Here's one of my favorite Hendrix tunes from his amazing Electric Ladyland sessions. I had some time available and wanted to start using the Fostex cassette recording deck I'd picked up. Just getting the song recorded was a trip. My keyboard player had an extra Mini Moog and let me grab it for my bass track. I used a Boss Dr Rhythm 550, my '70 fender strat, a Korg CX-1 organ and my Evolution guitar amp that 2 engineer friends and I assembled for the '86 Chicago Namm show that year. We designed this amp for the guitarist. It had everything I wanted...a fully integrated amplifier. First off, the head was 70 watts. We added 2 eq channels for clean (white) and (red) distortion, 2 inputs, loop in and out jacks, aux out and headphone jacks. A hard/soft button for the distortion effect and a flanger/chorus effect and analog delay effect. The low profile foot switch was color coded to match the effects with corresponding leds and the amp came as an individual rack mount, a stand alone head or a combo single 12 cabinet . It also had an extra speaker jack...I used 2 12" celestians. In the end, we made about 500 units and even got one to Robin Trower after a concert (whether he played around with it or not remains to be seen). In a year I'll retire and devote most of my free time to recording originals that've been swirling around in my head for decades as well as some of my favorite covers. I'm looking forward to increasing my skills with cakewalk and post my efforts. Here's to a better life through music! https://www.bandlab.com/post/27c7c510-4a05-ed11-b47a-281878315d59
