Chris Squire's stereo bass routing

[The Twickerman]

Hi folks,

I understand that Chris Squire routed the neck and bridge pickups of his 4001 bass to separate amps. I believe he used a guitar amp for the bridge pickup and that he also only added effects on one of the pickups.

Does anyone know which?

Ta!

[cheddatom]

I'd guess it was the guitar amp. The other way round would be a bit illogical.

[The Twickerman]

[quote name='cheddatom' post='822061' date='Apr 28 2010, 03:51 PM']I'd guess it was the guitar amp. The other way round would be a bit illogical.[/quote]

That's EXACTLY what I would have thought - but I am pretty sure I read somewhere else that it was the other way round.

[Urban Bassman]

I think he has all his equipment set up details on his web site but for some reason I can't get on it - server trouble I think...

Anyho

I thought he used two Sunn Bass Amps in the early days and Marshall these days with each amp going through a 8 x 10 cab. if his web site comes back on line I'm sure you'll get all the answers there - www.chrissquire.com

[KevB]

[url="http://www.chrissquire.com/tech.html"]http://www.chrissquire.com/tech.html[/url]
A lot of his pedals are custom made these days but that wouldn't have been the case back in the early 70's.

[Dood]

'Stag' owns an original Ric-o-Sound unit for his Riccie - We had a play with splitting his bass signal at our 'Mini Bass Bash' recently where we fed one output to one bass stack and the other to..well.. another obviously!

It works! and a pretty cool idea too!



Not this one, just a pic for description purposes

[Cosmo Valdemar]

[quote name='The Twickerman' post='822066' date='Apr 28 2010, 03:57 PM']That's EXACTLY what I would have thought - but I am pretty sure I read somewhere else that it was the other way round.[/quote]

I have a copy of Bassist magazine from 1996 I believe, in which CS says he had his original Rick modified for stereo partially bicause of pickup imbalance, but also because his distortion pedal at the time sounded great with the neck pickup, but awful with the bridge. So you may be right!

[xilddx]

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' post='962382' date='Sep 20 2010, 04:44 PM']I have a copy of Bassist magazine from 1996 I believe, in which CS says he had his original Rick modified for stereo partially bicause of pickup imbalance, but also because his distortion pedal at the time sounded great with the neck pickup, but awful with the bridge. So you may be right![/quote]
I believe that's the case too, I have a Bass Player with CS on the cover from a couple of years ago with a CS interview and I will check that.

[SS73]

As far as I can remember, Neck pup was through supa fuzz and into a Marshall, Bridge pup clean into (various), but louder. We are talking Close to the Edge period though.