Pat Metheny

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Guitarist Bassist Composer

Genre

Jazz Funk / Soul Stage & Screen

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Pat Metheny Group Joni Mitchell (band) Noa & Pat Metheny

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In On It From This Place Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

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Guitarist Bassist Composer

Genre

Jazz Funk / Soul Stage & Screen

Group

Pat Metheny Group Joni Mitchell (band) Noa & Pat Metheny

Credits

In On It From This Place Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

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Lexicon M93 Prime Time Digital Delay Processor

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Pat has used the Lexicon Prime Time since the late 70's to achieve his signature sound. He uses two of them, with slightly different delay settings, and pans them hard left and right of his stage position so he is enveloped in the sound.

From Pat's website: The output of the Digitech 2101 is run into 2 lexicon prime-time digital delay lines, one on my left at 14 ms delay, one one my right at 26 ms delay. each delay has a very slight "pitch bend" controlled by the VCO (sine wave) inside the prime-time. this is what gives it the "chorused" thing

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TC Electronic M2000

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My whole thing has always come from a solidstate sound, because it’s loud and it’s clear. That’s sort of a fundamental difference between my sonic approach and something like a Vox AC30 or, say, a Fender Twin, where there’s a very slight fuzz around the note. You even hear that with Grant Green and Kenny Burrell. My thing is more like a steel guitar kind of sound. (Ed. Note: Metheny’s guitar tech, Carolyn Chrzan, details, “He currently uses a Digitech 2101 preamp. Two outputs go to a QSC PLX1804 amp and then to a 4×10 cabinet and a 2×10 cabinet, both loaded with JBLs. The other two Digitech outputs go to a T.C. Electronics M2000 studio effects processor, to another QSC amp, and out to two single-15 cabinets.”)

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