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back cab that’s not got a lot of bass to it, so I always keep an eye on the really shrill top end. I try to taper that off so it’s not making my ears bleed. With the Matchless I run into the EF86 channel, so you’re plugging into the middle of the amp, on full volume. I disengage the Master (via the push-pull function on the Master Volume control), and then I’ll run it at 9 or 10 o’clock and I do the same thing with the cut. I roll it all the way off so it’s completely dark, hit a couple chords and then roll it back up, opening up the amp until it starts to speak. I try do it with my ears more than with my eyes. Once the amp opens up and starts to sound how it’s supposed to I leave it alone. But once again I keep the cut really dark, because the Matchless can be bright too. [WM] Which speaker do you have in the Matchless? what makes sense for the room. It’s got to when I’m standing in front of or above it. I’m be a little bit lighter. I keep a lot of my gear at tuning my amp based on what the SM57 is home in an upstairs room, so I am going up and going to be receiving from the amp. I’m always down stairs and I’ve kind of enjoyed having the tuning for our in-ears, front of house, and for single speaker. how it’s going to mix in with the house. I’m self-mixing all the time. If I have two speakers It almost doesn’t matter what the amps I’m only going to mic one of them, so I may as sound like when I’m standing in front of them, well have only one speaker. One SM57 goes because I never play that way anymore. I’m on one of my AC-30 speakers and one SM57 never tuning my amp so that it sounds good goes on the speaker of my SC30. That’s all I ever need! [Daniel] It’s the Matchless Celestion, which I think is original to the amp. I think it’s a G12H, but it’s the Matchless version. I love that amp so much, I’ve just become dependent on it. Funny thing, we were on tour this spring and the speaker blew out. It was getting really papery- sounding and the sound guy said, “We’ve got to do something about this, this sounds terrible.” One of our techs, thank God, knew how to work on amps. I had an old AC15 that was one of my backup amps. It had a Celestion Alnico Blue and he took that out and put it in my Matchless and we were good. I think I’ll eventually get the other speaker repaired since it’s the original, but I really like the way the Blue sounds. [WM] What are your thoughts and preferences between a 1x12 and 2x12 amp, noting that you’re using both of them? [Daniel] I don’t know scientifically what’s going on, if it really is less output. It’s one less speaker, so makes sense to me that it would be a little quieter. Obviously, you’re just going to turn the amp up until it’s loud enough for 48 AC15 & AC30 Rig at Red Rocks August 2018 WorshipMusician.com