1988 Soldano/Cornish Guitar Routing System vs Custom Audio Electronics Pedal Board Switching System
The 1988 Soldano/Cornish Guitar Routing System and the Custom Audio Electronics Pedal Board Switching System are both others.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.54% — moderately similar
Custom Audio Electronics Pedal Board Switching System
Custom Audio Electronics · other
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.This 1988 setup pairs Soldano, the boutique amplifier maker whose SLO-100 defined late-1980s high-gain tone, with a Pete Cornish guitar routing system, the switching and effects-loop units Cornish built by hand in England for professional touring rigs. Cornish systems solved the problem of running multiple pedals and amp channels with buffered switching and no signal loss, becoming a fixture of high-end 1980s and 90s touring boards. It is associated in this catalogue with Eric Clapton, though independent sources confirming this specific combination as Claptons rig are limited, so that detail is not asserted as fact here.
Custom Audio Electronics, founded by Bob Bradshaw, built rack-mounted switching systems that let touring guitarists control multiple amp channels and effects loops from a single MIDI-programmable board, solving the reliability and tone-loss problems that plagued earlier passive pedalboards. These systems became a standard feature of professional touring rigs from the 1980s onward. Warren Haynes, whose rig spans amp channel switching and a wide effects chain across long improvisational sets, is associated with this kind of system.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Electronic