GP: What does your amp and effects setup consist of?
MA: Right now I�m using six Ampeg SVT heads, which are all modified - they�re like 400 watts RMS. My rack has a Roland DC-30 Chorus Echo, an MCR flanger, an ADA flanger, an Electro-Harmonix Micro-Bass synthesizer, an MXR envelope filter, and sometimes a DBX Disco Boom Box, which was originally developed to put on your stereo when you�re playing disco. It adds a lower harmonic and can be synthesized. I use that if I have to do something fast, like a one note thing.
GP: During your solo onstage, you create the effect of an airplane flying around.
MA: Right. That�s a combination of the echo, the MXR flanger, and the Micro-Bass synthesizer. I use the synthesizer because it�s got a sub-harmonic on it that sounds really good, and it�s really clean. It�s also got a changeable square wave that can warp the high end. The echo just keeps it going, and I use the flanger to actually make the effect of the plane type thing flying by. Don�t ask me how I came up with it, because one night I was just sitting around playing with them all together, and it just came out.
