Phil Collen (Def Leppard) sound

Hi. Saw the band last week and his sound is AMAZING. Anyone know what he runs his Jackson through? Eddie (We`re not worthy)!

the "Classic Albums" documentary of "Hysteria". he sits down and explains a bunch of his guitar parts and his rig is in plain view right behind him. BTW- get ready for the shock of your life when he and Joe reveal the fact that Mutt Lange sang all the backgound vocals on the album! I kid you not. He did all of it, and it`s depressing.

Phil`s use of the Scholz Rockman equipment. The first post is a couple pictures of his Rockman gear and then there is a link to a page that is totally devoted to his setup. Kind of cool. The classic V shape to the EQ with mids really sucked out around 1khz.

Actually its 1.4 Khz that is sucked out. Also, you will see that you will need a lot of rack units if you want want he had...

After reading various accounts of the Hysteria sessions about Collen and Clark`s guitar sounds - various amps, someone always mentioning the Rockmans- I read an interview (last year?) where I believe Phil said that album was all Rockman. The chorused/compressed clean parts certainly are the trademark Rockman sound. I could see where the crunchy stuff could come from that box too.
I think the original question was `what is Collen using onstage thesedays? I doubt it`s Rockman stuff.
IIrc, those Collen was a Randall user for a time, could be anything now. There are plenty of crunchy amps and processors thesedays to replicate (or do better) what the Rockmans did for a lot of artists in studios circa the mid 80s. imo,

Well, that doesn`t surprise me - I always thought of those records as having a Rockman sound to them - and I never considered that at positive thing.... I think his sound - that over-processed, over-compressed sound is something I`m glad we all left behind...
Listen to his sound with Girl - Les Pauls and Marshalls....

popular and was thus overexposed. Trendy.
Most trendy sounding stuff doesn`t age well. Lots of `80s sounding` stuff gives me a case of the yechs today ... not the good sounding stuff from the 80s- the trendy sounding stuff. still I don`t mind listening to the Hysteria cd every now and then - or at least a tune here or there. seems like radio has almost blacklisted that one with the exception of maybe "Pour Some Sugar on Me." retro 80s is nostalgia cool now and Def Lepperd can`t buy a spin ...least on stations around here.

I believe what you`re saying, but it`s strange... I even remember in 1983 when Pyromania came out (after REALLY liking `High & Dry` and `On Through the Night` and thinking, "God, what an awful guitar sound". I guess in retrospect, it was 5 years after the first 2 Boston albums, but, the thing with Tom Sholz - he used LP`s and Marshalls and just did all that magic afterwards with compressors and EQ`s, so, there was a shred of good guitar sound in there. He didn`t develop the Rockman stuff until later (not sure of when) and when he actually used one on `Third Stage` or `Walk On` - you could tell he was using something crappy.....
There is something intriquing about the Rockman though - don`t know what it is - it just doesn`t sound like amps to me... almost sounds sampled.....