Matt Heafy
Matt Heafy's Amplifiers
Matt has a 6505 amp in his collection. He states that throughout trivium’s history, they have always used a 5150 style amp. Either a peavey 5150, evh 5150 III, or a Peavey 6505
Matt Heafy uses the EVH 5150III 100S 100-Watt Tube Head for guitar tones on Trivium's album 'In The Court Of The Dragon,' as confirmed by Trivium's Instagram post.
At 2:27 in this Premier Guitar rig rundown, Perry explains Matt Heafy's minimalistic live setup, mentioning that he and the other band members all go through Kemper systems. Matt Heafy says "it's guitar, wireless, Kemper, Kemper goes directly to the PA."
In his livestream Matt said, that new album was recorded on Peavey Triple XXX II.
Used to record The Sin and the Sentence album
In an interview with the website Sonic State, Matt states that they use Peavey 5150 amps in the studio.
In this entire youtube video, he tries out the Victory Super Kraken.
That's pretty much it. :P
At 10:11 Matt talks about doing a full circle, as he used a peavey triple xxx on the first record and a peavey triple xxx II on what the dead men say.
In this post Matt Unboxes the kemper profieler head. He states that he uses the rack version for tour while using the "lunchbox" head version for home, and streaming use
Matt shows off the rig that he uses to practice while on tour. He uses a micro cube amp to warm up
Matt Heafy showcased his Peavey 5150 II 120-Watt Guitar Amp Head during a live stream on his Twitch channel.
He presented his amp collection on his YT channel.
In this video, Matt tries the new REVV Generator 120 amp (cut from his Twitch livestream)
On his Instagram, Matt Heafy mentions using the Marshall 1960B 4x12'' Cabinet, highlighting its role in his music creation process.
Live trivium uses actual tube amps and cabs. The cabs act as stage volume. Rather than micing the cabs the band runs their signal through the two notes, to the front of house. At the front of house their sound guy loads impulse responses the the two notes
In an Instagram post shared by Trivium, the Marshall JCM 900 is visible behind Matt Heafy while tracking guitar parts, confirming his use of this gear.
In the interview titled "Origin Stories with Ryan 'Fluff' Bruce & Matt Heafy" by Fishman Music on YouTube, Matt Heafy discusses the amplifiers used for each of his albums. At the 25:50 mark, he confirms that for the album The Sin & the Sentence, they utilized both the 5150 III and the Peavey JSX Joe Satriani Signature Amp Head.
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