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High gain gear for Progressive Rock

What Progressive Rock artists actually play that sounds high gain, ranked by how many of them use it

Also called lots of gain, heavily saturated, tons of gain, distort, distorts, distorted, distortion, fully distorted

Hughes & Kettner TriAmp MkII Alex Lifeson

Hughes & Kettner

used by Alex Lifeson

Mesa/Boogie JP-2C John Petrucci Signature 60/100-Watt

Mesa Boogie

used by John Petrucci

Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ Head

Mesa Boogie

$3469via Reverb

used by Joe Satriani

Neural DSP Archetype: Tim Henson

Neural Dsp

used by Tim Henson

Peavey JSX Mini Colossal Guitar Amp

Peavey

$299via Reverb

used by Joe Satriani

Port City Pearl Head

Port City

$3625via Reverb

used by Tosin Abasi

Tech 21 SansAmp Classic

Tech 21

used by Joe Satriani

Vox AC30 Rose Morris 80s

amplifier

used by Brian May

Vox Joe Satriani Satchurator

Vox

$47via Reverb

used by Joe Satriani

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