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Equipment

This page gives an outline of the equipment used for RedStick's gigs, from the guitars to the PA system.

The equipment was purchased over a period of time as the funds became available allowing the system to be slowly refined and improved.


Guitars

Tristan Funnell playing his Gibson SG
Tristan Funnell playing his Gibson SG
For all of his guitar work Tristan played his trusty old faithful Gibson SG. For those of you that have ever wonndered, the SG stands for Snaps Good. After rehershals one evening, Richard was packing up some guitar leads and accidentally knocked over Tristan's guitar. Unfortunately, being of a fragile nature, the headstock of his guitar virtually snapped clean off. Thankfully a good guitar doctor lived nearby and a fortnight later, with a little glue, some cherry red laquer and some TLC all was well again - you can't even see the join now!

Richard played an altogether more substantial instrument :-) as his main guitar - a 1962 vintage re-issue Fender Stratocaster (generously bought by his wife Lynda for his 30th Birthday).

Richard Farrar playing his Fender Stratocaster
Richard Farrar playing his Fender Stratocaster

Richard Farrar playing his Ibanez Roadster
Richard Farrar playing his Ibanez Roadster

Richard also played an Ibanez Roadster guitar as his second / reserve instrument.

This guitar has a locking tremelo system, an extra fret (22 in total) compared to the Stratocaster and Seymor Duncan "single coil" hum-bucking pickups. All these features made this guitar useful for certain songs as well as being an invaluable spare in case of string breakages on the other guitars during a gig.


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PA System

The PA system all revolved around a custom-built rack (shown in the photograph on the right). This rack was hand-built from MDF by Richard to house all of the 19" rack equipment.

The rack box had removable front and rear covers and sturdy side handles enabling it to be carted to and from gigs while protecting the equipment inside during transit.

All of the equipment in the rack was permanently wired in, both audio and mains power. Thus set-up times at gigs were greatly reduced, saving much stress and the potential for forgetting a vital piece of equipment or connecting cable.

PA Rack
PA Rack

Microphones 2 off Shure SM58s mounted on boom microphone stands. Both wired in balanced configuration to reduce electrical noise pickup.
Guitar Processors 2 off Peavy ProFex IIs. Guitar multi-effects processors, both wired for stereo output and using speaker simulators to simulate the sound of a traditional guitar amplifiers through the PA speakers.
Reverb 1 off Alesis Midiverb II. Stereo digital reverb / delay unit used for vocals. Different reverb and delay settings were used for different songs.
Mixer 1 off Frontline 8 channel stereo mixer. Used to mix the stereo backing tracks with the 2 stereo guitars and the 2 vocal sources.
Power Amplifier 1 off ElectroVoice P600. 600W stereo power amplifier.

All of the backing tracks were generated from midi files on a PC using Cakewalk software and an external midi module - the Korg 05/RW. These backing tracks (minus the guitar and vocal lines) were then recorded onto minidiscs in stereo using a Sony MDS-JE510 minidisc player. The same player being used at the gigs for playing back the backing tracks.


PA Speaker
PA Speaker

The final link in the chain was the speakers.

These were a pair of Peavy HP-305s incorporating a 15" Peavy Black Widow driver in each cabinet.

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