Star guitarist using very modest amp....

Winny_Pooh

richardhomer said:

ICBM said:

Gassage said:

Jonny Buckland uses a pair of Hot Rod Devilles !!

So do a lot of good players. They're reliable, easily replaceable and sound fine.

I wonder how many truly 'great' guitar recordings have been made using a 'boutique' amp? Unless you count early Mark Series Boogies as 'boutique', I bet the answer is close to 'none'.....

I dont think that's a fair cop, Matchless and Soldano came around after the late 80's. How many "great" guitar recordings after 1990 can most guitarists think of off the top of their heads?

And yes loads of amazing players have recorded with Matchless amps in particular. 

timmysoft

I use a Tiny Terror and I'm mega famous because I was on telly once.

stratman3142

I think Mike Landau used standard Hot Rod Devilles, before he got his signature model.

Allen Hinds has used Hot Rod amps.

I've seen clips of Nile Rodgers using a Hot Rod Deville. 

Steve Hillage has used a Pod XT Pro.

I think Fredrik Thordendal used a Pod Pro at some point.

There's some speculation about whether Yngwie Malmsteen used a Rockman on No Parole From Rock N' Roll. 

TTBZ

Apparently Beartooth used the Orange micro dark for a full album. Not exactly the height of guitar hero but it must have got them a good modern heavy tone. 

Sassafras

EricTheWeary said:

richardhomer said:

ICBM said:

Gassage said:

Jonny Buckland uses a pair of Hot Rod Devilles !!

So do a lot of good players. They're reliable, easily replaceable and sound fine.

I wonder how many truly 'great' guitar recordings have been made using a 'boutique' amp? Unless you count early Mark Series Boogies as 'boutique', I bet the answer is close to 'none'.....

You'd also have to quantify great guitar recordings but there might be a few Dumbles and Matchless in there. 

Anyway, Felicia Collins ( on stage guitarist  for Madonna and Cindy Lauper and others) was in the house band of the Late Show with David Letterman and entertained millions of Americans every night through a Crate Powerblock. 

Jeez! Americans are so easy to please.

ICBM

stratman3142 said:

I've seen clips of Nile Rodgers using a Hot Rod Deville. 

He uses a pair of them, clean channel only of course, apparently with everything turned up full! He controls it all from the guitar, presumably - they are loud amps otherwise.

Before that he had a pair of Peavey Classic 50s.

EricTheWeary said:

Anyway, Felicia Collins ( on stage guitarist  for Madonna and Cindy Lauper and others) was in the house band of the Late Show with David Letterman and entertained millions of Americans every night through a Crate Powerblock. 

I have to say that the Crate Powerblock is a really horrible amp, and just because someone uses one in a TV house band doesn't change my opinion. I'm surprised it was reliable enough too...

jeztone2

I'm sure I read an interview with Lukather some years ago where he was borrowing his sons Marshall JCM2000. Not sure which model, but he did an album with it.

MartinB

I can understand the ubiquity of the Hot Rod Deville with working players.  Right since the beginning of the company, a lot of pro musicians have just picked up whatever the standard issue Fender in the size they needed was.  Apply that attitude today, and you end up with a Hot Rod Deville or Deluxe.  I guess Steve Cropper is unusual in that he started out doing that but seems to have stopped in the 80s with his red knob amps, rather than continuing on to the current models. 

chromatuna

stratman3142 said:

Steve Hillage has used a Pod XT Pro.

Which IMHO sounds awful! I am a huge fan of Gong and of  Hillage's 70s work, it was great to see him playing with a band again from the small Gong Un Convention of 2005 onwards but his recorded sound on the 2032 album is terribly digital and clinical to my ears to the point where it diminishes my enjoyment of the music. Just my 2d worth....

EricTheWeary

ICBM said:

stratman3142 said:

I've seen clips of Nile Rodgers using a Hot Rod Deville. 

He uses a pair of them, clean channel only of course, apparently with everything turned up full! He controls it all from the guitar, presumably - they are loud amps otherwise.

Before that he had a pair of Peavey Classic 50s.

EricTheWeary said:

Anyway, Felicia Collins ( on stage guitarist  for Madonna and Cindy Lauper and others) was in the house band of the Late Show with David Letterman and entertained millions of Americans every night through a Crate Powerblock. 

I have to say that the Crate Powerblock is a really horrible amp, and just because someone uses one in a TV house band doesn't change my opinion. I'm surprised it was reliable enough too...

As the only player of any kind of note to ever use one they probably gave her a warehouse full of them in case they went wrong. It may be for tv that you don't really want a big sound - something quite nasal probably comes across better? 

impmann

chromatuna said:

stratman3142 said:

Steve Hillage has used a Pod XT Pro.

Which IMHO sounds awful! I am a huge fan of Gong and of  Hillage's 70s work, it was great to see him playing with a band again from the small Gong Un Convention of 2005 onwards but his recorded sound on the 2032 album is terribly digital and clinical to my ears to the point where it diminishes my enjoyment of the music. Just my 2d worth....

What does 'digital' sound like? Can you hear the 1s or the 0s best on your CD player or is it best to experience it on MP3?

PolarityMan

There is a rare video on YouTube of sun(o))) using a pair of line 6 flextones.

flyingv

Billy Gibbons'  used a Marshall  lead 12 recording  'my heads in Mississippi.

bingefeller

Yngwie used a Fender Rocpro amp on that album he did with the orchestra.  He also used it on his Young Guitar Play Loud tapes.

Ty Tabor has used PODs in the past.

Akira Takasaki used Peavey Supreme amps around 1992 on the album "Loudness" and also on one of the live albums from that period.  He also used Marshall Mode 4 amps. 

Alex Skolnick used a Roland Cube 60 on his early trio recordings and also live.  He has also used a Marshall Mode 4.

Apparently Mattias Eklundh got his tone on the first Freak Kitchen album by plugging his guitar into a Sharp Transistor radio.

 

 

jonnyburgo

Seasick Steve used a cube 30 iirc.

ICBM

bingefeller said:

Yngwie used a Fender Rocpro amp on that album he did with the orchestra.

That is not actually a good recommendation...

jonnyburgo said:

Seasick Steve used a cube 30 iirc.

Judging by his large collection of carefully- and expensively-made "junk" guitars, it probably had a handwired 5F2 circuit inside or something .

(I know someone who built a couple of his guitars .)

jonnyburgo

Well to be fair, I couldn't get my cube to sound like that when I had one

ESBlonde

Dr Hook were all Peavey for many years (sponsored but sounded good live).
In fact a number of famous bands have gone this route over the years, don't forget the famous photo of the fake marshall stacks at a festival and a little combo hidden backstage for the real sound source.

Sassafras

Didn't Brian May use some weird little transistor contraption that the bass player built from scrap parts?

joeyowen

Weezer have used Pod Pros on a lot of their tours.