"that's my go-to guitar (...) hand made by two guys (...) very small-town vibe (...)" PULLS GLOWING GOLDEN GUITAR / CHOIR OF A THOUSAND ANGELS Yeah, dude. It has "go-to, small town guitar" written all over it.
Guitar-tech: "And we like to grease the wah pots with the tears of baby pandas because, y'know, it's very expensive and unnecessary and we have infinite money".
not a fan of their style of music, but everyone ripping on their instrumentalists really doesn't know what they're talking about. these guys can play, even if their band isn't rock. Look them up. monster players across the board.
This is true. Ben went to the Berkeley school of music and wayne shreds. Ben took an interest in our band about 15 years ago... then he got super busy lol
That guy should get guitar tech of the year!, that rig was unnecessarily complicated but the dude is keeping on top of it and knows it inside and out!. Beats that A7X tech who couldn't even tell you what pick ups were in the guitar... that episode should have been done with the band themselves.
What a cool guitar rig! Nice to see someone repping the Vox in the modern day. You just can't beat the sound of real amps-especially Vox amps! #ThatsKillerMan #RigRundown #Brilliant
Even though I am not huge on these bands (or a lot of these bands), I have huge admiration and respect for them... especially because they love what they do and they love gear and can tell us about their gear.
Awesome!. So glad there are bands out there still trying to push technology. That Jazz master is amazing. Every guitar company stamps out the same copies of tired designs from last century. It's so hard to find guitars with even a piezo or sustainer and yet there is all this cool shit out there untapped.
I'm not a bass player per se, but I have a couple basses for recording things. I have a 4 string Jazz bass and a 5 string Jazz bass. The low B always throws me off, however that 5th string really opens up a lot of possibilities. To write off 5 string basses (and 5 string bass players) is completely ludicrous. Just because you're uncomfortable playing them doesn't mean people who play them are in the wrong.
Will Castillo That's the very reason Keith Richards ripped out the bottom E and threw it in a garbage bin in 1964 on McAwber, his beloved Fender Tenelcaster......
found the guy who's never owned a vox :p all jokes aside, while 6 shows is quite excessive, it's true that AC30s eat through tubes like nobody's business
wow, so many people here are so butthurt. "ehrmahgerd, this isnt real music, its all electronic". "ehrmahgerd, theyre using fake instruments". "ehrmahgerd, this is not real music LOL". grow up. learn that music is changing, and that theres not one style of music. not everything is going to be entirely unedited and forever. Im not saying you cant not like them, but if you dont, it doesnt make it "not real music". if you dont like it then for the love of christ, *dont bash those who do.*
Some use it better than others. If it's overused it sounds inorganic, and I hate over edited electronic "rock". Yeah the times are changing, but that doesn't mean this music is "good" at all.
Sparkzz777 Friedman perfects the old Marshall tone, by giving it the same bite and power but control as well. In my opinion, neither the new or old Marshalls compare
matt graham Yeah, I agree with TheCollisonofworlds. I had a 410H for a few years and I went back to a JCM2000 DSL100, noting beats that crunch channel for me. The JVM sounded way too artificial in clean and OD...
Its just perfect. Everyone has to have a hyphen these days. I.e. im now referring to myself as European -American . Im scared of everything john thinks. Hes a monster player with a great job though
tim starkey As a European -'Merican myself, I now wonder what you and Penny's boyfriend (John B.) are thinking when he breaks out a slide and plays.........
+Collin Scarborough think of me what you will. Brands like Fender are making guitars on the cheap and raising the price, while small brands and companies are not getting any attention, especially when they make quality instruments with a pretty decent price, like SX. The difference between a hipster is they only like things that are mainstream, just to be liked. Me? I'm a musician with actual knowledge. Not to mention I abhor coffee. But...hmm...okay, if that makes me a hipster!
Collin Scarborough As much as hipster culture annoys me, I think MythicalBear has a point. Because massive guitar manufacturers like Fender and Gibson pay people to get musicians to play their instruments, people assume their favourite musicians have shopped around and have got what they think is the best. That's why I think it's good when musicians do shop around themselves and go to manufacturers they like. Give those making good products the support they deserve and need.
Thanks so much for the run down. Truly amazing. I saw a doco on the dragons' tour of Europe. This was from the touring engineer's perspective. At that time they were using Lab Gruppen amp stacks, can you tell me what they are using by way of main speakers for stage?. That would be great. Thanks again.....
I love it when no-name internet musicians or non-musicians try to tell us what is and isn't music or who is or isn't a good musician. If you truly knew what makes a musician or their music great, you wouldn't be sitting behind a screen telling us what it is, losers. These guys have made a name for themselves, it means they're doing something right, just because their genre doesn't suit your taste, doesn't make it bad.
In the Eventide manual they talk all about how to set up and provide signal to them. You can plug them as loops, but you're getting a preamp signal and effects are based on it. When Eventide suggested a microphone for non loop amps, it sounded like 'oh, what a pain' but once I eventually got around to sourcing signal that way it hit me. You get a tube/speaker source, which excels in comparison. I was hooked, now any amp is easy to run, effects are a breeze. Vibrochamp? No problem, can make it sound like a twin. They don't really talk about their speaker mics and I wish they would. In a WDW setup, you typically have the wets in a loop but those old Vox don't have them either so must be mic'd? If so, we aren't making sense running 3 amps when 1 would suffice. I think it is brilliant having a Switchblade GL, and patches changed auto by click, I will have to watch again to find out what software they use to control all of that. The Eventides also run digital signals so I send/receive only digitals and skip an additional conversion. The GL can also muddy up signals, but since they're effects, typically hidden underneath walls of dry signal, not noticed. Staying digital at that point, anything going thru the Eventide is done being converted. To analog and amplify it is quite baffling... its just another wasted step. So this is the 3rd viewing, and has to be one of my favorite RRs, because I run an Eventide much differently. I plug guitar into amp, that's it. The Eventide is a whole post process using mic preamps and a digital audio interface to blend them down to a stereo output, or mono for simplicity. In hindsight, the # of times that I reamplify using a speaker and mic pre could also sound redundant to outside listeners, but that's exactly what a PA does. Will watch again. Also on HRI/Slutz...
It's crazy to me that he's a Berklee graduate and incredible talented, but they switched to playing synthpop after their first album. Such a cool dude, but man I wish the band would go back to their OG sound
Love JB, such a cool guy. Give Shane a medal 🏅🥇 Congrats Imagine Dragons, you win the "more money than sense (and talent) rig rundown" All credit to Shane,the most talented guy in the band keeping that gear going. 6 X M9s just for the reverb sound 9n 1 mandolin song, not M5s with the same process, oh no that'd be too practical. Give this tech a medal for putting up with this guy. The record company has bank rolled this ego fest,if these guys were gigging bars they'd all be on Line 6's
Why does John act like 11 gauge are "thick" strings? This is the 2nd time I've heard him say that in these Rig Rundowns. I thought 11's were standard medium sized. I used to play 13's and those were "beefy" but 11's are not.
The only thing I know about this band is that they're supposedly from just down the road from me in the Orem/Provo area but holy rig man... I'm super jelly
erm, marshall and vox were built in the same factory, only then the companies split. if you take the marshall tour, there is a vox ac30 in there somewhere
I hate it when bands link their pedal switches and stuff to a click track or the lights. It kills the soul out of the gig as you have to stick to the pre programmed set list and sound. You can't just have a random jam or extend a guitar solo when you feel like it
It's not just playing to a click. All the patch changes are automatic and synched to the lights etc. so it takes away a lot of possibility for spontaneity and improvisation.
***** Righgt on Brother!! Goose Em' all with more money, I had great faith for Imagine Dragons, as did a ton of others, I starting to consider the fact that they have allowed a bunch of techs to sell them false HORSE SHIT!!!!!
BAhahahaha!!! "NO!!! You are not understanding me! I want a fucking GOLD fucking guitar!! GOLD!!!" Lol - it came out really cool man - bitch to clean but worth it :) Also - this one was like really well shot and recorded. good work PG.
Not a ID fan, I like a couple of their songs. But let's get one thing out of the way wen people trash em, but Danny is a Berklee graduate so he has A LOT of skill up his sleeve.
Well I like them but I think they need to lay more feel in there songs (groove and stuff). I started playing bass because of ID and im planning to go to berklee.
Gear heads should all consider taking a basic electronics course. When this tech says “they’re the only company that does the top-boost mod correctly” he doesn’t realize that the top-boost circuit is a patented schematic that anyone can access. A little education can save gearheads a lot of money.
Wayne's guitar history
Golden guitar
more golden guitar
very gold guitar
pure gold guitar
Guit-Au-r
"that's my go-to guitar (...) hand made by two guys (...) very small-town vibe (...)"
PULLS GLOWING GOLDEN GUITAR / CHOIR OF A THOUSAND ANGELS
Yeah, dude. It has "go-to, small town guitar" written all over it.
"could of done it with a fractal or kemper but..." *shrugs*
I feel your pain tech....i feel your hipster pain....
Guitar-tech: "And we like to grease the wah pots with the tears of baby pandas because, y'know, it's very expensive and unnecessary and we have infinite money".
Rafael Andrade hahaha so good!
Rafael Andrade genius :D But you gotta give it to him, the thing with the built in delay and the double kisslwitches is rad!
luchadorito Yep! Built-in effects and killswitches are awesome. I wouldn't mind having some of that stuff on my guitars.
Rafael Andrade the one killswitch before and one after the delay is one of the most creative built in effects i have ever seen!
Hilarious. Baby panda tears he he.
I got to see these guys live, it was a great show. His Bilt guitar shines like a mirror.
not a fan of their style of music, but everyone ripping on their instrumentalists really doesn't know what they're talking about. these guys can play, even if their band isn't rock. Look them up. monster players across the board.
This is true. Ben went to the Berkeley school of music and wayne shreds. Ben took an interest in our band about 15 years ago... then he got super busy lol
This guy Shane is a god damn tone wizard
he is a really good tech, i wouldn't be able to stay on top of all of that at all
Jake Gambino he's a god damned genius and I don't even like this band
meathdetal You see the producers and behind the scenes people that can be afforded, and you have to wonder about the bands themselves.
+Brandon McDougal great point.
That guy should get guitar tech of the year!, that rig was unnecessarily complicated but the dude is keeping on top of it and knows it inside and out!. Beats that A7X tech who couldn't even tell you what pick ups were in the guitar... that episode should have been done with the band themselves.
Wayne Sermon is one of the absolute best guitarists in the world today...! The amazing part about it all is that he's just a super nice guy...
What a cool guitar rig! Nice to see someone repping the Vox in the modern day. You just can't beat the sound of real amps-especially Vox amps!
#ThatsKillerMan #RigRundown #Brilliant
Even though I am not huge on these bands (or a lot of these bands), I have huge admiration and respect for them... especially because they love what they do and they love gear and can tell us about their gear.
Do a Rig Rundown for Tame Impala!
THAT would be sick
Shane is a humble genius! Best tech I've ever known (probably one of the best players too).
These R.Rundowns are getting better and better.
I saw a picture sneak peak of this forever ago, checked the page constantly, never saw it and gave up. I'm glad it's finally here!
That man deserves a doctorate in music technology and awesome.
still one of the best rig rundowns
Simply Amazing! Shane you are the MAN!
Imagine dragons are extremely talented, love their songs!
"Cool. Give me the detail on those killswitches."
Bohlinger - '16
You so have my damn vote.
This was an excellent video! Shane definitely has his stuff down
Makes sense, Imagine Dragons is known for their amazing guitar work and tone, are they not?
Maris Broks Got a real good laugh out of this.
dude no😂
dude no😂
+wat what is "real" music then? Lmao please get a hold of yourself kid
+Maris Broks No because nobody cares about the songs where they do use lots of guitar (they actually do by the way)
Makes me love the band even more, what a killer rig and great tone
Awesome!. So glad there are bands out there still trying to push technology. That Jazz master is amazing. Every guitar company stamps out the same copies of tired designs from last century. It's so hard to find guitars with even a piezo or sustainer and yet there is all this cool shit out there untapped.
I'm not a bass player per se, but I have a couple basses for recording things. I have a 4 string Jazz bass and a 5 string Jazz bass. The low B always throws me off, however that 5th string really opens up a lot of possibilities. To write off 5 string basses (and 5 string bass players) is completely ludicrous. Just because you're uncomfortable playing them doesn't mean people who play them are in the wrong.
Will Castillo 7 string shoegazer, just sayin'.
Will Castillo he literally just said "it's not for me"?
Will Castillo That's the very reason Keith Richards ripped out the bottom E and threw it in a garbage bin in 1964 on McAwber, his beloved Fender Tenelcaster......
Will Castillo I'm sorry they are wrong.
Shane Johnson is truly an inspiration. Awesome Rig Rundown by the way keep em coming PG! \m/
the tubes get changed every 6 shows? thats ridiculous!
Yeah, that is seriously retarded. They never get broken in. What a complete waste. It's like changing the tires on your car every month.
There's no way that's necessary but I guess if ya got the money why not?
found the guy who's never owned a vox :p
all jokes aside, while 6 shows is quite excessive, it's true that AC30s eat through tubes like nobody's business
I mean if you can afford it why not do it. Flea changes strings everyday which is also kinda ridiculous
New tubes sound louder sometimes and have a bit of grain which goes away after using them for a bit. So I guess they prefer the sound of new tubes
wow, so many people here are so butthurt. "ehrmahgerd, this isnt real music, its all electronic". "ehrmahgerd, theyre using fake instruments". "ehrmahgerd, this is not real music LOL".
grow up. learn that music is changing, and that theres not one style of music. not everything is going to be entirely unedited and forever.
Im not saying you cant not like them, but if you dont, it doesnt make it "not real music". if you dont like it then for the love of christ, *dont bash those who do.*
Some use it better than others. If it's overused it sounds inorganic, and I hate over edited electronic "rock". Yeah the times are changing, but that doesn't mean this music is "good" at all.
Smoore you are right... because their music is straight from heaven, not only good
I love gooooooold.
Wow, sweet rig. This guy knows how to party. Maybe I could check out some album tracks...
Awesome!
best rig of the year hands down
Now, that is one hell of a tech! Nice work!
"He needed a Marshall roar, so we naturally went with a Friedman."- Baffles me, why not just use a real Marshall?
Because he was going for a Marshall Roar 😉
Modern Marshal's are poopy?
Sparkzz777 Friedman perfects the old Marshall tone, by giving it the same bite and power but control as well. In my opinion, neither the new or old Marshalls compare
Sparkzz777 I agree, why not just get the Marshall JVM410H? they can easily afford it and get pretty much anything they would want from that amp
matt graham Yeah, I agree with TheCollisonofworlds. I had a 410H for a few years and I went back to a JCM2000 DSL100, noting beats that crunch channel for me. The JVM sounded way too artificial in clean and OD...
Say what you will, I took my godson to see them recently and I can definitely say they Deliver !
You shee Mr. Powersh, I love goooooold
Really tight run down thanks!
Very informative, as always PG. Thanks for sharing all of the info Imagine Dragons.
I love the tone of the sadowsky jazz bass, I see ben mckee always using a sadowsky jazz bass and wayne sermons bilt guitars sound awesome too
One of the best rr's ever!
Yes! Amazing, lately there where such lousy rig rundowns with axe-fx's, finally a real rig again!
This is good but johns shirt is the best most relevant thing ive seen in ages. Have to get one !!!
tim starkey Just out of curiosity - what does john's shirt mean to you (and through extension - what does it mean to him) ???
Its just perfect. Everyone has to have a hyphen these days. I.e. im now referring to myself as European -American . Im scared of everything john thinks. Hes a monster player with a great job though
tim starkey As a European -'Merican myself, I now wonder what you and Penny's boyfriend (John B.) are thinking when he breaks out a slide and plays.........
That perfec. I love you Wayne
Rad stuff! Love the gold guitars!
I love how they don't use mainstream brand instruments.
What a hipster😂😂
+Collin Scarborough think of me what you will. Brands like Fender are making guitars on the cheap and raising the price, while small brands and companies are not getting any attention, especially when they make quality instruments with a pretty decent price, like SX. The difference between a hipster is they only like things that are mainstream, just to be liked. Me? I'm a musician with actual knowledge. Not to mention I abhor coffee. But...hmm...okay, if that makes me a hipster!
Collin Scarborough As much as hipster culture annoys me, I think MythicalBear has a point. Because massive guitar manufacturers like Fender and Gibson pay people to get musicians to play their instruments, people assume their favourite musicians have shopped around and have got what they think is the best. That's why I think it's good when musicians do shop around themselves and go to manufacturers they like. Give those making good products the support they deserve and need.
+SamOwenI oh for god sakes, I'm not a damn hipster.
MythicalBear Lol! I realise my post suggests that, but I don't actually think you are a hipster. I didn't mean to imply that!
This is the sickest rigrundown ive ever seen.
Best band name ever
Guitar lesson Number one : "keep it simple"
Syn het guess it depends on how you use it. A couple tasty pedals a time is cool and how doesn't love options.
And the award for most ridiculously over the top guitar rig goes to! Fair play, why not!
Best one yet.
I've been waiting for this for so long :D
Thanks so much for the run down. Truly amazing. I saw a doco on the dragons' tour of Europe. This was from the touring engineer's perspective. At that time they were using Lab Gruppen amp stacks, can you tell me what they are using by way of main speakers for stage?. That would be great. Thanks again.....
I love it when no-name internet musicians or non-musicians try to tell us what is and isn't music or who is or isn't a good musician.
If you truly knew what makes a musician or their music great, you wouldn't be sitting behind a screen telling us what it is, losers.
These guys have made a name for themselves, it means they're doing something right, just because their genre doesn't suit your taste, doesn't make it bad.
This is a wildly expensive rig! Good to see some Eventide stuff
In the Eventide manual they talk all about how to set up and provide signal to them. You can plug them as loops, but you're getting a preamp signal and effects are based on it. When Eventide suggested a microphone for non loop amps, it sounded like 'oh, what a pain' but once I eventually got around to sourcing signal that way it hit me. You get a tube/speaker source, which excels in comparison. I was hooked, now any amp is easy to run, effects are a breeze. Vibrochamp? No problem, can make it sound like a twin. They don't really talk about their speaker mics and I wish they would. In a WDW setup, you typically have the wets in a loop but those old Vox don't have them either so must be mic'd? If so, we aren't making sense running 3 amps when 1 would suffice. I think it is brilliant having a Switchblade GL, and patches changed auto by click, I will have to watch again to find out what software they use to control all of that. The Eventides also run digital signals so I send/receive only digitals and skip an additional conversion. The GL can also muddy up signals, but since they're effects, typically hidden underneath walls of dry signal, not noticed. Staying digital at that point, anything going thru the Eventide is done being converted. To analog and amplify it is quite baffling... its just another wasted step. So this is the 3rd viewing, and has to be one of my favorite RRs, because I run an Eventide much differently. I plug guitar into amp, that's it. The Eventide is a whole post process using mic preamps and a digital audio interface to blend them down to a stereo output, or mono for simplicity. In hindsight, the # of times that I reamplify using a speaker and mic pre could also sound redundant to outside listeners, but that's exactly what a PA does. Will watch again. Also on HRI/Slutz...
It's crazy to me that he's a Berklee graduate and incredible talented, but they switched to playing synthpop after their first album. Such a cool dude, but man I wish the band would go back to their OG sound
your ____ rig is killer man!!
Love JB, such a cool guy. Give Shane a medal 🏅🥇 Congrats Imagine Dragons, you win the "more money than sense (and talent) rig rundown" All credit to Shane,the most talented guy in the band keeping that gear going. 6 X M9s just for the reverb sound 9n 1 mandolin song, not M5s with the same process, oh no that'd be too practical. Give this tech a medal for putting up with this guy. The record company has bank rolled this ego fest,if these guys were gigging bars they'd all be on Line 6's
Do Weezer, please!
Ben McKee needs to adjust the distortion from his vocal cords
Please do an the libertines rig rundown. It would be so intresting to see.
no instruments. Only alcohol.
They're music isnt really electronic as most of it is live and sounds amazing as they can actually play and sing unlike most bands and singers
I love music
Why does John act like 11 gauge are "thick" strings? This is the 2nd time I've heard him say that in these Rig Rundowns.
I thought 11's were standard medium sized. I used to play 13's and those were "beefy" but 11's are not.
strangebirdsir i Play 8s.
strangebirdsir i Play 8s.
strangebirdsir Frank Zappa used to play 7's!
Gibbons also plays 7s *****
I play them sometimes,you can buy them.They're called "Dunlop RWN0738 Super Fine" an were developed with Gibbons.
I love him
great tech!
A rig rundown of Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno please. Has really great vintage stuff
The only thing I know about this band is that they're supposedly from just down the road from me in the Orem/Provo area but holy rig man... I'm super jelly
@ 14:35-"Don't put a box of kittens next to it"-LOL
holly cow are you kidding me changes tubes every 6 to 8 shows
Man I dont even like this band, but those guys get so many points for having sick gear
erm, marshall and vox were built in the same factory, only then the companies split. if you take the marshall tour, there is a vox ac30 in there somewhere
Best band in the wooorrrrllllldddddddddd
great guys, great rundown, doesn't make me want to listen to their music though, dang!
Rig Rundown for Doug Martsch would be killer
I want to find someone who will look at me like Wayne looks at his guitars))
He sure likin' it BlingBling, dayum!
:P
J. Bohlinger is the single most stoked man I've ever seen.
i HATED imagine dragons because i only heard the hits that were on the radio...I still hate those but their other songs kick serious ass
I'm So Sorry and Friction? ^^
They need a drum tech video.
that malekko b assmaster has a pink LED, which means that its not a germanium but a silicon one. the germanium model has a blue LED
Hr Barker double germaniums also have pink leds :)
trehammerz the double germanium has a silver burst case
SweBass good call man, I stand corrected and educated. Have a good one.
RIG RUNDOWN : THE 1975
I'm onboard
Adam hann rig will be interesting
Ilyas Steezzy I'm just imagining like three different reverb pedals and a carbon copy or something.
blackknightkanos no its actually way moe complicated than that
chrisattigliato1 T'was just a joke. I'm a 1975 fan as well.
I hate it when bands link their pedal switches and stuff to a click track or the lights. It kills the soul out of the gig as you have to stick to the pre programmed set list and sound. You can't just have a random jam or extend a guitar solo when you feel like it
That first BILT guitar has an Ibanez Roadstar or Fender Starcaster headstock?
Daaaamn those Bilts are beaaautiful as fuck
Probably could have saved a whole heap of time and money just using a kemper and nobody would ever know the difference :)
That's a sick rig but since they're playing to a click with auto patch changes etc why not just go fractal?
What's wrong with playing to a click?
BenFairbank Like they said, "it looks cooler". Another instance of more money than sense :).
It's not just playing to a click. All the patch changes are automatic and synched to the lights etc. so it takes away a lot of possibility for spontaneity and improvisation.
***** Righgt on Brother!! Goose Em' all with more money, I had great faith for Imagine Dragons, as did a ton of others, I starting to consider the fact that they have allowed a bunch of techs to sell them false HORSE SHIT!!!!!
+BenFairbank To be fair that's called a rehearsed performance. There's an audience for spontaneity but this isn't it.
Wow!
12:04 a King Of Tone and a Klon sitting right next to each other heck yeah
I find it funny just for a moment he tried to pass his guitar as a Frankenstein like Steve morses guitar which is called the Frankenstein haha
BAhahahaha!!! "NO!!! You are not understanding me! I want a fucking GOLD fucking guitar!! GOLD!!!"
Lol - it came out really cool man - bitch to clean but worth it :)
Also - this one was like really well shot and recorded. good work PG.
Not a ID fan, I like a couple of their songs. But let's get one thing out of the way wen people trash em, but Danny is a Berklee graduate so he has A LOT of skill up his sleeve.
Well I like them but I think they need to lay more feel in there songs (groove and stuff). I started playing bass because of ID and im planning to go to berklee.
If you want check out my cover of Donna lee
This tech got it
-thats the Whammy.....! Oh Great!! So ....what else😂
BEAD ! YEAH!
For a sec I thought that was an EGC Starcaster. That'd be sick.
oH My goSH tHEy doN't EvEn UsE rEAl iNstRuMEntS iT'S aLL fAKe
Gear heads should all consider taking a basic electronics course. When this tech says “they’re the only company that does the top-boost mod correctly” he doesn’t realize that the top-boost circuit is a patented schematic that anyone can access. A little education can save gearheads a lot of money.
You guys should try and catch up with James bay