GUITARS

Strung
9-46,
10-46
or 11-52
(if tuned down)

* Met Red Fender Mexico Strat
(similar to '62 reissue - with active boost circuit)

* Sunburst USA Fender
Anniversary Strat
(stock)

* Blueburst Ibanez SZ
Carved top electric with two humbuckers

* Yamaha Pacifica electric

USA Anniversary Strat

Red Mex Strat

Blue Ibanez SZ

AMPS

* 2001 Fender Hod Rod De Luxe

* Marshall Valvestate 40 combo

* Marshall TSL 100 tube head

* Trace Elliot 2x12 cab
with Celestion Vintage 30s
(on loan from Tim)

Fender 75 with Trace 2x12 cab

Fender Hot Rod DeLuxe

Marshall Valvestate 40

EFFECTS

* Boss OD1 Overdrive...........* Marshall Vibratrem vibrato

* Vox Wah-Wah ....* Roger Mayer Voodoo Bass Distortion

* Hughes and Kettner Tube Rotosphere Leslie simulator

* Arion tuner pedal

GUITARS

Electrics
strung
9-46 for normal playing

12-56 for slide

Who’s played Tim's famous green Strat? Click here to find out!

 

Fecker

Mazeti

 

* '83 USA Fender 1952
Reissue Telecaster
With Gibson PAF humbucker in neck and DiMarzio Pre-B at the bridge.
(Set up high for slide guitar - open tuned to A)

* Blonde Squier ’51
Fitted with Hipshot Trilogy multiple tuning bridge* and Wilkinson EZ lock tuners
Strung 12-56 and set up for slide -
( *Hipshot allows instant access to Amaj, Amin, Emaj, Emin, Gmaj, standard tuning and more...)

* 1990 Surf Green USA Fender
1962 Reissue Strat
Refretted with jumbo frets) - with GFS '64 Stagger Texas pick-ups. Signed by Howlin’ Wolf’s guitarist, the legendary Hubert Sumlin!!!

* '91 Gibson Firebird V reissue NEW!!!
Yes, a real one! Tim's new baby!!!

* Black "Fecker" Bistsocaster NEW!!!
Custom hardtail, thru-body strung Strat type,
with black marble pickguard and 2xGFS '64 Stagger Texas pick-ups plus GFS, 59 humbucker at bridge

* Custom Black Squier ’51 NEW!!!
Extensively modified with Telecaster thru-stringing bridge, GFS lipstick tube pickups, Wilkinson EZ Lock tuners, fake Fender decal and custom switch knob lineup
(Currently strung 9-46 for standard tuned playing)

* Bits-o-Caster Strat
Jap Fender 62 reissue body (stripped, stained and oiled) - Brandoni left-handed neck (upside-down) - Fender American Standard Pickups

* 1998 Fender Mex Telecaster Stock (Factory fitted humbucker at neck) Often used by Owen

* Blueburst Ibanez Artcore AS73 semi Totally stock

* 2000 Wine Red Danelectro U2 Totally stock - Set up for slide - open tuned to A or E

* 2005 Sunburst Wesley Freeport thinline Tele/Les Paul hybrid
A recent acquisition and an amazing eBay bargain. A lovely guitar!!!

* Mazeti Mosrite Ventures copy
A new addition, complete with Bigsby trem!. Tim thinks it's the coolest guitar ever - Owen thinks it's the most hideous he's seen!

* LIne 6 Variax digital guitar NEW!!!
Set up and strung for use as an electro acoustic - 12-58 acoustic strings. Bought for its amazing ability to be programmed into "virtual" open tunings.

ACOUSTICS
* Tanglewood Gemini Electro-resonator Strung with 14-58s for slide - used mainly for Los Tres, tuned to open D

* Simon and Patrick SP6 cedar top acoustic Totally stoc with factory-fitted B-Band undersaddle pickup system.

* Vintage AMG 1
Steel-body resonator fitted with Schatten pickup on cone. Tuned to G

* Tanglewood dreadnought acoustic With Fishman Rare Earth pickup (Tuned to A)

Fine Fenders: '62 Reissue Strat,
Mex Tele and '52 Reissue Tele

Squier '51s

Gibson Firebird V - Tim's new baby!!!

Vintage AMG1 reso


Tanglewood Gemini Reso

HARMONICAS

A mixture (he’s always trying different makes and models!)
Favourite keys - A,C, D, E, F, low F. Currently using:
* Hering 1923 wooden-comb
* Bushman Soul’s Voice
* Seydal Blues
* Hohner MS series with custom tuned reed plates from Anthony Danecker (mainly Pro Harp, Cross Harp and MeisterKlasse models). Also some Tombo Lee Oskars.
* Hohner Chromatic
* Astatic JT30VC bullet mic
... w/ cyrstal element

AMPS

HARP AMPS
* 1997 Fender Blues DeLuxe (c
Modified with 2x10 blue Jensen speakers plus custom JJ tube set to lower power and give more bottom-end )
* 2000 Fender Pro Junior
* 1983 Fender “Paul Rivera” Super ..Champ With Celestion Vintage 10 speaker.

GUITAR AMPS
* 1998 Matchless Chieftain 2x12 combo
40w Class A combo - Tim's new baby!!!
* Trace Elliot Velocette Twin
30w 2x10 Class A combo
* 1999 Fender Hod Rod De Luxe
* 2000 Fender Pro Junior
Small combo, used on small gigs
* Crate Powerblock
Tiny, lightweight solid state 75w/ch 150w mono head - sounds great, (Carried as a spare)

Modified Blues DeLuxe 2x10

Babies: Tim's Pro Junior and Super Champ

..OWEN BARRY (Owen is now a member of the rock band PURPLEMELON and so is seldom available for Armadillos duties)
............... FOR DETAILS OF OWEN'S CURRENT, MARSHALL-BASED PURPLEMELON RIG, GO TO GEAR PAGE ON THE PURPLEMELON WEBSITE

GUITARS

All strung with Rotosound 9-46, using loads of fast fret!

 

* Sunburst Ibanez Artcore AS73 semi
Neck shaved and custom wired to Owen’s spec by Feline Guitars

* 1990 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 Fret
10 top, bird inlays

* 1962 reissue Lake Placid Blue Fender Strat
Refretted with jumbo frets - with Fender American Standard Strat pickups

* Custom Lake Placid Blue Tele-type NEW!!!
(Recently built by Owen himself - twin Seymour Duncan humbuckers,black hardware, dark-stained neck.
Looks the business and sounds grear, too!)

* 1998 Fender Tex-Mex Telecaster
(see Tim's guitars)

* OTB - SRV Strat Lookalike
Assembled by Tim in 1990 - "Distressed" sunburst Strat body, Schaller rosewood neck, 1964 vintage Fender left-handed tremolo bridge, Fender American Standard Strat pickups.

Ibanez AS73

PRS Custom

'62 Strat

 

 

* Matchless Chieftain
40w class A tube head used with custom high-resonance cab with 1x Celestion Vintage 30 12” speaker and 1 x special order “green” Celestion Vintage 10 speaker

* 1971 Fender Bandmaster
Custom hand-wired with replica '64 Vibroverb/Super Reverb, circuit - built into 4x10 Super Reverb-style combo with Celestion special order “green” vintage 10" speakers;

* 1983 Fender Super Champ
usually drives Leslie cab

* Custom 10-inch Leslie cab
(Guts identical to Fender Vibratone/Leslie 18);


* Custom high-resonance cab by WolfTone With 2x Celestion Vintage 30 speakers

* Custom Trace Elliot 2x12 cab
With Celestion vintage 30s.

Custom flightcased pedalboard by NSP cases

Click here or on the image above for the full spec of Owen's big new pedalboard...

The big pedalboard is more than a metre long and too big for some smaller stages! For these gigs, Owen uses a scaled-down pedalboard, typically containing:
* Loop-master True Bypass Looper;
* Original Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer;
* MXR Distortion+
* Danelectro Rocky Roads
(Leslie simulator with gain mod); or
* Line 6 Roto-Machine Leslie simulator
* Zoib Slopper (Custom Rotovibe)
* Boss Digital Dimension Flanger;
* Line6 Delay Modeler:
* Boss DD3 Digital Delay;
* Vox Clyde McCoy wah;
* Guyatone Auto-wah
* Boss TU2 tuner;
* Roger Mayer Voodoo 1 Distortion;
Other pedals used sometimes include:
Line6 FM4 Filter Modeler; Boss CS2 Compressor; Snarling Dogs Whine-O-Wah (with pedal removed, as mid-booster); Roger Mayer Octavia fuzz; Boss Octave pedal; Guyatone phaser; Roger Mayer CrossRoads A/B-Y box as splitter.

"Small" pedalboard - Jan '05


Loop-Master 5-way true bypass box
- Owen uses 6 and 12-way versions!


... even more pedals!!!!

BASSES

Strung
heavy with Rotosounds

45-110 on 4-string

 

* 1990s Sunburst Fender '62 ..."Stack-knob" Jazz reissue
Totally stock, but missing pickguard and some paint from its days as the Trace Elliot Test Dept test bass!

* G&L ASAT bass NEW!!!
Active bass with humbuckers - a tone monster!!!

* 2004 Squier Precision 5-string
Totally stock Tuned B-E-A-D-G;

* Japanese Epiphone Rivoli
Semi-acoustic
Mainly used with Los Tres

* No-name acoustic bass
Mainly used with Los Tres

 

Epiphone Rivoli

USA '60s Reissue Jazz

G&L ASAT Bass

Squier P-bass 5-string

AMPS

* Marshall Dynamic Bass System DBS ...400 rackmount head

* 2 custom-built, Celestion loaded 400w 4x10 cabs Modelled on old style - deeper - Trace Elliot 4x10, with extra bracing.

* Korg DT2 rack tuner

* Trace Elliot Commando 60 Combo
(swiped from little brother, Isaac!)
Los Tres gigs and practice

* Behringer BX1200 120 combo -
Los Tres gigs and practice

Marshall DBS 400

Behringer BX1200

KIT 1 (‘Kermit’):
It's green! Full details to come...

KIT 2:
* Pearl Studio ZX (Birch) Black sparkle
Bass 22 x 16,
Rack toms 12 x 10 - 13 x 11,
Floor tom 16 x 16

KIT 3 (Red Sparkle’):
Details to come...

SNARES:
Various including:
* Pearl free-floating brass 14" x 6.5
* Pearl hand-hammered brass 14" x 6.5
* Yamaha maple custom 14" x 5.5,
* Pearl mahogany 13" x 4.5

many more besides... details to come!

CYMBALS:
* Zildjian 21" K custom ride,
* 18" dark crash
* 17" dark crash
* 16" dark crash
* 14" dark crash,
* 14" K china brilliant finish,
* 10" splash K brilliant finish,
* 10" K
* 14" New Beats Platinum Hi-Hats.

HARDWARE:
* Tama and Gibraltar
* Tama Iron Cobra bass drum pedal

With Kermit

Black Pearl Studio ZX

Roland RD600 Digital Stage Piano

Hammond XM1 Drawbar organ
"Armadillo in the Road" was recorded entirely using the sounds from RD600

"Texas Cockroach" was recorded using Roland D-50 for organ sounds and an RD250S piano

* Tim uses AKG D3700 mics
* Jane favours Shure SM 58s

For full hire/house PA spec, download the stageplan/mic list from
Promoters and Press Resources page

For small gigs, the band loves Mackie
PA gear and is the proud owner of a 1,400w Mackie/Behringer self-powered system, including:
* 4 x SRM 450 self-powered cabs
(2 for foh, 2 as wedges)
* 1x SRS 1500 powered sub cab
* Behringer UB2442FX
.. 16-4-2 effects mixer
* Behringer UB1204FX
.. 12-2 effects mixer
* Yamaha 2x15-band graphic
..(monitors)
* Behringer Feedback Destroyer ..(monitors)