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| Early in 1969 Jimi got his first Marshall amplifiers. He started off with one stack, which comprised one Marshall 100-watt amp and two 4 x 12 speaker cabinets. This eventually was upgraded to three stacks, comprised of three 100-watt amps and six 4 x 12 cabinets. Other kinds of amps that Jimi used throughout his life included Sound City amps (used for the "Axis Bold as Love" sessions), and Sun's. And finally, Jimi used WEM 4 x 12 column speaker cabinets as a monitoring system during his performances at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1969, and the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970). | |||||||||||||
| Effects During his career Jimi used many effects both in the studio and in live performance. For example, Jimi used many fuzz box units among which were the Arbiter Fuzz Face, the 'Axis' fuzz , and the Mosrite Fuzzrite. Another effect that Jimi used and has since become synonomous with his name was the Vox wah-wah pedal. Jimi employed this effect on many of his studio recordings such as "Voodoo Chile (slight return)," and "Burning of the Midnight Lamp." A third type of effect that Jimi used in the studio was a Leslie Speaker cabinet. This effect created the swirling sounds heard on studio tracks such as "Little Wing" and "House Burning Down." |
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| As You can see from these pitures Jimi's sound was highly Amplified with usually more than 10 amps. This allowed Jimi to produce an almost scary amount of feedback which was one of his trademarks | |||||||||||||
| The Uni-Vibe was yet another effect used by Jimi predominantly in live performance. This created a swirling effect quite similiar to the Leslie Speaker cabinet, although it differed in that it had a speed control, unlike the Leslie cabinet. This meant that the swirling effect could be sped up or slowed down. This effect was employed on tracks such as "Hey Baby (The Land of the New Rising Sun)," "Earth Blues," and "Machine Gun." A fourth effect Jimi used was the Octava. This device, as noted by "Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy," "gives the effect of a multiple mirror image of the actual sound," but phased inverted. So really it produces a sound that absolutely multiplies all the harmonics up, almost to infinity, so you get an extremely high tone out of it." The Octavia made it first appearance on "Purple Haze." Finally, there is undoubtedly a plethora of other effects that Jimi used in the studio other than just the ones that were mentioned above but to name and detail all of them would take far too much time. The only thing left to be said is that Jimi Hendrix was enormously gifted and was one of the most brilliant musicians that has ever lived. |
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