What amp did alex lifeson use on the fly by night-album?

[shadesofgray]

What amp did alex lifeson use on the Fly By Night album (particularly anthem)
and 2112 - temples of syrinx?

It sounds like a marshall superlead of some kind, any ideas?

[clothwiring]

Maybe a Marshall 4140. I'm not positive about that but I believe he used them way back in the day.

[leofenderbender]

He was into Hiwatt stuff too.

[DT7]

JMP 50-watt half-stack...

...I don't think the 4140s came in until around "Moving Picture", though I could be wrong about that.

[teefus]

i thought that was his big fender era? no?

[DT7]

He might have had a Super Reverb in there, but the Twins didn't come until 2112.

[shadesofgray]

The music video for Anthem features a couple of marshall full-stacks, can't tell which models they are though

But that doesn't mean those amps were used to record the track

[The Last Rebel]

Originally Posted by DT7

JMP 50-watt half-stack...

...I don't think the 4140s came in until around "Moving Picture", though I could be wrong about that.

I'm pretty sure you're right about the 4140s. Fly By night was too early for the Hiwatts, if memory serves. I'm pretty sure it was the JMPs on Fly By Night, the Hiwatts may have been on 2112, I do know they were on Hemispheres.

[AXEnGEAR4J]

At that time live he was using 2 Marshall 1959's I believe running through 2 full stacks loaded with 25 watt greenback speakers .

[ked]

I remember seeing them live about that time. Best I remember, he was using a Marshall full stack with a 100 watt head. The guitar was a Gibson 335 and maybe a Les Paul.

Ken

[kelly dell]

50 Watt Marshalls / 1 - head per 1 - 4x12 cab is how he did his live rig back then. He would stack them in full stacks. Bottom cab - top cab -then 2 heads.
That record has Marshalls on it but he could have used several different things in the studio. The exact studio set up I`m not sure tho.

[Navigator]

I remember an interview from back in the day--actually I'm pretty sure it was from his first Guitar Player cover story--where he spoke of using Fender amps for Fly By Night, after having used a Marshall for the first album.

[ripoffriffs]

Notice how light or low the gain is the on the rhythm tracks of the original studio recoding of Fly By Night? It's almost clean. It sounds like a non-master Marshall which is extremely loud even with very little gain distortion. As if it was as loud as he wanted to go in the studio and not overdrive the mics.

Contrast to every live recording of the song which is full of gain.

[cram]

odd... I was in rural maine, heading to a store for some stuff and this came on the local radio. I usually flip past it because I've heard it a bunch of times and I'm not interested, but the intro grabbed me because I noticed precisely what this post is saying -

Originally Posted by ripoffriffs

Notice how light or low the gain is the on the rhythm tracks of the original studio recoding of Fly By Night? It's almost clean. It sounds like a non-master Marshall which is extremely loud even with very little gain distortion. As if it was as loud as he wanted to go in the studio and not overdrive the mics.

Contrast to every live recording of the song which is full of gain.

It was clean sounding and something I've been experimenting with my signal - I have dialed down my pedals and gain from the amp lately and am enjoying it. That is what I hear from the studio cut there. The guitar itself sounded as if played on a 335 to my ears.

A timely thread indeed.

[shadesofgray]

I appreciate all the help, but saying that he used 50 watt marshalls is just not specific enough