Geddy Lee’s Signature Bass Sound Celebrated With ‘YYZ Shape-Shifter’ Device - uDiscover Music

Musical instrumentality shaper Tech 21 has bully quality for bassists with designs connected Geddy Lee oregon Rush’s bass guitar code with the motorboat of the YYZ Shape-shifter Signature SansAmp device.

Finished with achromatic substance and an illustration of the antheral himself connected a shadiness of spearmint toothpaste green, the YYZ Shape-shifter matches Lee’s signature rack-mounted and level units from Tech 21, but this quality belies the information that the all-analogue instrumentality is successful information the instrumentality of the MP40.

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Launched to observe 40 years of Rush’s classical medium Moving Pictures – implicit with Hugh Syme-inspired artwork – the MP40 was a strictly constricted variation portion that sold retired successful nary time, ne'er to return. Until now.

But this is simply a instrumentality that makes everyone happy. Those with the constricted variation MP40 person a bona-fide collectable. Those who drawback this volition person the nonstop aforesaid circuit astatine their disposal – and it offers a wealthiness of tone-shaping powerfulness and uses, and a manual that compiles an array of Geddy Lee signature sounds.

The YYZ Shape-shifter has a dual-footswitch build, 1 for bypassing/engaging the unit, the different for a selectable boost function, which tin use 12dB of oomph to your beingness for a much distorted high-end sound. And, giving the portion its name, determination is simply a Shape-shifter fastener that adds an other 6dB of what Lee likes to telephone “Schmegilka”, a method word for an “an indefinable happening of awesomeness”.

There is besides a Tight fastener to heighten explanation and, indeed, tighten your distorted tones. As for controls, it is arsenic you were with Lee’s signature SansAmp, the GED-2112. There’s a Master volume, a Mix power that takes you from Deep (“high-end workplace clean”) to Drive (“dirty bass conduit amp tones”), an progressive three-band EQ, and a Drive control.

This caller signature SansAmp continues Lee’s long-standing narration with the analogue tech. Famously, helium was an aboriginal adopter, and would person washing machines – and connected occasion, rotisserie chickens – onstage lest Rush’s backline look excessively empty.

Bassists tin usage the portion to spell nonstop into the mixing table for playing live, into the table for recording, for fixing up antecedently recorded parts, oregon it tin beryllium utilized with the bass amp they already cognize and love.

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