Nita Strauss

In this demo, Strauss shows the capabilities of the amp and it's integration with a smart phone.

“I FINALLY FOUND AN AMP THAT CAN KEEP UP WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT NEEDS I HAVE AS A GUITARIST. FROM PRISTINE CLEANS, TO CRUNCHY RHYTHMS AND EARTH SHATTERING LEADS, MARSHALL HAS IT ALL DIALED IN.”

"This really gave me a lot of different options, there's very classic high gain tone, very modern punchy leads, and it's MIDI switchable" - Nita at 33:40 of this "Rig Rundown".

Nita shows us her rack unit in this video at 33:33. You can see that she uses a Rocktron Prophesy II.

When asked about her live setup for the Alice Cooper tour, Strauss said "I'll be using Blackstar Series One EL34 heads. I picked those because they have a really classic sound."

“I FINALLY FOUND AN AMP THAT CAN KEEP UP WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT NEEDS I HAVE AS A GUITARIST. FROM PRISTINE CLEANS, TO CRUNCHY RHYTHMS AND EARTH SHATTERING LEADS, MARSHALL HAS IT ALL DIALED IN.”

Nita demoing the head and cab in a Marshall video.

Nita demoing the head and cab in an official Marshall video

“I FINALLY FOUND AN AMP THAT CAN KEEP UP WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT NEEDS I HAVE AS A GUITARIST. FROM PRISTINE CLEANS, TO CRUNCHY RHYTHMS AND EARTH SHATTERING LEADS, MARSHALL HAS IT ALL DIALED IN.”

Strauss used this as an effects processor before Kemper Profiler and Boss GT-1000.

“Live, for my solo band, I use a BOSS GT-1000 pedalboard,” she says. “But for my session work, it’s my Kempers, and the majority of the record is the same tones you hear onstage with the Kemper. Funny enough, it’s modeled from my previous processor, which is a Rocktron Prophesy. It’s not modeled from any amp in particular. It’s just pinched, pulled, massaged, and tweaked to be my own tone. When I switched over to Kemper, I couldn’t find anything I liked as much, so I hooked up the modeling software and modeled my processor. And it’s my signature Ibanez JIVAs across the board—all the gigs, all the time.”