Duke Robillard

I’m using two amps now: a Sovtek Mig 50 head with a single 12? EV speaker cab, and a Gibson Lab Series L-7 solidstate amp that sounds really good. In terms of guitars it’s a pair of Fenders – a Strat and Tele – a Gibson Tal Farlow reissue, Les Paul, and an Epiphone Riveria. The new Epiphones have been really good road guitars.

Well, as far as amps go, I have several amps that I like, but the ones I use mostly are either a Fender Deluxe Reverb reissue or a Louis Electric amp that was custom made for me.

Premier guitar interview, 2007.

After the Premier, I got a Gibson GA-79 stereo amp that sounded incredible. But what I really wanted was a Fender Twin, and after a while I got one. It was too loud, and couldn’t really get the sound I wanted. But it was the late ’60s, and playing too loud was cool (laughs)!

I don’t know… It was a low-wattage amp with a 12? speaker and got a good, sort of distorted, sound. I was always jealous of another guy I knew who had one of those Silvertone amps with the separate head and big speaker box.

It is further confirmed in the interview that he uses the Silvertone Twin Twelve.

I’m using two amps now: a Sovtek Mig 50 head with a single 12? EV speaker cab, and a Gibson Lab Series L-7 solidstate amp that sounds really good. In terms of guitars it’s a pair of Fenders – a Strat and Tele – a Gibson Tal Farlow reissue, Les Paul, and an Epiphone Riveria. The new Epiphones have been really good road guitars.

Duke Robillard utilizes a 12" Eminence The Tonker speaker, paired with a 10" Fane AXA, to achieve his signature fat, sweet, and warm yet bright tone, as noted in GuitarPlayer.com.