Chorus can be omitted altogether, though a phaser can do double duty for flanger parts, and like wah, some songs have phase effect as an essential part of how the song is remembered.įinally, I'd REALLY like to stress the absolute importance of learning how to ride the volume and tone controls on your guitar. Wah is optional since percentage-wise, very few songs in recording history actually have wah, though some just aren't the same without it. Maybe a Fender DRRI and a Marshall half-stack, for instance.įor pedals, I'd have a clean boost, a low-gain OD, a Tubescreamer or other higher-gain OD, a graphic EQ, a delay, and a reverb. Have a couple of amps if possible, one that runs from pristine clean to medium gain and one that overlaps from there on to high gain hard rock/metal. As 8len8 mentioned, it's more important that you play the song the way the audience remembers it.Īs for gear, if I were to design a rig from the ground up for such purposes, I'd say have a couple of guitars on hand, single coil and humbuckers both. We played rock, blues, country, metal, polka, jazz, New Age, ragtime, gospel, medieval lute music.I mean anything. The other musicians were so good that we would take on literally anything at all. I played just shy of 100 shows where every night was a continuous game of stump the band. I've played live since '84, but I've never had an experience that so brought home the points of this thread as last year. Also, I like to try to keep up with new gear when it is applicable to my needs, and/or allows me to shrink the size of my current gear. I have now been using smaller, less complicated gear only because the audience isn't there to see me.
#Guitar rig presets 80s pro#
I've used refrigerator sized racks in the 80's and early 90's, large pro made touring pedal boards, and smaller boards. I mostly play the Handles as they are more then versatile enough, and they only weigh 5 pounds. I use for guitars, an XOX Handle with a blend control and 2 mini toggles which go separately to each pickup doing series/parallel/single coil wiring, Tele, and Vigier S-type. It's nice to switch between saturated amp tones, saturated pedals or a mixture of both. My current front-end board is tuner>volume pedal>Vox wah> Empress compresssor> Tim> Simble>Palmetto Boost> buffer to amp input. I was going to try a Kemper or AXE-FX, but after reading about them, I'd rather do my own thing. In a couple of months, I will be updating to a new amp, new speaker cab, and hopefully, by years' end, an Eventide H9 and more next year. The Marshall has onboard effects, but when using the Diezel, I have a TC Nova System in the loop for time-based effects. I use either a Diezel Einstein 50 watt combo, or a Marshall JMD-1 50 H head through a Marshall 1912 bottom, mic'd with a front-end only p-board.
Right now, I am in a commercial cover band playing 60's, 70's and 80's blues, rock and dance music. I change up my gear based on the needs required for the work I am hired to do.
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