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Did you experiment with new equipment when you were making the new record?
No. No, we’ve got our tone, that Machine Head wall of guitars. It’s basically my 5150 from like the first year of production. His name is Bubba! Bubba is one of those heads that you come across, and for no reason in particular, he just sounds fucking 10 times better. I’ve got eight 5150s, and he twice as good as any of the other ones. I’ve got a metal case that I keep him in. He comes out for recording and that’s it!
I’ve got an ESP SP120, which is a baritone model they made for me, which is a prototype actually. They made it into production as just as one of the prototype models. It’s a killer-sounding tone. I’ve got an EMG in there that’s one that they put in. For whatever reason, this particular EMG is just like the one. I’ve traded it out and gone down multiple times and tried to swap it out. Every time I swap out for it, it just sounds completely different. I’ve always got to keep that one pickup in there.
We’ve got our tone, we’ve got our Marshall cab. I’ve got a lot of effects. I play through a Bradshaw unit. Bob Bradshaw made me a custom unit. I prefer the sound of stomp boxes. I’ve got a Phase 90 that like every 20 seconds makes this fucking horrendous clunk sound. I put on my fucking Phase 90 and it sounds fucking incredible! I’ve got an Electric Mistress, a Jimi Hendrix Fuzz, Boss pedals, a Line 6 green delay that they have. And they have the blue flange modulator thing. I’ve got it all set up so that I can run any combination of pedals. I can program it so that I just click on one button and I can turn on like 11 pedals.
What acoustics do you use?
The acoustics were the Eric Clapton Yamaha acoustic. It’s the $4,000 acoustic. It is really just nice, warm, not too tinny on the high end. There was a neutral sound. It wasn’t very loud. It wasn’t too bassy. It was just very warm.
La tube screamer est utilisée comme boost sur tous les sons saturés.
Dans la boucle de l'ampli, on trouve un autre chorus Boss ainsi qu'un autre delay Boss. Ils sont utilisés pour les soli. D'ailleurs, on peut les apercevoir sur la photo des amplis.