Cliff Burton
Cliff Burton's Studio Equipment
In this photo of Metallica and Trauma bassist Cliff Burton, we see his main touring rack just to the right of him. Just above the 2 stacked Mesa Boogie D-180 200 watt, all tube bass amplifiers we see the Ibanez HD1500 Harmonics/Delay Rack Mount . Notice the shiny metal plate extending half way across the unit with the EG potentiometers.
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In the book Justice for All: The Truth about Metallica, engineer Flemming Rasmussen states Cliff used an AMS 15-80 Delay/Harmonizer unit for the intro of Damage Inc. and parts of Orion.
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Cliff is shown with his FX pedals located just behind him. On the pedal board, we can see a rectangular module holding multiple switches in the far left corner of the board which closley resembles the profile of the Ibanez PC40 footswitch. This is also the same controller that was made for the Ibanez HD1500 to control multiple FXs such as the harmonics and delay systems directly from the board including a bypass feature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1kwgxHO_Tc - The time stamp 3:38 shows that the PC40 is noted within this video about cliff burtons bass rig. This footswitcher was definetly used live, and possibly used in the studio.
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