Rig Rundown - Dream Theater's John Petrucci 

Great guitar tech, he actually knows what he's talking about!

Not a bad way to spend $100,000 🤘🏻

I can imagine that conversation. "yeah, I don't want actual live speaker cabinets on stage, I just want to hear my guitar coming out of live speakers on stage" haha. Incredible.

Great tech, respect for him...and for Rebecca of course, big fan of her.

Rebecca was always the best of the interviewers

This button activates the landmine underneath the audience allowing me to go into world domination mode.

Wow, Rebecca Dirks really knows her stuff and asked very interesting questions for the benefit of us all even at the cost to make the tech uneasy answering them occasionally. Well done girl, really impressed!!!!!!

15:27 it's very exciting to go back and hear John's tech talking about the prototype of his current Majesty signature series.

Matt comes off as a very lovable sweet dude. Very down to earth and very knowledgeable about his craft! I'm sure he's invaluable to JP.

Best and most thorough rundown of Petrucci's rig, hands down!

Love the gear rundowns. Good that she seems to enjoy her job!

I really like that in these videos you see the techs do the rundown. the stars up front get enough light, but they are just not the full story. and most of them are super cool guys.

This made my freakin' day! Thank you PG!!! Been wondering what RD's been up to the past few weeks.....well, here we have it. Awesome Rundown!

I recently had a friend who is also a tech to come up and help me configure my pedals, pedal board, my amp etc. It's then when I realized how much I actually suck at those things and how important is to have a professional that can help you with getting the sound you desire. As someone who wants to PLAY and MAKE music, it is really hard to keep track of all those details yourself. John is lucky to have this guy and every other musician should be super grateful for having one. Getting those awesome sounds out of your amp and your effects takes a lot of time and effort, almost as much as actually playing.

The strings are a "custom" set .010, .012, .016, .024, .036, .046. Dudley, the chief gear designer from EBMM, came up with that, John tried them out and he LOVES them. And the 7-string you might ask? Same as the six-string, but with a handy .056 gauge for the "low B".

This guy knows his shit. I really like it when a tech knows what he's talking about. All the other techs in these videos are either clueless or they just seem like they don't want to be doing the rundown.

I've seen John many times. And by "seen" I mean actually speak, hang out with etc. humble, engaging...brilliant. all around nice guy...each and every time.

I was at that show, great show! Guitar sound was absolutely amazing. It was weird watching them check the amps with the PA off. You could see those 6 cabinets staring you in the face, but you could tell the sound was coming from FAR AWAY!

This is one of the best video talking about JP rigs

Great rundown....thanks for posting

Impressive, Dana White

John and his tech are an awesome team. I love the idea of the thumpers!

Guy really knows his stuff; I think I need a tech like that... y'know, once I'm famous...

Awesome video, Maddi's got one hell of an awesome job

Great job Rebecca, as always...

excellent interview! great questions.. great answers! Awesome tech

Great interview Rebecca, you`re the best.

Excellent video, I had many other questions but well done guys!! Thanks!!

I have been substituting the 13 and 17 out of a regular 10-46 set with a 12 and 16 for years now. Got the idea from Carl Verheyen. It gives a really nice, balanced feel.

I am definitely AMAZED that all of John's guitars are bolt on neck models!!!

That was a great video. Tech is a very good interview

That was a great rundown on jp if every possible rig malfunction possible was to happen to John he would thank the people for their patience grab a chord go over and plug right in to the head and make most guitarists wish they could even come close to the magic this man has in his FINGERS!

Such a humble tech!

She is adorable

Love that new Dreamscape pedal from TC electronics!!!

I love how they were talking about the Majesty.

Wow, was just thinking this is the best tech I've seen so far and look here someone else thinks he's a random tech. This is John's Tech, not some radom guy but get your point. It's not JP himself.

Best guitar tech i have heard so far

Almost every rig rundown I watch, either here or another channel, there is some crazy awesome prototype guitar with a one-off feature we'll never be able to buy and they're just like "Yeah its a little brighter. We just use it as a backup and on one song sometimes." Haha. But for real that guitar with the aluminum top is badass

Thanks for doing these.

Best sound he ever had was on I&W. Perfect.

AMAZING!!

Great interview 👏👏☝️

cool guy, great rundown

sick... what a setup! WANT! Great insight, thx!

Very nice Tech!

A friend of mine has a John Petrucci JP11 7-string that's a kind of Purple Burst, it's really cool and JP11's are awesome guitars

i'm a drummer and i love thses guitar rig videos!!

That's a cool new rig!

just love the rig...................

I know that theatre. Nokia Live. I was at THAT SHOW!!! My 1st DT show!!! Awesome!!!

My brain would explode with this setup. I run 8-10 pedals most direct into the front of the amp, some in fx loop.

Great rig

@fsantosmajestade Exactly! The thing that made this so good is that she actually seems to know what she's talking about.

I like that baritone guitar. The BFR (Ball Family Reserve) model before coming out with the JP10's and JP11's. A nice tobacco burst finish. The DIMarzio pickups are CrunchLab and Liquifire from his signature models. A long scale length; 27 inches. Tuned to A on one song "On These Walls" (the only song with the baritone tuned to A). I haven't played a baritone guitar or can't play one AT ALL. But if anyone wants to jam along, that's fine and it works for me.

My favorite interviewer.

great rig

Rebecca asked some great questions - nice job!

He got some beautiful guitars!

Excellent tech.

So he did change his TC delay units for the AXE Fx... wow, very inspiring change!

Rebecca+ Petrucci rig = paradise heaven

if you didn't went to a dt concert, you must, i can't describe it, is just amazing

I like the JP11 that John Petrucci has in a nice black color with metallic silver.

Bunters196 you're a genius with the Black Widow (?) spider crawling on the default avatar. I can't get enough of it!

FINALLY A JP RIG RUNDOWN!!!

@accless510 It's amazing how everything on his rig works. John is one of the most tallented guitar player in the world. Those amps are simply awesome

yes, very well said; i hope people show more respect

This is pretty cool -- she knows all the right questions to ask for gearheads ^_^

God I miss you mrs Dirks

I heard John's tech Matt said he uses the String Action gauge by StewMac (Stewart-McDonald). It's a "must-have" piece which I cannot do without on my guitars and bass. My action on my guitars are fairly high to most people. And my basses are set lower than others. i set my basses either 2 millimeters on the treble side and slightly 2 in-a-half millimeters on the bass side. Or a 4/64" going gradually down to a heavy 3/64" on the high side ('cause I'm a fan of Flea from the band Red Hot Chili Peppers).

17 mins of bliss :D!

Never, EVER doubt that you can do anything you set your sights on.

Those labels on controller wow !! ''their colors, graphichs are really cool.

Good stuff

"What does John like about that compressor?" "He likes how it compresses the sound." You don't say. It's always funny to hear people talk when they don't quite know what to say but have to say something.

Not many things could distract me from JPs guitar rig. Rebecca Dirks is one of them

That's a badass rigd

That foot wedge thing with the buttkickers is a really cool idea. The bassist for DMB has something similar set up.

Awesome

beauty and beast

Very cool.

John's tech Maddi always has that serious look on his face. haha

Great video. The guy always have something to say.

man that tech knows so much !!

I met JP after the show in Philly. No ego at all. All around nice guy. Very polite and appreciative of his fans. A certain person that's commenting on this is missing the point. Just showing his rig. If you knew what you were talking about, you'd know that this rig is significantly smaller than previous tours. Octavarium was amazing. Black clouds was incredible. ADTOE is equally great. Suck a man.

5:32 Yep! that definitely looks like a ,,B''-system to me!

He has one fantastic job =)

Oh my god!!!!! I can't believe it...

I'd love to see a rundown of Rebecca's rack. I heard she was using the Mesa dual rectifier rev DD.

He has a cool rig and all but did you see mike’s drums in the background when they were talking pedals? It’s intimidating

Yes, he is our gawd!

I always wanted to know what were those metal boxes he steps on every show, I imagined those were cpu cabinets of some sorts but why would they be on-stage in the first place?

Well, they are using in-ears and micing cabinets, but like I was saying earlier, the style of DT's music demands the amount of pedals and amps JP uses. And they all use power. However, it's worth noting that the Axe-FX did get rid of heaps of rack-mounted stuff in JP's rig, which likely ate up even more power than this rig does. As far as I know, the Boogie amps are all set on 90W (as opposed to 45 or 10), but JP said this occurs only because of the resulting amount of dynamic headroom one gets.

@kalakuttakamina He plays These Walls with the baritone, tuning in A standard.

She forgot to ask the guitar tech how thick the rod is.

ATTENTION! A lot of people are curious about JLB's equipment. Here's the complete rundown: Neumann U87 matched stereo set, Behringer Multigate Pro XR4400 Quad Expander/Gate API 512c vocal preamp, TC Electronic Voicelive Touch Vocal Processor, Celemony Melodyne, Pro Tools multiband compressor, limiter, de-esser, expander, high pass filter, linear phase EQ harmonic exciter, sample delay, stereo-widener, cathedral reverb + additional pitch correction - MP

For that interface where do you get the plug for the midi, I’ve been looking and I can’t find that dang thing online

this guy seems so cool

truss rod adjustments while he plays? lawl