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Guitar world: Alex Lifeson's guitars

Guitar world: Alex Lifeson's guitars

From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush

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Guitar world: Alex Lifeson's guitars

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This year, Alex is carrying about 12 guitars. Mostly, Les Pauls, he is carrying the 355 that he's well known for, as well as the Telecaster we used for one song. All the Les Pauls are pretty much standard, a couple of them have a Floyd Rose Trimolo, a couple of them have a Pizel pick up that was made by Graph Tech. All of his guitars are on belt packs. His tech coordinates frequencies the same way I do with the ear monitors everyday. Some guitars will have two belt packs on them because the pies it'll pick up is separate from the output that is the regular guitar output. So sometimes he'll be wearing two belt packs for his guitar, and another one for his ear monitor. He's a virtual walking RF up there sometimes. A really good well made cable is going to sound different than a really well made and proper RF-coordinated radio belt pack. They're not better or worse, they're just different. The thing about belt packs is they have gain built into them. So you can, if you're losing gain…

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