I recently saw Opeth at the Worcester, MA show and both Peter and Mikael were playing through Marshall Stacks! That was kind of strange since both are endorsed by Laney and I would have expected them to be playing through Laney amps. Any ideas why this was so?
Marshalls instead of Laney's?
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Come to think of it, maybe they rented equipment in America and are playing on backline or something...
Yeah, that's what I thought. They are probably renting the equipment because it was probably more of a hastle to bring their amps over. But even so, one would think that they would rent Laney amps or even get some free by Laney to use. After all, it's about publicity too. I would think that Laney would want to see Opeth playing their amps all across America!
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Hmm, well it seemed to me that back in the day when Opeth used the Marshall amps they coincidentally had much better tone (live, not studio, haha), so maybe they've gone back to the Marshall's?
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They will be renting equipment for the American tour. Logistically bringing the backline over makes no sense, so renting it is
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And back in the day they coincidentally used Metal Zone, hahaha, how he managed to get awesome lead tone outta that is beyond me.
So they just use the Marshall amps just for the power section? Do you know if they run the GT3's through the effects return of the amp thus bypassing the preamp of the marshall? Also, is the distortion sound that we are hearing live all from the GT3 and if so, what preset is it?
I'd love to get Mike and Peter's GT3 settings and patches for their clean and distorted live sounds. Anybody have them by any chance?
No. They used Marshall JCM800 heads with full stacks. One stack per side of the stage with Martin Lopez's drumset on a drumriser between them.
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Almost ALL touring artists only bring their amplification, i.e. head and other rack gear if any... Like Sunbane said, the backline (which consists of cabinets and power amplifiers) are usually rented, cause it's much cheaper to do that for a tour, then pay for expensive shipping to get their full setups over here.
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