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<< Chris, thanks for the in-depth post. According to what I'd heard, the reason he supposedly used the three banks of four was so he could apply separate effects as you mentioned to each amp, in a single bank, and then switch to a second or third bank if he needed to, as he'd apparently felt that the AC-30s weren't very reliable. <smile>-so the set-up was a redundant back-up just in case. <smile> >> Well, the redundant aspect might explain why he had multiple amps hooked up to each output. I don't know how reliable those AC-30's are. Remember, he was using the original amps from the 60's, not reissues. I always wondered why you always saw these hard rock and metal bands where each guitarist is plugged into multiple amps. I'd always read in Guitar Player where these guitarists would say things like "I'm using 4 Marshall stacks onstage". Do any of these guys actually use ALL of them at once, where the other three just back up and/or just there "for show". I can tell you that wall of AC-30's certainly looked impressive on stage. :-) << who knows though, I'm sure there's so much mis-info going around about famous players it's not even funny! >> This is true. What cracks me up are the ads I still see for Electro-Harmonix where it's mentioned that Hendrix used a Big Muff. Well, as far as I know, Jimi never used one. Maybe used one in the studio at some point, but I think onstage the only distortion pedals he used were a Fuzz Face and an original Roger Mayer built Octavia (he probably went through a number of each, as I'm sure stuff was always breaking down, getting stolen, etc). I love it when manufacturers mention a musician in an ad, just because the guitarist in question played the instrument for five minutes at a trade show or whatever. There was an old BC Rich ad that had Eric Clapton in it, back in the mid 70's. Clapton?! Playing a BC Rich?! I don't think so, but then, this was back when he was still drinking pretty heavy. But the comments I made were based on interviews I read with Brian himself where he explained how all this works. He said that he was able to get a cleaner sound if he had each signal coming out of a seperate amp, and he could process, eq, etc each signal seperately as well. <<I think people should just get a sound they like, and become famous themselves!... lol! >> Well, the first part is the one that's relatively easy. I don't know if my sound is particularly unique, but I do feel I get the sounds I want pretty easily. Now, becoming famous, that's something else altogether. :-) ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com