Gear

Q

I was wondering what amps you typically use- I have been listening to some of the Zero material and your later albums- I really like your lead tone with the clean Jerryish thing happening. I am thinking Fender, or the old 70’s Musicman will get you into that territory.

Phil

Philip, Ontario

3 Thoughts on Gear
    31 Jan 2020
    10:52pm
    Comment:

    The real early Zero stuff was all Boogie, 60 watt MK1, 60 watt “nope” we put together at Boogie for clean, and eventually a Mesa Baron 180 watt poor amp too.
    99% of the slide guitar was RT-5 DeArmond slaved back to the Boogies, and there was a bunch of early Zero where i ran an additional power amp on a remote speaker to generate more distortion pre-effects. molten. .
    Eventually got the Dumble and ran it in front of the Mesa’s, Dumble pre-amp/Mesa power amps.
    Then straight Dumble with the 180watt Baron on the side, still DeArmond for slide, and that’s about it for the Zero amp routine: Boogie and Dumble with a side of single ended 6V6 for distortion and 6 6L6’s for clean.

    Nowadays it’s mostly old Fender’s with an occasional Magnatone or something equally odd. Hiwatt, Dickerson, misc. .
    Still use the Dumble and DeArmond now and again but for most stuff any pair of Fender amps gets me thru the night.

      19 Feb 2022
      8:46pm
      Comment:

      Curious. What about the two rock SK tribute amp. I own one. Pretty much h keep in I’m the studio. Blue suede.
      Curious on you personal use of two rock for gigs or studios these days.

    Reuven Cocos
    11 Dec 2022
    3:37am
    Comment:

    I’m curious about your explorer. I’ve seen you play decades ago, before I knew anything about guitars or rigs, and I was like “oh man, an explorer that’s not used for metal. Cool!”. But I watched a video today of a Steve Kimock and Friends show, and the explorer made an appearance, and it was clear to me it’s definitely not a Gibson, and I’m curious who made it, what pickups are you using, woods, etc.

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