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My Gear, past and present.

I do not consider my self a “gear junkie” however; I have had a few ”boxes” during my 16 years as a guitarist. Here is a little history for the tech junkies.

When I first started playing I couldn’t afford a guitar amplifier, so I built one myself. This was basically a 25W solid-state power amplifier put into an old Tanberg hi-fi speaker with a 6” driver. I removed the crossover and the HF tweeter, and was happy with this for the time being. Remember, I couldn’t really play anyway…

I bought some really crappy stomboxes to get the distortion I needed, and played my Van Halen tapping licks all day long. It was actually the only thing I could play…

However, as I got better, my brother in law took me to a music store in Oslo to buy a used amplifier. This was an old Peavey backstage 30, and even that was a major improvement to the homemade one.

This was my trustful workhorse for a couple of years, until I bought a Session “Sessionette” 75W solid-state amp from a friend of mine. This was actually a pretty cool sounding 2-channel amplifier.

A few years later, I had saved enough money to by a Marshall Stack. My dad took me to a large music store in Oslo, and I ended up buying a Marshall JCM-800, head and a 4x12” cabinet. This was a serious upgrade from my previous system, and a real “kick ass” system.

I can’t really remember why I sold the whole thing, but as far as I can recall it was hell to carry the thing around.

Later on I got in to the jungle of rack gear. The first preamp I got was the ADA MP-1, which was really cool cause it was mid controllable. The sound was great, but it had a very noisy FX loop. (it probably didn’t help that at the time I was running a Zoom 9030 effect processor)

My life as a “rackoholic” continued, and I soon discovered the Rocktron products. First I bought a Chameleon preamp, which at that time I thought had the ultimate lead guitar tone. The problem I had with this unit was that the low end was not tight enough for the rhythm sound I wanted. I sold it, and bought the Vodoo Valve which had an even better lead tone, but still that same problem with the rhythm sound. I tried several poweramps to go with these, including Rocktrons own Velocity series and the mighty Marshall 9000 all tube poweramp.
The Marshall was however the best sounding one of them all, but all to heavy…I had this in my rack for a couple of years, but got tired of carrying the thing up 5 stairs to our reharsal studio twice a week, so I sold it.

Later I sold the Vodoovalve, and bought a Marshall JMP-1 preamp. This improved my rythmguitar sound a lot, and the lead sound was also quite nice. I kept this for many years, until I recently replaced it with the mother of all tube based guitar preamps, the Mesa Boogie Triaxis. This is without doubt the best sounding tube preamp I have ever tried. You can get awesome crunch rhythm sound, as well as the most aggressive hi-gain shred sound, and even really nice sweet clean sound from this wonder.

I am currently running the Triaxis trough a Demeter Ignator head (into the loop return input).

For direct recording applications, I have been a die hard Line 6 fan from the release of the legendary POD, and upgraded to POD 2.0. Just recently I sold my POD 2.0 and replaced it with the POD XT. I also had a guitarport, and sold that as well, as the new POD XT is guitarport compatible.

This is only a short resume of the products I`ve had, and does not include any of the numerous effectprocessors or stomp boxes I have enjoyed.