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AUGUST 2005 UPDATE - Reb switches to Custom Audio Electronics OD100 Amps!Shock! Horror! For the Whitesnake 2005 World Tour, Reb has retired his trusty Suhr-modded Marshalls (detailed below) and replaced them with the John Suhr-designed OD100 head. Reb explains why opposite... For more information on the OD100 amplifier, visit the following sites: www.suhrguitars.com www.customaudioelectronics.com
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"As some of you know, I have been using the same two amps since Winger. They are two Marshall master volume mark two heads that were modded by John Suhr. They were used on Warrant's Cherry Pie, and were the same heads I used for Winger, Dokken, Alice and Whitesnake. When I got John's latest head, the OD100, at the beginning of this latest tour, I plugged in and played one chord and stuck my two marshalls in a box in the back of the truck! The tone was similar to that of my Marshalls, just much bigger all the way around. I don't think I have ever plugged into an amp and had it sound that huge without messing with it. I'm told they have one at the Baked Potatoe in L.A. just in case Luke (Steve Lukather) stops in. It is a basic and self explanatory amp with an excellent effects loop and very active controls. All of a sudden it made three things obsolete in my current set up. First of all, the clean sound blows away my bass head, so I was able to ditch that and its cabinet. Then, it has a great boost for solos, so the search for the perfect distortion pedal is over and I ditched the seven distortion pedals I have been trying out! It really is a great head - I don't ever remember playing through a head with such a great big Marshall sound that also had a wicked clean sound. Every amp I have played had either one or the other. I liked it so much I got another one for a back up." Many thanks to Reb's guitar tech on the Whitesnake 2005 Tour, Cris Lepurage, for supplying photographs of Reb's new rig. |
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