My Rig
What’s in my rack
A wet/dry/wet rig: a shock-mounted rack of preamps and processing driving three cabinets through two power amps — dry down the middle, stereo wet on the wings. Here’s what’s in it, grouped by what each piece does.
The rack
- Mesa/Boogie SUS-4 Shock Mount rack — The shock-mounted rack case.
- Furman power conditioner — Power conditioning and distribution.
Preamps
- Soldano SP-77 — Soldano rackmount preamp.
- Mesa/Boogie TriAxis — MIDI tube preamp.
Processing & routing
- Eventide Eclipse — Stereo multi-effects and harmonizer.
- Red Seven Stereo Line Mixer — Stereo line mixer.
- RJM Rack Gizmo — Rack audio-loop switcher.
Pedal drawer
- TC Electronic 2290P — Dynamic delay.
- Free The Tone TriSera Chorus — Chorus.
- Keeley GC-2 — Limiting-amplifier compressor.
- Empress ParaEq MkII Deluxe — Parametric EQ and boost.
- Keeley Noble Screamer — Overdrive and boost.
- Keeley Blues Disorder — Overdrive and distortion.
- CIOKS DC7 — Isolated power for the drawer.
Power amps
- Mesa/Boogie 2:90 — Stereo tube power amp — the dry side.
- Fryette LX II (2×50W) — Stereo power amp — the wet sides.
Cabinets
- Mesa/Boogie Rectifier 4x12 — Two wet cabs — late-1990s, loaded with Celestion Vintage 30s.
- Mesa/Boogie kickback 2x12 — Dry cab — loaded with two EVM12Ls.