Equipment
Alexi Laiho has used the Lee Jackson GP-1000 preamp from the very beginning of his career and up until his endorsement with ENGL, still always employed it with various other different amps and preamps, creating a stereo of Amp sounds. Note that, for the first half of his career, he used Marshall JCM 800 cabinets (with 75 watt Celestion speakers) and various power amps. After Hate Crew Deathroll, he started experimenting with different amp heads including the Krank Revolution, Marshall JCM800 KK (which he used to record Blooddrunk, and which he still uses frequently), and the Engl Special Edition EL34 head (in sinergy, mainly). As of late August 2011, Alexi is now signed with Engl and is currently using the e530 preamp with various poweramp and cabinet combinations since their last 2011 tour.
Laiho first used an Ibanez RG 220B (maple fingerboard) along with a jackson custom shop (bought from a member of the Finnish band STONE, which Roope Latvala was part of) to record the first Children of Bodom record and eventually switched completely to Jackson Guitars which he used for several years until 2 of his 3 Jacksons (the one with the WildChild sticker and the one with white pinstripes) were stolen. He asked Jackson to make him another one, but the time-table they gave him for its production was too long (around a years time). ESP came to him and said that it would take around 3 months for his new signature model to be up and running, so Alexi took this offer. Thus he switched to ESP guitars. The change occurred shortly after the release of Hate Crew Deathroll. His ESP guitars are based on the Jackson Randy Rhoads, except the body is cut slightly different on North American models. They all feature a single bridge pickup and double-locking tremolo. He is known for using a passive EMG ALX pickup with an on board active preamp circuit to boost the output signal as oppose to active pickups. Laiho uses Audiotech Guitar Products Source Selector 1X6 Rack Mount Audio Switchers.
He also uses DR Strings Hi-Beam 11–50 gauge for D Standard tuning. For Drop C, he uses DR Jeff Healey Signature 10–56 Strings. He has also recently been given a signature set of DR strings. He uses Jim Dunlop Jazz III picks.
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