Here's a little treat for our fellow guitarists: a sampling of isolated guitar tracks from the master tapes of Devil Gods' debut album Sick Little Monkey. So if you're as interested as we are in how different amps, guitars and effects combine to open up new worlds of sound, check out the samples below. We promise it'll be cool and weird. If you want to hear them in context, visit our page with MP3s or order the album from us, Amazon, CD Baby or CD Now.

1. V-8 Ford verse riff - This menacing tone is achieved by running Ted's 1968 Les Paul Standard in lead position through an Ibanez TS-9 tube screamer, a DigiTech Whammy II with expression pedal 1/3 down, and a DigiTech DDS 1000 digital delay, into a Mesa-Boogie Dual Rectifier TremoVerb head and Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 25-watt greenback speakers. Plus a little extra finger vibrato.
    
2. V-8 Ford solo - Mark achieves his version of Eric Clapton's classic "woman tone" via his customized 1972 SG set on the neck pickup (a DiMarzio PAF) with the tone pot rolled off, plugged into a MXR Distortion II en route to a 1972 50-watt Marshall JMP head and Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 25-watt greenback speakers. Timeless.
    
3. Dark Red Heat - In the song's third verse, Ted conjures this evil sound with a ProCo Rat, the DigiTech DDS 1000 delay, his Japan-made Esquire reissue with two old Les Paul pickups (both on), a matched 1972 Marshall head and 4x12 cab with 25-watt greenback speakers and a pair of large, old household files with wooden handles for ease of dragging between strings.
    
4. Los Alamos - Mark achieves these weird backwards sonics in the bridge solo with a G&L ASAT Classic Thinline with both pickups switched on, plugged into an Ibanez FC10 Fat Cat Distortion, a DigiTech XP300 Space Station set to "reverse" and his Tone King Continental 1x12 combo amplifier.
    
5. In the Year 2525 - Using his SG detailed in the second "V-8 Ford" entry above, Mark set the guitar on the bridge position and employed the DigiTech XP300 Space Station in "sample and hold" mode to create the between-verse-and-chorus blips of sound that came out of his Tone King Continental 1x12 combo.
    
6. I Don't Know - Mark's SG again, using the bridge pickup (a DiMarzio X2N) and run through an Ibanez TS9DX tube screamer in the "plus" setting. Then the signal went through two discreet paths - one through a Z-Vex SeekWah, the other a Dunlop Cry Baby 535 - before being pumped out of his Tone King Continental 1x12 combo.
    
7. Counting On You - This noise guitar is the fifth guitar track during the long six-string duel that closes this song. Ted played it on his custom Esquire standing roughly equidistant from a vintage Marshall 50-watt head and matched 4x12 and a Mesa-Boogie Dual Rectifier TremoVerb, both opened almost full up. Feedback city. He switched between pickup combinations as the mood hit. Effects were a ProCo Rat, DigiTech PDS 1000, DigiTech Whammy II set for a two-octave sweep plus a rat-tail file from TruValue Hardware.
    
8. Long Distance Runner solo - Mark got this sweet cello-like guitar sound by employing his SG's DiMarzio neck pickup and an MXR Distortion II, a Boss FV200 volume pedal, a Guyatone MD2 delay, a DigiTech PDS8000 echo and delay - all erupting from a Roland JC120 with vibrato on.
    
9. Long Distance Runner background texture - It's Mark's SG again, with the bridge pickup, running signal through an Ibanez TS9DX tube screamer in the "plus" setting, a Boss FV200 volume pedal and a Danelectro Dan-Echo delay run through the trusty Tone King Continental 1x12 combo.