Le matériel des guitaristes pro(s) - (Sommaire en page 1)

"I plug my Music Man Steve Morse guitar straight into the amp with a very long guitar chord - the signal path is only interrupted by a Roland tuner," says Morse. "With Deep Purple, the amp is a stock Peavey 5150 that powers four Scorpion-loaded Peavey 4x12 cabinets. They're all slanted cabs turned on their sides for better dispersion. The preamp output is routed to four processors that are used for delay effects: an Eventide Harmonizer 4000, a Lexicon PCM 41 and PCM 42, and a DigiTech GSP 21. Each effect output is fed into an Ernie Ball volume pedal, and then into a passive 4x1 mixer. That signal is sent into the power-amp section of another 5150 and two additional Black Widow-loaded 4x12s.

"My pedalboard holds the volume pedals and a switch to change gain on the second 5150. I use 5150s because I need less midrange with Deep Purple - mainly because of the organ - but I use different heads with the Dregs and the Steve Morse Band: a 100-watt Marshall Jubilee for the dry signal, and a Peavey VTM 120 for the delays. In the studio, there's always my trusty old Ampeg V4 head."

MH: We all know you’re a Les Paul guy. Share with us what other guitars, amps, pedals, and effects you are using as of late.

Steve: I was one of the first Bradshaw guys, but eventually I stopped using them for a number of years. My guitar always sounded better plugging straight into the amp. A number of years ago, though, I was approached by Dave Freeman who has a company out here in L.A. called Rack Systems. He asked to build me an effects system. I told him I’d been down that route, but he said, “If at any point your guitar doesn’t sound as good as it does plugging straight into the amp, you don’t have to purchase any of it.”


MH: That’s a tall order…

Steve: Yeah, I thought that was a win-win situation. But he did it. There are a couple of things I was using on the road that we were the first to go in, one of which was Axxess Electronics, a relay switcher. The actual pedal switches are made by a company called Skystrip, of Denmark. I know The Edge is using one of those systems now, and I think John Petrucci is too. They’re kind of becoming the “cool” company. So, I have a lot of effects in there; a lot of Line 6 stuff, as well as some older vintage stuff. I’ve got an old MXR Phase 90, two Moak pedals, a morph pedal, and a Moogerfooger ring modulator. As far as the amps I use, the system allows me to switch between them, so for a cleaner sound I use an OD 100 by Custom Audio Electronics, which is John Suhr’s. For heavy stuff I’ve been using the Randall amps. For years I used Peavey 5150s.


MH: Which Randalls are you using?

Steve: The RM 100 or something. It’s the one with the three preamps you can switch out. Dave Freedman eventually ended up building me an actual preamp that I use for that.


MH: Are you still a Marshall guy at times?

Steve: For recording, absolutely. I still have my old Plexi’s, and I have some JCM 800s and some old Park amps. Yeah, it’s a bit different using a Marshall on the road. To me a Marshall is the ultimate rhythm guitar amp, but I need something that I can get a lot of different sounds out of. So far, this Randall has really been great.

J'ai pas de photos mais pour Pleymo sur la nouvelle tournée c'est:

Davy
Brunetti XL revo(+1 mesa Dual recto en back up)
Baffle Marshall 4x12 AX
Prs Singlecut
ESP viper

Erik
Brunetti XL REVO
(je ne sais pas pour le baffle)
Yamaha RGX TT D6
Yamaha Mike Stern Signature

En ce qui concerne les pédales,je ne sais pas mais y a au moins sûr la WH4 pour les 2

STEVE MORSE