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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
He preferred Vox to Marshall and said that at one point his main stage amp was an AC30 rehoused into a Marshall. His later signature Engl amps are based on Vox I believe.
Ritchie mostly used a Gibson ES335 pre Purple and I believe it is on the odd early Purple track. It certainly appears in some of the film of early Purple, I guess he was using it as a spare to his strat ( Ritchie’s first strat used to belong to Eric Clapton).
Ritchie was usually plugged in to a Revox ( or Aiwa) reel to reel tape recorder before the amp. So the pre amp of this overloading is part of his distortion. He also used a treble booster at times. BSM make a Ritchie styled treble booster and say that his sound in Machine Head was strat+ TB+ AC30. When I saw him a couple of years ago there was a reel to reel on top of his amps. Wether he still uses it or it was placed there as a joke on guitar nerds who knows.
Then various fuzzes, reverbs, wah,etc,etc, at different points in time.
https://youtu.be/KiXcqxms3Bs
https://i.imgur.com/fkIfeMM.jpg
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Which is to say he used both and had no time for the middle or in between positions to the extent that one of his signature Fenders either didn’t have a middle pickup or had some kind of hum cancelling arrangement there. You can hear him switch between biting bridge and singing neck during solos sometimes... and vice versa of course