Daniel Lanois
Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter
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Daniel Lanois' Amplifiers
Daniel's Vox AC30 is mentioned in this Premier Guitar rig rundown:
"The AC30 sees a totally dry signal while the Deluxe handles the wet signal."
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"We did try different amps, but I settled on my Vox AC30 and a late-’50s tweed Fender Vibrolux. The best result we had with Rocco was plugging him into an old Peavey MAX from the ’70s that I had down in the basement. We ran the Peavey into an Ampeg 4x10 SVT cabinet. Those amps were all we used on the album."
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In the "Gearbox" section of this interview with Premier Guitar magazine, the Harvard appears in Lanois' list of amps.
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Quoted from the interview, Lanois said:
In the studio it's surprising how sometimes the Fender Champ is my best amp — a little tweed Champ I have from the late 1950s. I think there's some kind of wisdom to there only being one speaker so you're only going to mic one speaker.
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In this image posted to Lanois' Flickr account, we see Daniel's "tabletop guitar" setup. The Honeytone is positioned bottom center.
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In this transcribed interview from the October 1997 issue of Canadian Musician magazine, Lanois discusses his guitar setup. "Then it just comes down to guitar amps. That’s a huge part of the personality. I prefer old VOX AC30s, but I also quite like a 1959 410 BASSMAN. The tube amps can give pretty good results."
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In this "Rig Rundown" interview with Premier Guitar magazine, it's explained that Lanois runs his pre-recorded loops/tracks into an SVT-CL onstage.
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Arcade Fire · 2025
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Arcade Fire · 2025
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Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Brian Eno · 2024
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Peter Gabriel · 2019
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Peter Gabriel · 2019
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Daniel Lanois & Rocco DeLuca · 2016
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Neil Young · 2010
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Devendra Banhart · 2009
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Peter Gabriel · 2000
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Willie Nelson · 1998
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Scott Weiland · 1998
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Bob Dylan & Robert Zimmerman · 1997
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