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there was a thread a while back about "that sound", principally concerning
the successful reproduction of the hair-on-back-of-neck strings usually
associated with late 60s prog heavyweights, which prompted me to experiment with some
of the suggestions therein & steer away from modern multi-effects devices.

by good fortune- bidding on something on e-bay & then being offered
first-refusal on some of the guy's other stuff because I am such a good customer (it
says here), I snagged a GBS. this is a 1 metre long plastic drain pipe with
several accutronics springs in it, along with all the electronics to run them as a
true-stereo reverb. now that the real "great british spring" is upon us, I
decided to run 1098 through this contraption & see what happened.
it made "that sound".
I may even bolt the GBS onto the cabinet permanently.
it also makes a fantastic noise if you knock it over- like a thunderbolt
hitting some shopping trollies.

aye.

duncan/r.m.i.