Rig Rundown - Exodus' Gary Holt [2015] 

+DENNIS should be considering its price tag jeeeeeeez it's steep

+Oli T its a japanese made esp theyre like art

I almost bought one today. But I decided if Gary can play his LTD version live, I should be happy with that. I had the resources, but figured I could buy a couple of really nice guitars with that money. A beautiful guitar nonetheless. Law of diminishing returns made me come to my senses.

Unbelievable guitar, wish a had a spare 6 grand haha

ditto

tgnz24 he's the nicest guy,

@@tylerdees4850 Paul Gilbert is cool in his Rig Rundowns as well

@@ermonski paul is just cool no matter what. Stupidly good guitar player!

Yes he did.

I'm pretty sure he thought that exact thing after he said it haha

gary holt paused and definetly cringed

Yup, that's Perry for you. John Bohlinger is easily the best and most respectful interviewer. He is genuinely interested and excited about other artists. Someone called him a sycophant, but that's how he is. He's the real deal.

exactlyyy nick B

imagine that paint job on a esp arrow

Jeff Waters from Annihilator has a Signature V that looks like that.

wish i had money to get that from the esp custom shop but on the same v shape as my Esp nv std

Same. Hard tail version. Actually it's a tie for me right now between Holt's or Nergal's. Both seem like they can play any style of music because of their pickups.

Did you get it??

According to Fractal's website their guitarists use Axe-Fx (which exact model or if there is anything else in their rig it doesn't say)

Tobias used an SG on an Orange Thunderverb for the 1st album in d tuning.

Right? I lol'd at that. Holt's all about the metal.

Uh, 30-seconds and intro to No Love ring a bell?

@@richwalter5322 that is played on an acoustic guitar on record. Live he just turns his volume knob down. Not completely clean.

@@richwalter5322 that's beautiful gary

flyingmanforfun Listen to the interview... he is in Both Bands...;-)

flyingmanforfun He's guitarist and main songwriter in Exodus. Since the death of Jef Hanneman he also plays with Slayer.

flyingmanforfun He does, he's just in both Exodus and Slayer.

Andrew Levister how?

@@teamatfort444 Spider bite first disabled him, liver cirrhosis finished him.

+Niall Duffy Giant delay pedal. Rig complete

ask edge himself,if he didn't have a guitar tech setting all his delays up he would sound worse than the annoying random guitar center amateur player.he is absolute shit in the guitar playing world and admits it freely.

+HammerDimension edge would have multiple delay pedals going just for that extra delay effect.

wyatth5870 he said that he probably won't be making any V's because of how heavy they are, and how they are more difficult to play. If he just wants to stick to the eclipses, to be more comfortable, thats fine by me.

That LP shape doesn't fit his music style at all. He's a V guy. Weird choice, but he seems to enjoy it. We must get used to it

+BurnBabyBurn! I felt that way at first too but am used to it now. I have an LTD Eclipse and it is amazing- nice to see him demonstrate they are performance worthy. I was just surprised to hear him hit everything on a single cut away unlike his easy access Schecters. I think his Eclipse is modded to allow better upper fret access though.

dkyelak they just come that way stock, very nice neck trus and a deep cut on the horn

asdf On the ESP site the rearview of his LTD looks more contoured compared to other Eclipses. I could be very wrong though.

chris bose perry seems like a nice enough dude, just a little excited? haha. i'd be too interviewing some of my fave guitarists too though. haha

blood in blood out from their last album: /watch?v=6c69S3pD8qI

Andrew Stace Yea, custom shop ESP prices have just skyrocketed in recent years. I think a lot of it is import costs. Even here in the states that guitar goes for around $5000.Go with an LTD EC-1000. Amazing guitar for the price. In my opinion ESP's LTD line is the absolute best bang for the buck. Ive played $3000 Gibson Les Paul customs that don't feel half as good as my Eclipse.

Really? Damn

DarkRob316 The price increase was because the Signature line is now made in the Japanese custom shop. Before they were mass produced in a Japanese factory and commanded roughly the same price as ESP Standard guitars as they are at the same level. With all the recent rebranding, the name ESP is now pretty much for guitars that are made in the custom shop (US or Japan). All the mass produced ones are now called E-II, LTD, fuckyoupeasantsforbeingpoor, etc. but certainly not ESP.

+Linh Nguyen (KaWylde Guitarist) I have an LTD Eclipse and that thing is outstanding and less than $1K. Great for being mass produced.

+dkyelak Yep, the LTD Deluxe line is pretty killer. Don't get me wrong, mass produced guitars these days are by no means bad. You get a lot of guitar for the money, especially in the $600-1000 price range. My old EC-1000 handles and plays better than all the Gibson LPs I have tried until now, including a $4000 Custom.

He runs it into the Marshall which acts as a power amp, which goes into a cab, so he basically is creating a real amp with that setup. They'll either send the line-out from the Kemper into the mixer, or mic the cab like usual.

power amp is for on stage, Kemper to FOH.

+Matt Patton I thought he used Homebrew pedals too. I suppose guitarists are always trying new things.

Because red is nice.

Red is EVIL and SCARY.

I was wondering too why he'd keep that secret. What's the deal, will Marshall sue him for not using their cabs?

+Alfons Pettersson They might be engls?

+JamesShore1990 it might be breaking a contract that he might have with engl

2015 ended. People aren't offended anymore

TheZooropaBaby Now they're misgendered xD

hawg427 Agreed. The truth is most musicians get indoctrinated into a particular school of thought early on and it can be tough to break free of those belief systems."Nothing beats a tube amp" is one such school of thought. And certainly not one without merit. I belonged to that school of thought for a long time, I still do. Indeed a cranked up Marshall or Mesa stack is a glorious sound.But its all about application. What do you need your amp to do. I live in a small apartment with neighbors everywhere. A cranked tube amp is unviable for me. Its not the right application. The last thing I ever thought I would end up with in my old age is a little 30 watt Line 6. But its absolutely perfect for the application I use it for. Likewise, Kempers and Axe FX's are fantastic devices for having access to a multitude of very realistic and varied tones, in a compact easy to use rig. You cant beat it for the application.Does that make me a traitor to all the Marshalls and Boogies Ive used over the years for saying so? Maybe. But who cares? I still love all the Marshalls and Boogies Ive owned. Embracing something new doesn't mean you have to throw away the old. You just have a new tool now as well. PS. Ive been playing guitar for 25 years and my hearing is shot to hell lol.

+DarkRob316 Well said. Same here except I have a Peavey Vypyr. Amp companies might be a bit nervous that a little toaster can do the job. One could buy an expensive head, profile it and then return it while keeping the profile. Amp companies will need to adapt. In the meantime, they will keep telling people there is no substitute for their products. I am older too and if I was starting over I would go for a Kemper.

+Adrian Seifi I am guessing those are his EVH cabs.

Michael Phillips I just purchased the powered Rack model about a Month ago and it is awesome! :-) That's all I can say.

Michael Phillips They sound good but there is definitely something lacking from them. I got the chance to play one and was blown away by the tones, but it reacts to signal differently than a tube amp would. You can't really roll back the volume on your guitar to clean up your signal (at least on the model I was trying). It's pretty much either full volume or off. That's good if you play metal or punk and all you do is bridge pickup on your distortion channel, but any other genre that you sometimes roll back on your guitar volume for a cleaner sound won't work. I's still, without a doubt, go with a tube head for that pricetag. It just has something that the Kemper misses.

iHatePop Of course, I'm sure something's lacking. It's usually that way with most digital and solid state amps. Most of the videos I've seen, Kempers are always used in studio.

+Michael Phillips Wolf Hoffman of Accept used it on the new album- sounds killer.

+iHatePop IIt shouldn't matter what Kemper model you have, when you roll back the volume on the unit the amp profile get's cleaner, just did it to make sure on my unit.

+Locoandchooch yea, no one cares to hear yours :D

Everyone has one. And they are all shitty. 💩😝

+colin poitras Didn't he say he was running the Kemper through the Marshall power amp?

metallitech Eh, Floyds are pretty cool if you don't need do too many double stops or tuning changes. Keeps your tuning rock solid and lets you do some cool sounds. Although I do admit that a fixed bridge can keep the strings in tune just as well.

metallitech Why is your profile picture a Floyd Rose Tremolo then?

Bálint Szekely They look nice, haha. I made the best of mine by blocking it using epoxy putty. I have a video about this.

metallitech EMG's are the best thing to happen to guitars. And the tunomatic bridge is actually the worst thing to happen to gutiars. I'd rather deal with the pain in the add Floyd than the piece of shit tunomatic.

metallitech Both of my guitars have Floyd Rose and EMG's

+MuscleDad420 word

Oh yeah. My last favorite exodus album. Impact. The guitars sound mad. Wicked. Just started focusing on different bands after that album. That was the 80s my man. Marshalls, Laney AOR, ADA, very high gain usually with a dark tube sound IMHO. Ex. ADA mp1 and 2 ...very YJM George lynch and Brian May sounding stuff. But recordings were analog so gear was just set differently. Sometimes not very well. Exodus always makes sure their guitars are heard. (Haired)