a few citations from Plank's Blog (LOOK HERE FOR INFO ON AMPS USED)

Thom's Rickenbackers are standard 330's with no mods

Ed's FC200 is controlling a custom built switching unit linked to the pedal boards and rack............I make the guitar and link cables using angled and straight switchcraft 1/4" jacks and VDC oxygen free instrument cable which works nicely............these jacks are lighter and less bulky than others also putting less strain on pcb mounted sockets..............

Ed uses 2 Mesa Boogie Dual rectifier Trem-o-verb combos, both from 1995-6, they are slightly different but both run with standard Boogie 6L6 / ECC83's..........also two of the first modded 1996 Vox AC30 specials from Dave Petersen, running Watford Valves original Mullard / Tesla ECC83 / EL84's as described earlier.................Thom"s two AC30 specials date from 1999 and are modded the same way running with Harma valves at present.............Colin presently uses a 240v Ampeg SVT-CLU classic head with standard valves into an Ampeg 8x10 cab...an unbeatable combination as anyone knows!!......also some rehearsing and recording done with a blue diamond finish Ampeg B-15RW combo................at the moment, Jonny is using a standard 1998-ish Vox AC30 6-TB and a Fender 85, which is from 1988..........the 85 and studio 85 are the same !...........other amps used in the studio are: Fender '65 Twin reverb fitted with groove tubes, a Selmer Truvoice and Bassman head from the early 60's running into a home made speaker cab, some Ashdown amps, a Marshall blues breaker combo and an old Ampeg GV22 combo.....various other Amps come and go but they are the ones I mostly fall over at the moment!

Plank : A question I am getting asked many times is whether or not Jonnys shredmaster has been modified - the current one is standard apart from the switch which gets replaced regularly. I made a version of the shredmaster a few years ago but after a couple of tours the prototype box was flattened due to being stomped on and that was it !!...... am checking out the true bypass questions and updating Eds guitar info

also the Shredmaster is not run through the overdrive, they are separate

Q's....Vintage tele bridges with the three brass saddles can be a problem which many learn to live with by fine adjustment and reaching a compromise with the intonation.....it can be worse if a bridge happens to be fitted a couple of mm off and sometimes the only thing to do is to retro fit a 6 saddle bridge if it's too bad............I did fit a Kaoss pad screen to Jonnys spare tele a while back and we configured it to change trigger points and shift x-y co ordinates in a couple of weird computer programs but it all got a bit mental..........then something more urgent came along so it joined the list of good ideas to be continued one day ??........DC power run up two cores of four core screen along with signal into 6 pin XLR.....
The old RE201's are being used loads again as well as the RE 20's now....why use one thing when three will make it 1.5 times better? ho ho !
pic is of visitor to stage right during DC show :-)

a ps to this blog.... the above bit about kaoss pad is a quick bit of info in response to a question, the job itself took many hours was complicated involving dismantling entire unit, removing and re soldering components, running extra ribbon cables and mini surface mount switches and routing of the guitar, I wouldn't advise tearing in and wrecking your shiny new kaoss pad!....arrr :-)

Plank is fitted with Kent Armstrong humbuckers
Thom's hybrid tele 3 has a '57 Gibson PAF in bridge
Tele 2 has Seymour Duncan stacked humbucker in bridge
Fender Jazz bass has Seymour Duncan STR-J1 in neck and bridge