F5’s Stage Gear

People have been asking us how we are able to achieve the sounds we get live, so we decided to add this page.

Mike Cody, Bass Player

  • Music Man Sterling Bass
  • Vintage 1980 SVT 8×10 cabinet
  • SWR Bass 350 amplifier
  • dbx 266xl Compressor/gate
  • bbe 362 sonic maximizer
  • Korg DTR-1000 digital rack tuner
  • Samson Concert Series III CR-3M wireless

Tommy Carlyle, Hammond B3 and keyboards

  • Hammond 1963 B3 organ in Model A case
  • Leslie 147 w/ custom crossover and 400 watt poweramp
  • Yamaha EX5 synthesizer
  • Oberheim Matrix 1000 synthesizer
  • Korg X3R synthesizer
  • Korg Microkorg synthesizer
  • Novation A station synthesizer
  • CME midi Controller
  • Korg RK 100 midi controller
  • Ensoniq ESQ1 synthesizer/sequencer
  • Samson 8 channel powered mixer
  • Digital Music MX8 midi interface
  • ART Tube MP mic preamps (5 total)
  • Alesis 3630 compressor
  • Sennheiser microphones
  • Peavey 215 cabinet

and now for something completely different………

Jim Watts, lead singer, rhythm guitar and an egg thingy…..

A voice, I didn’t make it , God did , Thanks much Dude

  • And for that voice,  a Sennheiser 835 microphone
  • ShariLou,  a strat-style custom guitar
  • Roxy, a custom, one-of-a- kind custom Jim Watts strat (we checked, it is a one-of-a-kind)
  • Ovation 12 string accoustic
  • Epiphone Les Paul Custom
  • D’Addario strings exclusively(looking for an endorsement deal)
  • Mesa Boogie Nomad 45, 1×12, and 1×12 boogie sealed cab
  • Celestion speakers, exclusively(again, looking for that endorsement deal)
  • Boss chorus
  • old slap delay
  • Marshall vibrato/tremolo
  • Boss multi-effects
  • an egg thingy with noisy things in it ( Hey.. Ya can’t make this stuff up–you’ll just have to come see for yourself)
  • AR15,  Oh… wait a minute, not sure that belongs here.

now back to our regularly scheduled program…..

Pete Prentice, drums and percussion

 

Don Kuchta, lead guitar

  • PRS Custom 22 and McCarty Guitars
  • Texas Custom Tele Guitar
  • Peavey Wolgang Guitar
  • Yamaha Acoustic Guitar
  • Peavey JSX Amplifier
  • Boss Effects
  • TC Electronics Nova System
  • Carl Martin Chorus Pedal
  • MXR
  • Korg
  • Roland
  • Ernie Ball Strings
  • Dunlop Tortex Picks