Brian May Stage Rig wth tech Pete Malandrone

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If you've ever wondered what gear Brian May uses, heres the answer. Brian May's gear is not just his homemade guitar now named the Red Special, a coin as a pick and a Vox amp. Theres alot more.

Pete Malandrone is Brian May's tech, he goes through his live rig in 2008. This is clip is taken from Guitarist magazine from the UK.

Guitars
Brian May is famous for his unique guitar which he made by himself as a kid, and that guitar has made many envious about its unique tone. Brian may would be mad to gig with just one guitar, so he has a few spares of his Red Special, made by Greg Fryer, these include standard tuning spare, drop D tunings, and E flat tunings. Greg Fryer makes the closest reproductions of Brian's orginal guitar and earnt so much respect in it even Brian May uses them as backup.

From the guitar the lead goes straight into a treble booster with the shortest connection, attached to his guitar strap.

Brian May's effects are all racks, no pedals, he uses the highest quality effects, and his tech has an easy job, no need to daisy chain effects.

Tom Morello gear

Tom Morello is the guitarist from Rage Against the Machines and Audioslave. Some say he's the next Hendrix with his unique sound and funky riffs.

This is Tom Morello's interview with Guitar World Magazine talking about his gear and how he gets his sound and tone. He goes through his stock rig. Here the Tom Morello gear used in this video

Guitars: Fender Tom Soul Power guitar.
Effects Pedals:
Dunlop Crybaby Wah Wah,
Digitech Whammy pedal (original version)
Boss Digital Delay Pedal
DOD Equilizer pedal with sweat guard
MXR Phase 90

Amp Head: Marshall JCM 800 2205 50 Watt head
Cabinet: 4x12 Peavey Cabinet however in this video he's using a Marshall

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Edge guitar gear from U2 - guitars part 2

The next part of Edge from U2's interview with the BBC about his guitars, pedals and gear. Edge had a record amount of using 18 different guitars during one show, Edge loves his gear. He demonstrates some riffs with his Rickenbacker and some effects to give a funky wah sound. Edge also demonstrates his "infinite" guitar, where he uses a sustainer, combined with his effects he makes a spacey violin type tone.

Some guitars in Edge's collection featured are a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P90s, Rickenbackers, Strats, Gretsch White Falcon, and a Line 6 guitar.

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Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones talks about the guitars he takes on tour

Ronnie Wood guitar gear walkthrough on tour with the Rolling Stones. Ronnie goes through some of his guitar such as the lapsteel, pedal steel, and sitar. Then he talks about more traditional guitars like the Gibson FirdBird, Custom guitar (used on Monkey Man), and a ESP B bender.

Then he goes through his main guitar a vintage Fender Stratocaster 1955, and his spare 1954 Fender Stratocaster.

The rest of the interview has Ronnie Wood talking about his acoustics.

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George Lynch Tech Gear Video

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George Lynch's guitar tech talks with PremierGuitar to talk about George Lynch's amps and effects pedals.

He talks about the pedal setup and the signal chain of effects.

George Lynch Effects
George has a Cusak Screamer, which is a Tubescreamer clone, however it has it's own unique overdrive qualities, it's been known to have twice the gain as a regulary Tubescreamer, and more clarity.

G2G George Lynch Mr Scary Zoom multiple effects pedal which has George Lynch's preprogammed effects and sounds that he's used for recording and live in the past. The pedal off the shelf will half 40 George Lynch Presets which he programmed him self, and 40 empty spaces for users to make their own.

George Lynch other effects include MXR Phase 90, Boss DD-2 Digital Delay, Boss GE-10 Graphic Equilizer, Vodoo Lab Analog Chorus, T-rex replica (delay pedal). Quite a variety.

George Lynch Amps
Marshall 68 Plexi, which George got in 99.
George Lynch Randall MTS RM 100 Lynch Box. They talk about the tones George Lynch got through various recordds with this head.





Thanks again to PremierGuitar for giving such rocking interviews.

Another Steve Vai rig walkthrough

Heres another clip I found of Steve Vai talking through his rig for Guitar World Magazine, this video was recorded before the Sound Theories tour while he was in rehersals. It features Vai going through his pedal board which interestingly has the prototype of the Jemini before it got it's multicoloured case. As usualy he talks about Evo and Flo (sustainer).

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Heres his rig:
Pedal Board: Steve Vai Morley Bad Horsey Wah Wah pedal, Prototype Ibanez Jemini Distortion pedal, Digitech Whammy, then it goes back into the Carvin Legacy steve Vai signature heads, out of the effects loop of the Carvin it goes into a rack, Eventide Ultra Harmonizer, Carvin Power amp(for speaker monitors), then back to the pedal board with TC Entertainment G system board, Morley Volume pedal, Boss Ds-1 Distortion, Eddie Van Halen MXR Phase 90.

Jim Root from Slipknot goes through his gear featuring his Fender and Orange amp heads

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Jim Root from Slipknot talking through his gear at the Hammersmith Apollo (UK) for Fender guitars.

His goes through his A and B rack, including Orange Rockerverb heads, stomp boxes, wah pedals ect.
Then he talks about his guitars, the prototype of his signatures and signatures with different tunings and specs.

The second clip is just of Jim Root talking about his signature guitar and giving us a demo with some licks.

Enjoy

Satchzone - Joe Satriani - Effects pedals

Joe Satriani world famous guitar hero on SatchZone workshop live, talking about his effects pedal board setup in his rig.


Glow Tape
Delay - Boss Digital Delay DD-2
Digitech WH-1 Whammy Reissue
Boss CH-1 Super Chorus
Electo-Harmonix POG

Electo-Harmonix Micro POG






He mention the "next part" of the show where he's gonna go through each pedal piece by piece, I still looking for this clip, so check back for updates.

Steve Vai talks us through is rig in 2007 Sound Theories Tour

Steve Vai talking about his rig on the 2007 Sound Theories tour.