Ed's amp wasn't dead yet in 1985!

[harddriver]

Having played a slaved setup versus an extremely variaced amp setup going by what comes through as feel I would almost say this was not slaved into another power amp.

It has all the markers for a straight in amp setup with the echoplex out front. This was around the time Ed did the Beat It song was it not, I think and article said he showed up at the studio with a Marshall and an echoplex.

[jnew]

That's plausible.

[Tone Slinger]

Yeah, Beat It was '82 and this Letterman gig was '85. Pretty much the same 'time period' when you look at it as being 28 or 25 yrs ago (man I'm getting old ). I hear a more straight up amp/guitar thing too.If it was pretty much straight in, then Ed was using a attenuator (Jose, Bradshaw) ?

[Santino]

I thought for the 1984 album and tour he switched to the Palmer speaker simulator and H&H power amps? I think I remember reading he used the power amps to get even volume levels across his cabinets live. No w/d set up yet. That was 5150 and OU812. Then w/d/w for the Carnal Knowledge tour. I don't think he was using it in the studio yet. I can't remember. So Letterman I assume was a power amp to lower the volume. But I don't know for sure.

[Tone Slinger]

That makes sense. The tone he was getting on the Letterman/farm-Aid/Namn from 1985 ranks to me as his best,non album tone, excluding the '77/'78 era live stuff. Someone here needs to experiment with what he did there. Maybe the loadbox was different ? Maybe the emulator ? 'Something' was slightly unique or different to it as compared to other reamped clips I've heard.

[Santino]

In 1984, he was using H&H Power amps. I have an interview with Rudy L. Where he says two were used and Ed is happy to have consistent stage volume. So by 1985, it was already part of his rig. I'll try to post it. Paste didn't work. I have it saved to my photos on my iphone. Anybody know how to post it here?

[bobtec]

he was runing out to some kind of a load offstage into a isolation speaker into the WMD bands house mix..Rick Nielson of Cheap Treak was doing that in the 1970s....No way is Ed just pluged in