Betsy Wright

In an interview with She Shreds Magazine, Betsy Wright mentions her transition from playing a Gibson EB-3 bass to a 1978 Fender Mustang. She notes the Mustang's sound as clearer and more mid-trebley, resembling a guitar, which she prefers. Interestingly, Wright reveals she didn't own a bass until joining the band Ex Hex.

I used a Orange Terror Bass Head 500 with an 1×15 cab, but I just got a 2018 Orange OB1-300 head, which is even better than the Bass Terror! I’ll be using that from now on.”

“I used a Orange Terror Bass Head 500 with an 1×15 cab, but I just got a 2018 Orange OB1-300 head, which is even better than the Bass Terror! I’ll be using that from now on.”

MT: We got the EarthQuaker pedals after we recorded. They’re pretty important to us live. Especially the Pyramids.

BW: Yeah, I’ve got the Pyramids. I've got three EarthQuaker pedals on my board.

MT: We both use the Pyramids. At the same time.

BW: I have the Levitation which is great. I use it on most songs, I just change the levels. Then I have the Night Wire. It’s my favorite tremolo pedal I've ever tried. It's so smooth sounding, I love it. It's just a beautiful pedal.

Timony: What I like about this record is that we weren’t trying to force it. It was more like, “What do we have? What do we like?” The answer to, “What do we like?” was definitely late ’‘80s Heart, but we also had a bunch of songs that definitely didn’t fit into that. We also used this headphones amplifier called the Rockman. We read somewhere that Mutt Lange used it a lot on [the Def Leppard album] Hysteria. Tom Schultz from Boston invented it.

Wright: If you listen to the guitar sound on “More Than a Feeling,” it’s the same guitar sound on our song “Good Times” [laughs]. It’s just this little box you plug into and it goes straight into the computer.

Timony: And it’s got that great blend of chorus and distortion that’s so ’‘80s.

Wright: It’s so satisfying.

Wright: I have a newer [Gibson] SG that we used a little.

Wright stole her brother’s ‘90s Stratocaster when he left for college,... “I love the Stratocaster, it’s just so easy to play… but with Bat Fangs, it’s just not a Fender sound,”

For their live sets, Wright plays a 2017 Gibson SG Standard electric guitar with humbuckers, an Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII with a 2018 2×12 Marshall cab, a Fulltone GT 500 F.E.T. Distortion and Booster overdrive, an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Pulsar tremolo, an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay, and a BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner.

In an interview with She Shreds Magazine, Betsy Wright discusses her 1978 Fender Mustang Bass, expressing her fondness for it by saying, "Yeah, I love it. It reminds me of the Beach Boys." Although she plans to switch to playing guitar for the upcoming tour to accommodate the guitar-heavy arrangement of their latest record, the decision to bring a dedicated bass player on tour highlights her continued appreciation and use of the instrument.

“I used a Orange Terror Bass Head 500 with an 1×15 cab, but I just got a 2018 Orange OB1-300 head, which is even better than the Bass Terror! I’ll be using that from now on.”

For their live sets, Wright plays a 2017 Gibson SG Standard electric guitar with humbuckers, an Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII with a 2018 2×12 Marshall cab, a Fulltone GT 500 F.E.T. Distortion and Booster overdrive, an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Pulsar tremolo, an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay, and a BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner.

For their live sets, Wright plays a 2017 Gibson SG Standard electric guitar with humbuckers, an Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII with a 2018 2×12 Marshall cab, a Fulltone GT 500 F.E.T. Distortion and Booster overdrive, an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Pulsar tremolo, an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay, and a BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner.

For their live sets, Wright plays a 2017 Gibson SG Standard electric guitar with humbuckers, an Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII with a 2018 2×12 Marshall cab, a Fulltone GT 500 F.E.T. Distortion and Booster overdrive, an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Pulsar tremolo, an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay, and a BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner.

For their live sets, Wright plays a 2017 Gibson SG Standard electric guitar with humbuckers, an Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII with a 2018 2×12 Marshall cab, a Fulltone GT 500 F.E.T. Distortion and Booster overdrive, an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Pulsar tremolo, an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay, and a BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner.

For their live sets, Wright plays a 2017 Gibson SG Standard electric guitar with humbuckers, an Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII with a 2018 2×12 Marshall cab, a Fulltone GT 500 F.E.T. Distortion and Booster overdrive, an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Pulsar tremolo, an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay, and a BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner.

MT: We got the EarthQuaker pedals after we recorded. They’re pretty important to us live. Especially the Pyramids.

BW: Yeah, I’ve got the Pyramids. I've got three EarthQuaker pedals on my board.

MT: We both use the Pyramids. At the same time.

BW: I have the Levitation which is great. I use it on most songs, I just change the levels. Then I have the Night Wire. It’s my favorite tremolo pedal I've ever tried. It's so smooth sounding, I love it. It's just a beautiful pedal.

MT: We got the EarthQuaker pedals after we recorded. They’re pretty important to us live. Especially the Pyramids.

BW: Yeah, I’ve got the Pyramids. I've got three EarthQuaker pedals on my board.

MT: We both use the Pyramids. At the same time.

BW: I have the Levitation which is great. I use it on most songs, I just change the levels. Then I have the Night Wire. It’s my favorite tremolo pedal I've ever tried. It's so smooth sounding, I love it. It's just a beautiful pedal.

BW: I have the Strat, and also the Gibson Flying V. I also have an MXR delay and we went over all my EarthQuaker pedals, and then I just have the tuner. And I have a Fulltone GT-500. It's a distortion pedal.

For recording Bat Fangs: “I did a lot of double tracking, and used a Les Paul from the ‘90s and a 1965 SG Special with P-90s. I played them through an ‘80s Marshall combo JCM800 with a 1×15 speaker.