Brian Baker

Brian states that he uses a Brown box. This gets the correct power to his amps at higher voltages. he states that he learned this trick from watching a rig rundown of AC DC. AC DC use a piece of gear that attenuated the power, but "was the size of a small car". Brian wanted to find something that does the same thing, but an average person could use and afford.

Do you have any ‘secret weapon’ gear in the studio that you won’t risk on the live stage?

I do! I have a great Marshall I pulled off the road because I was afraid to ruin it. It’s a white 20th Anniversary 2203 JCM 800, 100 watt from ’82. There’s something about the head that is intangible. It has real ghost mojo.

Brian plays through two Marshall Plexi amps. Both amps are modded to have the famed Dookie mod that Billie Joe of Green Day has in his amps. He states that one of his amps was an amp loaned to him by Billie Joe several years prior. After trying that amp he brought his amp to the same guy Billie used and had the Dookie mod put in

I have two completely stock JCM 800 Marshall heads and they go through two Mesa Boogie cabinets

For the "Field Day" lp and tour, Brian played a 1967 Gibson Firebird 12 string, a 1988 Charvel Model 4 with EMG 81 pickups, and a 1986 Gibson SG with EMG 81 pickups. His amps were two Marshall 100-watt heads, four Marshall cabinets with 35-watt Celestion speakers, and a Roland JC-120. He also used an Alesis Midiverb 2, Roland SDE 1000 delay and Samson Stage Series wireless.

rian Baker tours with a pair of early 1990s Marshall 1987X 50-watt plexi handwired Reissues. Both amps have the "dookie" mod that creates a cascading gain structure that allows you to control the input volume. After watching the AC/DC Rig Rundown, Baker took the idea of the Kikusui PCR4000M Power Supply that Angus Young used and applied it to his rig. He doesn’t have the financial standing to tour with those, but after some online sleuthing, he found a cheaper solution in the AmpRX BrownBox that gives his amp safe, consistent power. (One of the heads was actually a loner from Billie Joe Armstrong, but fortunately for Baker, Armstrong hasn't missed the head so he's been enjoying it onstage for years.)

to give the FOH engineer some live options, Brian totes along a Kemper Profiler so he can choose between the tube amps or the modeling rig, depending how it sounds in each room each night. He was turned on to the Kemper by Chris DeMakes of Less Than Jake. Brian started using The Kemper mainly for fly in dates. The band was going to places Brian had never been before, so he didn't want to worry about using rental gear. He wanted a way to bring every he needs with him

For the "Field Day" lp and tour, Brian played a 1967 Gibson Firebird 12 string, a 1988 Charvel Model 4 with EMG 81 pickups, and a 1986 Gibson SG with EMG 81 pickups. His amps were two Marshall 100-watt heads, four Marshall cabinets with 35-watt Celestion speakers, and a Roland JC-120. He also used an Alesis Midiverb 2, Roland SDE 1000 delay and Samson Stage Series wireless.

In this video by Orange Amplifiers, Brian Baker mentions that he has been writing riffs using the Orange OR30 for the upcoming Bad Religion album

In this post brian shows off his first amp and guitar. He states the picture is from 1974. His amp was a fender princeton

In this post Brian shows off his European live rig. For his amps, brian runs his marshal jubilee heads into Mesa rectifier cabs. He states that these are cabs he purchased in 1995. The cabs are loaded with 70w vintage 30s

In this post brian shows off his European live rig. For this rig he runs a pair of “father and son” marshall jubilee heads. He runs them through his 1995 Mesa rectifier cabs