Luna Kupper and Ash Richter of Nashville experimental duo Total Wife told us about their Roland and Fender love...
Luna Kupper: I feel like it would be wrong of me to choose anything but the 404. We’ve used them ever since starting to play shows as a duo in Boston 10 years ago. Back then, we couldn’t find a band and pretty much used it as a glorified iPod, running backtracks and playing over them. Mostly just a reason to not have my 2008 Macbook Pro running a torrent of ProTools that would crash after 15 minutes. Nowadays, we use them more like actual samplers as a way to still have the electronic and sampled sounds from our recordings in the live set. Ash triggers lead sounds/textural stuff on a 404sx , then i use an mk2 to run electronic tracks, drones or Oasis and Nickelback remixes. Hey, thanks, Roland.
Ash Richter: We [love] tube amps. Honestly, it’s a bit impractical for tourin,g but they just sound so good. It was the first amp I bought when I started playing bass in other bands, and the only one I like to play out of.
It’s very full and powerful - and it sounds awesome in the studio, or for Luna’s main guitar signal in the total wife sets. She plays through two amps, but always uses a bass amp to achieve more volume from the low end. We’re more interested in feeling the bass from the guitar than piercing highs.
Total Wife's album Come Back Down is out September 19. The single "Second Spring" is out now.
