Rod Welles.com

Guitar Instruction and Live Performance

Rod Welles, (505) 670-2609, Photos by Sara Cox and Ken Tinnin. Site design by Ken Tinnin Web Design. Contact Me
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My Recording Set Up

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Korg D1200 MK11 Digital Recorder/CD Burner, KRK Monitors, Apple ibook, Korg Kaossillator.

My Usual Live Set Up

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My usual live set up. My beloved Randall/Egnater RM50 Combo with Gold Lion KT66s, Jaded Faith DumBell preamp mod, Sacred Groove XTC Blue preamp mod, WGS British Lead 12" speaker.

Pedalboard is an Ernie Ball VP Junior, SHO Clone for Boost, Toadworks looper/bypass pedal, Zoom G3 FX unit for killer vibe, vibrato, phaser, flanger stuff..Also does cool synth sequencing tones.

My Amps

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My RM50 combo with Vox and Soldano preamp modules. KT66's and a WGS British Lead 80 speaker....tone for days.
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Egnater designed Randall RM50 Modular tube amp head with KT66's . Preamp modules are a Plexi customized by Sacred Groove. Lead module is a Rockerverb 50 modded by Jaded Faith. Wicked tones!!!
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Preamp modules for the RM50./ XTC Blue by Sacred Groove and Hot Rod by Jaded Faith
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Plexi module by Sacred Groove.
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Mr Soldano mod by Jaded Faith.
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Vox mod by Sacred Groove.
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This is an amp I helped Joe Kelemen with in its tone shaping. A killer 30 watt single channel overdrive head, Class AB, and uses any output tube made. I love it with EL34's. All hand-wired by Joe Kelemen Amps, Santa Fe, NM...[where I used to live].
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Rivera Jake Studio 1/12 Combo with a Jay Mitchell foam donut in front of a Celestion G12K85 speaker. A Fender and Marshall in one box. Some of us think this was the finest sounding Rivera model ever built.
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Marshall Haze 40 1x12 combo with KT77's and WGS British Lead 12" speaker. 2 channels With boost & FX...Best $500 amp on the planet!
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Line6 POD HD-300. Great recording modeler also used with students. It's not an AXE/FX, but it was way cheaper ($250!)

My Guitars

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My beloved Schecter Solo 6 Custom with Zhangbucker Duane pickups.
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Schecter Tempest Custom with Zhangbucker Duane pickups
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Schecter Tempest Blackjack with Wolfetone Marshalhead pickups.
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1975 Burny Les Paul Custom with Duncan Home Built Hybrids with coil splitters.
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From left to right. Custom Stambaugh 24" scale with sliding bridge pickup. Strat with Brian May pickups/wiring. Warmoth Korina L5S.