Gear

The instruments and equipment Russ plays and records with. Most of this is what shows up on professional gigs, in studio sessions, and on the lessons end of the Zoom rig.

Basses

• Two Ken Smith basses

Amplification

• Trickfish Audio Minnow bass amp
• External preamp, signal filter, VCA compressor, and overdrive preamp
• SFX Sound Micro-Thumpinator (subsonic filter)

Speakers

• 12″ powered PA speaker
• 10″ powered PA speaker

Pedal Boards & Routing

• Pedaltrain pedal boards
• Mogami Gold cables
• Essential Sound MusicCord-Pro power cables