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"Did you keep the Hiwatts for Permanent Waves? Actually, on that album I used a number of different amp combinations. I used a Mesa/Boogie to drive a Marshall cabinet, a 100-watt Hiwatt head to power both a Hiwatt and a Marshall cabinet, and a Marshall Mark II head driving a Marshall cabinet with four 12" Celestions. Add to all that a Leslie with a Hiwatt head, which I also used on Hemisphere,. and that's about it for amps.

Thank you for letting me know I'll move this there.

Wanted to see my fellow guitarists' Lifeson / RUSH rigs. Would love to know your set up / rigs, etc... I'm a gear dork so details are great. I'll start off and try to be brief: Guitars: PRS CE 24 with Fralin Unbucker picks up (the coil tap in middle position really gets that chimey Alex GUP, PW and HYF tones) Gibson Les Paul Classic with Fralin PAFs Amp: Splawn 50W EL34 (power section only) with Weber 12" Legacy 12F Board: Wilson mini Q wah (for thomas organ crybaby setting) Bondi 2026 compressor (always on) HX Stomp (for Maestro PS1A phaser, Polyphonic, Octave, EQ, trichorus, MXR Dist+, TC 2290, Echoplex, Space Echo) Retrosonic Flanger (EM clone) Timmy V3 (boost for clean / dirt channels) Boss CH-1 (analog Taiwan blue label) CMATMods custom dual chorus (for light chorus sounds) RJM Mastermind PBC6X Kinglsey Page ODS (boost) Kinglsey Maiden D (clean tube pre) Kingley Constable (marshall plexi pre) In a nutshell, I run wah and compressor into the HX stomp. I put the PBC 6X switcher into the effects loop of the HX in order to put the pedals in those loops in different orders . The main thing is that I use the Kingsley tube preamps as my "amps". I go out of HX into the FX return of my amp. If I don't do that then I engage my Mooer Radar power/cab sim pedal and run the signal instead into my audio interface > Logic Pro. It's a pretty versatile rig for Alex stuff. My biggest hang ups are nailing down the right gains / effects Alex used in the varying decades. For example...70s stuff until permanent waves I use the Marhsall Plexi pre with boosts, phaser, echoplex and bingo. Then for Hemispheres and on I use the Kignsley Maiden D (which is a dumble type pre...but I put in some brightness into the EQ blocks on HX to make it more Hiwatt sounding) I use the PRS and add in The Timmy, MXR, and Page boost to do the gain. I'll toggle between choruses for thicker and lighter chorus. Anyway, any info and rig sharing would be great.

that's great. I think I read that while ago but great reading it again.

Howdy fellow RUSHians... Wondering if some of you knowledgable folks know which Hiwatts Alex was using around the late 70s....I think its mentioned around the time of A Farewell to Kings / Permanent Waves. Some say its the DR103, some say it's the Canadian version DR105 with different gain staging and I recently read someone batting around the idea of the DR504. Thanks

If it were that clear, I wouldn't have started this post...lol. Maybe your resolution is better. Regardless, thanks for everyone chiming in. Hopefully I can snag a super clear pic and remake the shirt.

I keep looking at it and I think the second word is ROCK. The shirt looks almost like Geddy took a marker to a white shirt.

I venture to guess the same... hopefully someone can chime in

Wanted to ask and see if anyone knew anything about this particular shirt Geddy wore in the documentary. You can see it at 12:19. White shirt, black letters with red rectangle. I'm trying to recreate...and don't know what the bottom verbiage says. If anyone has any info on this, I'd appreciate it. It seems like it's a date of sorts.. like 10 | 16 | 1970 or something like that. http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f79/dimitripapadimitriou/rushshirt_zps6et06exb.jpg"]http://http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f79/dimitripapadimitriou/rushshirt_zps6et06exb.jpg[/url]