Ron Asheton

Asheton satisfied his guitar amp needs with the Vox Super Beatle (“Because the Beatles and the Stones had it”), until the Stooges supported Cream at Detroit’s famed Grande Ballroom.

The amp head can be seen in the background of this pic.

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Ron Asheton's sister uploaded some photos of his Marshall JCM 800 head including settings. See details.

For bass amps, Asheton relied on Sunn 2000s.

“It was a bigger improvement of the old Sunn 200s I had, and that was a mighty setup,” he said. “At times, I would get to use doubles [stacks] for awhile, and when you’re standing behind that, it rattles your chest, really shakes your innards up.”

Marshall 100-watt amps were mandatory to cut through the often-sludgy sound of that era’s arenas and coliseums, Asheton points out. In time, he crafted a double or triple stack, “Where they take 200-watt heads, and they’d use a 50-watt head as a preamp – so I had the big sound,” he said. “If I may use the overused word – it’s awesome.”

Marshall 100-watt amps were mandatory to cut through the often-sludgy sound of that era’s arenas and coliseums, Asheton points out. In time, he crafted a double or triple stack, “Where they take 200-watt heads, and they’d use a 50-watt head as a preamp – so I had the big sound,” he said. “If I may use the overused word – it’s awesome.”

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"His original Pignose he used as far back as I can remember".

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For practice he prefers a Honeytone and the ubiquitous Pignose.

Asheton now uses several amps, including a 100-watt 4 X 12 Marshall with a slant cabinet, and two 50-watt heads. He’s also excited by his 30 and 80-watt 4 X 12 Naylor amps, for different reasons.

Ron Asheton's sister shared a picture of his Reverend Hellhound 40/60 head. See details.

In this instagram post, you can see Ron using a 1st gen Sunn Model T on a live gig with his band, New Order.