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| :: Setup Richard Hallebeek :: |
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The Diezel VH4-S
has been my main amp ever since 2001. It's a
very versatile sounding stereo head that has
it all: insertion points for effects pedals,
switching through midi, seperate EQ's, parallel
and serial loops, global presence and 'deep'
knobs for both sides of the stereo field, 4,
8 or 16 ohms out, etc. It has enabled me to
throw away a lot of external stuff: midi amp
switchers, adapters, pedal loopers, but best
of all, it enables me to play in full stereo.
The four channels sound really good with all
the tone knobs on '5' and I don't have to use
that many pedals anymore to get a sound I like.
The signal starts with three outputs coming
from either a custom Brian Moore C-90 guitar
or a Patrick Koopman handbuilt Strat or a cheap
Korean EVH Wolfgang (that sounds really good!).
The Brian Moore and the Strat have the RMC midi
and piezo system. The Wolfgang has the Roland
GK2-A pick up, that tracks a bit worse but still
works fine for most applications. The 13 Pin
Midi out feeds a US-20 splitter to a VG-88 and
GR-33, amplified by two JBL powered monitors.
There's two Behringer DI boxes connected for
a feed to the house P.A. The second output from
the guitar is a Piezo output which is routed
to the VG's 'Guitar' input. I might also use
a Line 6 FM-4 Filter Modeler on that signal.The
third output (green line) sends the signal from
the regular magnetic pickups which are a Dimarzio
FRED in the bridge position, a virtual vintage
single coil in the middle and an air norton
in the neck position for the Brian Moore, where
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Off to a Boss RC-20 Loop Station for Loops
and reverse FX, to a Noise Gate and to the
Diezel Head. The noise gate has a loop with
a few boosting devices.(red line) There's
a Custom Audio Freddy Fuzz, an Ibanez Turbo
Tubescreamer, which has a great 'TS-9+' setting
with lots of mids.I use that Art Tube MP a
lot in the studio to fatten up a tone. I use
either one of those pedals or a combination.
The Megapedal is a custom built pedal that
controls master volume and delay level of
the G-force.There's an expression pedal to
control some other FX settings of the G-force.
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Sometimes I use The Harness, a device handbuilt
by Allan Holdsworth. It's an interface between
power amp and line level FX, so it's possible
to route the power amp of the Diezel through
an FX unit and then through another power
amp, the Mesa 2:90. The harness very much
has it's own sound.
Nowadays I use a couple of different speakers
cabinets, either a Bogner 4 x 12" with
Vintage 30's, A Hughes And Kettner 4 x12"
with Greenbacks or a smaller 2 x 12" Bogner
with two speakers. Thanks to the bigger enclosure
that one sounds almost like a 4 x 12" too,
but still has that special sweet sound only
a 2 x 12" has. I seem to prefer the Greenbacks
more and more these days because of their nice
natural break up and warm tone.
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Richie’s Lab is my studio that was born out of the need for a place where I could record and work on my music and spend some time on it. There has been more than one experience in te past where I had to go to a strange studio, hook up my stuff and a mike, find a guitar sound that I was satisfied with and record a couple of solos, all in a few hours. It made me realize that instead of wasting my money on a studio and trying to communicate with some engineer
that had no clue about getting a guitar
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tone, it would be a better idea to save
that money to get my own recording situation
together. After a few computer and recording
situations I have settled on the Roland
2480 with cd burner and 80 GB disk. If used
with a mouse and screen, the machine has
a great intuïtive user interface. I
get my guitar tones from recording with
a mike.
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I do like recording direct for clean tones, but as far as recording distorted tone, a mike is still the way to go for me. Stephan van der Veekens has transformed an innocent IKEA closet into a great sounding isolated speaker cab that allows me to work any time during the day or night without getting my neighbors to freak out. That's supposed to be my part anyway. I use two Koch loadboxes that don't need an extra power amp to amplify the signal. It just brings the volume down without affecting the tone. Those boxes are used a lot and Shawn Lane also routed his setup and Marshall power amp hrough the Koch load boxes when he was recording his solos for the RHP here. He really liked those.
The basic tracks for the Richard Hallebeek Project were recorded at drummer Bas Cornelissen's MDF studio's, all the overdubs,mixing and mastering happened at Richie's Lab. Mastering was done with a simple TC Electronic M300 outboard reverb. I had a great and sometimes hard time working on finding some different guitar tones for every tune, not just using my 'favorite' sound in every song, but really trying to find something that would fit the setting and the atmosphere of each individual tune. Some solos even have four signals running at once spread out in the mix, like 'Prescription Strenght' that used the straight tone from a head, a head running through a G-Force harmonizer and the VG-88/GR-33 combi. Especially the VG-88 is very helpful in creating some 'virtual sounds' you haven't really heard before. Some new experiments I wanna dive into in the future is the use of softsynths and Propellerhead's Reason software for composing.
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