Jon’s gear page

On stage at The Swan, Woolston on 11th April 2009

Swan 11th April 2009

Keeping up with John, I love the "classic" sound of the 70's so I buy my toys to try and recreate it.

Some of the gear gets used at gigs and the rest just gets used at home in my spare time.

My main setup for the band:

Boss SE-50, effects processor for the Roland
Roland D-50 - the "classic" 70's synth, used by Wakeman, Jarre, et al
Nord C1 double manual organ, classic John Lord Hammond sound
Technics stage piano PCM 1000
Behringer mixer - for keyboards
all sitting on Absolute Support Apex stand
(on the floor) Jim Dunlop volume pedal for the piano, Roland sustain pedals for piano and Roland

keys

Other keyboards

Evolution midi-keyboard to plug-in to the PC and use with Cubase music software
Korg MS2000B (analog-modelling synth with vocoder) - to recreate the 60's analog sounds
Shaefer upright (mechanical) piano

keyboards

Guitars

Ovation Celebrity shell-back - lovely rich sound when plugged-in.
Yamaha electro-classical - for Spanish-flamenco
Epiphone Gold-top
1996 Fender Telecaster (Perfect for The Stones-sound)
1994 Fender Fat-Strat - fitted with a double Humbucker so it has a very full, rich sound
Not in the pic: headless Steinberger-clone; double Humbuckers and very loud!

Guitars

Amps

Orange AD-30 - a proper valve-amp (see pic), shakes the floorboards and rattles the windows!
Makes a lovely valve-sound, especially when mic'd through to a PA; there's nothing like the real thing and it's got a couple of 12" Celestions inside so it's very loud.
Orange Crush - 15-watt practice amp
Roland Micro Cube practise amp
Torque 1000 PA - used as for monitors for the keyboards when the band's on-stage

Amp

On the floor (left to right)

Pedals

All of it can be connected to a Boss Micro BR Digital Multitrack recorder, either direct input or multi-track recorded.