The gear
The pedals, amps and studio behind every part I record.
Pedalboard
Boutique analog drives, fuzz and compression, plus tremolo, studio-grade delay and reverb, and two multi-effects pedals for everything else, so every part gets its own sound. These are the core of the board:
- Overdrive JHS Sweet Tea V3, Vertex Steel String Supreme, Warm Audio ODD Box, Warm Audio Centavo and MXR Duke of Tone
- Fuzz Benson Amps Germanium Fuzz
- Boost Xotic EP Booster
- Compressor Walrus Audio Deep Six V3
- Tremolo JHS Tidewater, an amp-style tremolo
- Delay BOSS DD-500
- Reverb Walrus Audio R1, a high-fidelity studio reverb
- Multi-FX Line 6 HX One, with Line 6's library of 250+ HX effects in one pedal, and TC Electronic Plethora X1, with TC's TonePrint effects
Amp captures
Amp captures are a modern technology that records the sound of a real tube amp with the highest fidelity. With a library of them, every song gets the right amp, from the classic Fender, Marshall and Vox sounds (I lean toward Marshall) to boutique and specially modded amps. I play them through IK Multimedia's TONEX in the studio and a stereo pair of TONEX pedals on stage, with a large collection of impulse responses for the cabinet side, and in Logic I also have plugins from Universal Audio and others.
- Go-to Bogner Ecstasy for high gain; Suhr Bella and a '65 Fender Deluxe Reverb as pedal platforms
- Studio IK Multimedia's TONEX
- Live A TONEX ONE+ and a TONEX ONE, as a stereo pair
- IRs A large collection of impulse responses, to get whatever sound I hear in my head
- Captures Tone Junkie, Signal Theory, Alter Amp Works, Amalgam Audio, Tone Factor, Boutique Tones and IK Multimedia's official packs
The amps
Some of the amps in my library, several of them in specially modded versions:
- Marshall Super Tremolo, JCM800, a modded 1959 Super Lead, '68 and '74 purple Plexi JMP 50s, a '76 JMP 50, a '68 JMP Super PA 100, and rare '64 and '65 JTM45s, including a white-tolex one built for Brian Poole of The Tremeloes
- Fender '65 and '67 Deluxe Reverbs, tweed Bassman, a Prune Music '67 Bassman, Vibroverb, Vibrolux, '65 Princeton Reverb, '65 Champ, '61 Pro Amp, Prosonic and a Dumble Tweedle Dee tweed Deluxe
- Vox AC30s: a '62 copper panel, a '66 and Korg-era models
- Bogner Ecstasy and Shiva
- Matchless Brave, HC-30, DC-30, Lightning and Phoenix 35, plus Sampson-era amps: a '98 Chief 100, Clubman 35 and Coldwater Canyon
- Trainwreck Liverpool, Rocket and Express
- Two-Rock Traditional Clean and TS1
- Dr. Z Z-Wreck, Z-80, DB4 and Route 66
- Bad Cat Cub, Black Cat 30 Reverb, Panther 35, Classic Deluxe Limited, and the Mod Shop Hot Cat 50 and Cub 15
- Friedman BE-100 and Plex
- Suhr Bella
- Soldano SLO-100
- Benson Chimera and Vincent
- Tone King Royalist
- Mesa/Boogie Lone Star
- Revv D40
- Divided by 13 FTR 37
- Morgan AC20
- Mojotone 5E3 Deluxe
- Supro Black Magick 1695T
- Victory Sheriff 44
- TonKraf Phoenix
- Amplified Nation Dirty Wonderland
- Jackson Ampworks McFly
- Sinewave Continuum
Recording
I record at home in Logic Pro and send back studio-quality tracks, ready to drop into your session.
- DAW Logic Pro
- Plugins Universal Audio and others
- Monitors IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitors
Want to hear any of it on your song? Send me the song.