Rig Rundown – Arch Enemy’s Michael Amott & Christopher Amott
http://www.premierguitar.com PG’s Jordan Wagner is On Location in Chicago, IL, where he catches up with Arch Enemy’s guitarists Christopher Amott and Michael Amott. In this segment, the Amott brothers talk about this current live setup – guitars, amplifiers and effects – and how they recorded The Root of All Evil.
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Originally posted by UC5J-hZ4wNf7OlkzIn49LHoQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmLo9wlM7Nc
I miss those times when Chris was a member of Arch Enemy…
Haha! This is an x-ray of me, (seriously), and these are my teeth. Nice teeth Michael!!!
Yeah, Marshall’s , picks, strings. ???? Axe FX maybe??
There’s more to that incredible tone than strings and picks and straight Marshall’s my good dishonest man..???? lol
Could you do a rig rundown for Michael Amott and Jeff Loomis?
could you do a rig rundown with "new" Arch Enemy, Michael Amott and Jeff Loomis?
michael's discharge shirt though…
michael talking about the skull reminded me of nigel of spinal tap talking about his skeleton shirt lol
they still use the wrong mic till this day. Every cheap TV Reporter dude has something better when he interviews people
this is the guitar I have!
Jordan always looks BAKED! haha
Eh, I play a Marshall…eh, the JVM 410. Thats it. LOL
i've been working for few about a week trying to make my tone as fat as theirs but as he said, it's hard to copy, they mix 4 amps!!
Anyone who reads this, I'd like a detailed comparison between Chuck Schuldiner and Michael Amott telling which you like more and why. This isn't a fanboy statement, just curious.
@aznjt when i met him he was my height so 6"2
is that painting at the left when u pause at 0:17 abe lincoln
@dayiiv It was Krank amplification 🙂
@dayiiv sounded like a krank though…i ve heard some of those amps online before…however during the live apocalypse show they seems to be using marshall and still sounding like similar tones out of it…maybe its the tube screamer or ODs? anyway…i do know that mahogany is capable for that kind of tone..
hey anione can answer me what amps were used on the album doomsday machine and wages of sins and were the ts808 used …those tones were killer to me… until now i m still trying to duplicate it…
Michael Amott's tone is better when he's using his ESP ninja
@yitboy11 might be because it sounds like the usual metal guitar (mahogany) and plays awesome?
@YoOo0oToOo0ob but you have to consider that a 10-gauge-string will be VERY loose when tuned 2 steps down – it will feel like a 08-gauge in standard e tuning.
a 10-60 set tuned to C will feel like some kind of 08-52 tuned to e standard tuning – very weird.
(but awesome for tight palm mutes combined with easy bendings for the solo)
@meakmeakmeak I know, they do, and it's a good thing.
But usually they make some profit out of it by selling a custom set.
It seems very unusual that they make him a custom gauge and do not make any profit out of it.
It's just like guitars, of course ESP will make the perfect guitar for Mike, but they are also gonna produce it as a series, in order to get some money out of it.
@tvelt17 so true.
We all can see that he has a Dean Signature Guitar.
We want to know about things like neck shaping, amp settings, EQ-Settings and stuff!
@zdlrrebel I prefer his ESP too, but his tone (the overall sound, actually) on Rise of the Tyrant is just perfection. Combine it with Doomsday Machine and you have just about anything and everything anyone and everyone could ever want.
@thunderfalldown I really don't think they would make a custom string gauge only for him.
Yes, Dean Markley did so with Yngwie, but then again, Dean Markley does sells Yngwie-Custom-String-Sets.
Do you really think D'Addario would produce a custom string gauge ONLY (!) for the purpose of giving them to Chris Amott, and NOT (!) sell them to anyone else?
I really don't.
There must be something with the 58-gauge. I heard Mike say what gauges he uses, but I never heard Chris say it…
@Fantasixsixsix is a custom set D'addario made for Chris Amott
Typical metal player, cares more about what his guitar looks like than how it actually sounds and plays
@vnalder1234 which is funny, because D'Addario doesn't make a 58-gauge string, as you're saying Chris uses.
they make 52s, 56s, 59s, 62s, but no 58s.
I'm playing a 11-59 set on my guitar tuned to C – quite loose on the high strings and very tight on the low C, perfect for Arch Enemy-like playing.
@asianaxeman how can you be sure of that?
would be amazing, I play Engl (PB) too ^^
These rig rundowns have deteriorated lately. They really need to go into more detail. Being general is BS.
CAPARISON!!!!
@Fantasixsixsix yeah, I wrote that while I was watching the video, and he said he''l use whatever the producer suggest or has lying around, so there could potentially be hundreds of amps he has used in studio. But I'm guessing he just used the usual high gain Marshall, Peavey, Randall and a few others.
@MistahhB yes you can — if you bring the
video into an editing program like
Sony Vegas, you can bring all the volume
up to a standard, normal level. PM me,
and I can send you a tutorial.
Like, "I too tired for dis, I needs to go plays my sweeps pickings and scalez. Much practice on de arpedgios."