Rig Rundown - Middle Class Rut's Zack Lopez 

Relaxed, informative and super enjoyable. Well done team!

Great interview from you guys as always and Tessa did a great job!

Crazy to hear all that info. Thanks for posting this interview! Been diggin' their sound ever since I saw them open for AiC on the Black Gives Way To Blue tour. Stoked to see 'em again on the 22nd.

MCR is great. Great songwriting with tons of feel. Reminds me of Sublime. Moreover, how does he play his guitar so low!

Great interview and what a crazy rig!

Such an underrated band….everyone I’ve shown Aunt Betty to ends up loving them. So much atmosphere it’s ridiculous to think it’s only two people in the band.

Tessa knows the differences between a wah and whammy, but she asked Zack the question because most guitarists generally prefer to use a wah for soloing, but a few guys like Morello and Lopez choose the whammy because they make a cognitive choice when crafting their sound. Zack seemed to understand where she was coming from and explained that he prefers the whammy for its pitch-shifting capabilities and because a wah can be transparent and hard to engage. Thanks for watching, --PG Staff

These rig rundowns are great not just for showing what people use but for introducing someone like me to a bunch of artists I really never heard of before. They may not shift albums in Adele like quantities or get played on mainstream radio but its good to know that you can have a career as a musician despite that...

great tones!!

It was a good review. She did a great job kind of poking for answers that the viewers wanted to know. He was cool about all of it too.

FINALLY! thank you!!!

good interview

Those are Zack's words when describing his love for the Whammy and why he personally never got into the wah pedal.

Good vid. Nice guy. Good interview. Nice.

awesome!

please do a rig rundown with alter bridge

what an inovator!

I have never tried a Wah or Whammy pedal personally ( I've only largely heard them in songs and guitarists like Slash, Morello, Matt Bellamy, Jonny Greenwood, ect) but what do you mean when you said the Wah can be transparent and hard to engage?

Pretty cool sounds, maybe I need to go out further in the sonic spectrum. Good interview.

Great!

My thoughts as well. I got it, and so did Zach so hey.

17:50 he says "the open is on the 9th"--- what does that mean?

I really like this one. It really gets into the guts

I like Tessa! Good shit.

Dudes cool.

Tessa, while not Rebbeca, seems ok in my books. KEEP EM COMING!

Good job honey. Don't listen to the haters.

Guys you have to do a Tame Impala rig rundown

Rebecca Dirks where are you

"yeah yeah"

05:08 "Control Iraqi effects unit???"

Rebecca was really pretty, and did a good job, this girl is an excellent replacement if that is the case, I think she is awesome too ! good choice PG ! ! and thanks for the Vidya's ! Love em ! ! ! ! ! !

Very cool interview. Zack is a super cool guy and love his guitars. Gotta give Tessa a break about the whammy/wah comment. She is new :) Welcome!

Please do my bloody valentine

This guy is cool as shit. I would've never known who they are. I'm listening to them now on Google Music and they are great.

He creates some insane sounding guitar effects. But my god, a pedal board that over the top would give me a migraine!

The headstock angle on that Gibson....jesus

Rebecca will be greatly missed, but Tessa is doing a good job!

I think it's hilarious that we guitar nerds are all up and arms about Premier Guitar's internal staffing decisions. Rebebba Dirks is gone! Oh noes!!!

Good Job tessa, but i miss my becca

Spontaneous Human Combustion. Sad really, it was a preexisting condition under control with help from prescribed medication and some counseling, but Vernon Reid's guitar rig was so complicated she fucking exploded, dude...

Where's Rebecca dirks!

Rebecca is gone something happened don't know what. : (

You too?

She's hot, also my dream rig.

Someone get me back Rebecca

She is caliente!

She's left PG.

Also that G always out of tune thing is so true with Gibsons. Still the best guitars though

She's hotter than Rebecca!

Dude sounds like Korn. Lame.