sustainor (the whiteface was not yet in production) and a Stereo Echo/Chorus:
Below is obviously the X100 in a Rockmount.
From the phrasing, it sounds like he used the Sustainor as a distortion unit to power his Marshalls. His rig did, at least, not seem to contain any dedicated power amps.
…and yes, George did indeed use a Tube Screamer to go with it!
Now, George doesn't say anything about having used them on the road, but on this picture from the following tour it looks like he has two Rockmounts at the top of his rack (see where the cables are put in; there can't be many units where the input is located there):
If his page is to be believed, George shortly dropped the Rockmans thereafter, but who knows? He has always had magnificent tones, though, and his cleans in particular have always been very characteristic… even if they came from a box that supposedly only can do Scholz.
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