PIERRE BENSUSAN
"Pierre Bensusan’s principal guitar is a Lowden S-22 acoustic with a single cutaway, custom built by George Lowden in 1978. Strings used for DADGAD tuning are D’Addario in gauges .056, .042, .032, .023, .017, .013. Bensusan also owns a harpguitar—6 guitar strings plus 17 chromatic bass strings—made by English musician and luthier, Dave Evans, in Belgium. Both instruments are electroacoustic with Japanese-made piezoelectric transducers mounted in the bridge saddles.
Output from the instrument goes first into a TC Electronics booster pedal which serves as preamplifier, thence to a rack containing the following: T.C. Electronics TC1128 Programmable Equalizer and Spectrum Analyzer; TC Electronics chorus/flanger pedal; Lexicon LXP-15 reverb/multi-effect unit; Alesis Quadraverb; TC Electronics 2290 digital delay; ART SGX 2000 multi-effect unit; Alesis Data Disk; Roland A880 MIDI dispatch unit.
Switching and on-stage equipment control is handled by a collection of foot-operated devices, including: TC Electronics 0144 foot controller; MIDI-Mitigator foot controller (to access preset effects configurations); Ernie Ball volume pedal. A Mackie 16-channel mixer is used to control stage monitor mix."
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From "Pierre Bensusan: France's Leading Acoustic Export" GP June 1995 (Doug Sprei): Bensusan still deploys a multi-effects rig and MIDI foot controller. His venerable Lowden guitar, outfitted with a Japanese piezo pickup and internal dynamic microphone, is run into a stereo preamp made by Dutch designer Theo Sharpath. From there it goes into an Ernie Ball volume pedal, a TC Electronic chorus pedal, and an ART SGX-2000 processor. The signal then moves to a TC Electronic 28-band digital EQ (which is also an analyzer), an Alesis Quadraverb, and finally a TC digital delay with 65 seconds of delay or looping time.
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