Charlie Hunter

Here's Charlie Parker Using a Ken Parker Archtop

He's using it since 2007/2008 and you can see him play it in These videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8xPaAnx5OM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2gmwSQJo0

"The Charlie Hunter 8-string guitar is a result of the collaborative design efforts of Charlie Hunter and Ralph Novak. All critical specifications - scale lengths, electronics and pickups, string spacing and neck dimensions - are the same as Charlie Hunter's current instrument." - Novax Guitars.

"The guitar I’ve been playing is by a guy named Wes Lambe in North Carolina."

"Our Charlie Hunter guitars are pure hybrid dual output instruments. The bottom 3 strings are bass, the top 4 strings are guitar. Each side has its own circuit and output, meant to to be played through a corresponding bass and guitar amp."

"DESIGNED AND BUILT BY CHARLIE HUNTER, CLAY CONNER, AND WES LAMBE."

Subway D-800 Bass amp and two Subway Ultra-Lite 1x12 Cabs for his bass tone

Tone Sessions: Charlie Hunter – Subway D-800 & 1x12 / Lone Star 1x12 & CabClone

Tone Sessions: Charlie Hunter – Subway D-800 & 1x12 / Lone Star 1x12 & CabClone

"I only own two guitar amps and I keep one on the East Coast and the other on the West Coast. I have a Carr Rambler that I got made into a class A/B instead of class A, and I really like that. The regular Rambler is an incredible amp that you can’t go wrong with, but because of the way my guitar is tuned, it makes sense to have an amp that delivers more of the percussive and less of the sweet.

For the West Coast, I have a Rambler chassis that actually houses a Carr Impala, with the master volume removed because I don’t need that. Sometimes those amps get swapped and the West Coast becomes the East Coast and vice versa. Both are absolutely great amps, and I’ve never had anything resembling a problem with either one.

For bass amps, I’ve got exactly the same East-and-West-Coast thing happening. Like with my guitar amps, I only own two, but they’re both the same: Mesa Walkabout heads with stock 1x15 cabinets."

"For bass amps, I’ve got exactly the same East-and-West-Coast thing happening. Like with my guitar amps, I only own two, but they’re both the same: Mesa Walkabout heads with stock 1x15 cabinets."

"For the West Coast, I have a Rambler chassis that actually houses a Carr Impala, with the master volume removed because I don’t need that."

"The studio had an Ampeg V4B and I used it for the bass. We also used one of those old Fender amps [Pro Reverb] with a 15" speaker. We turned the bass all the way up and the treble all the way down, and it wasn’t on very loud."

"The studio had an Ampeg V4B and I used it for the bass. We also used one of those old Fender amps [Pro Reverb] with a 15" speaker. We turned the bass all the way up and the treble all the way down, and it wasn’t on very loud."

Tone Sessions: Charlie Hunter – Subway D-800 & 1x12 / Lone Star 1x12 & CabClone

According to Maxon's website, Hunter uses the Maxon AD-900 pedal.

According to Maxon's website, Hunter uses the Maxon PH350 rotary phaser pedal.

"I called up Strymon and got their Leslie thing [Lex Rotary], and I can’t believe how good it is. It blew me away. It beats the living shit out of any other Leslie device I have tried, other than the actual cabinet. When I am doing tours where I have to backline stuff, the amps are always awful."

"Often times, the reverb doesn’t work, so I was thinking of the [Strymon] Flint as an insurance policy. At least I know that I will have this sound regardless of how bad the gig gear is."