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AMPLIFICATION
Annah has been playing a
Marshall TSL100 head through a 1960a cab since 1999. She chose the head because
"It's got three channels - clean, rhythm and lead. I love the
crunch it gives, it's freakin' loud as hell... and it's Marshall!"
EFFECTS
The Lexicon MPX-G2 Multi-Effects
Processor has been part of Annah's sonic arsenal since 2001. She also uses
the MPX-R1 foot controller.
"The coolest thing about the G2
(and the main reason I bought it) was that it can be run in a few
different modes: Stereo, mono, or front/back. Front/back is the kicker...
With my TSL100, I have set up the G2 to send time-delay effects (reverb,
delay, chorus, etc.) to the effects loop of the head and the gain effects
(eq, distortion, wah, etc.) to the front of the amp (guitar input). This
gives incredible control over effects levels and puts the right effects in
the appropriate part of the path." She says.

"The other thing about the
G2/R1 combo," She continues, "is that the R1 has built-in relays that can be set up to
change amp channels (instead of the amp's footswitch). This way, I hit one
button on my R1 and my patch changes as well as my amp channel
(clean/dirty). TOTALLY FREAKING COOL!!!"
Needless to say,
she doesn't use
any of the effects you see in the picture above.
GUITARS
Her main axe is a USA-made 1993 Jackson Randy Rhoads RR1 (the black V in the
picture above). Prior to getting the RR1, her main guitar was a white 1983 Ibanez Pro-Line Series
Flying-V (Rhoads style). She also uses a Fender Stratocaster. Her pickup of
choice is the Bill
Lawrence XL500. Her acoustic is a Seagull Artist. Also not
shown here is her ever-faithful Yamaha G-225 Classical guitar on which she wrote
a great number of songs. She gave it to her best friend when she moved to Texas. Your eyes are not deceiving you, that says "I built from scratch."
in the picture above. Annah desperately wanted a Les Paul, couldn't afford one, plus
wanted a neck-thru and extra-cutaway one. So she designed it, bought the wood at an exotic
wood supply shop, and built it all herself (except the hardware, of course). She
cut the
body, made the neck, truss-rod, the fretwork, the inlays... everything.
She built another guitar, which was subsequently destroyed by someone
else in a fit of rage. A picture of it is to the left. That one was based on a Jackson
fretboard, but extended to 27 frets. It played well, but because the body was so
small and the neck was really hard Birdseye Maple, it had a really twangy tone
to it. Pretty cool, it looked, but cest le vie. She hopes to build guitars again
some day.
Below are close-up
pictures of her Les Paul 
  
This
is what Annah's Strat looked like before she repainted it... 
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