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What mics did Steve use on the Astoria recording? I couldn't see then clearly enough to tell. Are those typical on his studio recordings as well?

To be honest I have never heard someone deny that Fusion came from Jazz. I will have to reply to the comment on Holdsworth though. Yes we all know Holdsworth is Fusion, but I don't hear Jazz in him. Jazz has laws/formats to the writing process. Allans music doesn't follow the typical 1, 4, 5 approa...

Actually they have.......Best of Both Worlds.

Yeah, I gotta stand by that statement. Sure you can tell a cube from a plexi and both will sound great with a talented engineer but after EQ, pedals and mic placement the differences can be a lot less than you might imagine at first. The question becomes can you tell a XXX from a Recifier from a Bo...

People listen with their eyes more often than not. Just human nature. Nothing wrong with that. I totally agree with you on that! Recorded tone especially is 90% engineering skills and 10% gear. Within reason of course. Are you sure about that???I would not agree.You can tell the difference between ...

Most Crate stuff is, shall we say, interesting. The Blue Voodoo though is decent enough. My amp tech has clips of himself riffing through various things with a Voodoo that he posts and passes off as what the particular poster is raving about and inevitably gets any number of posts along the lines of...