Guitar Gear: Michael Amott of Arch Enemy Guitar & Amp Setup
April 15th, 2006
In about 2 hours time I will be heading down to the MacEwan Ballroom at the University of Calgary to see Arch Enemy with guests Chimaira. I’m pretty excited for this show, I have never seen Arch Enemy play and I think Michael Amott is a wicked guitarist. In light of this I thought I’d do a post up about Amott’s guitar setup.
Michael Amott uses some complex midi switching on his live setup. Since he does a lot of switching in his songs and he didnt want to go with a multi-effect setup, he settled on a MIDI-controlled Providence looping/switching system.
From Guitar to Amp
It’s not that simple to describe Michael’s setup in list form since he uses multiple effect loops connected to his MIDI switch, but I’ll do my best.
His guitar is an ESP Ninja V Michael Amot Signature and he hooks it into his effect rack with a Shure ULXP4 Wireless Unit. The following effects are all hooked into the loop connections on a Providence PEC-2 Routing System.
- Jim Dunlop Custom Rack Wah DCR-2SR
- Rocktron Hush Super C Noise Gate
- Roland SDE-3000 Digital Delay
- Ibanez AD-9 Analog Delay
- Boss OC-2 Octave Pedal
- MXR Phase 90
- Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer Reissue
- Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
The output from the MIDI controller is then sent to two Krank Krankenstein heads and then out to four Krank Revolution 4×12 Straight cabs with Celestion Vintage 30s.
With this setup, Amott has a chromatic tuner and a Providence PEC-2 routing system controller with him on stage. He also has a wah pedal near his PEC-2 and one at center stage.
Michael Amott’s Guitar Setup
On his guitar Amott uses D’Addario custom set 11-15-18-32-44-59 strings tuned down two whole steps (C F Bb Eb G C). He uses a Seymour Duncan ‘59 (SH-1N) pickup in the neck and a Seymour Duncan JB (SH-4) pickup in the bridge.
Tags: amp-setup, arch-enemy, guitar-setup, metal, michael-amott
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