Chris Poland

Chris shows his rack on the gear section of his website.

" I'm getting a little of that Band Of Gypsys thing. When I go to my bridge pickup, I'm getting that British-style Cream sort of sound. What really made a difference is that I stopped using power amps and Marshall cabinets. Now I'm using a pair of Yamaha's new DG100-212 100-watt 2x12 combos. They're the digital modeling series. I saw Holdsworth using one and I thought it sounded great. Yamaha gave me one to try and I really enjoyed it. One day I got this bright idea to plug one side of my rack into the return on the effects loop, and it sounded great. I got another amp and hooked up the left and right signals to each of the amps, and that's when everything changed for me. I should have been using open-backed style guitar amps all along because that's where my style is. I always had to fight a Marshall cabinet. There's something about the closed-back and it's not as "bouncy." To me, the open-back cabinet is way more vocal than the Marshall cabinets."

In a detailed gear overview video, Chris Poland and his manager discuss his equipment, noting that the Bogner Fish preamp was replaced by the Egnater IE4 Tube Preamp.

Chirs mentioned ( at 7.09 in the video) he used this amp for studio work as it's tube vs solid state which he feels is picked up by the microphones better when recording.. The specific model was mentioned in another video which has been deleted / removed.