Eric Johnson on His 'Ah Via Musicom' Pedalboard 

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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.

Eric who is famously well known for his gorgeous, beautiful and meticulous tone has the messiest looking pedalboard I ever saw. I love it.

Thank you for having Eric Johnson on here!🎤🎸🎵

Man, it's a patchwork of a signal path but... You can't argue with that EJ sound. 👦🏻

I love the smell of vintage analogue in the morning !!!!!

awesome to see his utility of the old gear. EJ, you're Too Cool.

Royal advice from the king of clean sound.

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.

Sounded amazing.

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!

Glad to see the George L's cables on there. I still use and prefer them years after the hype has died down!

Eric is the coolest! Myself, I'd be nervous using such old gear on the road. But of course he has a killer tech.

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

He should be the only guitarist that can be allowed to talk about tonewood.

Radio Shack approved! 👍🏻

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.

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 had that same rackmount delay in hs. Wish I still had it...

Eric is da man!

Classic!!!

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.

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.

Eric's clean tone is world class, one of the best players on the planet too.

@0:48 “Oh that’s pretty radical”

More?

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.

What venue was this interview conducted at? It looks like the same stage/room where the GE Smith rig rundown was….

Those cables, orh lord

Can the interviewer let him speak? Jesus

Noise gate?

Big Johnson Guitarist. Chicks dig it when you play Big Johnson

Even the cores from 1700s...great video 🍺

Anyone know if the pedalboards are MDF or Plywood? Also, Is Eric using 3M Velcro or a thinner generic? Thanks in advance.

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

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.

This is from 2018

Moral of the story: hang onto all your old gear if possible.

Memory man looks like it went down with the Titanic.

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)

a nice dinner and dance my dear? and then the Marshalls get cranked to 11

This is an Old Rig Rundown. What's going on? Nothing left to put on?

I would be more nervous using those pedal boards, than remembering the thousand things one has to remember when doing a stage live gig...

What the hell is he playing, dinner theatre??!?!!?

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.

Belle epic! Real American. He didn’t hear about la belle epoch. The great French enlightenment period. Jesus Christ !!

That Memory Man is c r u s t y!

The interviewer is rushing and pushy a bit, not comfortable to watch

Damn... Plus it looks like he’s still using 30-year-old skinny cables on his pedal board.

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.

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. 😆

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)

Sorry, are those dinner tables???

That thumbnail makes me very nervous.

Kigwahahahahaha

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 RU-vid Channel with live videos dedicated to him. Please check it out!

I'd slow down a bit on the content re-uploads as if they were new videos. That's against the RU-vid ToS and qualifies as content farm behavior.

Why the hell would you ask a stupid question like that ? If he keeps the cry baby wah on all the time.

My ocd cant handle his pedalboard. 🤬

“Yeah, I have a signature Fuzzface but I don’t use it.” Smh in disbelief.

Seems to complicated to so many things..

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.

Meticulous tone.

Still running most of this stuff off batteries i see... LOL!!

This interviewer is the worst!

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

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.