This is one of the most underrated guitar players on the planet I think he belongs in the rock and roll hall of fame along with the rest of his band. Mike has had an incredible influence on my playing. Is incredible versatility, extraordinarily creative and killer tone and rhythm ability.
I love musicians that actually understand their own gear and know how to use it, they are don't just give their tech guy thousands of dollars to go buy good gear or just use whatever company endorses them's gear.
Inmenso panel de pedales =O! Como los combina... impresionante la habilidad para manejar toda esa cantidad de interruptores durante un concierto. Grande Mike! =)!
Totally understand what you mean my friend. I just thought with the amount of pedals e uses and all the tap dancing during a song to change between effects, the bradshaw or the G force can still allow the programming of effects in patches for each of his songs and can switch the effects arrangements between various parts of the song. But hey it's all good, I'm not gonna question Mike E. as I'm a fan and at the end of the day it's his rig. Cheers!
There is much more going on that what he is talking about and showing you, this is a simplified explanation. You can tell because he is not sure on what to really say. He could tell you there are 10k pots in some areas now that did not have them before, but most people would not understand. There are modifications done to probably all the pedals and gear. This means opening up the pedal or piece of equipment and removing parts and replacing them with different ones. It is common for guys of his nature to really know the insides of their tools. Changing capacitors and transistors can cause serious tone changes to pedals. Changing a wiring pattern on a guitar and other places also create different unique tones. There is also a "rig" which you do not see which houses the amps and other "rack mount" gear which is the other half of the guitar. Every aspect of his craft (and other instruments) is completely custom and everything he has can be modified extensively. Vintage parts and modern parts, 10s of thousands of dollars into his sound. Not just his but many many others as well. True audio engineers can design and create their own gear and do, he is one of them. Understanding basic circuitry is all you need to know.
@ordepsotam Check out the Boss LS-2. Basically it's a line selector. It should solve your problem according to how you use it. I've got one and even though it takes some getting used to as far as setting it is concerned, I think it should solve your problem
@xArbilx I believe it's first in his chain, mine is at the end and whenever i try to emulate his solo in Pistola my gonkulator does not pick up with the infinite delay. When i switched the order it seemed to work fine.
I also have problems with switching my sound if I have more then one pedal to press to get the certain sound that I need. Thats why I want to get a pedal that actually changes all of my pedals with one press of a button to a certain sound. Basically a preset pedal.
It would be nice if Mike did another video explaining how he orders his pedals and why. It looks to me like he is plugging straight into the Danelectro and that is boggling me. Lol. I was trying to follow the chain order but its impossible. It looks like the tone driver on the left side of the board is going off somewhere other than to any pedal near it...also, is there anything closer to the amps he didn't show us like a noise gate or something or is everything on the pedal board?
Thanks! Now i end up with the same problem! I have two amps and i want to share effects between them and i use one for clean and the other for dirty tones, my problem is that for example if i use a delay on the clean amp and i change chanel to the dirty one, the delay passes on from the clean amp to the dirty one.. How do i solve this?
it´s a shame that he didn´t play the rest of the bridge section on the warmth. I know it´s the super phaser on that part, plus the delay (and distortion later)... but i think he uses another pedal as well, because only the phaser with the delay even with the same settings doesn´t sound the same... does anyone have a tip?
For those of you into this sort of thing....you can get a decent leslie effect out of a chorus pedal with a high rate setting. Beats spending 700 bucks on the H&K rotosphere if your not rolling in moolah. ;)
I've found that playing guitar in the classical way really fucked up my wrist to. I changed to a more baseball bat grip, and never had a problem since.
Hey Mike and incubus fans! Does anybody know what are those two black boxes just above the H&K rotosphere? on the left of the pedal power's? I can see that all pedals are connected into that and i think thats the "secret" of sharing the same fx's between two amps but i dont know if im right and how that works.. My problem is that i too use two amps and A/B them via a morley A/B switcher but my fx's "bleed" from one amp to the other.. Does anyone can help me? Also, sorry for my english! Thanks
+MikeEinziger153 haha all good man just some cheeky banter. but on top of this video im sure he really goes into detail about his pedals and modding them. mesa amps are quality as well, interesting he chose smaller combos, he really knows what he wants in his sound
FLyAgaric421 Last things first. No, it would not be impossible to tune the piano every single day. (Which you would have to do.) But, thats another guy you would have to hire on the road just to tune the thing. Plus, he probably only uses it on a song or two. So it makes more sense just to use the digital. The old piano case is just to look cool. Nothing looks more cheesy/unprofessional than a digital keyboard on an X stand. Having a guy on the road to tune a real piano every show just to play one song a night makes no sense to me.
Hardly a world tour when you don't even go to Vancouver or Seattle. Like pffft - how do you expect anyone in the north west coast of N.America to come see you? Fly down to Cali. Gawd. I just want to see Incubus live again but you haven't come anywhere near Vancouver in like 6 years!
If you're using a MIDI keyboard then what is the point of putting inside a piano casing? Makes no sense at all.. It wouldn't be impossible to keep a real piano in tune on the road at all. People do it every single day..
