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–Jazzmasters: All three Jazzmasters are in standard tuning. The Red one is a mid-nineties ’62 reissue that I’ve had forever. The bridge has been changed to a Mustang-style bridge and the pickups are Lollars. It’s one of the best sounding Jazzmasters I’ve heard. It has that extra “thing” to it that you can’t explain. The other two are J. Mascis (ed: Dinosaur Jr.) signature models that Fender custom painted for me. The cream colored one has Curtis Novak pickups. These are his standard vintage-spec pickups. They sound very clear and chimey–the classic Jazzmaster sound. The black one has Novak wide-range humbuckers. These are the same pickups Lee Ranaldo (ed: Sonic Youth) puts in his guitars. In fact, I’ve heard the pickups Fender has been putting in the Lee Ranaldo signature models don’t sound anything like they are supposed to and Lee has had to have Curtis make him replacements.
–Effects:
Guitar –> Fulltone Clyde Wah –> Loop 1: Mad Professor Forest Green Compressor (my favorite compressor), Tone Freak Naked OD, Tone Freak Abunai II OD, Instruments for a New Electric Music Compact Faye Sing Phaser, Analog Man Chorus, Boss PS-5 Super Shifter –>
Loop 2: Boss RE-20 Space Echo, Eventide Time Factor Delay, Eventide Space –>
Loop 3: Line 6 M13 –> Amp
The Rocktron All Access is used to do the channel switching on the Randall Preamp. Everything else is done old-school. No presets or anything like that.
–Amp: I’m still using the Randall MTS moduler system but now I’m using a set of custom modules made by Antonin Salva from the Czech Republic. The man is a total amp wizard. His company is called Salvation Mods (www.salvationmods.com). My Randall preamp has four channels: Channel 1: Randall Tweed (this is the only standard module I’m using); Channel 2: Salvation Mash-All (emulates four different Marshall amps–59 Plexi, JCM 800, Jose Modded Marshall, and the JVM series); Channel 3: Prototype of a custom module Antonin is making for me based on an Orange Rockerverb head. This is my main distortion sound. It sounds amazing; Channel 4: Salvation Salvado. Module based on a Soldano head that I only use for leads.
Randall RT2/50 power amp into two Marshall 4×12 cabinets with Celestion Vintage 30s run in mono. I went back to using Marshall cabs for two reasons. One, the angle of the slant makes them much easier to hear on stage and also for the sound. Classic.
