Wendy Melvoin

Interviewer: "On that note, is there anything that’s really turning you on right now as a producer and player in the gear world?"

WM: "Well, because our tour is skin and bones, I profiled all of my boutique amps with my Kemper Profiling amp and it’s absolutely spectacular. I’m going straight through the board and all of my boutique amps are profiled perfectly. I absolutely love my little Top Hat amps. They’re just beautiful, and I’ve got great old Silvertones, and vintage Fender White Higher Fidelity amps that I use in the studio a lot, and all of them are profiled and good to go in the Kemper. I’m a small amp girl in the studio, and I just truly believe you get better sounds that way."

Melvoin discusses this guitar in an interview with Vintage Guitar.

Before the tour, I profiled all my amps – a little Top Hat, some great old Silvertones, and a vintage Fender – into a Kemper Profiler. It’s fing amazing. I didn’t think it was possible, but it is. I would love to go out with all my gear, but it’s not cost-effective. I have two Kempers and my guitar, and I’m good to go. I don’t even use a cab – it goes right to the board. There’s no sound coming from any speaker. It’s all profiled for my cabinets, speakers, effects, and my entire chain’s all coming through the monitors.

Wendy Melvoin used a Mesa/Boogie Mark II with Prince in the mid 1980s.

Spotted at 1:54s in Prince's "Anotherloverholenyohead" music video. Prince had Wendy and Miko's Peavey Butcher head and cabinets retolexed with a white paisley print tolex in his "Parade" album music videos. These amps can be seen at Paisley Park in the "Grafitti Bridge"/"Parade" room.