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Re: OT: Johnson JStation VS. Line6 Pod-what Belew uses

With KC2000 you can hear the Roland V-modelling (Fripp), POD's (Gunn) and
Johnson (Belew).
It seems they need a guy who's going to play Yamaha:)

Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Coker" <jimc@jguru.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Johnson JStation VS. Line6 Pod-what Belew uses


>
> The Johnson amp's Belew has been seen using are basically
> Digitech 2120's (internal tube and solid-state preamp) built
> into a solid-state amp.  The JStation is all digitally modelled -
> a completely different animal.  There are interesting reviews
> of both the Pod and JStation at Sound on Sound (www.sospubs.co.uk).
> I suspect Belew will sound like himself no matter what he plugs
> into.
>
> My personal choice is a Pod + external FX -- let each
> box do what it does best.  I had a Digitech 2101 for quite
> a while, and though it has some great tones, I think the
> Pod has the edge in that match-up.
>
> Jim
>
> space module wrote:
>
> > Hi Tim & all,
> >
> > I'm not questioning what your friend saw, but I saw KC in Chicago at 
>the
> > Park West on Halloween and he did indeed have 2 Johnson amps.  KC also
had a
> > ton of looping gear, but except perhaps for Fripp's soundscapes I 
>didn't
> > hear any loops. When I saw KC back in (I think) 96' the string players
were
> > all using Bag End Monitors except for Tony Levin.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > At 03:04 PM 12/13/00 -0800, Mark wrote:
> >  >I also know that Adrian Belew swears by Johnson amps.
> >
> > I thought so too, and there even a thread a while back about how Belew
was
> > even using the Millennium's onboard circuitry for looping, but a friend
of
> > mine caught a Crimson show a couple of weeks ago (Berklee Performance
Ctr,
> > Boston) and swears Belew was using the old JC-120s again.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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