DEL BROMHAM on GUITAR
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GUITARS
1. Hofner
Compensator - approx
1964
The first guitar my mum and dad bought me back in 1965.
Lots of memories with this one. Wrote most of the very
early Stray songs on it. Used it on Around The World In
80 Days.
2. Gibson
Firebird VII - 1968
I bought this in London in 1972 after I had my first Firebird
stolen. Used on every album since Mudanzas and every live
performance since. This to me is a VERY special guitar.
Almost a part of me!
3. Hofner
Hawaiian guitar - early to mid 1960s
Bought it in a secondhand shop in Ealing London back in
about 1972. Same as the one Lennon used on Let It Be (Old
Brown Shoe). I used it on the solo on Soon As You've Grown
on the Mudanzas album.
4, Epiphone
FT-150 - approx 1974
I bought this one new around 1974 - once again it's been
on all the Stray albums since then.
5. Fender
Squier Stratocaster
One of the first that Leo Fender made. I bought this one
back in 1983 - a friend had a music shop and got a couple
in. Great guitar, can do all the tricks with it... Hendrix
would have loved it!
6. Charvel
(not sure of the model) - approx 1988
It has two Jackson Humbuckers. Bought this one in Johnny's
House of Guitars in Florida in 1990. A very LOUD guitar!!!!!!
7. Viccars
Custom Telecaster - 1989
Andy Viccars is a friend and a great guitar maker based
in Bletchley, Bucks. He made me this guitar in 1989. Two
pickups, Kent Armstrong by the neck and I believe it is
a 1963 Fender Telecaster pickup by the bridge which Andy
bought from the guitarist in the Searchers (I think?)
8. Yamaha
F-310 - approx 2002
Used this guitar on my blues album Devils Highway. It
had the sound I wanted to create - that authentic blues
sound.
9. Yamaha
APX-4A - approx 2001
Bought this one when I started to include acoustic versions
of Stray songs in the live set.
10. Aria
Elecord FET-STD BLS - approx 2001
Got this one in 2004 when I started my solo concerts.
Use this one mainly for slide guitar and non-concert tunings!
11.
Fender Stratocaster HSS Special Edition - 2005
I bought this one in January 2006 at Peter Cook's Guitar
World in Hanwell. Originally I went to buy a Les Paul,
but they showed me this one and the guitar just screamed
at me... take me, I'm yours...! It's a lovely guitar,
one humbucker, two single coil pickups. Very versatile,
get virtually every sound out of it..... Oh yeh! VERY
ROCK 'n ROLL ....!!!!!!!!!
12.
Gibson
Les Paul Classic - 1960s
My latest acquisition! This guitar is fitted with 2 humbucker
pickups 496R at the neck and a 500T at the bridge.
AMPLIFICATION
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Del uses the brand new Carlsbro Evolution
50 Amp.
The amp is a 2 channel 50W head with EL34 valves
(2 in class A/B).
It has a triode/pentode switch, FX loop switchable
to series or parallel,
gain boost for more saturation on the lead channel,
and switchable master volumes to allow a level
boost to be set.
The lead channel also has a level control so you
can balance it with the clean channel.
This will drive a specially custom built slope
front 4x12 ('Classic 412') using
Celestion G12P-30 drivers, usable as a 4 or 16
ohm mono cab, or 8 ohm stereo cab.
Tthe amp will drive 8 or 16 ohm loads.
For his acoustic guitar, Carlsbro provide a Sherwood
85 Acoustic combo.
85 Watts RMS,12" Speaker, HF Tweeter,
Phase Inversion Switch, Two Channels, 3 Band Active
EQ with Parametric Mid (Channel 1),
Hi Z input (Channel 2)
Selectable Reverb for each channel, XLR Line Out
(Balanced),
Horn Disable Switch and loads of other goodies
too!
Take a look at http://www.carlsbro.com/
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EFFECTS
Pedals
from left to right as in the picture above:
Digitech RP200
Pedal board consisting of the following :
Sound Lab Power Supply GO25M
Yamaha DI-10MII Distortion pedal
Arion stage tuner HU8500 (now replaced by Boss
Chromatic Tuner TU2 not in photo)
Boss digital delay DD-3
Boss Super Overdrive SD-1
Boss flanger BF-2
Boss Super Octave OC-3
Meridian Chorus CRS-5 (now replaced by Boss Super
Chorus CH1 not in photo)
Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-Pedal
Voice Box this dates back to 1976. I think it
was called 'Voice Waak' and I think was made by MXR?
GUITAR STRINGS
I'm always changing my
mind on which ones to use. More often than not it's either
Dean Markley of Di'Addario, although Leslie West gave
me some 'Snarlin Dogs' which I used for a while and they
seemed good and strong and seemed to hold their tonal
quality. I use light gauge strings, regular sets 009 -
042 although recently I tried 010-045, particularly on
the acoustic. I like to give the strings a damn good thrashing
and bending! |
