Preamping a Super Lead with a small tweed ala Ace Frehley ?
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Preamping a Super Lead with a small tweed ala Ace Frehley ?
I read in an old guitar mag that Eddie Kramer recorded Ace Frehley's Tracks on 'Rock And Roll Over' using a "Small Fender tweed preamping into a Marhall to get that front end crunch". How would this be done exactly ? I always loved Ace's lead sound on that record and am curious to this scenario.
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Re: Preamping a Super Lead with a small tweed ala Ace Frehley ?
You could hook up a dummy load with a line out.
Like, say a tweed deluxe, unhook the speaker and send it the poweramp out to a hot plate set to dummy load, then take the line out into the input on the bigger amp.
Like, say a tweed deluxe, unhook the speaker and send it the poweramp out to a hot plate set to dummy load, then take the line out into the input on the bigger amp.
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Re: Preamping a Super Lead with a small tweed ala Ace Frehley ?
I actualy did that with a THD Univalve's line out into a 2203 I used to own. It sounds good but gets very noisy. It didn't sound any better than a good choice of pedal (which they didn't have when recording Rock n Roll Over).
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Re: Preamping a Super Lead with a small tweed ala Ace Frehley ?
Randy Bachman used to use a little tweed Champ to do the same thing, but continually fried amps. So Gar Gilles of Garnet Amps devised a safe way to achieve the same result, called the Herzog. The sound of this unit is heard most famously on "American Woman."
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Re: Preamping a Super Lead with a small tweed ala Ace Frehley ?
So the "Herzog" amp is actually named after the Saul Bellow book? That is really random.
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Re: Preamping a Super Lead with a small tweed ala Ace Frehley ?
Yep. There you go.rsi wrote:So the "Herzog" amp is actually named after the Saul Bellow book? That is really random.