I love how some of the best guitarists that gig worldwide don't do the pristine perfectly set up pedalboard. Makes me feel better about my own set up.😅
Have you ever gotten so tired of chasing tones and buying pedals that you just wanted to say f’ it and buy a modeler of some sort? Lol thanks for the info as always. I like that your branching out and examining other cool players. Jack White has some new material out have you ever considered digging into his rig? I think Mayer, Fruscante and White are literally the last 3 guitar hero’s of mainstream popular music.
I have considered it but I got a line 6 helix and I love it but it doesn’t replace a lot of the sounds of my pedals particularly wah octafuzz klon echoplex delay green Russian muff etc just doesn’t sound the same but can get close but close isn’t good enough for me.
I got the modeler first...then built out a killer analog board in contrast to it ...I have an either or dual avenue that I can blend together in a hundred ways.. Boss gt1 processor and it's awesome...
Modeling just feels dirty. Not like in a distortion or noise way. But When I play thru analog pedals and a tube amp. I feel warm and happy inside. My soul feels connected to the sound coming back into my ears. Once a DAC is involved the quality gets chopped into peices. Rearranged and then sliced back together. That takes nanoseconds. But as a player it can be felt. You hear someone else play digital it will sound good because you aren’t perceiving that delay. I’m not even saying I can Hear that delay with my ears. Its more of a feelling thing. I don’t know why I’m explaining this all here. But modeling is just not fun
If I'm correct, this is the first time we see a Dyna Comp on John's live pedalboard, and actually first time we get confirmation of him actually using one. People figured he used one during BSSM recording, but all you could tell was there was a pedal with two knobs thats it. No color to go off of.
It makes sense that he would use the Ibanez WH10V3 for live performances because of the pedals being made of plastic and thus being very easy to break.
I’m curious about the pedal order. I know the order of the pedals in the NS-2 loop is: dyna comp-78 distortion-DS-2-SD-1-variac fuzz-micro amp. It’s not clear where the reverb, wah and chorus are in the order.
i tried dialing my ce-1 into high mode and dialing down my pedals. funny that my finely dialed ce1 preamp looks EXACTLY how he set it, but i'm still sticking with 1990-06 tones overall.
Wow, a lot of MXR pedals! The Boss stuff isn’t as surprising. It’s too bad there’s no rundown that says which songs use each specific pedal. Keeps us guessing! 😉🤷🏼♀️ I’d also be interested to know if John is using different pedals than Josh did for many years. Josh had a MASSIVE pedal board (I don’t even know how he managed that all lol), and John doesn’t seem to use nearly as many. Is he going to strip down Josh’s sound for any songs performed during the years that he wasn’t in the band - or will he bump up his collection and stay true to the sound Josh was producing? That’s what I’ve been wondering . . . .
John won't play any of the stuff when Josh was in the band, I can pretty much guarantee it. It is also more the other way around. Josh had a massive board because John did all the years prior. John's Stadium Arcadium board was way bigger and way more complex than anything Josh had to deal with. In order to play the songs before his time Josh needed a large board to duplicate all of those sounds. If anything Josh tried to blend his own sound with John's which was good, but John won't go backwards into an era that he wasn't apart of and try and adopt Josh's sound. They never played any of Dave Navarro's stuff when John rejoined and sadly it'll be the same this go around. Shame cause I love some of the songs they released with Josh.
@@JustinJeske thanks! I didn’t think about the fact that this “song avoiding” thing has already happened twice before with the RHCP, lol. It is a shame. Here’s my issue: lots of bands go through different members for a variety of reasons (both good and bad), but those bands still play anything from the band’s catalog regardless of who ultimately gets credit for the song - Metallica comes to mind, GnR, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, etc. . . . I mean it’s rare to have the same lineup from start to finish. Imagine if Metallica never played any songs from before Trujillo’s days, lol. That would mean us fans would never get to hear the songs we love most and the rest of the band members who were there would get punished by not getting to enjoy playing those songs. I don’t know how other RHCP fans feel about it, but that’s my take. Maybe we should start a campaign to petition the RHCP to play the music from Josh and Dave’s eras going forward. I understand the reasoning here of guitarists trying to avoid playing each other’s work but a) it’s also the work of three other band members who’ve been there the entire time or nearly the entire time, and it’s unfair that the rest of the band doesn’t get to play a lot of amazing songs as a result, and b) it’s ultimately supposed to be about the fans getting to enjoy the music of the collective band, isn’t it? I dunno. I also was looking back at the old pedal boards. It’s seems you’re right about that! The last time I looked at John’s board from back in the day, it seemed smaller! 😂🤷🏼♀️
@@MashaT22 the deal with that is, John doesn't feel connected to songs he didn't write and simply doesn't want to play them, the only exceptions seem to be Me & My Friends or the occasional Skinny Sweaty Man. But the reality is, the bulk of the Chili's biggest chart successes were the albums John played on, so...you get mostly songs from BSSM and Californication, going to be a lot of the new stuff, with a smattering from By the Way and Stadium Arcadium, a few jams, MAYBE something from Mother's Milk, a Dead Kennedys or Talking Heads cover sung by John, and that's gonna be the format going forward folks.
Or you could do the digitech hothead. Pretty cheap buy, but splitting he eq into bass and treble really helps. I wish I had a ds1 mod with the crunch option of the 78 (which is basically the keeley mod) and the bass/treble knobs of the hothead. Overall, I really like these pedals for a low medium gain.
The 78 distortion its just a mod (Kelley mod ish) in the DS-1 so no far from home for him.. maybe thats why he has two DS-2 now .. one on mod1 and one on mode2..
I read the article. It's nice to John back in the mags, but there were errors with the spec's they gave on John's guitars that seemed pretty sloppy for a guitar magazine... also, wish they showed his guitars more... hoping we get better coverage as we go.
@@JustinJeske one example: for the i could have lied solo, they said John used his '59 strat when in fact he used a reissue '57 goldtop.for soul to squeeze, he used a blackface twin (seen in funky monks video). at another point they refer to his '55 strat as a '58 (somewhere around his BTW gear section). they refer to his OTM jag as a '66, when it is a '65 (you can tell by the tuners). thats a couple off the top of my head.
@@JustinJeske also, it says his '62 strat has the original 'hand-wound' pickups. that needs some clarification. did he have the originals re-wound? we know they were replaced by Dave w/ regular fender pickups.
@@elmerfudd743 Ah yeah totally. I only really paid attention to the parts for Unlimited Love since I was making videos on that section. They could have also been a bit more specific with what was used on UL but it's better than nothing!
This is kind of the dumbest thing ever. Anything recorded goes through a massive production. That almost anything can be manipulated to sound like anything. Production is the thing that people never seem to understand. Don’t chase tone by buying what someone used, chase it by getting the sound that works for you.
I agree completely in regards to studio recording. I think what's most interesting is the choices for live work and I can't understand for the life of me why someone at this level has no switcher and a board that looks so potentially unreliable..... but hey, who am I to judge... clearly works for him.
@@roscius6204 Probably because switchers weren't really a thing back in the 90's. Pedal and amp makers (mostly the boutique builders) have used youtube to really push gear, and have sponsored RUclipsrs all for marketing all in an attempt too make you think this sounds better than that and that you need to buy this next newest version of this. Not much of this stuff was around in the 90's, and most of those killer tones were found with run of the mill boss type pedals that musicians actually used the knobs on to tweek. Mike McCready and Stone still use pretty much the same pedals also, and no switchers. People forget that there is way way more gear out now and there is some sort of weird imphasis on what gear you are using vs just getting a good tone and playing. It's the negative side of youtube guitar vides.
@@user-tz2zz5ij1s For sure, everything is about perception. Though there is some amazing new gear and the ability to run midi switchable analog signals is pretty good. This is now though isn't it? I was thinking more about the obvious advantages of presets and not having to literally stomp on old favorites.
@@roscius6204 I think, and I’m just assuming via personal anecdote, I’m in my mid to late 30’s and grew up just stepping on whichever pedal or pedals. It’s second nature for me and adds a little excitement while playing live. For guys like John who are older by 10+ years, I imagine it’s kind of the same thing. Plus when you are playing live sometimes you just want to add this effect or the other out of the blue, and if your board is all presets you don’t really have that freedom. I’m sure some switchers probably have some sort of option where you can layer on top of a preset? But if you are already used to it, why overcomplicate and learn a new way to do it?
@@user-tz2zz5ij1s I've gone round the track a few times. Boss pedals in the 80's Midi racks and floor switchers in the 90's . Straight to amp in the 2000's and then here I am back at midi. In all fairness it's mostly as studio setup. Switchers are a great way to have everything set up and on call. and a really good way to keep using vintage gear.
Justin Jeske - Master of all things “John”
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Good info! You're up to date! 🔥🌶
Amem!
Ha I'm trying brotha! 😅
I love how some of the best guitarists that gig worldwide don't do the pristine perfectly set up pedalboard. Makes me feel better about my own set up.😅
Have you ever gotten so tired of chasing tones and buying pedals that you just wanted to say f’ it and buy a modeler of some sort? Lol thanks for the info as always. I like that your branching out and examining other cool players. Jack White has some new material out have you ever considered digging into his rig? I think Mayer, Fruscante and White are literally the last 3 guitar hero’s of mainstream popular music.
I have considered it but I got a line 6 helix and I love it but it doesn’t replace a lot of the sounds of my pedals particularly wah octafuzz klon echoplex delay green Russian muff etc just doesn’t sound the same but can get close but close isn’t good enough for me.
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I got the modeler first...then built out a killer analog board in contrast to it
...I have an either or dual avenue that I can blend together in a hundred ways.. Boss gt1 processor and it's awesome...
Modeling just feels dirty. Not like in a distortion or noise way. But When I play thru analog pedals and a tube amp. I feel warm and happy inside. My soul feels connected to the sound coming back into my ears. Once a DAC is involved the quality gets chopped into peices. Rearranged and then sliced back together. That takes nanoseconds. But as a player it can be felt. You hear someone else play digital it will sound good because you aren’t perceiving that delay. I’m not even saying I can Hear that delay with my ears. Its more of a feelling thing. I don’t know why I’m explaining this all here. But modeling is just not fun
@@Ottophil it's called feel and sag my man..🤘🎸
He probably needs the noise suppressor if he is layering 3 different distortion/overdrive/fuzz pedals
Thank you for making this video. I love the guitar sounds on UL.
If I'm correct, this is the first time we see a Dyna Comp on John's live pedalboard, and actually first time we get confirmation of him actually using one. People figured he used one during BSSM recording, but all you could tell was there was a pedal with two knobs thats it. No color to go off of.
Yeah besides the picture of him in the studio with what appeared to be one I don't ever remember seeing a board with one on it!
It makes sense that he would use the Ibanez WH10V3 for live performances because of the pedals being made of plastic and thus being very easy to break.
Wow these videos are awesome. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
I’m curious about the pedal order. I know the order of the pedals in the NS-2 loop is: dyna comp-78 distortion-DS-2-SD-1-variac fuzz-micro amp.
It’s not clear where the reverb, wah and chorus are in the order.
It’s kinda strange that on this board the SD-1 comes after the DS-2 but on the small board he recently uses the SD-1 comes before the DS-2.
Wah is always after DS-2 cause DS-2 has so epic mid boost (turbo mode) the wah effect wont come thru if the wah is first.
Yeah I really want a better picture of the full board to come out so we can start to have some clue as to the full order on the massive rig
i tried dialing my ce-1 into high mode and dialing down my pedals. funny that my finely dialed ce1 preamp looks EXACTLY how he set it, but i'm still sticking with 1990-06 tones overall.
Wow, a lot of MXR pedals! The Boss stuff isn’t as surprising. It’s too bad there’s no rundown that says which songs use each specific pedal. Keeps us guessing! 😉🤷🏼♀️
I’d also be interested to know if John is using different pedals than Josh did for many years. Josh had a MASSIVE pedal board (I don’t even know how he managed that all lol), and John doesn’t seem to use nearly as many. Is he going to strip down Josh’s sound for any songs performed during the years that he wasn’t in the band - or will he bump up his collection and stay true to the sound Josh was producing? That’s what I’ve been wondering . . . .
John won't play any of the stuff when Josh was in the band, I can pretty much guarantee it. It is also more the other way around. Josh had a massive board because John did all the years prior. John's Stadium Arcadium board was way bigger and way more complex than anything Josh had to deal with. In order to play the songs before his time Josh needed a large board to duplicate all of those sounds. If anything Josh tried to blend his own sound with John's which was good, but John won't go backwards into an era that he wasn't apart of and try and adopt Josh's sound. They never played any of Dave Navarro's stuff when John rejoined and sadly it'll be the same this go around. Shame cause I love some of the songs they released with Josh.
John really doesn't play much of the Hillel/Jack or Navarro eras live so I doubt he'll play much from the Josh era either
@@JustinJeske thanks! I didn’t think about the fact that this “song avoiding” thing has already happened twice before with the RHCP, lol. It is a shame. Here’s my issue: lots of bands go through different members for a variety of reasons (both good and bad), but those bands still play anything from the band’s catalog regardless of who ultimately gets credit for the song - Metallica comes to mind, GnR, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, etc. . . . I mean it’s rare to have the same lineup from start to finish. Imagine if Metallica never played any songs from before Trujillo’s days, lol. That would mean us fans would never get to hear the songs we love most and the rest of the band members who were there would get punished by not getting to enjoy playing those songs. I don’t know how other RHCP fans feel about it, but that’s my take.
Maybe we should start a campaign to petition the RHCP to play the music from Josh and Dave’s eras going forward. I understand the reasoning here of guitarists trying to avoid playing each other’s work but a) it’s also the work of three other band members who’ve been there the entire time or nearly the entire time, and it’s unfair that the rest of the band doesn’t get to play a lot of amazing songs as a result, and b) it’s ultimately supposed to be about the fans getting to enjoy the music of the collective band, isn’t it?
I dunno. I also was looking back at the old pedal boards. It’s seems you’re right about that! The last time I looked at John’s board from back in the day, it seemed smaller! 😂🤷🏼♀️
@@MashaT22 the deal with that is, John doesn't feel connected to songs he didn't write and simply doesn't want to play them, the only exceptions seem to be Me & My Friends or the occasional Skinny Sweaty Man. But the reality is, the bulk of the Chili's biggest chart successes were the albums John played on, so...you get mostly songs from BSSM and Californication, going to be a lot of the new stuff, with a smattering from By the Way and Stadium Arcadium, a few jams, MAYBE something from Mother's Milk, a Dead Kennedys or Talking Heads cover sung by John, and that's gonna be the format going forward folks.
3:10 He definitely uses the carbon copy in the ending solo of “It’s Only Natural”
You can hear that iconic self-oscillation in the background.
The fuzz is definitely the most interesting pedal on the album. Im not a fan of the album or Johns contribution on it but the fuzz tone is great.
It's so funny seeing john using the wh10 v3, since he's the sole reason that the v2 and v3 exists.
you can get caline osmium cp-501 which is also a modded ds1 with an improved tone control instead of the mxr 78.
Or you could do the digitech hothead. Pretty cheap buy, but splitting he eq into bass and treble really helps. I wish I had a ds1 mod with the crunch option of the 78 (which is basically the keeley mod) and the bass/treble knobs of the hothead. Overall, I really like these pedals for a low medium gain.
the black mystery pedals are mxr reverbs.
Great video great audio sounds
loool i was telling people on the gear page forum exactly what he apparently said in interview about why his rig was and is soo big.
keep doing the fru stuff and go deep with it~
Great videos! Thanks!
Love the video
CAN YOU PUT UP SOME SCREEN SHOTS OF THE DIGITAL COPY OF THE MAGAZINE? sorry for shouting lol x
Thanks man it’s super interesting
The 78 distortion its just a mod (Kelley mod ish) in the DS-1 so no far from home for him.. maybe thats why he has two DS-2 now .. one on mod1 and one on mode2..
I read the article. It's nice to John back in the mags, but there were errors with the spec's they gave on John's guitars that seemed pretty sloppy for a guitar magazine... also, wish they showed his guitars more... hoping we get better coverage as we go.
What errors did you notice? I'll have to go back and re-read it.
@@JustinJeske one example: for the i could have lied solo, they said John used his '59 strat when in fact he used a reissue '57 goldtop.for soul to squeeze, he used a blackface twin (seen in funky monks video). at another point they refer to his '55 strat as a '58 (somewhere around his BTW gear section). they refer to his OTM jag as a '66, when it is a '65 (you can tell by the tuners). thats a couple off the top of my head.
@@JustinJeske also, it says his '62 strat has the original 'hand-wound' pickups. that needs some clarification. did he have the originals re-wound? we know they were replaced by Dave w/ regular fender pickups.
@@elmerfudd743 Ah yeah totally. I only really paid attention to the parts for Unlimited Love since I was making videos on that section. They could have also been a bit more specific with what was used on UL but it's better than nothing!
good work thanks! 😉
Thanks for the info
Great broo!!!!
I just bought the Maestro Comet Chorus and it is a good affordable way to get a nice chorus effect like the CE-1
I got the BMF Liquid Sky and it's amazing
Yes, but what about the signal chain?
I reckon he starts with his guitar and ends at his amp. Hope that helps. 🤣🤣🤣
I have some theories but I won't release a video until I am more confident
I'm pretty sure he chooses his own pedals for a reason and doesn't build aboard cuz a company sent him pedals..these are his choices
How does he set up the noise suppressor? I need to know. It eats my sustain
It’s unlikely that he would talk about every pedal used in he studio
beautiful i'm going to make a video about it too :D but not as well researched of course ...
como se puede usar en una boss gt1
Muito legal..
MXR promotion… feels weird
Wait? Red hot chili peppers still has a career?
This is kind of the dumbest thing ever. Anything recorded goes through a massive production. That almost anything can be manipulated to sound like anything. Production is the thing that people never seem to understand. Don’t chase tone by buying what someone used, chase it by getting the sound that works for you.
I agree completely in regards to studio recording.
I think what's most interesting is the choices for live work and I can't understand for the life of me why someone at this level has no switcher and a board that looks so potentially unreliable..... but hey, who am I to judge... clearly works for him.
@@roscius6204 Probably because switchers weren't really a thing back in the 90's. Pedal and amp makers (mostly the boutique builders) have used youtube to really push gear, and have sponsored RUclipsrs all for marketing all in an attempt too make you think this sounds better than that and that you need to buy this next newest version of this. Not much of this stuff was around in the 90's, and most of those killer tones were found with run of the mill boss type pedals that musicians actually used the knobs on to tweek. Mike McCready and Stone still use pretty much the same pedals also, and no switchers. People forget that there is way way more gear out now and there is some sort of weird imphasis on what gear you are using vs just getting a good tone and playing. It's the negative side of youtube guitar vides.
@@user-tz2zz5ij1s For sure, everything is about perception. Though there is some amazing new gear and the ability to run midi switchable analog signals is pretty good.
This is now though isn't it?
I was thinking more about the obvious advantages of presets and not having to literally stomp on old favorites.
@@roscius6204 I think, and I’m just assuming via personal anecdote, I’m in my mid to late 30’s and grew up just stepping on whichever pedal or pedals. It’s second nature for me and adds a little excitement while playing live. For guys like John who are older by 10+ years, I imagine it’s kind of the same thing. Plus when you are playing live sometimes you just want to add this effect or the other out of the blue, and if your board is all presets you don’t really have that freedom. I’m sure some switchers probably have some sort of option where you can layer on top of a preset? But if you are already used to it, why overcomplicate and learn a new way to do it?
@@user-tz2zz5ij1s I've gone round the track a few times. Boss pedals in the 80's
Midi racks and floor switchers in the 90's .
Straight to amp in the 2000's and then here I am back at midi.
In all fairness it's mostly as studio setup. Switchers are a great way to have everything set up and on call. and a really good way to keep using vintage gear.