Two Rockamp
Two Rock Custom Reverb
A boutique, hand-wired amplifier favored by John Mayer. Inspired by blackface Fender circuits but with more headroom, richer harmonics, and a sweeter overdrive. Responds beautifully to pick dynamics and guitar volume changes.
Modeler equivalents
- helix
- Derailed Ingrid
- quad_cortex
- Two Rock
- fractal
- Two-Stone J35
- kemper
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Recipes using this gear
Field notes on the Two Rock Custom Reverb
All field notes →Hybrid Picking for Rock and Blues: Ghost Notes Without the Country Context
Hybrid picking isn't a country-only technique. Mark Knopfler, Albert Collins, and Scotty Moore built careers on it in rock and blues. Here's the technique, where it applies, and the specific moments where using your middle finger changes a phrase from good to right.
Marshall JCM800 Settings: Sweet Spots for Every Style
Exact settings for the Marshall JCM800 across blues, classic rock, hard rock, and metal, on the real amp and on Helix, Quad Cortex, and Katana models.
Rising vs. Fixed Shimmer: Putting the Pitch Shifter Inside the Reverb Feedback Loop
A pitch block in front of a reverb gives one fixed octave. Inside the regeneration path it climbs forever. Here is the routing difference, and why a Helix cannot do it internally.