New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

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…and three Rockman units, and a guitar synth, and x amps, and last but not least, a Boss graphic equalizer.

The synth can be best heard at the beginning of "Unchain The Night."

That said... I knew I wasn't crazy and swore I heard more than just a tinge of Rockman in Lynch's sounds on that album.

Nick
 
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As soon as I get info on the new products (some of the new ones are already on the website), I will post updates.
 
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Thanks! The Lynch I will order the minute I see it for sale.
 
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The synth can be best heard at the beginning of "Unchain The Night."

That said... I knew I wasn't crazy and swore I heard more than just a tinge of Rockman in Lynch's sounds on that album.

Nick

I agree. He ditched them on the next record, and I think that accounts for a fair bit of the difference in sound.
 
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Long time lurker here. I saw this thread and had to post. Here is some video I shot at the NAMM Seymour Duncan booth of George Lynch demoing "The Hunter" pickup. I think it sounded pretty good in the room. Enjoy
 
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Wonder if he had this in a few months ago when I saw him. His tone was incredible.

Also...where are all you guys getting the Rockman on ULAK from? I posted a quote from Michael Wagner on how they got the tone's on there...and although I do agree it definitely has that flavour in parts (esp clean) you think he would have mentioned that.
 
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Wonder if he had this in a few months ago when I saw him. His tone was incredible.

Also...where are all you guys getting the Rockman on ULAK from? I posted a quote from Michael Wagner on how they got the tone's on there...and although I do agree it definitely has that flavour in parts (esp clean) you think he would have mentioned that.

I've heard rumblings here and there over the last 30 years or so, but there this unmistakable midrange bark of the Scholtz devices in there. Whether it's plugged into an amp or direct in the board, I swear on my life I hear it. That lick at the beginning of "Don't Lie to Me" screams Rockman to me.

Nick
 
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Here's the Rockman - at 0:40 it clicks on during the bridge of the song. I think it's an awesome tone - but they're hard to EQ for recording. Def Lep's engineer talked about using them and said they got a great tone but it was so much work that if he had to do it over again he would just use something else.
 
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I certainly hear the Rockman-ish tone. Just weird. However...looking at Gearge's old website, looks like he did have a rockman distortion generator in front of the amp at points. So perhaps he had this on and MW just didn't clue into the rack, since he makes no mention of boost pedals etc in his post.

George used a mix of these different Marshall set-ups in the studio which resulted with a clean power section to preamp through. Included here are two 1968 Marshall plexi heads and a 100-watt Marshall Super Tremolo that were modified by Lee Jackson of Metaltronix, fitting them with 6550 power tube sections.
Signal routing was more simplistic than presented here. As Lynch explained it at the time, "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" to the rhythm guitar parts.

As mentioned, Lynch used an old Ibanez Tube Screamer or the BOSS GE-7 to preamp his amps. Above is the TS-808 that has been present for most of Lynch's recording career, as was used during the 1985 recording of Dokken's "Under Lock And Key" album.

https://web.archive.org/web/2004113...h.com:80/rigs/studiorigs/underlockstudio.html
 
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I saw an old pics of George's 80's era rack systems. If I recall correctly, they included a Rockman Sustainor, Rockman Chorus, Rockman Echo, 2 x Rockman X100 units in Rockmount adapters. If you want that ULAK attack, simply place a TS808 in front of the Sustainor or X100. The X100's may have actually been the IIB Rockman units, I'm not certain. The blueface Sustainor and IIB units have a more amp-like distortion mode, but are slightly noisier than the X100 and whiteface Sustainor. They both sound equally bad-ass, once you hit them with a TS808. "It's Not Love" is pure Rockman tone with some lead doubling; complements of an Eventide Harmonizer. For amplification, he ran the Rockman units into the loop returns of 2 x Marshall JCM800 heads. One Rockman for cleans, one for gain tones. Some songs were purely Marshall, while others were a mix of Marshall and Rockman. A trained ear can easily pick them out. One thing is certain... there's no mistaking the sound of a Rockman.
 
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