Stanley Clarke

"His effects are a Lexicon MPX 550 digital reverb and EBS BassIQ analog envelope filter, which are looped into the bridge-pickup preamp and an EBS OctaBass looped into the neck-pickup preamp."

"Well, the other thing I use is the Lexicon PCM 70 reverb. I like Lexicon because it's a darker sounding reverb. I mean it has a sound, it seems to have a warm sound. I like a warm sound on the bass anyway, especially as far as effects are concerned. The Alembic bass is such a hi-fi sounding bass. It's very pumped up, very high. It's just a very powerful sound, you know, a lot of spikes, peaks on the bass. It's just the way they did the electronics. So coupling that with the nice soft sort of warm reverb really has a nice effect."

"When I'm film composing I usually have an Amek 40 channel board, a lot of old outboard gear, LA2A's, some George Massenburg EQ's, a lot of dbx stuff, noise gates."

Stanley's usual live signal path is split between bridge and neck pickups. From there signals go into a power supply/preamps (one per pickup), to a Mackie 1202 mixer then into two QSR RMX 2450 power amps, which drive two SWR Goliath III 4x10 cabinets (from the bridge-pickup signal) and two SWR Big Ben 1X18 subwoofer cabinets(the neck-pickup signal).

"When I'm film composing I usually have an Amek 40 channel board, a lot of old outboard gear, LA2A's, some George Massenburg EQ's, a lot of dbx stuff, noise gates."