13 guage strings lol, thats insane....mike einziger is one of my favorite guitar players, like other people have said he is extremely underrated, he excels at so many different play styles....
Mike is my all time favorite guitarist and he has been one of the most informative and interesting rig rundowns because of his intimate knowledge of his rig and his friendly personality. which is why it's such a goddamn shame that this video was apparently filmed from a cell phone camera
Same...old school incubus sound is def. one of the reasons why I bought a PRS custom 24. Mike used to play the archtop / hollow body ones too...very very awesome sounding guitars.
Very melodic guitarist, knows how to serve the song, doesn't play too many notes to impress the fools. See songs like: Just a Phase, Deep Inside, Pardon Me and Stellar...
mike einziger was actually trained as a jazz guitarist, and has a degree in music from harvard... pretty sure his form is good. it probably has more to do with the fact that he plays guitar for more hours than most of us spend doing anything else.
I am trying to find out what 6 string banjo Mike was playing in Prague for Hans Zimmer. If anyone knows or is able to point me in the right direction, it would mean a lot. Thanks, everyone. Edit: nevermind. I was able to reach out to Mike directly. Thanks though everyone!
VERY COOL... I love Mikes playing. You're not alone Mike: no Tats here either, the looks I get sometimes are funny, as if I'm "missing" some essential part of my ensemble to be a musician (esp. since I'm in Portland OR where it seems like even babies have tattoos) HAHAHA. Mike seems to be my kind of guitar nerd/player, and that neck on the MM looks beautiful. He also seems like such a "background" player in terms of the lime-light and celebrity, but he's DAM good and has a great feel for rhythm and song composition. He also has a knack for playing the perfect complimentary riffs. Great guitar player. If it weren't for his playing/song-writing Incubus would have just been another late 90's/early 2000's "Rock band with a DJ". Anyone know if he's done any side-projects or anything that's more oriented on his guitar playing???
This is great but he has such a specific heavy distortion that when he goes from a quiet verse to an extremely heavy (you literally feel the "weight" live) chorus and I really wanna know how he does that! I guess the answer is the distortion of a separate Mesa boogie? I just want to be able to do that with a pedal. Anybody have any recs on a meaty distortion pedal that you can kick in on a chorus that still let's you hear the higher strings? I love big muffs but they cut out the higher strings too much and I need to hear those while playing lower stuff at the same time.
I can easily see how he could be inspirational I wont take that away from him. And thankfully I am old enough to have experience and continue experiencing Jack White
What Microphone was he using on the cabs? There condensers i'm sure, but cant find anything about his rig and mentioning the mics he's using. In studio or Live...
at 6:02 when he mentioned that he has to play more lightly, that explains why his strumming isn't as extravagant as it used to be. before when playing the heavier songs, he used to use his whole arm, now he's much more toned down with it
+sutop1255 Same exact thing in the Chevelle rig rundown, it is REALLY odd. Two guys that primarily played PRS' for big chunks of their career and now pretend that they don't exist.
+sutop1255 Wonder if there's a copyright or some sort of agreement in place. If they're sponsored with another company they can't mention the other? Not sure.
+sutop1255 $$$$ These guys left PRS due to money and a bad taste in their mouth from some stories i heard. Sucks because PRS and Mesa was the sound i copied off the first two incubus albums growing up. still, solid stuff Just so bizarre they ignored it
+thinkingjack I still don't understand what happened though. Mike played PRS guitars for years and years before going Fender. Chèvelle dude, even more so.
actually he didn't invent any of them he just brought them to popular attention; still he was the catalyst for using techniques that many others would never have considered otherwise
Cool interview but I agree with regards to the editing. The audio choppiness drives me a bit mad. It seemed unnecessary but maybe the jackass in the background kept killing the audio that editing was needed.
The amps are hella expensive for real. I saved up $ for almost a year and finally bought my 3-channel dual rec for one grand off eBay when I was 19 years old...and by far was worth every penny \m/
