Matthias Jabs, guitariste des Scorpions a lancé son nouveau site. Vous pouvez vous rincer l'oeil sur sa collection de guitares :
Citation:
The guitars in the opening song, “Hour 1,” are tuned down to C#. What’s your approach to playing in a tuning that low?
Jabs: I’m playing an Explorer-style gui-tar from a German builder named Boris Dommenget. It’s a long-scale instrument so it behaves better than my Gibsons when I tune down. I don’t really do anything different with the amp—I still plug into my Fender Prosonics.
Schenker : I just use heavier strings on my Flying V. I mostly used my Engl amps on this record.
You were both Marshall guys back in the day. What do you like about your new amps?
Jabs: I always used a 50-watt Marshall. I had one that had been modded with an effects loop and I put an old Echoplex in the loop. I wanted the echo but it never really worked. But it had a preamp in it and for some reason when I plugged it in, the amp was a bit hotter. I bought a few others but it only worked with this one Echoplex. It added the extra little bit of distortion, which was welcome at the time. Then in the late-’80s I went to Soldano amps and I still have those. But the Fender Prosonics give me the same thing as my Marshalls with just a little extra. They made a head and a combo and I use the combos, although I take them out of their cabinets and put them in my rack. But the Prosonic combos have an extra tube—half is for the spring reverb and half is for tone—and it makes all the difference in the sound.
Schenker: The Engls never break down—the construction is just unbelievable. I also used a Deizel amp in the studio and that’s the first amp I’ve ever heard where, when you turn the knobs, you can hear the tone change with every millimeter.
