Dave Merrill
Axe-Master
Back in the day, I put a load resistor across the speaker out of my Danelectro head so it wouldn't blow up, and ran that into the input of my Bassman. Cascading stages before that was a thing.
Terry Kath had an old Bogen PA amp he ran into the input of a Fender Showman, IIRC. Not sure what was done to load the Bogen and pad the signal down to a reasonable-ish level. People used Fender Champs as boosts, too. Pretty sure that is the basis of the Garnet Herzog booster....
From what I remember from an old Guitar Player article, Randy Bachmann would run a Champ, or Champ-style amp into the front of his Sunn or Acoustic amp, it was solid-state and BIG, to get that super-thick overdrive, which he called the "Herzog". Snooping around I saw mentions of Garnet designing the Herzog for him to be a little kinder and gentler to his amps, then found this, which is "supposed" to be the schematic.
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/i...nal-cause-damage-to-amp.1461506/post-22458775
Uhm. How did they stack amps in the old days exactly? Assuming amps didn't have FX loops.
I remember back in the early ‘70s playing at a “Battle Of The Bands”. It was mostly high schoolers, but one older band (college guys) had a guitarist who plugged into a Princeton, then went out of that into a Bassman. Glorious tone.Never heard of it...
I think I remember reading somewhere, Ace Frehley used a Princeton in front of a Marshall on "Alive". It probably wasn't a loaded down speaker out, but who knows?Terry Kath had an old Bogen PA amp he ran into the input of a Fender Showman, IIRC. Not sure what was done to load the Bogen and pad the signal down to a reasonable-ish level. People used Fender Champs as boosts, too. Pretty sure that is the basis of the Garnet Herzog booster....
Wait, Ace Freely played on Alive?I think I remember reading somewhere, Ace Frehley used a Princeton in front of a Marshall on "Alive". It probably wasn't a loaded down speaker out, but who knows?
I saw Ritchie Blackmore playing live with Rainbow where he used a tape recorder as a preamp into Marshall 200's. This photo looks just like it.
Uhm. How did they stack amps in the old days exactly? Assuming amps didn't have FX loops.
yes - I only found that pic - was actually looking for a clip of some live concert footage I'd seen at one point of him wailing away and the reel to reel next to him. I remember seeing that long before I started playing guitar, but being kind of a rock head at the time I remember wondering what was up with the reel to reel - even my guitarist buds at the time (early 80s) who all had the requisite Marshall JCM 1/2 stacks in their basements (just the 50 watt head, y'know for quieter practice lol) didn't have any clue at the time what Ritchie was doing with the reel to reel.I saw Ritchie Blackmore playing live with Rainbow where he used a tape recorder as a preamp into Marshall 200's. This photo looks just like it.