Chris Poland's Studio Equipment
At 2.55 in the video Chris says "I'm using this as my main compressor for clean compressed guitar sounds. The reason I like it is because it has a little bit of EQ in it so I can keep the top end a little bit uncompressed but get the mids and the bass so they don't go out of control."
Link to TC Electronic Product Page: https://www.tcelectronic.com/Categories/Tcelectronic/Signal-Processors/Compressors-Limiters/TRIPLE-C/p/HE183#googtrans(en|en)
"We also used Tascam DA38s to record with and it seemed like if I didn't put a fuzz box in front of everything, the guitar was digital sounding. So that worked out in kind of making it sound like there was tape involved. I think the fuzz kind of gave me that sound."
"Then I have a Lexicon MPX1 effects processor, which I use for specialty pad sounds when I have a volume swell with all kinds of delays happening."
Chris says (at 1.28) he paid $85 for this in 2008. "It's a great harmoniser, I would compare it to an evantide harmoniser, it only does one thing though, but it tracks well. The harmonies are very articulate, it sounds really good. And for $85 you can't beat it!"
Also known as a Digitech IPS33 Pitch Shifter, Smart Shifter, Harmoniser.
"For effects, I use an old Roland SRV2000 and three Yamaha D1500 delays."
"For effects, I use an old Roland SRV2000 and three Yamaha D1500 delays." In the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGYgi97MfM&list=RDIVGYgi97MfM&start_radio=1) at 1.50 minutes in Chris says "I have a bunch of these Yamaha D1500s, this is a mono one which I use like an echoplex - where I have the dry signal and the wet sifnal at one time and I use that (D1500) as / just like an echoplex. I like that a lot!".
"I have ADA stereo tap delays as my main chorus, and a TC Electronic G-Force effects processor, which sounds really good, too."
"Yeah, we had three 38s and one DA-78. It’s not that I prefer this gear but, with my budget, I wanted the cheapest format out there that people had made records on. They’re used as doorstops now. I got them for $200 apiece. I’m going to go with a computer- based setup in the future, though, because you just can’t edit on the Tascams the same way. We could have saved a lot of time by copying and pasting, although there’s a certain magic to getting a take from beginning to end."
In the video Chris mentions he switches his Bogner Fish via MIDI using Bob Bradshaw's (Custom Audio Electronics) 4 X 4 using the RS-10 Foot Switch.
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