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What are your typical live amp settings?
In your part of the world, a lot of venues are built with the same sort of design, so the sound doesnt change all that much from night to night. But the amp settings will vary a bit in different venues. We do a little bit of juggling before we go out on tour and just try to get things as consistent as possible. Ill take four 100-watt amps (Marshall or Wizard) and try them out individually. Ill get a couple together and go through them to try to line up four that are pretty much the same in terms of tone and character. Then I just crank up a little bit of bass and put a little bit of middle in. If its too bassy, Ill cut it back. Usually, all the controls are set about halfway, never full up. A lot of people think it sounds best when you drive the amps to death, but I never do it that way. I think that when you turn things up too much, the sound sort of goes a bit mushy.
Your tone is actually much cleaner than many people think.
It is. The amp is set very clean. A lot of people who have picked up my guitar and tried it through my amp have been shocked at how clean it is. They think its a very small sound when they play it and wonder how it sounds so much bigger when Im playing. I just like enough gain so that it will still cut when you hit a lead lick without getting that sort of false Tonebender-type sound. I like to get a natural sustain from the guitar and amp.
Do you ever use a boost pedal for leads?
No. The only boost between the guitar and amp is me.
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