Replica Rig Rundown - Trey Anastasio's 1999 Live Rig 

You’re doing the lords work, I swear. This is the Trey rig nerd level we need!!!

No octagon rug?!? Are you even a fan???

You are a madman. In the best way possible. I mean you replicated the rack case. Thank you for all of your research And passion. I could geek out on this all day.

Man, that Leslie sounds so great. There are digital pedals now that do a great job of modeling that sound. But there’s just nothing like the real thing.

Killer rig rundown. Can't wait to see more!

This is insane... And I LOVE Every minute of it🤘🏽🔥

As a fan of Phish and Trey for 30 plus years and a guitar player and gear enthusiast this was so incredible. Have loved your instagram and pumped for more here.

I love that you chose 99, that's my favorite year. I'd love to play through this rig one day haha. Big Cypress was the best Trey ever sounded

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing.

Incredible. Thank you for sharing

That was rad. Thank you!

This is great! Fantastic job recording, filming and editing this video. I’ve often wondered about the wah mystery. RMC certainly has sold a lot of units to the tone chasers (2 to me hahaha) but in the end I think you’re probably right, it’s just a stock cry baby. Looking forward to more. ✌️

I knew I'd enjoy this, but WOW is this rad! Very well done. I don't think I'd ever be able to put that '20 Languedoc down (the copper is sweet, too!). Staying somewhere with bed space for only one? Well, looks like I'm on the floor for the night.🤔🤣 Your attention to detail is definitely appreciated and I hope we get to see a whole lot more of these.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

This is such a trip.

Wowsers! Nice rig man.

That was awesome.

The series switch puts both humbuckers on at the same time. Fat dark sound. A big boost!

That baritone is insane

Someone needs to get a link to Trey. He’d love this so much.

Great work! I've been following this on Instagram for some time now. Thanks for doing the rundown. I have a quick question about the trance loops/whale sounds. I guess I didn't realize he was doing that with the hold setting on the delay. It seemed to me that he would use the delay to let it repeat a time or two, then use the boomerang to get them to repeat so he could stack several on top of one another and control the level relative to what he was playing with the Boomerang's volume roller. That was how I found it easiest to do it in my old, not nearly as accurate, cobbled together setup. Loop off the main rig into a whammy->Digital Delay->Boomerang. Trigger the loop to make whale noises, use boomerang to loop and stack them, get out of the loop to play over it. This was 20 years ago though, and our information about what he was doing was a lot more limited. Keep the videos coming!

Best Rig Ever 98,98,00 Hands down

How wide are the necks on those Languedocs? Is it similar to a standard strat width or is it wider? I have also heard the fretboard radius on them is pretty flat, is that true?

I’ve been using DR tite fits for a while. I see mixed results for what he used. Any idea?? Crazy rig man.

wear do you buy one of those guitars by paul?

Anyone know if he got rid of his once pedal for “Heavy Things”?

How’d you end up getting a hold of Paul to get one built? Been on the rabbit chase for a few years!

Ahhhh the digitec 2s how he did the intro to “Light”!?!?!? Prove me wrong!!! 😂😂😂

Not sure if anybody mentioned this yet, but he mentioned in a video with Goose that for Divided Sky he would use the lead channel of the Mark amp (not sure if he mentions particular era though)

Never realized the tractor beam sound (knob twisting) was also the DM2000.

The ‘99 Trey Museum 😅

I still haven’t figured out how he controlled the CAE super tremolo on and off. is it in DIJ CRAP? I’ve seen recordings where he seems to activate it from the RS-10 and other times from the pedalboard right of the boomerang is this a mode selector for the tremolo or on/off switch or both? The RS-10 shows 6 labeled loops DM2000, MOD,HOLD,MICRO,DIJCRAP, and UNIVIBE. He also had 3 blank loops bellow those possibly left over from the CAE 3+ preamp and one on the top left. so I am wondering how many effects can be in one loop and I am referring to Trey’s late 90s early 2000s rig you replicated

I mean how do people obtain not just one but two languedocs??? Money aside. They’re impossible to find. When did you place the order with Paul back in 99??

How much do you think this cost in total to make in completion??? Amazing stuff guys, might as well start another Phish cover band,

this old house vibes

I've been chasing that tone of the Leslie/Amp blend for YEARS! Do you have any recommendations on a "Leslie/Rotary" effect pedal that would allow me to step closer to that sound without buying and modifying an actual Leslie head?

I always come back to this for reference. Nice work! Curious what speaker you have in the DR. Thanks

How about a video on Trey's musical education? He's so advanced in theory it would be more interesting to people where he got his education in music from. His guitar isn't that groundbreaking it's just a hollow body with split coils for strat and Les Paul tones.

Two questions: 1- what chord and setting on whammy did you use for the ghost loop you did? 2 - same question for jibboo loop?

What model is the cry baby wah? Is it the standard GCB95 or is this one an older version?

I know some one has a Ross Compressor laying around that work’s original in box

Tyler, what settings do you have on the Dm2000? Been working on the siren sound but it just seems off a bit. Guessing you have the whammy set to 2OCT? Any feedback you can provide would be much appreciated!

Nice DDLJ to close out the rundown!

How did you get Paul to build you a Languedoc? I heard they are virtually impossible to get.

RMC 3 put into a Cry Baby case.... the wah builder is Geoffry Teese, RMC is his company. Some of the best wahs out there imo.

What do you mean "play us out"?!?

Can you provide some details on the platform wood? Size? Installation?

I prefer cable straight to amp.

really cool stuff, thank you for sharing this. BIG QUESTION -- any idea what combo of effects creates that classic trey 99 tone from the Big Cypress Sand ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BayAIRqFsHY.html (from around 8min in) and so many other jams of this era? what are those secret ingredients? and thanks for the detailed explanation of the ghost siren loop! that is a keeper!

Need an old ClipLock strap from DiMarzio to really tie it together.

purple shirt guy has 2 docs?? damn

Old way...."1997". Ha. It's true though. I'm old!

I enjoyed this video, but I’d like to make some corrections if you don’t mind. Here’s the actual order of effects back then. - Crybaby Wah > Ibanez TS-9 > Ibanez TS-9 > Ross Compressor > Ernie Ball Volume pedal > CAE 4x4 audio switcher (more on that later). The Ross was indeed always on, and the Tube Screamers were in front of it. Because of this order, the Tube Screamers only affect how much dirt he’s getting. They have no effect on his overall Volume (in photos from that era you can see that the volume knob is maxed on Both Tube Screamers). Because of that order, he puts the Ernie Ball Volume after the compressor as a master volume and he used the volume knob on his guitar to control how dirty the Tube Screamers were. Now I’ll get to the Rack. From the Volume pedal, the pedal goes into a CAE 4x4. The 4x4 has 4 audio loops and 4 control switch outputs. The rest of the chain is kind of odd, but I’ll try to describe why that is. There’s an interview where he explains it. -Loop 1 Input Jack > Loop 1 Send Jack: (labeled dig/crap) Digitech Whammy II > CAE Super Tremolo (the tremolo was controlled by an external foot switch next to the expression pedal for its speed because the 4x4 only has 4 loops) > Boomerang Phrase Sampler > Loop 2 with Ibanez DM200 in it > loop 3 with Alexis Micro Verb set to Reverse > back to the return jack of loop 1. From there the signal went to loop 4 containing a CAE Black Cat Vibe. He explained that the reason he put 2 of the other loops inside of loop 1 was because he wanted to be able to turn off everything inside it with one switch on his CAE RS-10 midi controller. This served 2 practical functions; he could have loops going on the DM2000 and Boomerang while his Whammy was on, and with one switch he could turn it all off. Those old units are finicky too, so loop 1 could be turned off if any of that gear had issues. And the Black Cat Vibe was after all of that because he wanted access to his Vibe even when all the digital stuff was bypassed. The switches on his RS-10 controlled the “dig/crap” loop, the Ibanez DM2000 bypass, hold and modulation functions, Micro Verb Bypass, and Black Cat Vibe bypass. The main reason for this setup was that he wanted all of his rack gear to fit in a single 8-space rack. Before this period everything, even the Tube Screamers and Compressor, was rack-mounted and everything had its own loop and corresponding switch on his RS-10 (except for the compressor and volume pedal because they were always in the chain and didn’t need loops to bypass them). This was possible because he used several 4x4 audio controllers and his RS-10 had an expander on it which gave him 6 more things he could control. He also had more gear to control. He had a rack-mounted CAE Preamp, a Peavey Valverb, and he used all 3 Microverbs. The 16 foot switches in that rig controlled 1: preamp channel 1 2: preamp channel 2 3: preamp channel 3 4: TS #1 5: TS #2 6: Digitech Whammy II 7: Ibanez DM2000 bypass 8: Ibanez DM2000 Hold 9: Ibanez DM2000 Modulation 10: Alesis Microverb (vast) 11: Alesis Microverb (full) 12: Alesis Microverb (reverse) 13: Peavey Valverb Spring Reverb 14: CAE Super Tremolo Bypass 15: CAE Super Tremolo “Chop” 16: CAE Black Cat Vibe I hope you found this informative and possibly useful. I’ve been down this path in my past and owned almost every piece of gear listed. I ended up selling most of it because the huge racks were not practical for the gigs i was playing, and I have my own sound and style that doesn’t require most of what Trey used. I love your dedication and I’m a bit jealous because I’ve still never played a Languedoc, let alone OWN one! Be well, and keep having fun!

I call it the millennial sound(for millennium not kids w bad taste). The band is half a sphere and trey is the lazer beam of light shooting out. Although the siphoning channeling sound of 99-00 is prob my least favorite sound, he still does it occasionally I think part of fuego has it too.

Get your own sound from your own rig be original

I don’t understand why people clone other peoples s rigs.

No tone.