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On his chordal accompaniments, Allan has been striving for a more "orchestral" sound, using layers of delays to get shimmering, pulsating textures from his sophisticated fingerings. "For my rhythm sound, I’ve designed a setup where all the signal processing is driven from one master board; I put each effect into one fader." His digital delays are two ADA STD-1s, two AMS units and a Yamaha E1010. The whole rhythm setup is run through a Yamaha PG-1 instrument pre-amp, some P2200 power amps and S412 speakers. The mixers are a Yamaha M406 and a M516. Allan also has an Ovation ‘83 Collector’s Series acoustic and a Chapman Stick. | On his chordal accompaniments, Allan has been striving for a more "orchestral" sound, using layers of delays to get shimmering, pulsating textures from his sophisticated fingerings. "For my rhythm sound, I’ve designed a setup where all the signal processing is driven from one master board; I put each effect into one fader." His digital delays are two ADA STD-1s, two AMS units and a Yamaha E1010. The whole rhythm setup is run through a Yamaha PG-1 instrument pre-amp, some P2200 power amps and S412 speakers. The mixers are a Yamaha M406 and a M516. Allan also has an Ovation ‘83 Collector’s Series acoustic and a Chapman Stick. | ||
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The stick is a slightly different story with me because it's something that I am interested in a lot. I have the utmost respect for Emmett Chapman, and I think it's a great instrument. He helped me a lot because I didn't want to play the stick in its normal form - that is with five bass string in fifths. I really didn't want to be a one man band - if I was a piano player or whatever, I really wouldn't be into the one man band thing. So I didn't want to use the stick as both a bass and something else. | |||
I experimented with a stick which had been loaned to me, and I decided I'd really like to play one that was tuned in fifths - because I'd been experimenting playing with a guitar tuned in fifths. I talked to Emmett about it, and he told me he thought the instrument could work like that - so he made me one where the half usually tuned in fourths was tuned in fifths, and the other half was tuned like a guitar. So between Emmett and me, we applied our logic to come up with a particular tuning. I feel I'm not detracting from my work on the guitar when I play the stick because I'm learning the same things I would playing the guitar, unlike my playing on a pedal steel or the violin. I'm going to try real hard on this instrument. | |||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (steveadelson.com 2000)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth (steveadelson.com 2000)]]== | ||
