Was how noisy the mechanical action was, and that the pickup amplified One thing that jumped out at me when I acquired my bass player's Rhodes The Suitcase preamp could be driven into distortion if you cranked it all the way up. Or mixing board, or play through the suitcase speaker cabinet (2 x 12) and Played Rhodes Suitcase pianos would either run from the line out to an amp Running his Stage 73 through a Maestro Ring Modulator pedal, a Fender Blender fuzz tone pedal, and then from there to a Hiwatt stack. I saw Chick Corea in a club in Boulder Colorado in 1971, Jan Hammer used to put his through a Marshall stack when touring
The single mono output to the input on an amp or a mixing desk.īack in the day, Rhodes players would usually run their Rhodes Stage throughĪn amp. The Stage 73 Rhodes itself does not have a preamp, you just connect
Reverb amp (a 100-watt combo amp/6x10 speaker cab), and a Twin ReverbĪmp. Three amplifier recommendations - the Rhodes Super Satellite System (Ī 100 watt power amp head and two 2x12 cabinets), a Fender Super Six It needs some serious work.but itĭid come with an owner's manual, and in the back pages Fender listed Interestingly, I just acquired a Mark I Fender Rhodes Stage 73 from Amplitube Fender is probably the best Fender amp emulator there is.
