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The Benedetto Guitar
Chris plays a Benedetto custom archtop jazz guitar made especially
for him by luthier Robert Benedetto.
Robert
Benedetto made Chris his archtop jazz guitar in 1995. It is
custom made to certain specifications. Chris needed a great
sounding guitar that could stand a little extra volume
(most archtops are hollow bodies that can only take low levels
without feeding back). To achieve this Bob placed a block
down the centre of the guitar and modelled the style on a
Gibson Birdland, whilst retaining all the classic elements
of a Benedetto.
Here
are the final specifications:
"Custom" Archtop, carved top and back, 16" body, width of
neck at nut - 1 11/16" Body depth - 2 1/4" with bass
wood center block. 25 1/2" fingerboard scale (22 frets), no
fingerboard inlays. Color-Cremona sunburst. Fret Wire
size - #6110. Black Grover M6 mini tuning machines with ebony
buttons. Black strap button on heel. 1 - Benedetto B-6 (built
in) pickup.
Chris uses D'addario chromes 12-52
Other guitars
1998 White Fender Strat
Martin DX1 Dreadnought acoustic guitar
Levinson
Blade Delta thinline (Telecaster)
Takamine EN60C Nylon acoustic guitar
Heritage jazz guitar
Amps
Chris records and plays through an Acoustic Image Clarus 2R
head with 2 Raezer's Edge 12 inch speaker cabinets. He also
uses Fender Twin Reverbs (1965 Black Face reissue). When on
the road, he has the various sound companies rent two of these,
which he runs in stereo.
His touring pedalboad is now a Boss ME-50 alongside a Rocktron
Banshee talkbox.
His home made pedalboard consists of the following (which
is pretty much now retired for portability nightmares):
- Boss digital delay
- Electro harmonix Doctor Q envelope follower
- Marshall SV1 supervibe stereo chorus
- Boss TU2 chromatic tuner
- Ibanez TS9 tube screamer (used with Digitalker)
- Rotovibe
- Ernie Ball volume pedal
- Tech 21 Killer Wail wah wah
- Digitech Talker Voice sythesis
- Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive (power boost)
- Voodoo Lab pedal power AC controller
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