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It has been mentioned to me a couple times that I should describe my rig on the
web site. Here we go...
Amps and rack, top to bottom, let to right:
- Old Roland JC-120 head.
- Furman power strip thing.
- Roland Fantom XR synth / sampler with 1/2 gig ram / 1gb storage, vintage synth card.
It takes about
10 minutes to boot and load all the samples.
- TC Electronic G-Major for time domain effects from the Splawn amp (Marshall logo).
- Motu 828 mk-2 digital interface used as a mic pre and onstage mixer.
- Behringer DI4000 direct box (4 di's in a rack).
- Trace Elliot 4x12 stereo slant cab with Celestion Vintage 30's. This is used in
stereo with the JC-120 head.
- Splawn Quickrod head (purple Marshall thing).
- Custom 4x12 straight cab with 2 old Celestion 70's and 2 newer Celestion Greenbacks
(X pattern). Someone in Canada hand builds these off of various older Marshall specs.
Fed by the Splawn head.
- The all-imporatant plexiglass shield to help keep Scott the soundman happy.
- Sennheiser 609 mic on the Splawn feeding a mic pre on the Motu unit.
- Guitars pictured - Peavey Wolfgang special and Gibson Les Paul Standard (fat 50's
neck, non-potted burstbucker pickups). Peavey has stock bridge pickup and a Seymour
Duncan pickup in the neck position (the one that Slash uses, can't remember the
name but I like it).

Another amp shot, this time just the Splawn, but the Mackie SRM-450 powered monitors
are pictured. In the picture above, these were placed on the floor by the pedal
board. Guitar shown is a Parker Fly Mojo with stock pickups (SD JB/jazz models).
Also, to the left in this picture is the rack minus the Motu, but I was using a
Mackie 1202 in place of it (top).

Pedals:
- Rocktron Midimate for switching patches on the Fantom. I use around 40 patches on
the Fantom for any given show.
- Boss BC5 midi pedal controller for the Fantom.
- Midi pocket thru thing used as an extention from the synth pedal stuff to get the
midi cable closer to the snake.
- Fulltone Choral Flange.
- T-Rex delay.
- MXR Phase 90.
- Peterson Strobostomp tuner.
- Teece wah (sometimes it's a Crybaby or a Vox).
- Boss FC-50 midi switcher for the TC Electronic unit.
- Channel switcher for the Splawn
- Sansamp distortion pedal (it's hanging around in case the Splawn blows up and I'm
stuck with the JC-120).
- Radial Engineering A/B box.
- Earnie Ball volume pedal.
- Furman pedal board.
- Power supply for the effect pedals (can't remember the name and it's hidden under
the midi pedals).
- Mackie SRM-450 (1 of 2 on the floor).

Signal Path:
- Guitar - volume pedal - wah - tuner - phase 90 - trex - fulltone - A/B side A to
Splawn - custom 4X12.
- B side of A/B pedal - Sansamp - JC120 - Trace Elliot cab in stereo.
- Mic in front of Splawn - Motu mic pre - send of Motu to TC - TC to DI(2 channels)
- DI back to Motu - Motu to SRM-450's. Obviously FOH takes DI taps for the TC.
- Synth stuff - Rocktron midimate to Boss midi pedals, out of the midi pedals to Fantom.
Fantom to DI(2 channels) to Motu to Srm 450's.
- Other - Midi from Boss FC-50 to TC G-Major. Splawn channel switch to Splawn amp.
Thoughts:
- With vocal this rig consumes 8 channels on the board. 1 for Splawn, 2 for JC120,
2 for synth, 2 for TC, 1 for vox. The band as a whole uses around 29 inputs and
I am the only one leveraging stereo.
- I use 5 presets on the TC and they are completely wet. Chours, Chorus/delay combo,
delay only, reverb for volume swell effects like in the Xanadu intro, and one delay
with a long tail used maybe for one note per show.
- I hate reverb as a general rule.
- The T-Rex delay is only used to simulate echoplex type effects.
- The Mackie powered monitors are for personal monitoring of the synth pedals and
TC unit. Since those signals are sent to FOH via DI and I can use the house monitors
for them, but I always regret it because they are eq'd for feedback elimination
and sound like crap where I am wanting a flat signal.
- I need a tech! It's a lot of stuff to setup and troubleshoot. With that being said,
I really hope you appreciate the effot we go through to make the shows as good as
we can. It's not just me, but the whole band has a slew of technical stuff to deal
with before we even begin to worry about the perfomance side of the equation.
There is some more info here.
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