Meshuggah's guitarists have been seen using Ibanez M8M signature eight-strings with Lundgren M8 pickups and Fractal Audio Axe-Fx Ultra units, with no cabinets onstage. Fredrik Thordendal has praised his Fortin Meshuggah amp onstage, and bassist Dick Lövgren has been seen using Warwick Dolphin basses with Bartolini pickups.
“It’s been a long time since it’s been so much fun to just riff onstage, and these amps brought that back for me”
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“It’s been a long time since it’s been so much fun to just riff onstage, and these amps brought that back for me”
“For a few years now, I’ve been using Fractal Audio’s Axe-Fx Ultra.”
“I also still use Line 6’s Vetta II in the rehearsal studio.”
Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström have been seen using Ibanez M8M signature eight-strings with Lundgren M8 pickups, tuned a half-step down. Thordendal has also been seen with an Ibanez Custom Shop eight-string built on his own design.
Premier Guitar's 2013 Rig Rundown shows all three players running Fractal Audio Axe-Fx Ultras with patches changed from a laptop running Cubase. Fortin designed the Meshuggah signature amp in 2016 for Thordendal and Hagström.
Dick Lövgren has been seen using a custom Warwick Dolphin Pro I five-string nicknamed the Devil, a Dolphin Pro II and a four-string Warwick Streamer Stryker, with Bartolini pickups.
Both guitarists have been seen using Lundgren M8 pickups in their Ibanez eight-strings, per Premier Guitar's 2013 Rig Rundown.
Meshuggah are the Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå whose eight-string riffing shaped modern progressive metal and djent. This guide covers the guitars, basses and cabinet-free Fractal rigs of Fredrik Thordendal, Mårten Hagström and Dick Lövgren, from Premier Guitar Rig Rundowns and interviews.
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