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I've got his Guitar on backlist for my 20th birthday present, I'm pretty psyched
The Vigier sig model indeed.
by Laedan Kiana » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:17 am
Jeez....shite sure is getting tense around here already without a certain someone we all know and love to hold us together. What i posted was certainly a no shitter Savitri, and it seemed to me you have been around here long enough to remember a certain certified gear nut named Termite Boy who would start a new thread every week about pro-fex II's and shite......anyways ..... maybe i'm wrong bro and i apologize for sounding all mighty and stuff.
Here ya go...................Assuming everyone already knows about the guitars, the equipment breaks down into two phases.
POT era
Holmes mississippi blues master
Westbury od
The incredible custom power amps you guys have already mentioned were used strictly for Shawn's "quadraphonics" system which is basically a series of four different delay lines running to seperate amps and cabinets. Shawn never mentioned, that i know of anyway, what type of delay units he was using but i remember the system seemed quite elaborate compared to the next era of his gear.
Hellborg era
Peavey Pro-fex II (custom designed for Shawn with special eq curves that simulated the sound of the Holmes amps he had been using up to that time.) Was the main source of everything that you hear from this era. I think Shawn had maybe ten or eleven different presets that he had put together from Background clean to screaming clean sound that almost feedsback it would seem that Shawn was so famous for. Sorry i'm rambling. Point is ....you can't have this piece of gear.....it was custom. So the question is moot........as Jesse Jackson would say.
He would plug the pro-fex into the effects loop of whatever amps he could borrow or rent for a particular gig which in my opinion lent a certain inconsistency from gig to gig as far as his sound goes. For instance in the Paris dvd you can see that he was plugged into Trace Elliot acoustic amps that were very popular back in the 90's. Could that be why his pick attack is so enhanced on that gig compared to any other i have heard?? Probably. Point is though, he was bypassing all the amps circuitry by plugging the Peavey into the effects loop and probably had a global eq that allowed him to adapt the Pro-fex to whatever different power and speakers he was plugging into in order to preserve the sound of his patches.
looping.
early looping was a Lexicon Jamman and later Shawn favored the Line6 delay modellers. 2 or 3 at a time if i remember. He loved the ability to play the loops backward lending the carnatic flavor of certain indian instruments. He would further effect loops with a Digitech ISP33b pitch shifter which was basically Digitechs budget consumer answer to all the hoopla that was being made over Eventide harmonizers back in the day.
