SICK Eric Johnson Vid!
Diehard Eric Johnson fans may have seen this one, but then again maybe not. My buddy Sean (thanks man!) unearthed this gem deep on the Music123.com site – a vid of Eric going through his pedalboard, guitars and amps in the studio, and playing some stupidly amazing stuff.
I can’t really say much about it except that it’s 13 minutes long, and worth watching – with a guitar in your hands – at least…I don’t know…three or four times.
Wow. I know Eric Johnson is good, you know he’s good, but seeing it like this is great.
Couple quick quotes:
> “I like the old MXRs (Dyna Comps) because they seem to screw the direct tone up the least.”
> On his Echoplexes – “Yeah, it’s quite a feat keeping those going. I actually stopped using them, but I started using them again because they do this kind of cool thing to the sound – the preamps do….”
> “I’m trying to turn into a real man, where I can go with no echo [laughs].”
Amp details (I don’t know when the vid was produced so these details may not be current):
> Clean sound – 1960s Fender Twin Reverbs, one with JBL D-120s, the other with the original Jensens. Different speakers “fill in some of the EQ,” Eric says.
> Dirty rhythm sound – “Old” (he said) Marshall 100-watt head into an old Marshall slant cab which he “thinks” has four 30-watt Celestions.
> Lead sound – Marshall handwired ’69 into an old Marshall straight cab with “25-watt Celestions,” which I assume are greenbacks. Tough to tell, but looked like the settings were: Presence zero?, Bass 12 o’clock, Mids 9’oclock, Treble 9 o’clock or less.
Wish I could embed the vid, but you have to click it to get it. Here it is: the vid.
Category: Echoplex, Eric Johnson, Fender, Marshall, MXR
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