Members petejt Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 Is anyone familiar with his guitar rig around 1991? I've only just discovered Giant, so please don't cop me . I've found a couple of videos on YouTube that show Giant recording their album in the studio. It's very dated looking as shown by the late-80s style fashion with the jeans etc. Anyway, the videos are really cool. It shows them recording together, then Dann does the solo overdubs, and also explains & demonstrates how to play them, even playing them at slower tempos. He's a champ for doing that . Well, I can see his rig- two Peavey 5150s, and two Fender amp heads, sitting on top of two fridge-sized racks that have a few processors in them, and I think a Mesa/Boogie Studio preamp & VHT 5150 poweramp. Does he run two sets of stereo rigs? Eg. the pair of Fenders in stereo for clean tones, and the pair of 5150s for gainy rhythm tones? Or is it a wet/dry/wet thing with two heads on left and right and the preamp-poweramp combo up the middle? Or is the preamp-poweramp combo used for lower gain stuff, even though it's famously capable of extremely high gain and LOUD volume & articulated tight tone? Also too, I noticed the 5150s were absent during the solo overdubs, and instead a Marshall Super Lead Plexi amp head. Well here's the videos. He's got some nice chorus effects too [YOUTUBE]uLCfxbd4LFY[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]1yjlwcAFyu0[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jet66 Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 I don't know what gear he used, but Last Of The Runaways is one of my favorite albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave L Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 I don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian May Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 Very cool player!!! Always seems to be pretty tasteful and always with equally good tone!! Inspiring stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Randy Van Sykes Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 I was just recently listening to Lou Gramm's 'Long Hard Look' disc and was thinking how great Dan is on that disc.It sounded to me like he was going direct with a Rockman type unit, but it doesn't matter what he used really. The tone worked great for the material he was playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BerkleeBill Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 I used to own one of those brown tweed tolex 5150 heads of his. It was a pretty cool sounding block logo. Here it is after I switched out the black knobs for white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave L Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 One of his personal, or one just like his? Either way, that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BerkleeBill Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 One of his personal, or one just like his? Either way, that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave L Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 Nice! I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sanchezero Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 look up member Dann'stheMan. he's a huge fanboy of the Huffer and seems very knowledgable about his gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bankboy Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 Check out the hugeracks forum....they idolize Dann over there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guvnor Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 I don't get it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BusterBuster Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 He is a master at recording I've had the pleasure meeting Dann in Nashville a few years back. Very nice guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jaytee123 Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 Dan is fecking awesome. He just makes me sick how good he is. And fecking sings great too. Another thing... PEAVEY keyboards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members loudgtr Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 I Like it. Tastey playing and a little while into it you start to hear some Van Halenish type stuff. Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Extasyguy Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 He also produced some of my favorite Megadeth albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Anomaly Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 My gawd is he awesome. I can remember listening to the "Last Of The Runaways" cassette (that's right, I said cassette) in the record (that's right, I said record) store I worked at, oh, in 1990. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Hiryuu Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 He also produced some of my favorite Megadeth albums. For some reason I thought he only produced Cryptic Writings and Risk. And you couldn't possibly consider Risk one of your favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Extasyguy Posted July 3, 2008 Members Share Posted July 3, 2008 For some reason I thought he only produced Cryptic Writings and Risk. And you couldn't possibly consider Risk one of your favorites. I havent even heard Risk and Im a huge Megadeth fan. I'm pretty sure he did Youthanasia also. EDIT: Max Norman did Youthanasia. I do think Cryptic Writings is by far the best produced 'deth album though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members petejt Posted July 4, 2008 Author Members Share Posted July 4, 2008 I used to own one of those brown tweed tolex 5150 heads of his. It was a pretty cool sounding block logo. Here it is after I switched out the black knobs for white. cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members petejt Posted July 4, 2008 Author Members Share Posted July 4, 2008 look up member Dann'stheMan. he's a huge fanboy of the Huffer and seems very knowledgable about his gear. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BIGRED60NOLA Posted July 5, 2008 Members Share Posted July 5, 2008 I can tell that there is alot of studio processing, but I own a classic 50, and if I can get really close to some of what we can hear in the youtube vids, infact seeing his video has made me want to take it out and plug it into a splawn cab that I just bought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members luckett Posted July 5, 2008 Members Share Posted July 5, 2008 He also has a Kasha Rockmod preamp in that rack. However, he's used so many pieces of gear it would be a little difficult knowing what was used at any one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members van hellion Posted July 5, 2008 Members Share Posted July 5, 2008 when i met dann a year ago he said his 2 favorite amps right now are the xtc with the class a switch and the herbert. So i think thats what he is still rocking currently if anyone cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dann'sTheMan Posted July 20, 2008 Members Share Posted July 20, 2008 Hi Guys, Thanks to Dave L for the namecheck. I'm a huge fan of Dann, and his approach to guitar playing has influenced me a great deal - especially his studio work. I haven't researched his gear to the nth degree, but I have picked up tidbits of info here and there over the years. Check out this page for a start: http://members.aol.com/guitarron/dannhuff/dannhuff.htm This is the equipment list that he used in an instructional video in the early 90s, and was typical of the stuff he used as a AAA list LA session: (2) Tyler Strats (1) Gibson Les Paul (1) Schecter Tele (1) Vintage Fender Strat (looks reworked by Tyler?) (2) Peavey 5150 heads (2) Vintage Marshall heads (2) Fender heads (1) Bradshaw Switching System The rack in the huff video is Furman Eventide Spx 900 2290 TC 1210 Tc EQ Korg tuner DBX compressor Bradshaw switching RSB 18 Rane mixer Juice Goose Juice Extractor Kasha Rockmod 1 preamp Boogie studio preamp Boogie power amp VHT power amp In the mid-nineties, Dann moved to Nashville, and quickly became a AAA list Nashville session. His gear evolved too, and a Matchless became a studio staple, alongside Peavy 5150s and Classic 50s. More lately he's been seen in the company of Two Rocks, H&K Triamps etc. The only constant, if anything, in Dann's rigs has been an old Dynacomp and perhaps an old Tubescreamer. But as Dann himself highlights, "Don't get to attached to your equipment. That's not what it's about. Personal style is more important. Equipment is great, but it's only good if it augments who you are, as opposed to controls who you are." As my username testifies, Dann Huff IS The Man! Big smiles, Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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