I'm a Marine and a guitar tech. Ace is a Marine and guitar tech. The difference is this man techs for Slash. By the way, Ace, my recruiter served with you. Semper Fidelis brother!
slash actually had 3 techs they are this guy Doug "Red" Redler - longtime tech with Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes and Adam Day - tech for Neal Schon of Journey
Angus Young uses no pedals and some say his tone is pure rock... Gary Rossington if Lynyrd Skynyrd also uses no pedals, his sound is pretty good also...
That's the wonderful thing about playing on the big stages...you CAN turn up a 100 watt Marshall to achieve those amazing tones. Most guitar players will never play on a stage big enough to turn up a 100 watter to make it useful.
Hadsatriani wow.. nice gear. Pure analog power. I wonder if by 5 years from now- some real good HD digital invention can take over these analog? What do you think?
To the people who said slash was "lazy" about not operating his own gear. Pedal's are a huge pain in the ass if like most musicians use them for 5 seconds of the song. Instead of thinking "ok in 30 seconds I gotta switch on and switch back" you can just lose yourself in playing. My lead guitarist brought his pedals to sound check and the sound guy was getting pissed off, Had to tell him just to keep it simple. Unless you have a tech, other then WAH I don't bother.
I worked a Pink Foyd show some years back. Got to work with the monitor engineer most of the day because of my audio knowledge wiring the stage and microphones. Gilmore's guitar tech had around 100 pedals all st up on something similar to a train table. lol..lots of the same pedals but just in different loops. Gilmore's [pedal board had about 18 stomo switches on it that were simply labeled with the songs name.
Think I would bring my pedals on the stage.. in case I'd feel like improvising more or change the sound suddenly. That situation makes Slash slave a bit IMO 😎
I love how in EVERY one of these rig rundowns they ignore Slash's compressor settings, tone may be in the hands, but a compressor is what captures that before the amp!. The compressor is the secret weapon in Slash's tone, its a complete lie that he only used it on the clean amps in the Use Your Illusions Era, he uses it all the time and never stopped.
Love these videos but wish they would cover some of the peripheral stuff like strings, plecs, cables etc. Always interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes. Will be watching this tomorrow in Manchester in front of Mr Slash!
speaking of setups what do you think of my setup? Amp: Fender Frontman 212R Guitar: Fender Chris Shiflett Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar - Arctic White Distortion: MXR Custom Badass '78 Distortion
Strings - Ernie Ball Custom Gauge, don't remember exactly, but certainly not to thin. Check it out, I have seen this info somewhere on the internet. Picks - Dunlop Tortex, "the hardest ones that they make", as Slash himself says. But that's not the point. The point is in his hands and in what the hell is going on under that top hat in his head ))
if i get it right, the delay comes before the amp lead channel? there is no overdrive pedal before the delay? straight into the crunch channel? hard to believe, must have missed the part where he says the delay is in the loop of the amp
Esmeulon - Eu Já Assisti Esse Vídeo Várias Vezes. E Vejo De Novo. A Guitarra Gibson É Uma Obra De Arte. E O Que Os Artistas Faz Com As Mãos. É Impressionante. .
The prototype les paul he was talking about, unless u havent been paying attention, is the corsa rostra/vermillion. The vermillion is his, in aces words, slide guitar. The very sexy red les paul
His tech is so cool damn... prolly the second best job in the world after being Slash and the guy just pushes the buttons on the pedals man Slash obvi would have told him when and where... that good relationship allows Slash to be as creatively free as possible.
it is all slash's stuff but he is slash's tech. he's the guy setting up, using, and working on his equipment all day everyday. if you think about it slash is just playing the guitar and the guitars signal is just going through it. his tech is the guy actually using and working on anything. if you ask me i think it probably is more his then slash's at this point. whenever there is a professional rig it is owned and used by two people, the musician and the tech.
at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oI_z2F__mhM.html the sign behind Ace says 'IF YOUR FUCKING HAND GOES IN THIS FUCKING VAULT I WILL SMASH EVERY BONE IN YOUR FUCKING BODY' haha
Ive been trying to get SRV's tone and have givin up and by givinbg up, Ive grown extremely fond of Slash's tone, especially the lead sound in November Rain era stuff . .... Ive gotten close with a Les Paul w/ Dimarzio super distortion in the neck & a Jcm800 ... His tone & style of playing really lets the notes speak. ........ Its someone talking hyper & fast vs someone talking calmly .
The note: "If your fucking hand goes in this fucking vault I will smash every fucking bone in your fucking body" ...would be so hard not to poke a guitar. hggn
Actually I think the prototype he mentions is a new red Les Paul that's supposedly is coming out in 2013 and he's been road testing it. Premier guitar did an article on Slash's 2012 touring gear and they show that guitar along with his other guitars and equipment
Donald Wilson , Im sorry buddy but you are wrong about there not being any self biasing tube amps . Alot of Mesa Boogie's are ! And also the Bugera 1990 INFINIUM is self biasing . Check it out . They are awesome !
Interesting that he runs the delay in front instead of an FX's loop. I know the 800's didn't have one and I'm not sure on his sig heads having a loop, but it's still interesting...
soooo... I always wondering, why Slash never change the guitar effects except the wah pedal ? So he has assistant that change guitar effects for him. Is that what you mean ?
