“I like stuff that gets a little messy,” says Warpaint guitarist Theresa Wayman.

We met up with the LA-based heavy psych rockers before their show at Cleveland’s Beachland Ballroom to learn more about the gear behind their lysergic, acid-drenched guitar sound. Wayman coaxes a surprising variety of tones from her Spartan rig - a JHS Sweet Tea feeds a pair of EHX Pitch Forks, which run into a Catalinbread Adineko, into the Dispatch Master reverb and delay. “I love [the Dispatch Master] because it just creates a lot of wash and tail, and I need that,” she says.

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