Erja Lyytinen

In this Instagram post, Erja Lyytinen poses with her Yamaha Revstar RSP20CR guitar in a brushed black finish.

I was recording most of the guitar tracks through my Fender ’68 Super Reverb and I was using two microphones in front of the speakers: Audio Technica 4050 and then I had a Shure SM57, so I had two mics and I could combine those two together to create the sound I wanted.

I was recording most of the guitar tracks through my Fender ’68 Super Reverb and I was using two microphones in front of the speakers: Audio Technica 4050 and then I had a Shure SM57, so I had two mics and I could combine those two together to create the sound I wanted.

I was recording most of the guitar tracks through my Fender ’68 Super Reverb and I was using two microphones in front of the speakers: Audio Technica 4050 and then I had a Shure SM57, so I had two mics and I could combine those two together to create the sound I wanted.

Used as an overdrive pedal on the album "Waiting for the Daylight".

This one is called the Golden Horse. The guy said to me that it works best when you have another distortion pedal combined with it. I wouldn’t normally use this in my shows, but on the song Never Really Have You, I used this combined with a Mad Professor overdrive. So I was using this one and the Chinese one. Finland and China combined together! (laughs!) So that was for the slide guitar. But it doesn’t always have to be so compressed and so distorted, it depends on what you’re doing and what you want.

So I have a lot of pedals, as you can see! So I have some more recent pedals I have been using. I have the Keeley Dyno My Roto pedal, I love it and use it live quite a lot.

Then I have a tremolo, Super-ego: this is very cool, by Electro-Harmonix. I created some nice airy sounds with it. I used it on Bad Seed on the new record.

One of the rootsy-est songs on the album. Also, on live shows, I would use the (Mad Professor) Little Green Wonder, combined with the SL Drive by Xotic. It’s a very cool combination.

One of the rootsy-est songs on the album. Also, on live shows, I would use the (Mad Professor) Little Green Wonder, combined with the SL Drive by Xotic. It’s a very cool combination.

Good question! I used to have Jazz III, the small one. Then my world changed when I changed to the XL. I think it gets the best sound and it’s quite thick. For me, this works the best at the moment. When I play acoustic guitar, I usually choose a lighter pick, a lot lighter. That’s also part of the sound. The song Last Girl, on the album, where I play a kind of American acoustic guitar like in a teen movie, I did it using a very light pick.