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11. That makes sense. I need to get one of those Boss pedals--I think they are discontinued now.

I could probably find one on eBay, though. Hopefully it's not as sought-after as an E-H Polychorus. I should have picked one of those up when they made a reissue model a few years ago. But anyway, I have heard from a few people that the Boss Acoustic Simulator pedal is definitely one way to get that '80s clean tone. You can also hear the really heavy compression on those Fixx records (and anything West-Oram played on, pretty much). I know he was using a studio compressor in his setup, the Valley People Dyna-Mite, which is well-known for that brickwall compression sound. You hear the influence of the Fixx guitar sound on so many '80s records. And recently, I've been hearing some of those sounds on new records as well, so those tones may be having somewhat of a return in popularity.