Josh Elmore's Amplifiers

Used live (his rig is on the left hand side of the video), and can be seen in all of the recent studio playthroughs.

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In this video producer Dave Otero talks about how on every album he has worked on with Cattle Decapitation they have used a 6505. On the newest album (as of 2019) Death Atlas he used the 6505 in conjunction with a Hi-Watt Custom Super-Hi 50. "After tracking and as I was getting into the mix I did feel the need to blend in a tone with more saturation a little bit more of a modern kind of shape, so I did reamp through the 6505 and we just blended that in probably about even in the mix...the 6505 definetly saturates more, has a little bit of a wider spetcrum, goes a little bit deeper, has crispier highs, where the slighly more vintage tone of the Hi-watt just fills in those mids..."

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Producer Dave Otero talks about the new amp Josh got for the newest Cattle album in this video. "Josh had recently picked up a Custom Hi-Watt Super-Hi 50, Josh tends to gravitate more towards gear that other people aren't using or playing, maybe in effort to find a unique tone, or maybe just because he's a punk rock mother fucker, but reguardless you don't see anyone else in extreme metal playing one of these amps, some of that is 'cause it's new, some of that is because it's pretty crazy expensive...The Super Hi-50 is based on a traditional Hi-watt amp design, but with a mod by Mike Fortin which gives it that extra gain boost and brings it into that more metal arena. It has four gain stages with a boost on, which we had the boost on for all of te rythms, and it is an extremely percussive and tight sounding amp, we didn't use an tubescreamer any kind of boost up front, just guitar straight into the head, and it had as much punch, and clairty, and definition as you could possibly want out of an amp."

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Used live during the Cattle Decapitation's Heavy Montreal 2015 show. His rig can be seen on stage right.

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This Cabinet is owned by Dave Otero not by Josh Elmore, but it was used on the Death Atlas album.

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Dave Otero mentions that this was one of the cabinets used on the album Death Atlas.

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In the documentary "Cattle Decapitation - The Making of The Harvest Floor," Josh Elmore is seen using a Bogner Uberschall 120-Watt Tube Guitar Amp Head. Additionally, the liner notes of the album mention that Josh uses Bogner amps.

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In this Facebook post made by Cattle Decapitation in 2015, they are selling the Engle Fireball 60 amp head Josh used. This album was confirmed to have been used on Humanure, K.B.K, and the Harvest Floor. You can also see this amp for a split second in the Harvest Floor documentary

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According to Celestion's official website, Josh Elmore is listed as using the Celestion G12H-75 Creamback 12'' 75-watt speakers.

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In a video titled "Rig Chat with Josh Elmore of Cattle Decapitation" by Rigs of Death Metal on YouTube, Josh Elmore discusses his collection of Satellite Amplifiers, specifically mentioning the Satellite Amps Niveus, around the 5-minute mark.

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In a video by Rigs of Death Metal titled "Rig Chat with Josh Elmore of Cattle Decapitation," Josh Elmore mentions around the 14:20 mark that he uses the Hiwatt Hi-5 2-Channel 5-Watt 1x10" Guitar Combo for practice.

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Josh Elmore made a post featuring a satellite 2x12 cab and his max watt amp head. The 2x12 is loaded with celestian Lynchbacks.

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Josh Elmore posted on his Instagram account about his new Hiwatt Hi-5 amp. The next post on his account is him demoing the amp. He also mentioned this amp on his interview with RigsOfDeatgMetal on YouTube.

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In a post by Rigs of Death Metal on Instagram, Josh Elmore's collection of amp heads, including the Soldano Avenger 100-Watt Single Channel Head, is featured.

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In this Instagram post by Josh Elmore you can see the Bogner Cab. This was used during touring in 2019.

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