Tremonti, Mark
y PRS MT15 was front and centre with the Cornford RK100 – which is like my go-to magical amp – in there too. Our producer Michael ‘Elvis’ Baskette told me early on, ‘You have to bring in that Cornford every time!’ I think there might have been a little bit of Rectifier, though to be honest I think we hardly used it. For my cleans, I used a Fender Twin along with my signature, maybe a little bit of Victory V40 too.
“As for pedals, the pink T-rex Octavius is my favourite octave. Other than that, I’m still using my signature wah, which is probably my favourite pedal of all time. I might use a Uni-vibe here and there. Of course, delay is on everything... My effects loop has a G-lab delay in there. I’ve probably gone through 10 different delay pedals over the years – every time I heard something was good, I would try to check it out. The G-lab was the last one I bought and I haven’t looked at anything else since, because it does exactly what I need.” remember my old guitar teacher showed me Jimi’s chord voicings – there are certain inversions you can do where you have little hammer-ons and trills off of the chord itself. You bar with your index finger and use the other ones to do all the different bits. It’s similar to the chords Jimi used on The Wind Cries Mary or his version of Like A Rolling Stone. And if you remember the Pride And Glory song Machine Gun Man, that was in the vein of Jimi as well. Whenever I hear chords like that, I know instantly it’s come from him!”