guitars . I said , " Andy , I ' d love to try some of your amps ”. And so , he brought the Pine Top and he brought a smaller version of the Pine Top called the Thumper . And they ' re roughly based on a Fender Deluxe circuit . But he ' s got a little bit more of a robust transformer in them so the low-end really holds together well . And for me , being a Stevie Ray Vaughn fan , that ' s the first thing I look at . I really need something that holds together in the low-end because I love that tone . But I ' m running them stereo , and have been using them live for about a year and a half now .
So I ' ve got those . And in the instance that I have to go direct ( because those instances do come up ), I ' ve just put the Boss IR 200 on my board … so I can actually switch over to that pretty easily . And if I ' ve got to use something direct , I ' ll use that . But my front of house guy Terry Thompson and I prefer the tube amps . Every time we hook those Elliott ’ s up , we ' re like , " Yeah , that ' s it . That ' s the sound ." So far we haven ' t been able to capture that in the digital domain like we can get it ‘ live ’.
[ WM ] Okay . Any new pedals ? You just mentioned the one pedal , anything else that ' s caught your eye pedal wise ?
[ Spence ] I ' ve really enjoyed the King Tone pedals . I ' m using their Blues Power . That would be the first stage of overdrive that I ' ve got . And then I ' m using the Heavy Hand , which is sort of a Blues Breaker . I ' ve always been partial to the Blues Breakers . I ' ve owned one of the first ones , whenever they first came out in the ' 90s . And that sound has just always been one that I ' ve been partial to . I ' m using a Distortron for humbucker pickups , which is a lot like a Box of Rock . And I ' ve always liked a Rat circuit and I bought and sold a bunch of different ones , some real expensive boutique ones and regular rats . But I ' m using the Peavey Hotfoot Distortion from like 1988 or ' 89 because that one has just , it ' s just fits my hand better than anything . So , it was something that I had in a drawer for years and I pulled it out .
I was actually on the phone with Jemmuell 74 April 2022