Guitar Gear: Mark Morton of Lamb of God Guitar & Amp Setup

Mark Morton’s stage setup is really geared towards mastering the mids. He splits his guitar signal into two channels using a Whirlwind Selector and then runs it through two Mesa/Boogie Mark IV heads. He then sets one of the heads with the mid frequencies scooped and the other with them boosted. Before each show he and his sound tech work together to balance the two heads and get the best sounding mid frequency.

Morton uses three different guitars. His main guitar is a Jackson MM1 Mark Morton Signature. His second and third are a Jackson Swee-tone Archtop and a Jackson RR5 Rhoads. Each guitar has a Seymour Duncan Invader pickup in the bridge and a Seymour Duncan Jazz in the neck. GHS Boomer 10 - 46 gauge strings are strung on the guitars and tuned in either a drop-d (D-A-D-G-B-E) or a double drop-d (D-A-D-G-B-D).

From Guitar to Amp

• Jackson Custom MM1 Mark Morton Signature
• Sennheiser EW100 Wireless Unit
• Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
• Whirlwind Selector

From this point on the guitar signal is split into two channels. Each channel goes through the compressor, a noise gate, and into the Mesa/Boogie heads.

• DBX 266XL Dual Compressor
• 2 Mesa/Boogie Mark IV Heads
• Rocktron Hush Super C Two-channel Noise Gate via the FX loop of the Mesa/Boogie heads
• 9 Mesa Rectifier Straight-front traditional 4×12 cabs with Celestion Vintage 30’s

I think the idea for splitting the sound between two heads is really sweet. I would love to have a chance to play around with something like that one day.

Posted Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 at 6:06 am under Guitar Equipment, Guitar Players.

tagged amp setup, guitar gear, guitar review, guitar setup, Jackson Guitars and mark morton

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