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Geddy

#25
sotua said:
That's definitely the JBass. IIRC it's mixed in three tracks: distorted with sansamp, DI, and DI with speaker simulator.

When I want to get into Geddy tone, I usually go for a two-track approach with a compressed DI and compressed+distorted track with high and low pass filters on it (so that you distort the midrange but leave the bottom end and top end alone so you don't get loads of mushy distorted low end or too-harsh distorted top end), grab the jazz bass, and then *dig in like crazy*.
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As long as live equipment go, there were 4 lines:

clean to Avalon U5
clean to Orange Ad-200B
SansAmp RBI to Avalon U5
clean to Palmer PDI-04 or other Palmer speaker emulator

...or something like that LOL. I guess @Gefilter1001 might be of help here.

Some time ago though I happened to speak with one of his sound techs during the R40 tour and he said he was using digital plugins then (either "too" or "exclusively", I don't remember that).
 
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#28
Kijuer said:
As long as live equipment go, there were 4 lines:

clean to Avalon U5
clean to Orange Ad-200B
SansAmp RBI to Avalon U5
clean to Palmer PDI-04 or other Palmer speaker emulator

...or something like that LOL. I guess @Gefilter1001 might be of help here.

Some time ago though I happened to speak with one of his sound techs during the R40 tour and he said he was using digital plugins then (either "too" or "exclusively", I don't remember that).
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He had a more complicated setup for R40. I know he had a Fractal AxeFX for matching the volumes of the various basses and some other " toys".
 
#29
Ampslut said:
My Lakeland 5502 has a very similar tone to what I hear on Presto
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I notice I get in the ballpark with my Warwick. You can hear the Warwick in it because it's like playing a Ricky you're always going to hear that sound but I definitely can push the mids the right way and get that sound. When I play my hohner headless b2a it's definitely close to the steinberger sound from grace under pressure.
 
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Kijuer said:
As long as live equipment go, there were 4 lines:

clean to Avalon U5
clean to Orange Ad-200B
SansAmp RBI to Avalon U5
clean to Palmer PDI-04 or other Palmer speaker emulator

...or something like that LOL. I guess @Gefilter1001 might be of help here.

Some time ago though I happened to speak with one of his sound techs during the R40 tour and he said he was using digital plugins then (either "too" or "exclusively", I don't remember that).
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This was one configuration. He went to the RPM shortly after RUSH in Rio
 
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As others have stated it was his beloved 1972 Jazz bass. Alder body, maple neck & fretboard with stock pickups. If you have his Big, Beautiful Book of Bass there is a whole section about him trying to find another 70's Jazz that sounds as good as his original. It was an unsuccessful endeavor but it did lead to him building an amazing collection of vintage instruments.
 
#35
FunkHead said:
Is that all the same bass? Geddy liked to mix it up when playing live.
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Yes indeed, that was the last full-Rick tour. He was, I believe, using 4 SVT fridges by then; two for the neck pickup, two for the bridge pickup. May have been just one fridge each, but yeah. It was a rig built for touring the Ric-o-Sound, despite him using the Jazz on some of the studio material by that point.
 
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#36
sloppy_phil said:
Yes indeed, that was the last full-Rick tour. He was, I believe, using 4 SVT fridges by then; two for the neck pickup, two for the bridge pickup. May have been just one fridge each, but yeah. It was a rig built for touring the Ric-o-Sound, despite him using the Jazz on some of the studio material by that point.
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That's excellent. I have it next in my playlist.
 
#37
I respect the he'll out of Geddy, but don't forget to ask yourself if the true appeal of the sound is Neil. Drummers are our natural partners and best friends in a band. I miss mine he lost his mind on LSD. I did see Tim Alexander live and thought to myself at the time that he was probably the only drummer that could hand with Mr. Pert. Anyway just wanted to point that out since you seemed a little surprised to be stuck in a Rush hole.
 
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