EVH at Kens shop in the 80's
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Re: EVH at Kens shop in the 80's
Mark ,
I dug up some notes from an old hard drive and the company that came about is called Great Plains Audio . Bob bought the tooling and much of the documentation from Altec when they eventually closed . He was a long time employee and Ken mentioned talking with him long about alot of stuff . Including how the JBL D130 was also very closely related to the Altec 417-8H speakers I had mentioned . GPA used to make exact replicas a while ago but concentrates alot on larger systems and installations these days . Being that Bob was a long time Altec employee and bought all that tooling the classic series they make are exact . Not approximations . So They can make em still as they can do all the classic Cinema soundsystems that Altec produced called "The voice of the Theatre" . We disected this on the Metro Forum regarding the echo chamber or reverb room in Sunset Sound where VHI was recorded . All the verb went through an A-7 cabinet remiked in a very long reverb hallway . The lightbulb went on at some point when we realized the connection with Randy Rhoades using the Altec 417-8H and EVH using JBL D-130's in his cabs . All of EVH on VHI was sent through an Altec A-7 and re recorded in the Sunset Sound reverb foom . Randy also used a VT22 combo early on , except he couldn't carry it to gigs
Just some interseting lineage , David Scott [/img]
I dug up some notes from an old hard drive and the company that came about is called Great Plains Audio . Bob bought the tooling and much of the documentation from Altec when they eventually closed . He was a long time employee and Ken mentioned talking with him long about alot of stuff . Including how the JBL D130 was also very closely related to the Altec 417-8H speakers I had mentioned . GPA used to make exact replicas a while ago but concentrates alot on larger systems and installations these days . Being that Bob was a long time Altec employee and bought all that tooling the classic series they make are exact . Not approximations . So They can make em still as they can do all the classic Cinema soundsystems that Altec produced called "The voice of the Theatre" . We disected this on the Metro Forum regarding the echo chamber or reverb room in Sunset Sound where VHI was recorded . All the verb went through an A-7 cabinet remiked in a very long reverb hallway . The lightbulb went on at some point when we realized the connection with Randy Rhoades using the Altec 417-8H and EVH using JBL D-130's in his cabs . All of EVH on VHI was sent through an Altec A-7 and re recorded in the Sunset Sound reverb foom . Randy also used a VT22 combo early on , except he couldn't carry it to gigs
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Re: EVH at Kens shop in the 80's
Never heard anything like this before, thanks Dave!
Most people stall out when fixing a mistake that they've made. Why?
Re: EVH at Kens shop in the 80's
Agreed Dave good info. Thanks for looking into that for me I appreciate it.
http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/vintage ... _sheet.pdf
http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmJ3ee6vrtI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7u0toTrmQs
http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/vintage ... _sheet.pdf
http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmJ3ee6vrtI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7u0toTrmQs
Yours Sincerely
Mark Abbott
Mark Abbott