My Amps & Effects

last updated: 2012-Jan-7

Over the years I’ve gone through the natural evolution from solid state amps (Crate!) --> way too many effects (Digitech 2101) --> hybrid modeling amps (Johnson JM150). Then I discovered the magic of tubes (thanks to the Mesa Triaxis/2:90 pair), ushering in a whole new era of tube amp purchases alternating between rack gear, collections of tube heads, collections of tube combos, and often all of the above.

Having owned about 70 different tube amps over the past few years, though, I've reached a point where I've become tired of maintaining a small mountain of amps, cabs, mics, and FX gear for the versatility I want in the studio. So in an effort to simply, I recently picked up an Egnater MOD100 head. The Egnater is a "modular" amp that allows up to three dual-channel modules to be installed at a time, creating a 6-channel head with classic tones and modern features (e.g., multiple FX loops, MIDI control, external bias points, etc.). I've currently got 15 modules: BMAN (Fender Bassman-ish), T/D (Fender Twin/Deluxe-ish), VX (Vox AC30-ish), JTM45 (Marshall JTM45-ish), SL (Marshall Plexi-ish), SL2 (Marshall JCM800-ish), EG3/4 (original Egnater TOL100 tone), EG5 (Soldano-ish), MHG (Bogner-ish), E-RECT (Mesa Rectifier-ish), COD (Dumble/Mesa Mark-ish), Randall Blackface (Fender Twin-ish), Randall KH-1 (Kirk Hammett clean tone), Salvation MarkUs (Mesa Mark-ish), and Salvation Stonerverb (Orange-ish). This setup provides a lot of versatility with a minimum amount of investment (and minimum amount of space taken up in the studio). Finally, for those days when I'm looking for good-ol'-fashioned-plug-and-play-tube-amp-simplicity, I've still got an Egnater/Mojo JTM45 that I built at the first Egnater amp building seminar back in October 2006 as well as a late-70's Fender silverface Deluxe Reverb.

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Egnater/Randall modular gear: (2) Egnater MOD50 head (2) Egnater Rebel 1x12" cabinets Egnater modules: BMAN, COD, EG3/4, EG5, E-RECT, JTM45 (single), MHG, SL, SL2, T/D, VX Randall modules: Blackface/Deluxe, KH-1, KH-2/3 (modded) Salvation Mods modules: Mandarine Stonerverb Voodoo Amps modules: Express Deluxe, modded EG3 Fractal Audio Axe-FX II (2) Randall RT2/50 power amps - 1 for sale DMC Ground Control MIDI footcontroller DMC Ground Link expander Rocktron Patchmate MIDI switcher Voodoo Lab GCX MIDI switcher - for sale (2) Ernie Ball VP Jr. pedals Other amps & cabs: Acoustic AG120S 2x8" acoustic guitar combo Carvin V3M 1x12" combo - for sale Egnater 1x12" cabinet w/ WGS ET65 speaker Egnater/Mojo JTM45 head (assembled by me, hot-rodded by Bruce Egnater) Fender Deluxe Reverb 1x12" combo (silverface - est. 1977/1978 production) Fender Sidekick 20 Reverb 1x12” combo  Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 1x10" combo Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Roadster 2x12" combo Yamaha BBT500-115 bass combo Other effects & accessories: Aphex Punch Factory compressor pedal - for sale ART SP4x4 power conditioner Axess Electronics BS2 buffer/splitter Behringer ADI21 V-Tone acoustic direct box - for sale Behringer AM100 acoustic modeler - for sale Boss AD-8 acoustic guitar processor - for sale BYOC TriBoost pedal - for sale Ebtech hum eliminator George L’s vintage red cable Grady Champion Remote True Bypass Looper TGC-1 (3) Godlyke PA-9 Power-All Johnson J-Station modeler - for sale MXR Custom Audio Electronics MC-404 Wah Peterson StroboStomp strobe tuner Radial Bigshot ABY pedal - for sale Rockman Acoustic Guitar pedal - for sale Rocktron Hush SuperC noise reduction BROKEN - for sale Sabine STX-1100 tuner Sennheiser EW172 wireless TC Electronic Nova Drive pedal TC Electronic Nova System multi-FX (4) THD Yellow Jacket converters Visual Sound Comp 66 compressor pedal - for sale Visual Sound Visual Volume pedal Weber Mini Mass 50 attenuator - for sale Zoom A2.1U acoustic effects pedal - for sale