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are in your stable and sometimes you use two or were they back lined? [Daniel] Those are my amps and that’s my go- to setup. I come stereo out of my reverb pedal and run both amps all the time. Sometimes in the past I’ve come stereo out of a delay into the reverb, but lately I’ve really liked using a mono delay signal in, and th en splitting things at the reverb to go wide. It’s not like the stereo reverb is doing a ton, but it does feel a little wider. Since we use in ear monitors I’ll pan one amp to my left and one to my right and it sounds great. I love the way that sounds. The amps are set where they’re breaking up but they’re kind of in their sweet spot. They’re not so saturated that I can’t reign them back in – I like to be able to manipulate them with pedals at least a little bit. Sometimes if we’re playing somewhere that’s using backline they’ll have an AC-30 and a Matchless SC-30 or DC- 30. But if you gave me the English ‘90s/2000s era Korg British AC30, I know those so well I can literally just go flip all the settings to where I want them without ever plugging in. It’s just such an easy amp, I love that. The SC30 is similar, it’s Volume, Tone, Cut. Pretty easy. [WM] Can you cite your go-to AC30 settings off the top of your head? [Daniel] Well it’s a little funny. When you stand there looking at them from the front they’re upside down. So if you’re standing behind it, I use the brilliant channel on its loudest output – Daniel at Red Rocks the 6 th output AC-30 so I plug into the loudest full-volume input. If all the way off is 7:00, I run it at 10:00. Then with the controls, I turn the Treble all the way off. I’ll turn the Cut and Bass all the way up to 4:00 or 5:00 so that its completely dark. Then I’ll just start rolling them back one at a time until the amp opens up and sounds really good, usually at 2:00 or 3:00. But to be honest, on those amps you could put Treble at 11:00, and put the Bass and Cut at noon and it would sound great. I like to keep it dark because I play Teles a lot. It’s an open- 46 August 2018 WorshipMusician.com