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This tone is helped along by her, now famous, Big Muff. Wata uses a Big Muff clone made by a Japanese company called Elk. The Elk has three controls, like the original Electro Harmonix EHX Big Muff, but a cleaner aesthetic, being finished in a brushed metal with simple black, screen-printed designs. Matamp predates Orange amplifiers, the two companies coming together in the late 60s and early 70s; Mat Mathias owned Matamp and Cliff Cooper owned the Orange music store, and the company became Orange Matamp amps.

Wata employs multiple amps for live performances, varying from solid state Oranges to old, vintage, tube Matamps. These are very similar to the Matamp GT, its logo dating it to the mids. Wata also plays a more modern Orange Rockerverb , a watt tube head with controllable power stages for varying volumes or for more crunch at lower volumes.

Sometimes seen with a couple of REs, Wata uses these to add extra depth to her playing, whole also building oscillating, delayed and atmospheric sounds with her guitars. The RE is a famous unit, having been cloned multiple times by a huge array of companies, including Roland and Boss themselves having a handful of clones. The Roland RE is special because, while the magic of tape delay is something unique in and of itself, the drive and grit of the preamp is enough to make the RE a prized possession of many a player, including Wata.

The bottom half is a dual-humbucker equipped, six string electric guitar. Similar in design to his First Act, the Steinberg also features their own unique identifier: no headstock. The original Doubleneck features fine tuners at the bridges of the instrument, and originally include active EMG pickups, but Takeshi seems to have done away with them in lieu of passive, uncovered pickups on the guitar side of things.

Sometimes pictured with up to five on stage, Takeshi says that despite them being the same model at face value, they all vary slightly and have their own unique voice. Not one to be left behind on the EQD train, Takeshi uses their Afterneath pedal for that special sauce across his reverbs.