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if it was a marshall modification, it would almost certainly have been jim marshall himself, or one of his engineers. I have read somewhere too that JMH would have his marshalls set up a bit strange- more pre-amp gain in the standard plexi's than usual, but not as much as in the master-vol version favoured by blackmore and co.
a lot of this is apocrypha, though, especially if related by those-who-were-there, as they frequently can't remember. I once saw something in a mag about roger mayer's work with jimi and an octave effect that was operated by a mystery toggle switch on the neck-plate of a strat..... utter tosh, as mayer himself later wrote.
hendrix did, however, like the reliability factor. he decided to use right-handed guitars because he felt that the mass-production led to a more reliable product, whereas the lefties would've been built in much smaller runs and therefore would somehow be inferior. that was just his take on statistics, I s'pose, and had no real grounding in terms of the state of fender's QC in the late sixties- it was only later that CBS decided to run the plant like a furniture factory. the early CBS fenders, up to about 1972, are perfectly good guitars, and the design improvements made thereafter are only occasionally cancelled out by the poor construction that the 70s fenders are all accused of. things didn't really go bad until about 1976, and then only until 1981-2.
and as for JMH's marshall setup- it was simply expedient to have all the knobs turned right up and control everything from the guitar. other musicians do similar things- steve harris of iron maiden has the tone control of his precision bypassed and has his tech works to coded hand movements instead, while lemmy has the pickups in his rickenbacker hardwired to the output socket, missing out all the knobs.
duncan.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan [mailto:ssrndpty@hotmail.com]
Sent: 01 October 2003 00:25
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: RE: hendrix tech guy. was( EDP IN/OUT Mod)
I believe it was in a book I borrowed from the library, interviewing
Mitch Mitchell over the rise of the Hendrix Experience. I'm afraid I
can't remember who the tech person in question was.
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Card [mailto:stanitarium@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:49 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re:hendrix tech guy. was( EDP IN/OUT Mod)
oh my biz, very interesting @ least to me-i try to see everything on
JIMI since the early days and dont remember this particular thing.
questions:
who tech guy? do you mean roger mayer or eddie kramer or?
where did you see this?
is it available on line?
thanx
s
>
> I read an interview with Jimi Hendrix's tech guy, who had to re-wire
> the middle eq pot on his marshall stack, because Hendrix preferred his
> sound with the center scooped, but wouldn't play unless all the knobs
> were set at full...
>
> bIz
>
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