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Guitar world: Getting the Alex Lifeson guitar sound

Guitar world: Getting the Alex Lifeson guitar sound

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

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Guitar world: Getting the Alex Lifeson guitar sound

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So here we are in guitar world. This is where Alex's tech, Scott takes care of the guitars, takes care of his amps, takes care of all the things that create the Alex lights and sound. Here's how we do it. We start with this amplifier right here. When they made the last record, they used a Martial Jubilee series 2553 head, and Alex really loved it. So we put out the clarion call across the inner webs and some of them came up and they figured out who was trying to buy them and the price got astronomical. Another guy on the crew called some buddies of his at a company called Mojo Tone in North Carolina. And he said, we really would like have a copy of, of 2553, martial jubilee series head and they came up with this. It's called the lerxst omega and it is almost a direct copy. Actually sounds little tighter than the Marshall in my opinion. That's where you get these main dirty sounds. That's his main guitar tone. It's on 80% of the show. For his clean sound, he uses the Mesa Boogie Mark V…

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