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the solos for WHEELS were done using a Marshall JCM800 – an early 80’s model. i believe this is before they added diodes and some other stuff that changed the tone – for better or worse… DISCUSS!!

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we were going after the cleanest sound we could get but still maintain the sustain and power. we tried a lot of different things but this setup delivered better than anything else we tried. i had to really erase all my preconceptions about settings and think about what i was hearing from the amp. we ended up with the master vol on 7 and the pre amp vol on about 1.5. higher pre amp settings actually were producing thinner tones – more gain – but thinner tones that didn’t sit well in the mix.

then we added eventide in post. we’ve added it in subtle amounts to a couple previous solos but this time we made a conscious decision to really lay it on blatantly.

we tried preset 231 [micropitch shift...] which is what we used previously – but i had had great tones playing in a two amp setup using preset 102. so we tried that and decided it was superior in this application.

more to come on this mix… but for now – i gotta rest up for tomorrow’s game – it takes a lot of energy to watch football with your head in your hands wondering why – why did the COLTS have to move to Indianapolis? Johnny U and Tom Matte forever!!