I am a hobby musician, based in the west of Germany. I love music, guitars and guitar gear. I have no other agenda here but having fun with music, guitars, pedals, amps and video and sharing that fun with you. My musical tastes ranges from jazz (Gypsy & Swing) to blues, rock and sometimes even hard rock or pop music. My favorite guitar players are Django Reinhard, Joscho Stephan, Wes Montgomery, Robben Ford, Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Cray, Carlos Santana (in doses), Mark Knopfler and David Gilmour among many others.
I am a huge fan of this era Schecter. The original PTs and Dream Machines were so far superior to Fender at the time, they were really the competition. I own a late 70s PT Telecaster style and I keep hunting for an original one piece body, hard tail Dream Machine that hasn't been butchered. Great build! Thank you for this video.
I use dual cabs consisting of the Hiwatt 4x12 and the Greenback 25 4x12. These mix well in my experience. It is all stock settings except for a high cut at 10kz. For the Hiwatt, I believe I used a 112 Ribbon emulation and for the Greenback a SM57, both at cab edge. For the Greenback it is closed mic‘ed and the Hiwatt 3 inches away. If memory serves well, then the cabs were not panned left or right. Then there is the LA2A compressor, set very subtlety. Stock settings with compression dialed back to 5 or so. Finally the stereo dynamic ambience reverb at stock settings to emulate the cab reverb and that is it.
I've had one a couple of months and it is similar to the original. It sounds great even if it isn't identical; I doubt 2 Power Boosters sound identical.
I agree. I have five or six different powerboosters. This one is probably the closest to the Macaris. Not identical but it sounds great in its own right (IMHO)
I may not have done the best job dialing them in identically. The taper on the pots is different for sure. I still think that among the clones I have tried, this is one of the closer ones. Thanks for commenting!
Thanks! the bridge is the Callaham Vintage S Tremolo. It is fantastic. I have since put it on two more guitars and it is about the best money can buy in my opinion. The ABM offering is also great. The body is a modern Stratocaster, not chambered and routed for a vintage 6 hole tremolo.
Thanks! It is a very nice sounding pedal! Perhaps less trebly and aggressive than other Silicon fuzz faces, rather fat and smooth. To me, it sounds great at any volume but one has to dial the amp in carefully and/put some EQ afterwards to finetune the sound since there is no EQ on the pedal.
Hey there! Great video! Hope all is well, just added a strymon timeline to my g2, Am struggling with midi generally but My immediate problem for this weekend gigs is - When Im In a patch that already has timeline delay on it and then hit stomp box mode to add a phaser etc it changes the timeline settings and triggers midi craziness! My stomp modes are on 10,11,12,13 Do I just turn midi off (ring button) off on those patches? Many thanks in advance for any help!
I can't get my G2 to go into MIDI setup mode. The manual says you just press and hold FS7 then phase. That doesn't work. Then I tried powering up while holding FS7 down. That didn't work. I did get all the red lights above the foot switches to flash, but they were slow and steady, not rapid. I have no clue what's going on. Just wondering if you could help.
Normally it is the way round. The Macaferris have very little bass but very strong mids and highs. That is also how I hear it. On the other hand, archtops are bass/mid heavy as a rule of thumb.
in this tour Gilmour use his #2 ram's head big muff and one Civil war big muff and 3 tube drivers . Gilmour use 1976 electro hamonix electric mistress with Leele paralel switcher for modulation. good job i prefer ram's head best regards
Thanks! I agree with general statements of course. Most aficionados seem to think that it is the Civil war on this solo (zychal.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10883&highlight=pompeii) where kit gives us the signal chain: Sovtek Big Muff > EQ #3 Source Audio Toolbox > Volume Pedal > Flight Time B > Flight Time A. Whatever it was - it is lovely music that he made! Cheers and thanks for checking in. Of the three reissues I also like the Ram's head the best.
Thanks for checking in! The 69 is a very difficult to control pedal. I don't think I brought out the best in it here but for those who want to go down the Germanium Fuzz rabbit hole, it is a very good choice.
Go for it! They are all great. The Rams head is also my favorite of the lot but the others do not disappoint. At least one of them is always part of my various pedalboard projects.
I guess I can't argue with that. Today I would certainly do it quite differently and also would dial it in brighter and more aggressive ... and hopefully also play better than back then :-) Well, it's a journey I guess and at that moment in time, it was what it was.
That is, unfortunately, not correct. He plays the bridge pickup for this tune. Perhaps check the video from the Gdansk performance. It clearly is the bridge (and also sounds like it) It is true that he mostly used the Tube Driver during that tour (and later). I just wanted to give a flavor of the three high gain pedals that were on his pedalboard during this tour.
@@franknguitars7671 he uses the neck pickup for almost all of the song. He switched to the bridge pickup for one lick at like the 2 : 35 mark on the top result video on RU-vid that is 10 minutes long and shows both Castellorizon and On an Island. Also check out the making of On an Island album where he’s playing along to the track and he is using the neck pickup. Either way, for me at least I can tell despite these videos that it’s the neck pickup due to the muddy, thicker, mellower tone
@@davidgilmour3173 just rewatched Gdańsk and Remember that night carefully and you are both right. It is the neck pickup except for that small part with the pinch harmonics towards the end. So, I stand corrected. I guess, I will redo this sometime soon and hopefully also play it a bit more correctly.
Thanks for uploading this guide! One question - I see that on some of your G2 presets not all 3 of the Strymons have a patch name on their screens. Does the G2 send a bypass signal to them on those presets to bypass them or have they been configured somehow else?
Sorry for the late answer. I have been away for a while. The MIDI was done here in a rather simple way. Each preset in the G2 corresponds to one PC message. This PC slot in the Strymon pedals is manually configured meaning that if I want chorus with a certain setting on presets 3, 9 and 13 I need to dial it in three times (which is not very convenient). With better programmability and MIDI mapping one has one chorus patch on the Strymon and the switcher just triggers that preset. The G3 is able to do that. On the patches without a name, I had just deleted the NAME field but they still had the pedal on with some setting, just the loop was off. With a more advance switcher, you can send a bypass signal to the Strymons, but this is not how it was done here.
thanks so much Ismail! Glad you liked it. that one was definitely fun and a good way to end a strange year. For the Dream Machine - I guess there is the short one on the build that you know and that little fun project "Life on the Run" that grew out of it. I got a bit stirred away from guitar early this year since my day job took over but I have every intention to do more this summer. Keep up the great work man!
it was just IKEA furniture oil. I liked how it felt on our wooden kitchen counters and went for it. Five years down the road, I have no regrets. The guitar still feels great to me and hasn't chipped in any bad way.
Seems like the body can be just a hunk of wood, I'll concede the neck is worth it, everything else is just distribution and can be bought other places. However, they come off as a company I wouldn't mind doing business with and I watch Craig's list for the cheap body. Put the neck on that, assess, and then see about a chambered body from Warmoth.
Fret leveling is easy, though a bit time consuming and the tools are a bit pricy. However, if you have a collection of guitars, and who doesn't....its an investment, fun, and rewarding to know you have the skills to do that. Recommend it, personally.
you all prolly dont care but does any of you know of a way to get back into an instagram account?? I somehow lost my account password. I would love any assistance you can give me
If you want to skip the babble - here are the parts 4:20: You, me and they 6:18: Run 4 the sun 8:43: Wallpaper Rhythm 10:23: Wallpaper- Big Muff 12:08: Wallpaper Solo 13:50: Answer to which rig was what Thanks for watching and happy 2021!
Very interesting, even though I really don't understand what any of the equipment is lol I thought D was the best. Which sound was better in your opinion?
Thank you very much! The Gilmour gear stuff is a field of science on its own :-) My favourite actually varied from clip to clip, but it is fair to say that the fully analogue rig was always among the top two choices.
@@franknguitars7671 When I looked into learning this stuff, it was so damn complicated. Maybe if you had time you could start a series like that, reviewing and explaining all those equipments. You'd have at least one view from me :) Also I didn't know it was so complex to make a guitar actually sound good. Makes me appreciate Gilmour's sound even more than before.
@@vaibhavbakshi9231 thank you very much. That is very kind of you! There are far more knowledgeable and better Gilmour impersonators around than me. Please check out Kit Rae's website - easy to find on the internet. To me, that is the definitive reference on all things Gilmour gear and tone. You also find very nice channels here like @Tony Samperi or @Francesco Carpentieri who both play extremely well. @Frédéric Peynet and @HERES do very professional tributes. Many others... I just love this music and I enjoy to get inspired by it. Maybe I get around to do some more educational material (which I enjoy too). But then, I consider myself a relatively early student of this incredible material that, maybe some time down the road, will be recognised at the classical music of our times. Keep on having fun with music - it is important.
I guess that there are many ways to make this work. I want my wet to be stereo though and I am not sure how to get there with just the direct out? Maybe with a splitter afterwards and the from the wet pedals into the interface. I also guess I should have used killdry on the wet pedals as there are some phase issues. Thanks for checking in!
@@franknguitars7671 I don’t have a Kemper yet, so I am not an expert, but from the other videos I’ve seen, you could run guitar -> dry effects -> Kemper in -> direct out -> wet pedals -> stereo in from wet pedals and simultaneously have the monitor out sending the stack signal to the interface. 3 channels total. Hope that makes sense. I just ordered mine today so I’m just trying to work out how I want to set it up!
Let me know how it works out! It is a great feature of the Kemper that it let‘s us configure the outputs. It has been a really well thought out unit right from the start.
I have subscribed to your channel too and listened to a a few videos. You have a very nice and musical touch and the Knopfler technique really down. Very nice! I liked the tone you get very much. I think that is a Deluxe Reverb that your playing? With a compressor and a bit of delay? It sounds very nice. I also noted that you have a nice Schecter. Is that an original? I am quite impressed by the concept of their electronics and the sound of the pickups, in particular for clean tones.
@@franknguitars7671 thanks again for the reply. Yes you are right its a deluxe reverb i used orange squeezer little bit of distortion with the crowther hotcake pedal i also used a Pete Cornish OC-1 its a compressor. here is something about the guitar the body is from original schecter body from 1983 its very confortable because it has more comfortable cutaways and the body is little bit slimmer than fender strats and also the bridge and the pickguard is ALL original from 1983 now the neck is from Mark Knopfler signature stratocaster. I also used a Nady wireless cable. I think it helped you. Stay safe byeee.
