The Dean DOA Guitar
This is the ‘None More Black’ Dean 2011 V that I won at last year’s Dean Owners Association party. It took a year for me to actually get it (?!?), but it rocks. And it is the only one in the world. The guys at Dean did a great job. There is quite a story …
Looping Devices I Use
Many loopers available allow you to switch between loops, so you can make an entire song over pre-recorded verse/chorus patterns.
This isn’t the way I use loops though. While this idea might be fine for a 1 man band situation, or rehearsing ideas, it is the live manipulation of the loop which starts the creative process …
Steinberger ZT3
This is my main guitar when I don’t have to use any guitar synth. Instead, this guitar is the only one in the world with a TransTrem 3, which transposes all strings equally. Not only can you bend entire chords in tune, but you can lock the bridge in 5 different positions, from a whole …
Pedalboard 2 Configuration
The signal first hits a BYOC 5 Knob Compressor, which may be the best compressor for electric or acoustic guitar. It has a cool blend knob which allows you to blend in the unaffected signal. And I built it.
The signal then hits a BYOC Overdrive2, which I built as well. Kind of a boutique Tube …
Line6 M13 Pedal Board
Line6 M13, Ernie Ball Vol Pedal Jr 25k, Gator Gig Rig Pedalboard
The M13 is an amazing tool for guitarists, and I was able to clone the sounds of my existing pedals within this unit. I use this for all of Julie’s shows as well as any solo shows where I don’t use the guitar …
Mackie 1202-VLZ Mixer
This sits on top of the rack and I plug my whole setup into it. What a great sounding mixer! I don’t think I will ever sell it, as it sounds too good.
This is the way I was using it (here is the tricky part!):
Guitar preamp into channels 5 & 6 (stereo)
The guitar synth …
Roland GI-10
The guitar cannot be plugged directly into a synth. In order to play the synth’s sounds, the guitar signal must be converted to midi information so the synth can understand. The Roland GI-10 is a half-rack spaced unit that takes the audio information from my RMC pickups (or my spare Yamaha G1d pickup) mounted …
Roland XV-5050
I bought this to replace my 8 year old (archaic in keyboard years) Roland M-GS64. This one comes with 8 times more memory for samples than my old synth, and is expandable with 2 SRX expansion cards. While my old synth had about 5 parameters to tweak per sound, the XV has about 300 more. …
Boss VF-1 Effects Processor
I use this to provide compression and reverb for the piezo pickups as well as for acoustic guitar recording, since it has a digital out on it. It is a nice sounding effects unit, although probably overkill for what I use it for.
Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro
This is my favorite toy of all. Essentially, the Echoplex records sound as you play it, and after recording it, it repeats it over and over, until you tell it to fade out, or stop altogether. Now while it is playing back, you can overdub on the loop as much as you want. Instead of …
