Academy Of Tone 231: AMP1 Stereo Setups
Special guest: Max Carton
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:16 - Thomas and Max play some lovely intro for us
00:06:15 - Welcome to AOT 231
00:07:20 - Max's music preferences
00:09:07 - Max's vintage Marshalls
00:10:13 - Clip from Max's last visit
00:12:07 - Max's choices of gear for his AC/DC tribute band
00:14:35 - Max's "Marshall" cab and attention to details
00:16:56 - Check out Thomas's new CD and Vinyl album available soon on the webstore
00:18:44 - The use of effects for an ambient tone
00:20:17 - The Keeley Halo as a delay choice
00:24:56 - Thoma's choice of reverb, and chorus for today
00:28:21 - The Line 6 HX effects
00:30:06 - The new Fractal Audio AIO effect
00:31:27 - Clip of the new Fractal Audio AIO effect
00:33:04 - Matteo Mancusso
00:34:42 - When to choose mono or stereo?
00:40:31 - How to achieve such stereo
00:42:10 - Schematic of a stereo signal path
00:44:21 - Another option for stereo
00:47:09 - Why use this simple setup over the more complex one
00:49:08 - Clip from Jude Gold in Mainheim
00:50:15 - The studio rats
00:51:47 - Clip from the studio rats and his stereo setup
00:54:00 - Using Remote1 to split the channels
00:55:33 - The Stratkings
00:59:04 - Clip from Paul Rose's stereo setup
01:14:50 - Using Record Out pre effects
01:17:22 - QA Pink Floyd used a quadrophonic surround sound
01:19:23 - Clip of Ben Granfeld's stereo rig
01:23:41 - WET/DRY and WET/DRY/WET vs stereo
01:29:23 - The Seven-cable method
01:30:58 - Max's pedalboard and way of combining it all
01:32:57 - What is the advantage of using two different colours of amps
01:44:11 - Using a splitter with ground isolation and dealing with phase issues
01:50:50 - Finishing the signal chain
01:52:03 - Using a midi device as channel switcher
01:58:29 - Using the fuzzface
02:02:59 - A pretty compact setup for a lot of diversity
02:04:16 - Using a dummy coil and it's advantages
02:10:26 - Also a split-able humbucker for more colour choices
02:13:47 - QA How to get a nice "chewey" lead tone on Mercury and Iridium?
02:17:22 - A quick recap from this episode
02:21:37 - Keep it fresh
02:23:26 - Thomas used a stereo rig in the past
02:25:30 - Thank you all for watching, and Max for joining us, see you all next week
02:26:39 - Outro