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12-04-2007, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Timisoara, Romania | |  Marcus Miller is on SWR now !
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Hey,
I just watched a Marcus Miller concert and noticed that he is using SWR amps and cabs now : http://www.fabchannel.com/marcus_miller_2007_concert
IMO, the EBS tone is much better...
Has anyone seen him live recently using SWR amps and cabs?
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12-04-2007, 12:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | | | IIRC, he played SWR before he played EBS.
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12-04-2007, 12:48 PM
| | | Also, you aren't hearing either EBS or SWR tone... you are hearing Marcus direct to the board through his Avalon U5  |
12-04-2007, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Metro Atlanta, GA | | | What you are hearing on that video is DI signal. I think Marcus would sound great playing through anything though.
Edit: KJung beat me to it. |
12-04-2007, 12:51 PM
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12-04-2007, 12:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by KJung  Also, you aren't hearing either EBS or SWR tone... you are hearing Marcus direct to the board through his Avalon U5 | As with most of these "look what he's playing through threads" what you are hearing on the video or through the FOH at the venue is the DI, not the stage amp. |
12-04-2007, 01:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | i know he used to endorse the swr redhead combo.
but yeah, it's a direct signal anywhoooo.
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12-04-2007, 01:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Timisoara, Romania | | | Now that clears things up.
Thank you!
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12-04-2007, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | The SWR stuff is probably just the backline gear (for stage sound/monitoring) that the venue provided. yep, audio on the clip is probably DI. |
12-06-2007, 07:15 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | In my audio experience (I work as a recording & live sound engineer when not gigging as a bassist) the XLR output from an SWR SM-400 head is one of THE BEST sounding DI's out there...so it's entirely possible that some of the sound the OP appreciates is a result of Marcus' SWR head.
Then again, the soundman may just have parked a Countryman, a BSS, a Radial, or whatever the DI-du-jour is in front of Marcus' rig.
And fwiw, Marcus was endorsing SWR way back in the late 1980's. |
12-06-2007, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by stretchcat What you are hearing on that video is DI signal. I think Marcus would sound great playing through anything though.
Edit: KJung beat me to it. | +1 I'd like to hear him with a p-bass and 2x15's I bet it would still sound great. |
12-06-2007, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by GreyBeard +1 I'd like to hear him with a p-bass and 2x15's I bet it would still sound great. | I doubt that somehow. |
12-06-2007, 07:57 AM
|  | Bassman7654 | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: North Las Vegas NV | | Mr Miller could make ANY rig sound good IMHO Lots of people use SWR to get that Marcus like sound.
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12-06-2007, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by DougD Mr Miller could make ANY rig sound good IMHO Lots of people use SWR to get that Marcus like sound. | +1!!
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12-06-2007, 08:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | I never understood what exactly is wrong with SWR gear......there is so much hate for gear on this forum.  |
12-06-2007, 08:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | I think the action figure he has on his rig makes the biggest difference to his tone than anything else
Oh and from that video clip, dig the drummer! Tight, amazing pocket.
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12-06-2007, 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by xgabriele I never understood what exactly is wrong with SWR gear......there is so much hate for gear on this forum. | I like SWR! Not as much as EBS, by a long shot, but it's good gear! |
12-06-2007, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by xgabriele I never understood what exactly is wrong with SWR gear......there is so much hate for gear on this forum. | +1.
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12-06-2007, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by xgabriele I never understood what exactly is wrong with SWR gear......there is so much hate for gear on this forum. | Right xgabriele. I've been using the Goliath 4x10 cab for many years. What a great cab!
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