12/28/2022 0 Comments Greg koch amplitube fender presets![]() ![]() I ended up checking out this TwinTone III amp, and what I remember liking about it was that one of my favorite Fender amps was the Super-Sonic. So I was at Musikmesse doing stuff for Fishman some years ago, and right across from their booth were the Koch amplifier people. We were trying to figure out what to call it, and I said, “Why not just call it Greg, since we’ve got the same last name?” As far as the name goes, there’s no relation, but it’s no coincidence. Yes it’s on the entire album, either the 2x10 combo or the head and a 1x12 bottom. It’s hilarious that you have a signature amplifier from Koch called Greg. The 335 is also used for the slide stuff on “Succulent” and “Allore.” I used my 335 in standard tuning for the “Soul Stroll” slide part, and for “Nubby the Hoarder Man” it’s in open G. The baritone parts are a Reverend Pete Anderson Baritone, which sounds amazing. The main guitar part is the Gristlemaster, and I also used a Reverend Airwave 12-string. “Funky Klaus” sounds like a composite of different guitars. But with the Fluence pickups, all five positions sound good. It’s like the second position sounds good, but the bridge is a little weak. The Strat was my main stage guitar for a good dozen years, but you’ve got be MacGyver to keep them in tune, and there are always compromises, sonically. What’s great about these pickups is they sound like the epitome of what that guitar is supposed to sound like. On “The Tussle,” that’s the 335 again, and there’s Strat sprinkled in for some rhythm stuff and also a Fender Custom Shop Wildwood 10 ’57 Strat, also with Fluence pickups. Then I used the Reverend Gristlemaster to do the Tele parts on that call-and-response thing at the end. I have Fishman Fluence humbuckers in it, and it sounds like God. On “Luna Girl,” the main guitar part is a ’63 50th Anniversary Gibson Memphis ES-335. I didn’t have the finished Fluence pickups for the duration of the recording, but I did use that guitar with the original Reverend P-90s on “Daddy Long Legs” “Nubby the Hoarder Man” and “A Real Mother for Ya.” We assume your new signature Reverend Gristle 90 saw action on the album, but what else did you play? That was the case with “Funky Klaus,” “Brushes” and “The Tussle.” A lot of times Toby will have grooves and chord progressions, and I’ll go, “That’s cool, what’s that?” And then I’ll add a melody to it and make an arrangement out of it. “Funky Klaus” was something where Toby had this groove, and I kind of added a riff here and there and a little melody thing. New grooves are just coming in at will, and a lot of times stuff gels from that. And anytime we’re at a sound check, we’re playing new stuff. It’s in my iTunes library, so I’ll be going for a little stroll, and in my morning perambulation one of those tunes might come out and I’ll go, “Shit, I forgot about that one.” So the next time I’m with Dylan and Toby, we’ll try it out. So I’ve got these little scraps all over the place that either are congealed into a tune that’s ready to go, or something that I might make a demo out of while sitting at my computer. I’m basically fleshing out tunes the entire time I’m doing those videos for Wildwood. How did that overlap into the songwriting for the new record? You’re constantly coming up with new material for all the videos you make.
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