Thornley!?!?!?!

present_tense
present_tense Posts: 121
edited June 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
I saw these guys on monday. Wow what a great live show. Ian thornley is such a cool front man, and such an underated guitarist. Anywho, I was just curious if anyone here knows what kind of amp set up he uses? he had such a cool sound, the best guitar sound ive ever heard live.
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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    If you check out his message board on the "gear" section I'm sure you'd be able to find out.....

    I just don't wanna sign up for it :o

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  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    I think Ian runs a lot of different guitar ranging from strats, to les pauls, to PRS and even Music man.

    For amps, it sounds like Dual Recs, but I bet you he uses some boutique like Diezel, Fuchs or ENGL.

    Thornley rocks. I've got to catch them the next time they're in town.
  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    Wrong again.

    GP:What's going on in "The Pleasure and the Greed"?

    IT:The intro is distorted bass. For my guitar sound, I plugged into a Garnet Herzog pre-amp-which I think is what Randy Bachman used for the lead on "American Woman." I ran that into an Ampeg SVT. My friend Gordie from Big Sugar turned me on to that setup, because that's his sound: Herzog preamp, SVT, and a Marshall cab. It's the loudest thing I've ever heard. I also used a Bernie amp, which is made out of an old film projector-it has a real wonky tone. I blended the Bernie with a tweed Deluxe and cranked them.

    GP:How much gear will you take on the road to reproduce all these guitar sounds?

    IT:To accomodate all the various tunings I'll bring about 15 guitars, including three Les Pauls, a few semi-hollowbodies, a Gibson 6/12 doubleneck, a Hammertone doubleneck with a 6-string and a mando-guitar, and a bunch of other instruments. For amps, I'll bring a Matchless Super Chief 120 and two JCM 2000a-a 50-and a 100-watt-and I'll run four 4X12 cabs.

    GP:What about effects?

    IT:I use a Digital Music Corp. GCX unit to control my rack, which contains an old Boss compressor, a TS-9 Tube Screamer, a Prescription Electronics Experience pedal, an Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synth, the Garnet Herzog, a Boss DD-5 for backwards delay, a Lexicon reverb, an Alesis Quadraverb, and a DigiTech Whammy pedal.

    This is the Big Wreck days, but his live tone is known to be phenomenal. Marshall and Matchless it is.
  • present_tense
    present_tense Posts: 121
    hey, thanks for the reply!! Ive definately never heard a guitar sound so good live. It saddens me to say this, but it makes pearl jams guitars sound like two monkeys having sex in a spinning washing machine.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    present_tense wrote:
    hey, thanks for the reply!! Ive definately never heard a guitar sound so good live. It saddens me to say this, but it makes pearl jams guitars sound like two monkeys having sex in a spinning washing machine.

    That was colorful.
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  • angryyoungman
    angryyoungman Medford, NY Posts: 1,028
    i liked big wreck , havent got the thornly cd though. been meaning to just never did
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