Michael Pope Gear & Pedalboard Rundown - Bethel Music - Worship Guitar Magazine 

Thanks man! Blessings to you!

jose rodriguez I know. Took me off guard. Playing them in the store they have some weight and feel like they are built solid. The crazier thing to me is that he doesn't blow is AC30s up. Those almost always have problems. Different strokes I guess.

Thanks so much! Make sure to subscribe to our channel as we will be doing more of these in the coming months!

Haha. Thanks for the confirmation. I was watching a video a few weeks ago of United and saw that it was Timon Klein and not Dylan and also that he was using Lace pickups as well. Both are sweet guitars nonetheless.

Andrew Carr that’s why I stopped playing mine haha

Is the micro pog OK?

Yeah no kidding! It was pretty amazing. Neck was a little big on it (How Michael likes them). It literally was the heaviest guitar I have ever held. Had to be 14 or 15 lbs. It was by far the best sounding guitar he played during the worship set though. It sat so well in the mix and the sustain was incredible! Thanks for checking out the video man!

Thanks for the positive words. We are working on a few more. It takes a while to get the rig rundowns scheduled out and then shot and edited because of hectic tour schedules. We have a bunch of gear demos and other goodies in the mix coming up as well. Thanks for subscribing. We look forward to chatting more in the future!

+Worship Guitar Magazine i use a rig like this but how do the bethel guys get the volume they want when running the amps backstage.

CoverMe - this was recorded at the Wexler Performing Arts Center at Ohio State University.

Ajay with the amps off stage your hearing the guitar coming through the front of house or on stage monitors. Also with the camera mic I’m sure it makes that small delay more obvious than is really is.

Thanks Joel! We had a blast shooting it. Michael is a great dude with some awesome gear!

Stephen Manley - for that specific concert he used it for the Jonathan and Melissa Helser songs. For all the Bethel songs he used the Gold top and white 503 Veritas guitars. He said he uses his Green Veritas too but the other guitarist was using that for this show.

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He is running everything into the front of both amps. Rarely do we see guys running effects loops.

The only time you would need to use an effects loop is if you are using a high gain amp. If you are using a lot of gain from the amp, you would put your time based “wet” effects in the loop so they sound okay and the gain doesn’t distort them. But when you are using a mostly clean amp, it would be fine and almost preferred to run everything into the front of the amp. If you aren’t playing rock or metal or something, it should be fine to run everything into the front

@SuperNachochannel - He is using two Strymon Ojai power supplies that sit right underneath the cross bar on the Temple board. He has an IEC splitter that goes out to a power strip on the stage to power the two power supplies.

Just pause it...

LANo its blurred

Use your ears.

Using ears is very good practice.... But to help a brother out... 2nd Brilliant Input (seems all the others are covered up..good lol!) Volume at 9 O' clock Treble at 9 O' Clock Bass at about 1:30/2 O' Clock Tone Cut 2 O' Clock (2:10 if you are super accurate) That's what I see from the video anyway. (@14:58)

They are using Shure 545sd's.

Benjamin Castillo Those are called Radial SGI, they‘re not for mics. They extend instrument signals so they go further.

@@yihoonshin176 oh wow, interesting, thank you bro!

@@benjamincastillo906 Happy to help! :) I'm not a pro yet but that's one thing I know for sure!

I came here just to see the board, too. Blah. Wasted 20 minutes of my life...

Russell Routh - it is a Superbolt Royal Reverb 2x10 combo

Jmac J “Umm” brand speakers

The ones that make noise

Celestions I think

Just kidding...thank you guys! Love it....errrm

They are called SGI Boxes by Radial Engineering. Basically they convert your signal from your pedal board from 1/4" unbalanced to XLR which can be run over 300 feet without signal loss. The signal is then converted back to 1/4" going into the amp. So you have 1 foot or so of 1/4" cable instead of hundreds of feet. There are two boxes. One at the pedalboard which converts to XLR then another one on top of the amp, which you are seeing, that converts it back to 1/4".

Great info and useful tips. Thanks

Glad we were able to help out. The SGI boxes are fantastic. I use them on Sunday morning at our church. Anything over about 20 feet of 1/4" cable run you start to see some tonal loss on the high end and it just get's worse as the cable get's longer. Kind of like a small hose that is super long compared to a small hose that is 1' long.

Not to mention that long patch cables are like radio antennas and pick up all sorts of interference adding bad noise the signal.

Luke Johnson - the guy who originally ordered this backed out on the order which was why pope took it out on tour and is eventually buying it. No specific customer was waiting for this.

Dude he second I knew Pope took it out I would be like "hey uhhhh can still buy this."

Yeah man me too!

You use what you need to use. Depends on the gig not just worship stuff. I thing quite often certain guitar players are jealous of other players because of what gear they have/use and it isn't nice to do that. If your a Christian you should not judge others.

joe threlfall Not at all jealous and not at all judging my friend. A fly rig should probably contain 3 or 5 of your most important / most used pedals so it is relatively light weight and compact for ease of travel.

@@jwhitty14 ok. I use a large board and I have no problems with carrying it around. Go with what works for you if say 😊

The guy's carrying 4 tube amps around, I don't believe a case of pedals is the worst to carry lol

It's quite simple math actually. 2 guitar players each running stereo with 2 amps. 2x2 = 4

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@@youparkedinmysafe-space1476 excellent question. I'll be sure to ask your mom tonight.

Amps usually sound better the louder they get - so he can crank it up back there and you won't have a ridiculous amount of stage noise. - and then the sound engineers can eq it however the need.

He explained it. The vocal mics pick up too much.

Brenda Felix it helps with stage volume, you normally don’t want too much stage volume

@@joshuahelmreich9966 yup 😊

It’s also said to reduce the possibility of feedback for acoustic and hollow body guitars when the amps are not directly on stage.

I was hoping someone would ask about those 70's Bigsbys. They have a unique very cool look and he's got a couple of them.

I bet he could.

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Wow what a funny comment. You're so clever.

Hahahahahaha!!!!

I see that the title of the video is actually different. So. There you go.

It literally is a rig rundown though 🤷‍♂️😂

Who are u to Judge my guy

Are Christians not allowed to enjoy Music that God created? Music started with God it's his.

@@mrmikeyflash3195 are you really going to say god created this stuff?

Self Righteousness stinks...

@@georgemavimbela it stinks because righteous is a gift only given from God. Self or ego is closely associated with Satanism. Any honest Satanist ,the real ones, will happily agree. Self righteous is more accurately stated as satanic righteousness. Christianity is ego death actually.