Rory Clewlow

I used to play Peavey 5150 so basically I've just been literally spending the last week fiddling about with tones and Ableton [music software] and trying to get it all synched up. I'm making the analog to digital leap. It's been a lot of work.

Well, basically I used to carry around two huge amps. One was the Peavey Classic 50, which wasn't huge but it was quite heavy and bulky. Then I had a two 5150s for backup and a cab and loads of effects pedals and everything. Now obviously, I've just got like one relatively tiny like 3U rack size box basically. It's mega-light.

You must have heard of the Kemper [profiling amplifier] if you work for Ultimate-Guitar. I'm completely switching my rig over to that.

Can be seen at 4:25

Édit 2021 : In Instagram video of making of « waltzing of the face of earth» we can see Rory c play with a diezel vh4 tube amp and a black star 412 cab in studio.

What were those (recording)sessions like for you as a guitar player?

We were all quite young. I just had my Engl Powerball at the time and that's pretty much all I used. There wasn't much experimenting with guitar tones on "Take to the Skies." The studio we were recording at were very sort of militant about what they did. I remember for instance or singer Rou [Reynolds], the engineer or the producer was basically saying the whole time, "Oh, no. Only sing or scream. It's got be clear cut." All the drums had to be triggered and all the vocals had to have Auto-Tune even if they weren't out of tune and stuff.

Can be seen at 0:19 with Orange cab

In the video "Enter Shikari - 'Sorry You're Not A Winner' (Live @ Big Day Out 2008)" by Koi No Yokan on YouTube, Rory Clewlow is seen using the Orange PPC412 Guitar Speaker Cabinet.