Steht alles in der Liste. Manches erkennt man sofort, anderes nicht so schnell. Die Photos stammen von Kevin Shirley.
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Technical: Steve’s Sound & Equipment
Extracts from Guitarist, February 1991
Eddie Allen (EA): I noticed your live bass sound has so much top end that it’s close to the sound a funk player might use
Steve Harris (SH): Well a lot of people have commented on that and it is weird, because they freak out when I tell them I just use 4times12 cabs. But they’ve got full duty EV speakers in them and I do get the full range, from the top right through to the bottom. It’s a good tight sound — not so much a bottom end rumble.
EA: Is the signal DI’ed to the main PA before it goes into your rig?
SH: No, the engineer just uses two mics on it, that’s all.
EA: Presumably he EQs one mic for top and the other for bass?
SH: Yeah, my rig is pretty simple, and there are no real effects on it as such. I use Electron Preamps, and they’re a virtual copy of the old Hiwatt. There weren’t many of them made but I had a couple and tried to get some more but I couldn’t, so the only way to get round it was to get somebody to build me some.
EA: Didn’t I see some Hiwatt amps up on stage?
SH: They’re just Carver slaves in old cabinets. I used to use RSDs but they’re too big and bulky to be carrying about, so I use Carver slaves and connect up 4 Marshall 4times12s fitted with EVs. Remember, the bass sounds got to cut through when you’ve got two loud guitarists either side of you, and that’s being my setup for about eight or nine years. The only thing that has changed is when I went over from RSD to Carver…
EA: It sounds like your using an active system on your bass…
SH: No, they’re Seymour Duncan pickups. In fact I got a Seymour to make them pretty much the same as the Fender ones actually. I don’t use active electronics or anything like that. I don’t really use them because I find that the very simple. basic sound is better for me.
EA: As a rock player, do you find that bass players over complicate their sounds?
SH: It all depends on what they’re trying to do. But as far as I’m concerned I suppose there are certain songs where I could try other things out, but at the end of the day I just enjoy going out and playing, and not having to worry about all that stuff. That’s one of the reasons we ended up getting a keyboard player for Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. Originally we were going to use foot pedals and bass synths and all sorts of stuff which we used on the Somewhere In Time album, but I just didn’t want to be tied to running back to a certain point and pressing bass pedals. My bass roadie does a bit of keyboards, which comes in handy…
EA: You don’t sound like the kind of player who’s into experimenting with his sound
SH: No, I tend not to experiment too much because I’ve being so happy with my sound. It’s being very consistent, and to be honest I’m not really interested in experimenting that much at the moment. Obviously I experimented an awful lot early on, to try and get a good sound, but then once I got it… Of course I do try other things out, because Mike’s (Kenney, bass roadie and keyboardist) always bringing things along, but he hasn’t come up with anything I prefer.
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Man sieht ihn hier auch mit dem TE Preamp
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98% des Klangs kommt bei ihm aus der Buchse seines Basses:
Sein Anschlag, Saiten, Preci sind die wichtigesten Zutaten.
Allerdings habe ich den Sound auch mit Rounds (Rotosound) gut hinbekommen. Maple Fretboard ist wichtig.
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