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Check out these equipment picks from artists featured in the June 2002, No.114 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine.
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David Peterson plays a Gibson Advanced Jumbo guitar with an Adirondack spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides. He uses a Dunlop thumbpick and fingerpick. In keeping with the band's old-fashioned sound, Peterson uses no onboard electronics and no pickup, instead playing into one of the two 1948 RCA 77 ribbon microphones that serve the band for vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and fiddle. —Sue Thompson Eddie from Ohio guitarist Robbie Schaefer plays a limited-edition Taylor 710 BCE (Brazilian rosewood cutaway) guitar with a Fishman Prefix onboard blender system. For recording, bassist Michael Clem uses a Tacoma Thunderchief CB10F acoustic fretless bass with a Fishman pickup. On the road, he plays a Yamaha RBX 200F. When Clem switches to guitar, he plays a Takamine NP15C. Both Schaefer and Clem use D'Addario phosphor-bronze, medium-gauge strings and Behringer DI-100 active DIs. —Ben Elder Judging from the number of gorgeous guitars displayed on Buddy and Julie Miller's website (www.buddyandjulie.com), it seems like it might be hard to pin them down as to what they play. But Buddy quickly acknowledges that while he's a guitar fanatic, on tour with Julie he mainly plays an OM-style guitar made by Julius Borges (410 Great Rd. A2, Littleton, MA 01460; [978] 486-9077; www.borgesguitars.com) and a mid-1930s Gibson L-4 archtop he recently bought while on tour with the O Brother, Where Art Thou? gang. When he wants a rowdier sound, he pulls out one of his trademark mid-'60s hollow-body electrics—made by an Italian company called Wandre—that he picked up in a pawnshop many years ago. They have concave tops, aluminum necks, and three floating pickups, and Buddy loved the first one he bought so much he went back and bought several more. He plays the Wandres through a Vox AC30 or Gibson Goldtone amp. Julie plays a 1954 Gibson J-45; on several songs she also plays a 1920s Gibson A2 mandolin. When she really wants to rock out, she straps on a 1966 Fender Telecaster, which she plays through a blackface Fender Deluxe Reverb cranked up to ten. Julie has also been known to turn trash can lids, mixing bowls, and anything else she can find into impromptu drums. —Melanie Haiken Tony Rice plays a 1935 Martin D-28 that originally belonged to Clarence White (see Great Acoustics, page 122). He strings it with D'Aquisto nickel-silver medium-gauge strings, which he endorses, and uses a tricornered tortoiseshell pick. He plays into microphones: a Sony C-48 in high-caliber listening rooms and mics from the AKG 400 series for more general gigs. He also likes the Shure SM81. As a rule, he avoids dynamic mics because he says they're too unforgiving in terms of spacing between the instrument and the microphone. —Craig Havighurst |
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