Aclam Guitars: Windmiller Preamp
212https://www.aclamguitars.com
Back in the late 60's the place to be in London if you wanted to catch one of the cutting edge was the Marquee Club. There's some footage of The Who from '67 at the Marquee playing 'My Generation'. Pete Townshend is wielding a Strat through what looks like a couple of Marshall heads and boxes. On top of them sits his Grampian 636 Reverberation Unit. I don't think he actually used the reverb bit, but rather ran his guitar into the auxiliary input, cranked the volume, and then into the Marshall. Instant early overdrive. The guys at Aclam thought it might be fun to put that Grampian preamp into a pedal so we could all give it a shot. And they're right - it is fun! Visit the Aclam site for further info but know this: the Windmiller rocks hard! I like it. The turmeric yellow colour scheme is a cool touch too.
Today's tools:
;Guitar: '60 Tele clone - MJT/Musikraft/Seymour Duncan/Callaham
Amps: JTM45, AC30, '65 Deluxe Reverb - all Axe-FX III models in FW: 16.00b8. Studio Reverb added, also Axe-FX III
Cables: Providence
Power Supply: Eventide PowerMax by Cioks
Mic: Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro and Canon D60
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum & Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX III (guitar, mixing and bouncing).
Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
Software: Logic Pro X, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Compressor.
This video was commissioned and paid for by Aclam Guitars, Barcelona.