Tone Report Weekly Issue 154 | Page 45

allowed to tell you. Have you heard of anything new he is up to (laughs)? Can I tell you off the record? (At this point, we proceeded to talk about the new Rivolta Guitars that Dennis is creating with Eastwood Guitars. Check them out if you haven’t already). PD: Moving back to amps a little, you have some of the best recorded guitar tones of the last 25 years, if not ever. How did you get them? MS: Just tube amps. PD: Low wattage combos? MS: It just depends. You know Girlfriend, the rhythm guitar on “Divine Intervention” was when Marshall reissued the Bluesbreaker combo. It was always just what we were trying. AC30s, in recent years I’ve used some 65 Amps. And I’m still experimenting. I love the baby amps that I can destroy. PD: And what are you running for effects? PHOTOS BY RICH SNYDER MS: I’m using a Leslie pedal. The black one that allows you to blend the clean signal as well as the affected. PD: Tell me about the Sonic Violence. MS: The Sonic Violence is a pedal from Australia. I believe it’s made by Midnight Amplification Company. A lot of his pedals have semi-witchcraft themes. There are so many great pedal makers all over the world now and I have fun experimenting, but I really don’t use them all that much. But with the Deluxe, there are a lot of cool things I can do with them. The Sonic Violence is like a distortion. But in the middle there is a giant knob with 25-decibel of boost. I only use it at about noon or less. Who knows what would happen if it were higher than that. It would probably just get all spitty. But it works great at being able to get feedback. PD: So speaking of pedals, what’s the ToneReport.com 45