John McEntee

John talks about his pedals and guitar effects throughout the video. Used for the 2013 'Will of Vengeance" tour.

John talks about his pedals and guitar effects throughout the video. Used for the 2013 'Will of Vengeance" tour. Two Line 6 guitar amp heads visible around 6:42 mark.

John playing a Mockingbird Special X live with Incantation.

As per John via Reddit r/Metal: "In the studio and live when I can, I use my revolt Shredder X head. Its Sonny signature amp. some time on tour i use a Peavy 5150 or 6505 head. they are also good for getting a clean but heavy and dirty sound. I also use Omega cabs. they really hold the low end well and have a amazing punch. i have been using my BC rich Special X pretty much for most of my recording and live in recent years. its just a really comfortable guitar for me. beside that i have a korg tuner and i use lava cords. oh yes I also use Curt mangan 13 to 65 nickelwound strings."

As per John: "Also sometime around the late 1990 I started using EMG 81 pickups. I really like that pick up. It the best one I have ever used." Also, can be seen live using EMG81 bridge pickups in most of his guitars.

As per John: "On Golgotha we had I was using a BC rich ST model.". Also, can be seen using the ST Mockingbird on old live videos/photos.

As per John: "Back in the early days I used a marshall jcm 800 50 watt head. (...) The Marshall head was to temperamental on tour and it sounded different every night."

John talks about his pedals and guitar effects throughout the video. Used for the 2013 'Will of Vengeance" tour.

John talks about his pedals and guitar effects throughout the video. Used for the 2013 'Will of Vengeance" tour. Two Line 6 guitar amp heads visible around 6:42 mark.

As per John via Reddit r/Metal: "In the studio and live when I can, I use my revolt Shredder X head. Its Sonny signature amp. some time on tour i use a Peavy 5150 or 6505 head. they are also good for getting a clean but heavy and dirty sound. I also use Omega cabs. they really hold the low end well and have a amazing punch. i have been using my BC rich Special X pretty much for most of my recording and live in recent years. its just a really comfortable guitar for me. beside that i have a korg tuner and i use lava cords. oh yes I also use Curt mangan 13 to 65 nickelwound strings."

As per John via Reddit r/Metal: "In the studio and live when I can, I use my revolt Shredder X head. Its Sonny signature amp. some time on tour i use a Peavy 5150 or 6505 head. they are also good for getting a clean but heavy and dirty sound. I also use Omega cabs. they really hold the low end well and have a amazing punch. i have been using my BC rich Special X pretty much for most of my recording and live in recent years. its just a really comfortable guitar for me. beside that i have a korg tuner and i use lava cords. oh yes I also use Curt mangan 13 to 65 nickelwound strings."

John on posing with his new Barbarian X head by Revolt Apms, as seen on his Instagram post.

John talks about his pedals and guitar effects throughout the video. Used for the 2013 'Will of Vengeance" tour.

John talks about his pedals and guitar effects throughout the video. Used for the 2013 'Will of Vengeance" tour.

As per John via Reddit r/Metal: "In the studio and live when I can, I use my revolt Shredder X head. Its Sonny signature amp. some time on tour i use a Peavy 5150 or 6505 head. they are also good for getting a clean but heavy and dirty sound. I also use Omega cabs. they really hold the low end well and have a amazing punch. i have been using my BC rich Special X pretty much for most of my recording and live in recent years. its just a really comfortable guitar for me. beside that i have a korg tuner and i use lava cords. oh yes I also use Curt mangan 13 to 65 nickelwound strings."

As per John: "I changed head in the late 90 to a Mesa biggie (sic!) triple rectifier but that amp did not have enough definition."

John talks about his pedals and guitar effects throughout the video. Used for the 2013 'Will of Vengeance" tour.

In the source Q&A John mentions Lava Cables several times, e.g. " (...) beside that i have a korg tuner and i use lava cords."

He uses this device in 2026 with Incantation .