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His juice extractor product is called the Harness, and HE builds them ONE at a time. You could get more info on them IF he still had his sight up. Jeff Collins -----Original Message----- From: Paolo Valladolid <pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 8:23 PM Subject: Re: SV: Garbarek album (from 1984) >> The funny thing about Holdsworth is that he claims those effects are all >> very short delays that are augmented by his playing. He's also got a little >> bit of equiptment that he makes himself. The guy always blow my mind. I've >> got some video of him playing the Synthaxe, It is nuts. Have you seen >his >> instructional video. It's scary. >> Jeff Collins > >As I recall, Holdsworth's reasoning is that a digital chorus effect is >really nothing more than a bunch of very short delays. Thus he used >an ADA delay unit for his sound. > >The equipment he has made is mostly in support of his tone philosophy that >for his overdriven guitar sound he needs power tubes - preamp tube >distortion is not enough. Thus he's made "juice extractors" that take >the speaker output of any tube amp and convert it to a line level signal >and "the coffin" (a recording chamber for his guitar cabinets - mostly >sound-deadening material wrapped around the cabinets with mics stuck in). >Yes, Rocktron used to market the Holdsworth Juice Extractor, but >Holdsworth >was unhappy with the product. They ruined his original design for the >dummy load part of the product (it fools the tube amp into thinking there >is a speaker connected to it). He spent a lot of time and effort using >trial-and-error to come up with a particular concoction of resistors and >other components but Rocktron reportedly changed his recipe for the dummy >load. On top of that, he felt the final product was constructed with poor >quality control. I think he still sells his own Juice Extractor (under >a different name) on a made-to-order basis. > >I have not seen the video but I do have teh book Just For the Curious. >His phrasing is unique among guitarists (e.g. lots of perfect fourths) >because he effortlessly uses fingerings that most guitarists would not >consider "comfortable". It's worth checking out for guitarists (and >Stick players) who want to take their phrasing in a different direction. > >Cheers, > >Paolo Valladolid > --------------------------------------------------------------- >|Moderator of Digital Guitar Digest, an Internet mailing list |\ >|for Music Technology and Stringed Instruments | \ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- | >\ finger pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu for more info \ | > \ http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/DigitalGuitar/home.html \| > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >