Hello. I'd like to know what setup The Prince has, when he's playing live. Does anybody know that? I mean it's not exactly commen knowledge. What amps and effects does this great man use?

Stef

In one of the guitar magazines about 3 or 4 years ago they detailed his setup. I would search for that magazine.


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[This message was edited Mon Mar 10 11:55:35 PST 2003 by lovemachine]

The magazine that lovemachine refers to is Guitar Player, January 2000, with the set up illustrated on p 91, Unfortunately the article is not archived at the www.guitarplayer.com website.

This however gives you a flavour:

Photograph shows a selection of prince's guitars with the following text: The Artist's stage axes include (from L-R) a custom Schecter nicknamed 'Habibi', a Warwick bass, an Ibanez george Benson, and a David Rusen 'Cloud.' Guitar tech Takumi Suetsugu reports that the solidbody guitars are equipped with EMG pickups and strung with .009 - .042 guage High Beams. All of the stage lines are from Monster Cable.

Second photograph shows Prince's view of his pedalboard which is explained as follows:

Left side: Roland FC-100; Boss DS-2 Turbo Overdrive; Boss VB-2 Vibrato; Boss DD-3 Digital Delay; Boss FL-2 Flanger; Boss OC-2 Octave; Boss BD-2 Blues Driver

Right Side: (Dunlop) CryBaby Wah; Roland EV-5 (controls GP-16 whammy); Dunlop Rotovibe

Text explains:

UHF signals from the Artist's four main stage guitars hit a wireless rack equipped with four Sampson UR 5Ds. An Uptown Technologies Flash switcher is used to select between the wireless units. The Digital Music Corp MX-8 is used for MIDI switching, the Roland GP-16 is for whammy effects only and the Zoom 9030 is used for all other effects. An Uptown Great Divide routes signal from the Snyder unit to Flash switcher #2, the GP-16, and the main and backup 9030s. Outputs from these units feed a Behringer Denoiser, a Soldano/caswell preamp and, finally, a splitter box which sends 'clean' and 'dirty' signals to the Mesa/Boogie Strategy 500 and rackmount Soldano SLO 100 respectively.

Onstage Cabinets are straight-front Peavey 5150 4 x 12s loaded with EV speakers. The offstage 'clean dog' and 'dirty dog' Marshall 4 x 12 slant cabinets are miked to feed the front-of-house system. These are loaded with Celestion vintage 30s.

The illustration provides greater detail together with the wiring.

The interview also provides input largely about recording for 'Rave' (the album.)

Hans Buff provides some detail, including: 'The Artist's favourite funk setup is his Hohner Tele copy equipped with Fender noiseless pickups through either a Countryman or an Avalon direct box, then into a DiMideo mic preamp, and finally through a compressor, usually a tube Urei LA2A.

The Prince Q & A is not particularly long, but it provides the sort of technical detail he rarely offers in standard interviews: e.g.

Q 'How did you get such a massive sound on 'So Far, So Pleased'?'

A 'I ran my guitar through a Boss Vibrato and Flanger. The octave and delay effects are from the Zoom 9030.'

Then again, he still provides his usual:

Q 'Speaking of 'Crystal Ball', how did you get that eerie tone in 'Animal Kingdom' and the incredible rhythm guitar in 'Da Bang'?'

A If I told you , you'd have to die.
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[This message was edited Mon Mar 10 13:31:40 PST 2003 by langebleu]

this "great man" as u call him is really great... and soon dead...


god i luv him...
hehe

playing through that much gear anyone would sound good and prince isnt known for guitar playing go figure.

He obviously doesn't use them all at the same time! And he's proven on many occasions that he can play brilliant parts with just a clean signal. Besides, effects like octave and wah wah definitely require great skill to use them as well as P does.

rg770 said: