for my solo acoustic gigs, i always go direct into the board - i use a bellari tube pre-amp to bake the sound a bit, but that's it.

in my band, where i play a lot of sloppy crazy horse and tom petty style lead guitar, i run use the bellari running into a solid state fender pro 125. fx wise, i use the spring reverb on the amp, a tremelo pedal, and the ever-present tubescreamer.

it is a very loud amp. almost too loud. i rarely have to push it past, say, 2.
and with the tube pre, it sounds warm enough and but retains enough clarity to cut through the rest of the band.


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kit malone
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