Doulg Aldrich Whitesnake rig

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I wish that I could read Japanese. Or whatever that is. Nice.
 
I wish he would take whatever he used on the recent Whitesnake album and toss it in a dumpster and dig up the rig he used to use in Lion when he had one of the best tones I've ever heard. I'm sorry to say it but I was really disappointed with the new WS record and I'm a huge Doug fan. I wish him well though and I think he is having great success so I'm happy for him, but man do I miss the old Doug. :cry:
 
Chubtone":3iy2uzez said:
I wish he would take whatever he used on the recent Whitesnake album and toss it in a dumpster and dig up the rig he used to use in Lion when he had one of the best tones I've ever heard. I'm sorry to say it but I was really disappointed with the new WS record and I'm a huge Doug fan. I wish him well though and I think he is having great success so I'm happy for him, but man do I miss the old Doug. :cry:
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How come Suhr has a pickup named after him and i see his name always thrown around in Suhr discussion, but he's always playing a Les Paul?
 
He should go buy one of Syke's old Marshalls.


"That" was the Whitesnake tone. period.

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Keith
 
Seen him two days ago: Rockin tone and performance! :rock: :rock: :rock: Reb Beach was awesome as well, the band as a whole sucked though because Coverdale used playback and was a whiney bitch. Alice Cooper destroyed them afterwards... :rock:
 
danyeo":3upsj6ik said:
How come Suhr has a pickup named after him and i see his name always thrown around in Suhr discussion, but he's always playing a Les Paul?
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I've wondered this too. Did Suhr just make a pickup for him?
 
He's been close friends with John Suhr since '92 or so, and has been a customer of John's ever since. John used to build him custom pickups for his Strats back when he was more of a Strat player in the mid 90's. He also owns a bunch of Marshalls that John modified over the years too.
 
SQUAREHEAD":p6l6mmum said:
He should go buy one of Syke's old Marshalls.


"That" was the Whitesnake tone. period.

:thumbsup:
Keith
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Not the 87 album. The Coliseum MKIII head was the Whitesnake tone back then :D
 
SgtThump":1oif8in3 said:
I get all mixed up with the Suhr/Bradshaw/Martin Golub/etc... stuff. But yeah, Doug's number one amp in the past was the one modded by Martin. Does that guy work with Suhr, work with Bradshaw, friends with both, do they all work together, etc...? I don't understand the relationship between those folks.

Plus, Reb has played a Suhr guitar since sometime in the '80s and is now playing the Suhr Custom Audio amps. It's safe to say Suhr is in good with that band. lol

Chris
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Ok heres the deal..

John Suhr and Bob Bradshaw worked together at Custom Audio Electronics in the early 90s, and when John left.. Martin took his place.

Martin was working at Custom Audio right up until a few years ago. He now works for LA Sound Design doing racks/mods/servicing etc for a lot of big names.

Obviously as you know Suhr has his own business now too. So Bradshaw/Suhr/Golub really dont have anything to do with each other anymore as far as business goes!

One of Doug's fav amps is his 79 JMP which Martin modified. He also has some Suhr modded Marshalls and a bunch of Cameron modded Marshalls too.

Reb uses Suhr guitars and has since day one, and he used a Suhr modded Marshall since the early days too!

That should clear things up :thumbsup: :rock:
 
SgtThump":2kf9d3t6 said:
That helps, thanks! So Suhr's newer "Custom Audio Amplifiers" really isn't affiliated with Bradshaw at all, right? Maybe Bradshaw and Suhr agreed to let Suhr use that name or something? Do they not consider "Custom Audio Electronics" and "Custom Audio Amplifiers" the same thing?
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Im not entirely sure about that as i have never really been interested in the Custom Audio Amps. They arent really my thing at all so i never really followed it all. Its possible that both Bradshaw and Suhr own the rights to those amps, as they both worked on the design of the amp.

What i know for sure though, is that Martin's work isnt the same as John Suhr's. A lot of people think that just because he pretty much took over Suhr's job at CAE.. that his amp mods and designs are the ones that John designed at CAE. Well thats not the case at all.. Martin's mods and designs are completely his own.
 
Dammit, nice Marshall VM in there. For some reason I have HUGE gas for one of these. So much so I may be going thru some gear today to trade in to get one. Question is, 50w or 100w. Ugh...
 
Chubtone":351u46l5 said:
I wish he would take whatever he used on the recent Whitesnake album and toss it in a dumpster and dig up the rig he used to use in Lion when he had one of the best tones I've ever heard. I'm sorry to say it but I was really disappointed with the new WS record and I'm a huge Doug fan. I wish him well though and I think he is having great success so I'm happy for him, but man do I miss the old Doug. :cry:
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Hey Curt!

Believe it or not.. He is usually using the same Marshalls he used back during Lion, but the mods he had in them back then were gutted and re-done by either Mark Cameron/John Suhr/Martin Golub.

Not to mention, his 50w Jose modded Marshall he had back in the day during Lion, got stolen just after the House Of Lords Sahara record was recorded :thumbsdown:

Looks like the days of the old Doug tone are long gone!
 
Anyway Curt, im surprised you havent hunted down Frank Levi by now and got him to do the mods he did on Doug's amps back during the Lion era!! :D :thumbsup:
 
MrDan666":3fc7t2zc said:
Anyway Curt, im surprised you havent hunted down Frank Levi by now and got him to do the mods he did on Doug's amps back during the Lion era!! :D :thumbsup:
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Nah man... a stock JMP with a Furman PQ-3 and split into stereo with a PCM-41 is more than capable of nailing Dougs old tone. Doug should have left those amps alone and he should have just remained Doug Aldrich and not become Sykes Lite. I'm not saying he shouldn't have taken the WHitesnake gig, but the old Doug tone and style would have been just sick, sick, sick in this gig and the new Doug makes you go, wow this sounds a lot like Sykes wrote or played this. Yawn.

I love Sykes, don't get me wrong. But it's disappointing watching a guy who could seriously (easily) have stood toe to toe with Sykes in a headcutting contest turn into a Sykes clone. Sykes didn't die, he's still doing his thing. Now Doug is doing Sykes thing too.
 
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