- #951
- Publié par
lemg le 20 Fév 2005, 17:24
GOOD CHARLOTTE
Benji Madden of Good Charlotte uses two amps: a Soldano Decatone head into an angled Marshall 4x12 for dirty sounds and a Buddha combo for clean tones. His setup is straightforward, since it doesn't include effect pedals. Madden uses an A/B switch to select between his two amps and employs a three channel switcher on the Soldano half stack. "That amp's first channel is really clean, but I try to get it as gritty as I can," he says. "The second channel is set up for a heavy rhythm sound, and the third is set up for lead tones. So between my two amps I have four channels: clean from the Buddha, then gritty clean, heavy rhythm and lead from the Soldano." Aside from his tuner pedal, the only stomp box Madden uses is a BOSS NS-2 Noise Suppressor. "My stage volume is pretty loud, so I need to have the gate on when I am playing a really staccato part. I switch it off whenever I want to get some feedback happening in a song." Benji's secret weapon is the systems simplicity. It's simple, flexible, and allows him to concentrate on his playing as opposed to the operation of various pedals.
Martin: I mostly used my PRS Custom 24 and a PRS Singlecut, although I also played a Les Paul (Damn you Billy, Damn you to hell.), an SG, and an old Rickenbacker, and an old hollowbody Epiphone strung with really heavy strings. Throughout sessions, I probably plugged into more than 40 pedals that Eric Valentine brought in. As far as amps go, I like to record with my live rig: a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier and a Matchless Hurricane combo running together. Live, I run through a DigiTech Whammy, a Vox wah, a Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus and a Tremolo, and a Boss DD-5 Digital Delay, PH-2 Super Phaser, and RV-3 digital Reverb/Delay pedals.
