Amps? Amps?! Johny Chow don’t need no stinkin’ amps! After the band’s FOH engineer and Chow A-B’d their live sound mix with him going direct and using a amp head/cab that was mic’d, they quickly agreed the tone was sharper and more focused with the direct setup. That was several years ago and he’s still rocking the barebones signal chain. It starts from the bass into his Shure wireless unit, then into a TC Electronic PolyTune2 Mini, into a Darkglass Alpha · Omega (dirty signal to FOH) and an Eden Terra Nova Module Bass Preamp (clean signal to FOH). Other noisemakers include a Darkglass Electronics Microtubes 900, Darkglass Super Symmetry (for compression), an EarthQuaker Devices Sea Machine (chorus to thicken up parts). Everything is juiced up thanks to the MXR M238 Iso‑Brick.