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Frank has a nice fat, warm tone which he achieves by playing through three modified Hiwatt Custom 100s. He uses an A-B box to change amps for different tonal applications. While he doesn't use a heavily processed sound, he does uses certain effects such as a ZVEX octane3 fuzzbox, Boss Flanger, Boss chorus, MXR phase 90, Boss delay, VOX wah-wah, Rocktron talkbox, Line6 modulator, and most recently a pedal by ZVEX called an OOH WAH.
Frank is a diehard Gibson man and has played Gibsons extensively. He has a rich, warm, tone which provides a nice balance to Tommy's less vintage sound (who uses mostly ESP guitars). Hannon's main axe is a 96 cherry Gibson SG Standard Re-Issue with standard humbuckers. For the more shimmery, country sounding songs like Call it What you Want he'll pull out a Japanese Fender Telecaster (year unknown). Frank's most prized possession is a Gibson ES-1275 — the classic Gibson double-neck made famous by Jimmy Page. And like Page, Frank primarily uses the double-neck as a tool for live work rather then in the studio. The twelve string allows more fullness for the acoustic portions of Tesla's songs when he doesn't want use an actual acoustic On the acoustic side of things Frank plays Gibson J-50s and J-150s. Frank plays D'Addario and SIT strings with the gauges running from .009 through .046.
