Author Topic: Return to Forever at Vienne Jazz Festival, France. (Read 1303 times)

pierreyves · « **on:** July 22, 2011, 11:03:01 AM »

Here is my little report:

http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/return_to_forever_2011.html

enjoy

tbrannon · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2011, 11:47:43 AM »

WOW!! Great photos. You got up close and personal with the gear. I've never seen such good photos of his rack setup. Looks like you had a blast.

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2011, 02:33:44 PM »

What a show this must have been, incredible place!

pierreyves · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2011, 02:42:23 PM »

great show... under the rain !! be patient and come back tomorrow night, I'm sending some videos on dailymotion...

mike13 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2011, 07:18:55 PM »

I am close friends with Nunzio,Franks brother in OZ

bigredbass · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2011, 10:27:07 PM »

It's 'School Days' alright . . . I feel like I get taken to school every time I see it or hear it !

So, what's with the Swallowtail inlays?

J o e y

elwoodblue · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2011, 01:15:17 PM »

Wow.great pictures and thanks for the vids.
I spent a few minutes just looking at the F-1X settings. What's the story with the modded preamp
(the top unit) ?
Amazing shots of his Alembics,well done !

Elwood

adriaan · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2011, 01:28:09 PM »

Power outs for two Series basses?

pierreyves · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2011, 03:14:18 PM »

You can listen to the last video. The first F1-x is customized to have the DS5-R inside and after I dont understand the output from the first F1-X to the second.....I could took pictures of the back side of the rack.

tbrannon · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2011, 03:28:21 PM »

Joey,

I believe the swallowtail inlays are the result of a bass that they were building custom for another club member (keith?)- however, something about the bass (neck taper?) wasn't correct, so they restarted another bass for keith and then took this bass and customized the neck to Stanley's personal neck preference.

There is a thread somewhere on the forum where I asked and the question was answered. Will try to find the link for that.

adriaan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 24, 2011, 03:29:04 AM »

Some guesswork here, but the top F-1X has the two power outs. Then there's a jumper cable from jack #2 on the top one, to #1 on the bottom one - so that's probably how the bottom F-1X gets its signal.

Assuming he's running the pickups into separate channels, there could be internal wiring to route one pickup signal to jack #2 (though I would hazard a guess that you can always run a jumper cable from the second jack, like on a two-channel Marshall head).

The switch just above jack #2 could select the instrument input, or the pickup to be routed to the other F-1X.

adriaan · « **Reply #11 on:** July 24, 2011, 03:30:37 AM »

elwoodblue · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2011, 08:41:21 AM »

Ahhh... I didn't see that that cord was a jumper,

So instead of using the high/low outs on the back he is using 2 F-!X's , one for highs,one for lows...with a tone stack available for each.
I see the crossovers for this show are opened up to allow more frequencies that wouldn't be available when using one F-1X and it's crossover.

I see the mark on the lower units crossover is about where I place mine when using two cabs.
(my recent experience playing with leslies and x-over frequencies has taught me sometimes a little overlap can add warmth...but that's with a guitar and a situation when comb-filtering is the main goal).
Your assumption about jack 2 makes sense, otherwise it would start as a summed mono signal then split for amplification...and I can't imagine Stanley not using discrete pathways for each pickup.

Elwood

jazzyvee · « **Reply #13 on:** July 24, 2011, 09:49:21 AM »

Excellent photo's Pierre. It is too expensive for me to go to the shows this time round as none are in England. I hope to get a dvd of the concert when it is released.

Jazzyvee

pierreyves · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2011, 02:16:45 PM »

Sorry but I really dont understand what you have understood elwood... If I remember my vision of the back, It seems that Stan used the mono output but I'm not sure.... well next time I take pictures of ALL, include the mosquito on the top of the rack.
What the video said about the SVT use ? the SVT2 is for the upright no ?
I posted a new video on the soundcheck.