All these pedals on the market to make you “sound like” Eric Johnson and the man himself is using a setup that looks like it came from the set of the original Star Wars film.
Hay a gigs a gig, but it looks like he’s playing in a school dinning room? If so, them kids are so spoiled! Love Eric Johnson I wore out my G3 vhs tape with Eric’s appearance.
Likely a City Winery venue. Almost positive. Saw Doyle Bramhall at the one in atlanta a few years ago. They create great FOH mixes at those venues. Sounds like the studio!
Not mentioned is the brown extension cord on the board and since everything affects everything, we need to know the 'make/model and length'. Does it matter how many times it's wrapped up and what compass direction it faces...?
I'm guessing it does as Eric was, maybe still is, extremely specific about his tone. He doesn't use a backplate on his Strats because he feels the fuzz sounds thicker that way. He puts a load of wraps on the B string on his guitars as well. Everything he does it intentional.
@@bingefeller I don't think the _intentionality_ of his rituals was in question. You know how guitarists like to talk about minutia that the audience can't hear but the player can? Well they never seem to give much consideration about what the player can hear and what he _thinks_ he can.
That's an elaborate set up, but he knows what he's doing, because I went to see this tour, and it was awesome. Sounded just like it did when I saw him the first time during the original Ah Via tour.
Paramarta Iganp right, he is one of the only players whose chops are polished enough to be worthy of the almost negligible refinement that “special tonewood” provides.
I had an EJ tone epiphany recent when I used my Maxon AD999 and TC Electronic Flashback delay together. I wasn't even looking for it his sound, nor was it appropriate for the band I playing with, but WOW, it was so cool!
Great finally see signal path... got that going tonight just to locate pedal power cables but have just about everything located minus mxr delay settings. But located original mxr on off box so thats handy and have the belle also so thats gonna feed the chorus in my case landau but should be fun to try into Dumble though the delay and plate sounds best post mic ill still be trying it through front end of amp tomorrow. just to tinker with that signal path see how it sounds I thought tube screamer came after fuzz also Just learned he ran SSS into ODYSSEY so thought that was other way also but he llked preamp of SSS breaking 100 up what sound that was cracking the sky.
So that weird fat buzzy tone is tube screamer into the fuzz. Not how the “specialists “ on you tube say. Fuzz into the tube screamer. I tried it. It is bang on.
TOP THIS!!---> On April 29th 1979 in St. Louis at the Washington University Quadrangle - I saw Eric Johnson open up for the Dixie Dregs, who opened up for John McLaughlin, who opened up for Wet Willie, who opened up for Pure Prairie League. - Yep, as soon as John McLaughlin finished we thought the concert was over...then a bunch of people came in with buckets of chicken...what a weird friggin' concert. Nobody (and I mean NOBODY) knew who Eric Johnson was, and Steve Morse came out into the audience (general lawn seating-no chairs) and stood there watching McLaughlin play an electric banjo with scalloped frets. We were about 35 feet away from the stage front.
@@vicferrari89 - He was getting ready to turn 25 yrs. old. - I also saw Frank Zappa there in 1977 and I can say that me and my friend were the biggest Zappa fans in St. Louis because when we arrived there at 11 in the morning there was NOBODY else there for several hours. lol.
I am not saying that my experience tops yours, but the first time I went to see Eric play live, I was literally standing 6 feet or so from him during the entire performance. It was in a small club at 5 Points in Jacksonville, FL. Standing room only. I will never forget that night!
Does anyone know what loopbox Eric Johnson puts his Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man into? I have a DMM, a TC Electronic SCF, and can buy a Belle Epoch, soon, since I really wanna copy his signal chain. Any help would be appreciated.
Daniel Kostenko, not doubting you took it that way, but I didn’t catch that at all. Maybe it’s a short edit that could’ve been a bit longer? Is that what you’re saying?
I wish, some of that stuff, I hoping it wasn’t that great in light of what’s now for me. Mesa boogie Mark 2B in some kind of either extinct or endangered Brazilian hardwood with an EV speaker
He and what everyone is looking for is really quite simple. Frank Zappa did it. The key is transformers. Some of these units have high quality input and output transformers. All one really needs for a great guitar amp are things like Demeter in you chain; but the key is use only those units.
He is very careful with the smallest details that interfere with the tone. But why is the pedalboard so "messy"? It's so many long and tangled cables. One day I want to understand this. (I'm Brazilian, I used google translator to comment, I hope I was understood)
For someone who seems to have OCD about how his gear is set up and arranged, his gear looks disorganized and dirty. I would like to wipe the dust off the pedals and rack units and cut those cables to proper length. Maybe use a better power supply as well. Or, maybe it is me that has OCD. 😆
He said this is his exact pedal board from back when he released the Ah Via Com album 30 years ago, he's just brought it out for the tour/anniversary to recreate his classic tone from that era.
That teeny tiny hat that guy is wearing looks so silly on his head. I can't imagine he thinks it looks cool. Had a Dallas Arbiter fuzz face back in the late 60s plus a Dallas Arbiter octave splitter. They just don't make pedals like that anymore.
Love to see some George Lynch. He has inspired me to pick up the guitar. I also have a TH-cam Channel with live videos dedicated to him. Please check it out!
I hope he has backups for all the ancient stuff because a lot of those units could fail at any time even though his techs have probably gone through them.
Don Rutter I was at a show and one of his pieces of gear stopped working so he had to tinker with it mid show. He made a joke about it that his pedal board was from nasa space command and we had a good laugh.
I feel like we need a new Tyler Childers rig rundown. It looked like they had some different setups now that they are playing stadiums. Not to mention Tyler himself now uses a telecaster on stage.
Listen again. He says 'I have a signature fuzz, which I use' and then goes on to say that this particular older unit works well with this particular Tube Screamer. He's trying to recreate his old sound, and he's using his old pedals to do that.
Still the best way to run some of the old stuff, in fact the only way to run an older, stock FuzzFace. Many traditional style FuzzFace circuits do sound more dynamic with a (carbon zinc) battery. Seriously, they do. ;)
This is an old video.........I've seen this before. Love Eric and his tone but if he's that particular as he is known to be .....give Daniel from the Gig Rig a call so he can get a proper pedal board going .......my pedal board is neater and cleaner than that rats nest for God's sake 🤷♂️
Way too much s*** going on. Amazing player but it would be nice to hear EJ less dependent on all this ridiculous amount of delay and stuff. Makes me dizzy going through his chain.
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Eric who is famously well known for his gorgeous, beautiful and meticulous tone has the messiest looking pedalboard I ever saw. I love it.
All these pedals on the market to make you “sound like” Eric Johnson and the man himself is using a setup that looks like it came from the set of the original Star Wars film.
I love this as an analysis. It really does look like that lmao
They should mimic these perfect models
Thank you for having Eric Johnson on here!🎤🎸🎵
Royal advice from the king of clean sound.
Man, it's a patchwork of a signal path but... You can't argue with that EJ sound. 👦🏻
awesome to see his utility of the old gear. EJ, you're Too Cool.
I love the smell of vintage analogue in the morning !!!!!
Wow! Pure Johnson. Great stuff.
Hay a gigs a gig, but it looks like he’s playing in a school dinning room? If so, them kids are so spoiled! Love Eric Johnson I wore out my G3 vhs tape with Eric’s appearance.
Likely a City Winery venue. Almost positive. Saw Doyle Bramhall at the one in atlanta a few years ago. They create great FOH mixes at those venues. Sounds like the studio!
Eric is the coolest! Myself, I'd be nervous using such old gear on the road. But of course he has a killer tech.
Sounded amazing.
Considering how gorgeous and polished his tone is you’d think his cable management would be neat and tidy 🙈 love how old school EJ is
Glad to see the George L's cables on there. I still use and prefer them years after the hype has died down!
I kept breaking cheap cables and the clarity just wasn't there with others. George L’s are expensive up front but they last and sound good
Headache unless u solder them
Not mentioned is the brown extension cord on the board and since everything affects everything, we need to know the 'make/model and length'. Does it matter how many times it's wrapped up and what compass direction it faces...?
I'm guessing it does as Eric was, maybe still is, extremely specific about his tone. He doesn't use a backplate on his Strats because he feels the fuzz sounds thicker that way. He puts a load of wraps on the B string on his guitars as well. Everything he does it intentional.
@@bingefeller Truth!
Biggest part of his tone was the Sassafras wood his 54 was made out of. His custom shop signature series is also sassafras.
LOL
@@bingefeller I don't think the _intentionality_ of his rituals was in question. You know how guitarists like to talk about minutia that the audience can't hear but the player can? Well they never seem to give much consideration about what the player can hear and what he _thinks_ he can.
That's an elaborate set up, but he knows what he's doing, because I went to see this tour, and it was awesome. Sounded just like it did when I saw him the first time during the original Ah Via tour.
Radio Shack approved! 👍🏻
Loved RS coiled cords
He should be the only guitarist that can be allowed to talk about tonewood.
Paramarta Iganp right, he is one of the only players whose chops are polished enough to be worthy of the almost negligible refinement that “special tonewood” provides.
I had an EJ tone epiphany recent when I used my Maxon AD999 and TC Electronic Flashback delay together. I wasn't even looking for it his sound, nor was it appropriate for the band I playing with, but WOW, it was so cool!
Eric is da man!
Eric's clean tone is world class, one of the best players on the planet too.
Notice on the pedals no power supply used, probably reduces noise using only batteries
Great finally see signal path... got that going tonight just to locate pedal power cables
but have just about everything located minus mxr delay settings. But located original mxr on off box so thats handy and have the belle also so thats gonna feed the chorus in my case landau but should be fun to try into Dumble though the delay and plate sounds best post mic ill still be trying it through front end of amp tomorrow. just to tinker with that signal path see how it sounds I thought tube screamer came after fuzz also
Just learned he ran SSS into ODYSSEY so thought that was other way also but he llked preamp of SSS breaking 100 up what sound that was cracking the sky.
So that weird fat buzzy tone is tube screamer into the fuzz. Not how the “specialists “ on you tube say. Fuzz into the tube screamer. I tried it. It is bang on.
Yep. Buffer and overdrive push the fuzz into a synthy kind of territory.
Classic!!!
@0:48 “Oh that’s pretty radical”
TOP THIS!!---> On April 29th 1979 in St. Louis at the Washington University Quadrangle - I saw Eric Johnson open up for the Dixie Dregs, who opened up for John McLaughlin, who opened up for Wet Willie, who opened up for Pure Prairie League. - Yep, as soon as John McLaughlin finished we thought the concert was over...then a bunch of people came in with buckets of chicken...what a weird friggin' concert. Nobody (and I mean NOBODY) knew who Eric Johnson was, and Steve Morse came out into the audience (general lawn seating-no chairs) and stood there watching McLaughlin play an electric banjo with scalloped frets. We were about 35 feet away from the stage front.
How old was Eric Johnson? 9?
@@vicferrari89 - He was getting ready to turn 25 yrs. old. - I also saw Frank Zappa there in 1977 and I can say that me and my friend were the biggest Zappa fans in St. Louis because when we arrived there at 11 in the morning there was NOBODY else there for several hours. lol.
I am not saying that my experience tops yours, but the first time I went to see Eric play live, I was literally standing 6 feet or so from him during the entire performance. It was in a small club at 5 Points in Jacksonville, FL. Standing room only. I will never forget that night!
Big Johnson Guitarist.
Chicks dig it when you play Big Johnson
I had that same rackmount delay in hs. Wish I still had it...
Those cables, orh lord
Can the interviewer let him speak? Jesus
He looks angry like he’s interrogating or scolding EJ
Next idea for you, it is possible to make a RIG RUNDOWN from the "Rolling Stones" this year ? They start their tour on may in the USA
Is that tube driver set to unity gain? I’ve never used one.
Does anyone know what loopbox Eric Johnson puts his Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man into? I have a DMM, a TC Electronic SCF, and can buy a Belle Epoch, soon, since I really wanna copy his signal chain. Any help would be appreciated.
Even the cores from 1700s...great video 🍺
The interviewer is rushing and pushy a bit, not comfortable to watch
They've known each other for a long time, he's one of the OGs at premier guitar. Plus anyone would sound harried next to Eric lol
Daniel Kostenko, not doubting you took it that way, but I didn’t catch that at all. Maybe it’s a short edit that could’ve been a bit longer? Is that what you’re saying?
What venue was this interview conducted at? It looks like the same stage/room where the GE Smith rig rundown was….
City Tap Winery in Nashville. TN.
Moral of the story: hang onto all your old gear if possible.
I wish, some of that stuff, I hoping it wasn’t that great in light of what’s now for me. Mesa boogie Mark 2B in some kind of either extinct or endangered Brazilian hardwood with an EV speaker
Michael Taylors Yeah I sold or traded a few things over the years I wish I still had. 🙁
I have bought and sold everything twice over lol 😂
But yes
Moral
Of the story is: hoard your guitar pedals. keep them.
If it was not EJ, the interviewee would probably just throw the interviewer out.
More?
He and what everyone is looking for is really quite simple. Frank Zappa did it. The key is transformers. Some of these units have high quality input and output transformers. All one really needs for a great guitar amp are things like Demeter in you chain; but the key is use only those units.
I would be more nervous using those pedal boards, than remembering the thousand things one has to remember when doing a stage live gig...
This is from 2018
Noise gate?
a nice dinner and dance my dear? and then the Marshalls get cranked to 11
He is very careful with the smallest details that interfere with the tone. But why is the pedalboard so "messy"? It's so many long and tangled cables. One day I want to understand this. (I'm Brazilian, I used google translator to comment, I hope I was understood)
Belle epic! Real American. He didn’t hear about la belle epoch. The great French enlightenment period. Jesus Christ !!
Damn... Plus it looks like he’s still using 30-year-old skinny cables on his pedal board.
Mostly George L's it seems which he's used for years
That Memory Man is c r u s t y!
This is an Old Rig Rundown. What's going on? Nothing left to put on?
For someone who seems to have OCD about how his gear is set up and arranged, his gear looks disorganized and dirty. I would like to wipe the dust off the pedals and rack units and cut those cables to proper length. Maybe use a better power supply as well. Or, maybe it is me that has OCD. 😆
He said this is his exact pedal board from back when he released the Ah Via Com album 30 years ago, he's just brought it out for the tour/anniversary to recreate his classic tone from that era.
Yeah dust it off a little lol I think we all have OCD but in slightly different ways.
yumadapaka He worries about what really matters. His playing
Memory man looks like it went down with the Titanic.
That teeny tiny hat that guy is wearing looks so silly on his head. I can't imagine he thinks it looks cool. Had a Dallas Arbiter fuzz face back in the late 60s plus a Dallas Arbiter octave splitter. They just don't make pedals like that anymore.
I'd slow down a bit on the content re-uploads as if they were new videos. That's against the TH-cam ToS and qualifies as content farm behavior.
What the hell is he playing, dinner theatre??!?!!?
Sorry, are those dinner tables???
Why the hell would you ask a stupid question like that ? If he keeps the cry baby wah on all the time.
So thats how you pronounce ah via musicom
2:53 …… cool! ….. (I don’t know what the f@&& eric Johnson just said with all those loops and cables)
Anyone know if the pedalboards are MDF or Plywood? Also, Is Eric using 3M Velcro or a thinner generic? Thanks in advance.
He uses the semen from Ecuadorian orphans
That thumbnail makes me very nervous.
Love to see some George Lynch. He has inspired me to pick up the guitar. I also have a TH-cam Channel with live videos dedicated to him. Please check it out!
I hope he has backups for all the ancient stuff because a lot of those units could fail at any time even though his techs have probably gone through them.
Solder in new capacitors and they are good for another 40 years.
Don Rutter I was at a show and one of his pieces of gear stopped working so he had to tinker with it mid show. He made a joke about it that his pedal board was from nasa space command and we had a good laugh.
Michael Gracon lol, sounds like Eric. He'll always have that wit.
He sure does. I love the armor all on top of a vox practice amp.
My ocd cant handle his pedalboard. 🤬
Truth Street Yeah it’s pretty sketchy t say the least!
Those wires, though.
I feel like we need a new Tyler Childers rig rundown. It looked like they had some different setups now that they are playing stadiums. Not to mention Tyler himself now uses a telecaster on stage.
Kigwahahahahaha
Seems to complicated to so many things..
This interviewer is the worst!
“Yeah, I have a signature Fuzzface but I don’t use it.” Smh in disbelief.
Listen again. He says 'I have a signature fuzz, which I use' and then goes on to say that this particular older unit works well with this particular Tube Screamer. He's trying to recreate his old sound, and he's using his old pedals to do that.
Meticulous tone.
And now you know why some people can't stand the sound and bs behind Fractal.
Some people like things more organic and not all digital.
Belle Epic lol. Americans and foreign words. Ha ha
Still running most of this stuff off batteries i see... LOL!!
Still the best way to run some of the old stuff, in fact the only way to run an older, stock FuzzFace. Many traditional style FuzzFace circuits do sound more dynamic with a (carbon zinc) battery. Seriously, they do. ;)
this is old
This is an old video.........I've seen this before. Love Eric and his tone but if he's that particular as he is known to be .....give Daniel from the Gig Rig a call so he can get a proper pedal board going .......my pedal board is neater and cleaner than that rats nest for God's sake 🤷♂️
Way too much s*** going on. Amazing player but it would be nice to hear EJ less dependent on all this ridiculous amount of delay and stuff. Makes me dizzy going through his chain.
You call that way too much? It's not even that many pedals.. Just let him use what he wants to make his music.