As some of you may know, Peter Hook is one of my influences. If nobody is familiar with his work with Joy Division and New Order, maybe you should check out his playing on such songs as "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "True Faith", "The Perfect Kiss", "Crystal", "60 MPH", "Krafty" and other stuff like that (that's pretty much every New Order/Joy Division song I know, but I'm planning to hear more).
Anyway, if you wanted an amp setup similar to his, you'd need either an Alembic preamp, Crown power amp and a Marshall 4x15 cabinet OR a Hiwatt head/Vox cabinet combo, as shown below.
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Of course, either setup could be simulated with a Line6 POD. And by the way, that "unknown chorus pedal" is an Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory. His kinda looks like this...
But of course, the current model would suffice too.
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Now, moving onto his basses...
In the days of Joy Division and early New Order, Hooky used a now discontinued Yamaha BB1200. Not entirely sure if his model is passive or active, but this photo here may suggest that it's active, but the one he used in the "Love Will Tear Us Apart" video appeared passive to me. He's used this on every New Order album.
(what is that StingRay doing there?)
Another bass he used is a Shergold Marathon six-string bass. I don't really know much about this model, though I may have heard it's tuned EADGBE (guitar tuning an octave lower).
Finally, there's the classic Eccleshall. He went to this luthier named Chris Eccleshall, who lives in Devon, and asked for a hollowbody bass with Yamaha electronics. This is what he received...
He almost always uses this bass live. Doesn't really work well in the studio, or so I've heard.
Don't know much about his other basses.
And if you don't want to search on eBay, desperately waiting for one of the above basses to show up, you could always look for similar products...
You could just use a Yamaha BB414 or BB614. Looks similar to the BB1200, doesn't it? The only difference is the construction. BB414 and BB614 are bolt-on. BB1200 is neck-through.
The Shergold circuitry looks similar to that of a StingRay. And MusicMan are going to produce some six-string basses soon! (crosses fingers)
As for the Eccleshall...well, there aren't really that many EB-2 style basses out there, let alone active ones. I'll probably just use, like, a Jack Casady bass or something.
Well, hope you found that interesting.
Anyway, if you wanted an amp setup similar to his, you'd need either an Alembic preamp, Crown power amp and a Marshall 4x15 cabinet OR a Hiwatt head/Vox cabinet combo, as shown below.
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Of course, either setup could be simulated with a Line6 POD. And by the way, that "unknown chorus pedal" is an Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory. His kinda looks like this...
But of course, the current model would suffice too.
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Now, moving onto his basses...
In the days of Joy Division and early New Order, Hooky used a now discontinued Yamaha BB1200. Not entirely sure if his model is passive or active, but this photo here may suggest that it's active, but the one he used in the "Love Will Tear Us Apart" video appeared passive to me. He's used this on every New Order album.
(what is that StingRay doing there?)
Another bass he used is a Shergold Marathon six-string bass. I don't really know much about this model, though I may have heard it's tuned EADGBE (guitar tuning an octave lower).
Finally, there's the classic Eccleshall. He went to this luthier named Chris Eccleshall, who lives in Devon, and asked for a hollowbody bass with Yamaha electronics. This is what he received...
He almost always uses this bass live. Doesn't really work well in the studio, or so I've heard.
Don't know much about his other basses.
And if you don't want to search on eBay, desperately waiting for one of the above basses to show up, you could always look for similar products...
You could just use a Yamaha BB414 or BB614. Looks similar to the BB1200, doesn't it? The only difference is the construction. BB414 and BB614 are bolt-on. BB1200 is neck-through.
The Shergold circuitry looks similar to that of a StingRay. And MusicMan are going to produce some six-string basses soon! (crosses fingers)
As for the Eccleshall...well, there aren't really that many EB-2 style basses out there, let alone active ones. I'll probably just use, like, a Jack Casady bass or something.
Well, hope you found that interesting.
