Ken Andrews

Ken Andrews uses this as it "sounds good with bass & guitar" for his alternating between the two instruments, along with finding it easier to take on tour rather than taking multiple amplifiers to get the Failure sound, according to this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

Guitar.com, 2015

Sure. We can tap all the guitar and bass sounds a lot more accurately because of amp modelling. The idea of putting the old rigs back together was not appealing to me at all, and I actually got Fractal’s Axe-Fx a year and a half ago when we were starting to entertain the idea of playing live. Everyone said ‘You’ve got to try the latest modelling technology see how far it’s come’, and Axe-Fx blew me away. To be able to cover all the sounds from the old albums and the new stuff in one box, and more accurately than a full analogue rig would be able to do, has been a huge facilitating feature of this whole reboot. We use Apple MainStage for keyboard sounds; I trigger a few samples off my pedal board, Kelli triggers some samples from his drum pad, but it’s all MIDI controllers running into MainStage on one laptop on my side of the stage. Another reason the Axe-Fx has worked so well for us as they do both guitar and bass pretty well. Greg and I switch live quite a bit.

In the 1990s, Ken Andrews incorporated the Rocktron Intellifex LTD into his rack setup, likely utilizing it for most of his live and studio effects, except for phaser effects. A user-uploaded photo supports this usage.

"I have four Chandler LTD1s, which are 1073 clones..." - Ken Andrews.

"Andrews uses the Fractal MFC-101 Midi Foot Controller in preset mode to change patches and scenes," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

Premier Guitar's Rig Rundown series featured Andrews, and this image shows his Mastermind GT/16.

In the 2019 Rig Rundown by Premier Guitar, Ken Andrews provides a detailed explanation of how he utilizes the Fractal Audio Axe-FX III Preamp/FX Processor to craft all of his guitar and bass tones.