When Angus wants a thicker lead sound he'll use a 100 watt amp. They are custom made. Cliff On bass is Cliff uses a '76 Music Man strung with D'Addario flatwounds. For amplifaction Cliff uses ealry '70s Ampeg SVT and 8 x 10 SVT Cab. Cliff also uses a Demeter tube Dl box.
Cliff uses a cable, instead of going wireless.
Cliff uses Fender Extra heavy picks. Cliff also has his own custom picks but he doesn't use them. In his playing, especially in the early days, his lines for many of the songs were kept as simple as possible, and he added to the song in a big way by doing this. When he did throw in a fill or a walking bass line, it was great, and it always would give the song the needed smoothness below Malcolm's rough rhythm parts. Let There Be Rock double cd, live in 1980.