MachineElf said:

And it's really fun for me, talking to all you cool cats about this stuff I love!

By the way, did you happen to catch the reply I left for you in another thread, with info about a genuine purple cloud?

Found my copies of International Musician.

Most immediately interesting thing is that by the Lovesexy tour the delay is a DSD-2 Digital Sampler/Delay (misprinted in the magazine as SDS-2 which is something that doesn't exist! By the Nude tour report, its correctly listed as DSD-2). All other pedals are present and correct:

Colorsound Wah
PSM-5
SD-1
DSD-2
BF-2
OC-2
VB-2

Same for the Nude tour, with the addition of a Boss/Roland EV-5 expression pedal.

mrfog said:

Found my copies of International Musician. Most immediately interesting thing is that by the Lovesexy tour the delay is a DSD-2 Digital Sampler/Delay (misprinted in the magazine as SDS-2 which is something that doesn't exist! By the Nude tour report, its correctly listed as DSD-2). All other pedals are present and correct: Colorsound Wah PSM-5 SD-1 DSD-2 BF-2 OC-2 VB-2 Same for the Nude tour, with the addition of a Boss/Roland EV-5 expression pedal.

Ah cool, thanks for that. If you're ever able to scan the IM articles in I would love to get a hold of them, I think I may have lost my original copies of the magazines.

mrfog said:

MachineElf said:

MrFog, loving your input - I have a great interest in the history of Prince's guitars and set-up, but you've got much more knowledge on the actual gear than I do. So I appreciate all the extra info, thanks!

And it's really fun for me, talking to all you cool cats about this stuff I love! By the way, did you happen to catch the reply I left for you in another thread, with info about a genuine purple cloud?

Ah no, somehow missed that - thanks, just checked it out! Last year someone was trying to auction off a Schecter cloud for $70K saying it was the Cloud from that Guitar Player cover, which was obviously bullsh*t given the differences between them. (There have been quite a few dodgy auctions over the past year with people overstating the importance of their Clouds...)

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percy28 said:

Please share your notes and Celebration Review

MachineElf said:

And 2015:

LEFT: Boss vibrato, flanger, delay, octaver, turbo distortion, blues driver

RIGHT: Boss chromatic tuner, Crybaby wah, Digitech Whammy, Line 6 Effects pedal

So a lot of the same stuff, just changed models, and changes in the signal chain.

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- You are right. And there is a MXR MicroAmp there too, between Whammy and Line6 MM4 (which was a surprise to me. Never knew he used it and was probably added around 2013-15)

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GustavoRibas said:

MachineElf said:

And 2015:

LEFT: Boss vibrato, flanger, delay, octaver, turbo distortion, blues driver

RIGHT: Boss chromatic tuner, Crybaby wah, Digitech Whammy, Line 6 Effects pedal

So a lot of the same stuff, just changed models, and changes in the signal chain.

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- You are right. And there is a MXR MicroAmp there too, between Whammy and Line6 MM4 (which was a surprise to me. Never knew he used it and was probably added around 2013-15)

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The MicroAmp was most probably just there to serve simply as a signal-booster for a guitar with slightly lower output. He was playing that Vox a lot in his last years and maybe that has a lower output level.

MiceElfAgin said:

The MicroAmp was most probably just there to serve simply as a signal-booster for a guitar with slightly lower output. He was playing that Vox a lot in his last years and maybe that has a lower output level.

Yes. When you have other guitar player in the band, in a rock band (distortion most of the time and playing intense) it´s easy to have the guitar signal buried in the mix. Sometimes, a clean booster is more than welcome.