My LIVE rig for 90's rock gig! 🔥 PEDALBOARD, GUITAR & AMP
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
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Soldano Astro 20 sweetwater.sjv.io/Jz1o6e
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Hi, my name is Michael Nielsen. I'm a composer/producer. I write music for movie trailers, video game soundtracks, commercials, movies and tv shows. This channel is dedicated to guitar related gear and music production. My production and publishing company is called Ninja Tracks. My guitar sound design is available for Kemper, TwoNotes, THU Overloud, IK ToneX, and IR's.
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We were lucky to have you! And looking forward to this month's adventure :)
instagram.com/themotherfathers_la/?locale=zh_CN&hl=af. Thanks! SO FUN!
Gotta say it gave me a ray of hope and a warm fuzzy feeling seeing you use a real amp and not a modeler for a live gig. Rock on!
Thank you for making this. Your knowledge of gear is like a master class to watch and learn from. What a dream rig you made, I’m hoping to get there some day.
Thanks for watching! 🙏Glad you enjoyed it!
"You oughta know" is so much fun to play , especially with a great female singer. Looks like you had fun.
@@TheOligoclonalBand totally! That song is ferocious! I get to play with them again, but them time on bass. I need to get to bass practicing! 😱
I played that song with a phenomenal singer in the band who had a bit of a Melissa Etheridge voice. That song and a lot of the other female voice songs we played were so good.
If you are half as good on bass as you are on guitar the band can be very happy.
Fantastic video and great info again! Thank you for doing what you do. Loving your IRs, just got you Big Ass Impulses. Sounds great 🎉.
Love this amp! Had it for about a month. Winning out verses other, more expensive amps.
The first one was that… I love this amp ❤
I know Michael, we love
❤️ soldano amps ❤️
The joy of playing live is leaking out of you man! Awesome!!!
This was awesome! Thanks! I’ve got the same Friedman board and I love it 😊
Very cool!!
Dude! Great vid, smart setup, love this kind of breakdown.
Great video start to finish! Interesting to see how a pro like you puts together a rig. Looks and sounds like you and the crowd really enjoyed it!
13:56 I've never seen Morissette rocked so hard.
P.S. There's not a day goes by I don't mess around on Pedal Playground, haha!
I love my Friedman pedalboard system too. Genius design! It just works.
That show looked like a gas! So cool to see you playing out, brother. Awesome :)
You always sound great and that is a sweet rig. When the chicks load up on the guitar side of the stage, you have achieved Rock Star status. When you sound that good, it's like fishing with dynamite....Ma....,Meatloaf!
Great video!! So fun to watch a video of a real pro approach a rig setup for a cover gig and the thought process in choosing the gear and why. I rarely use the exact same rig twice and always swap things in/out for different shows. Glad to see I’m doing similar things when thinking about rig choices and not just an over-obsessed, neurotic gear-head who needs to practice more. 🤣🤣 Well…..at least not completely…..
What a cool video. I was underwhelmed at this amp initially. I'm just an old-school guy that just wants to plug in, and play. If I have to start popping manuals, or opening software, it puts a real bad taste in my mouth. But, I was stunned at just how close this amp can get to an SLO 100. I scratch my head at why there aren't more videos showing that, given most people don't have $4+K for a 100 amp (nor the extra $700 for the attenuator needed to use it...but, I digress). For those who can get past the button-pushing, this is a really great sounding, practical amp. It's cool to see Michael sharing with us his live use with it. Well done!
The Astro IS a plug and play amp. It’s why I use it. Once you plug in and start playing with it you’ll see it’s super easy to play and to program its footswitch. Trust me, I hate programming gear.
@@nevusofota I just need to get one in front of me, one of these days (I know....rule #1 with ANY piece of gear). When I start seeing iPads, etc...I start getting a little squirrely. That, and up until recently, I had NO idea just how close to an SLO 100 that could sound. Thanks for the reply!
@@phillamoore157 just to let you know, I’ve gigged mine for the past 5 months and have yet to hook it up to a computer, haven’t even used the IR’s yet.
@@nevusofota 👍👍
Great video. Enjoyed and learned from it.
Dude, that's so cool! You're going to be great!
Whooo great great Michael and thx for your vid, regards ...
Many thanks! 🙏
Amazing video. Killer rig all round. Sounds like a brilliant night out too! I particularly liked the Leslie on hard to handle. That was really classy
The soldano is outrageous!!! So clever. It’s 2K though.
Yikes!
I’m doing a very similar setup for a Noughties band ironically!!
That direct sound on its own sounds so fizzy and liveless, but in the mix it's just perfect. I always find it hard to bend my brain into gig space, so the tone finds its place in the mix. :) Gorgeous rig, though! :D
Those Shabat Guitars look great. Andertons did a video on these at NAMM this year.
Great content I love these types of videos A+ 🤟🏻
What a great video!
Thank you very much. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I love the Friedman DS cab - I had one, sold it, and regret it.
loved this
Really enjoyed that!
Great Video covering all aspects and concerns. Very informative and great job as usual. Would have loved to see the show!
Thanks! I wish I had more video. I don’t have a ton from the show
Freaking Awesome
Great video! Great rig! 🤘
So I've been in a 90's rock cover band for a little over a decade now and was firmly in the 2000's heavy rock cover scene before that. Our band plays about 40 or so gigs a year and what I've come to realize is a few things...
- Less is more
- Budget/mid-grade gear easily gets the job done
- The audience doesn't care about anything but the singer getting the words right and even then, if the singer is entertaining, correct words are optional.
I used my Silver Jubilee and Captor X for the longest time along with the Stomp HX in the loop handling delay, chorus and solo boost. A wah and a good drive pedal and a volume pedal and wireless unit for the better part of 10 years and other than the wonky power supply for the HX, it can literally do everything a 90's cover band needs.
I've also gigged with my Katana artist MKII head with a midi controller and run the line out into a stomp HX and it too works great and allowed me to eliminate the stomp HX and boost pedal.
At this point, I either have the Katana on stage or I'm gigging with an amp I'm reviewing and running into the OX Box which does my reverb, delay and compressor setup as my solo boost. Headphone out to an FRFR behind me and one of the line out's to the PA. Volume, Wireless and Wah pedal on my board and I'm done.
Chorus is only needed if you're whipping out purple rain. Otherwise, leave it at home too.
2 of the other big cover bands in our city have their main guitar players also using the 100w Katana combo's with a couple of pedals and that's it. You need way less than you think and seeing your board and all the channels on the soldano gave me anxiety.
I'm testing out the Fender tonemaster pro also and I've got 4 gigs with that under my belt and the combination of ease of use, great sounds and I/O flexibility have quickly made it one of the better all in one gigging solutions I've used. I like it better than my FM3 honestly because of how dead simple it is to work with on stage.
Try running through your setlist with a more stripped down setup. It's a bizarrely liberating experience.
Hi FRPCar. Everything you said, I would agree with. Even the liberating part. But, since I only have a few live shows a year (if that) it's fun to try out the toys. If I was playing a few a month, I'm sure I would totally streamline.
@@BigHairyGuitars Yeah we've played a few big shows and I've rolled out the whole Splawn Nitro + SLO double whammy running the Nitro into my Splawn 4x12 and the SLO into a Port City oversized 2x12 with the boutique stereo pedals going to each amp for effects. It's absolutely absurd but it looks RAD and panning one amp hard left and another hard right with those stereo effects sounds SO good. It's literally like an hour and a half setup though and when I was gigigng with just the FM3 pedalboard and an FRFR, it wasy maybe 15 minutes to setup, sound check, setup a couple cameras and be ready to go.
It's that packing up everything at 1:30~2AM where the pedalboard rig truly makes me happy.
Cool video my man 💯😎
Man looks like it was a good show. You should post the whole video!
Love it thanks for the insight man
Mini-skirt girl is goin' HARD
SLO 100 with Astro features the next big release at Soldano. Coming soon to a theatre near you.
Great video and Badass rig! For the title i expect a PRS into a Rectifier kind of thing... Hahaha
we're in the guitar world
of cables go bad, strings break, tubes red plate, speakers burst, beer get"s spilled on things and it explodes. we're living on the edge. -MN
11:16 when I wake up in my make up
12:19 say it ain’t sooooooo
I spend most of my time on the crunch channel on my 92 SLO. I think I need this Astro 20!
Yeah me too! The Astro really expands on the SLO crunch channel.
You guys sounded tight, always nice to see the Black Crows get some love and u nailed that tone 😁 Btw, the Lynchback speaker is sooo good, I wish they'd bring it back, name change or whatever...
Thanks! Yeah, the Crowes are pretty underrated IMHO. Yeah, I'm surprised that Celestion hasn't rebranded that speaker. It's a really great one.
This. Not modellers. This I could live with and not be unhappy and neutered.
I think this sorta think is the way. A light amp, with lots of tones and IR output. All of this is WAAAAY more fun than just programming a modeler. It's like a live modeler just squeezes the joy out of it.
Croc Power 😎
I’ll just keep my old fashion pedalboard, some of us don’t have the money to buy all that and don’t have friends that can build professional boards
My dream is a 90s rock band.
I'd have to use a half stack. Maybe my Bogner Shiva or Revv Generator. Maybe an Ecstacy. Lucky man.
I'll never use anything smaller than a 412 again. You lose that size and girth, muscular tone.
When we giggled, we never had a mic on the cabs. We always used stage volume for guitar but going direct is cool. The Revv does that too.
Seems like a cool amp but I worry it lacks the bigness of a 100 watt head. It's not about volume it's about muscular girth that I always notice 100w heads have more off than anything smaller.
That Bogner Ecstacy 50 watt you reviewed would have worked well too.
Cool video.
I was just about to buy an Astro 20 but now I want to try the Engl Steve Morse 20 before I pull the trigger.
Best video of all time , but I would suggest you keep this little rig at the ready as-is , as I expect you have been bit by the live gigging bug and will need this setup again sooner than you thought 💭
OH 10000%. The RJM, and the ASTRO are such a mean pair! And yep. I'm looking around like, "Where else can I play out!?!" 🤩
@@BigHairyGuitarsdon’t worry, you’ll get offers. Once you play out a few times you’ll meet people and word gets out, especially with your great playing. Don’t dismantle that board anytime soon.
EVH Stealth and a few pedals, let's jam !
Nice one!
Thank you Angus! Cheers!
Nice rig! The one thing I got out of this, Chicks dig the Whammy.
HAHAH!! I'll tell my wife that. Can't wait to see her reaction.
@@BigHairyGuitars 😂 she'll be up front keeping the other women from attacking you.
why not to use a Kemper,Tonex or QC,pretty sure you will get an awesome sound with any of those units
Because this video would have been, “I got a fill-in gig with a cool ‘90’s cover band and I was super excited to put together a rig and play amazing songs with an actual live band who use real amps……but I just decided to use a Kemper. Thanks for watching…..”. 😕
He wanted a cab on stage. So now he needs a Quad Cortex and a powered speaker or a power amp and cab. The Astro gives you the same stage footprint with, dare I say, a better quality and punchier real tube tone? Plus, real tube amps are just cooler to many.
Flies in the vasoline we are
A single speaker eliminates the phase relationship between speakers that can create some killer harmonics and organic life in your sound.
You should stream the show Mike.
Great video! Now I want an ISP decimate micro. I can decide between the micro x and the micro x G? Any reason you didn’t go with the G?
Bro this is an hour video. I'm out lol but I did give you a thumbs up. :D
@@lookmanostrings ha! I’ll take it😁
@@BigHairyGuitars :)
Brilliant, as ever…super in depth but neither boring or over your head. My only change would be the switcher. I’ve been using the BOSS ES8 since it was released and it is by far the simplest to use…and I use it so it must be simple. I love RJM and Ron is a bloody star the amount of times he’s explained/done things for me but I still don’t find their way of doing stuff understandable…obviously that’s my shortcoming, but the BOSS is simplicity itself.
I do have a question, though…why did you run the H90 into the front of the amp?
One video that has not been shown in all of RUclips yet; the Soldano Astro 20 being used live
@@nevusofota great cover of Burning like a flame, man! 🔥
@@UseTheSupeRsonic thanks! 🤘
Nice setup! Do I detect, perhaps an embarrassing, story behind the painters tape on the back of the amp?
I am seeing things, including the amp, that we have never seen down here, at the southern end of Africa. Dang! We so need a Friedman importer/distributor/retail outlet!
Jim are you in Africa!!!!?
I put painters tape in everything. 😂. It’s like post it notes for guitar rigs
@@BigHairyGuitars yes. Pretoria, South Africa.
That amp/IR sounds sound incredible!!! Which IR are you using from your pack?
Thanks. I'm using IR's from my Big Hairy Guitars pack.
I think it was the BHG M412 Greenback 57 57.
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The one that was showing in the video is from Ownhammer. I ended up using my Greenback because it was a little fatter. The one labeled OH BE-412 is an ownhammer friedman cab IR
Hello Michael. Fantastic and versatile solution to a true live challenge.
Is there any possibility to get all of the IR that you are using?
Can it be bought somewhere or so?
Thanks so much! Yep, I have my iR’s for sale
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@@BigHairyGuitars Fantastic. I have bought that one, which of the IRs is that you use for this rig?
Another great vid! On my last look Pedal Board Playground didn't have the Friedman boards? Is there a link to the OH BE423 IR you loaded in to the Astro?
I ended up using one of my own. That Oh is by Ownhammer. I’m not sure which pack that came from, I’m sure if you search on their site it’ll come up
@@BigHairyGuitars Thanks, I had a quick look around the Own Hammer site but no luck with that specific IR. I do have their Friedman IR pack for Helix.
I just picked up your Tone X Cust 3+ and Boggy and love the included IRs. Also have all the ones you did for 2 Notes. I like that yours aren't fizzy like so many others. Keep cranking out the good stuff! Cheers
Do you have an IR of that Lynchback, I was not finding one on the Two Notes dynaIRs.
Yep it’s this one: www.two-notes.com/en/product/bhg-the-guru/
Thanks I will pick that one up...@@BigHairyGuitars
Loved your rig.Have you tried the Wampler RATSBANE? It's tiny and sounds awesome with 3 settings. And a voice switch with more mids!
My favorite Rat
Have it on my board as my third gain stage. Such a great little pedal.
No. I shoulda checked that out. I read that it was more Rat inspired and not true Rat. 🤷🏻♂️
@@BigHairyGuitars Keeley makes great stuff too. I really want to try that super rodent and the blues disorder. Btw, Great video, as always.
@@BigHairyGuitars it has the Rat circuit plus two other positions, then a voice switch, with more midrange.
Great to see you playing my friend... solder-less cables and zip ties kinda hurt my heart- but I love you just the same. Killer rig/ Killer playing!
HAHA! I got it down to just 1 solderless cable by the time all was said and done. That's pretty good for me. 🤣
haha michael shows up to a bar gig with a modern bradshaw rig. Over kill I think but they should have known better if they asked you. I would have probably used a tonex and a H90 and call it a day.
haha! 100%. I'm going to be filling in a bass with them for their next show, and I'm bringing an Ampeg SVT and a 8x10 cab. 😈🔥😈
Nice video! Do you run the H90 through the amp’s effects loop?
No, the Echosystem was through the loop. I ran the H90 straight into the front of the amp
I am torn between saving up to get the Soldano Astro 20 or the Synergy IR 20 and a Soldano II module.
The Blue, Purple, Red gain is hard to beat in flexibility. I would use my Two Notes Torpedo Captor 8 to send pre/power dry to stereo fx section send my stereo outs to return to my stereo Two Notes Torpedo Cab M plus IR boxes and send stereo XLR to PA and drive my stereo powered amp/cabs. Dual 1x12 semi-open stage
I am curious about that switcher. Ultimately I want my stereo fx closer to my amp and midi switch them remotely. I could reduce cables going back and forth. Anyways I also like what you described with the Friedman board system. Very cool.
That’s a tough one! I honestly think it comes down to a couple things. Do you want to look back and see your amp with a Soldano logo? Also the Astro goes from clean with nice low and mid gain tones and nice high gain. The Syn has a great clean, but the SLO module is more of a burly high gain affair. So if you’re more clean / high gain, the Syn will be great. If you need access to a full range of gain levels, you’d probably want the Astro or Syn-2 so you can drop in 2 modules. The new Syn 20 (I think) is gonna be priced much cheaper than the Astro
Did I miss how you powered the H90?
Oh yeah, I probably should have mentioned that. I ordered a custom cable that uses 2 ports on the Friedman Power, and is a current doubler (Voodoo Lab 2.1mm Current Doubler Adapter Cable), with the proper polarity cable. Kind of a pain, but now that I have the doubler cable, it's no big deal
@@BigHairyGuitars Oddly enough I have both of those cables. Been trying to plan a pedalboard and this video helped. Thanks for all the info you give out on your channel.
I'm surprised you didn't take out the Synergy setup. Great info, I'm still on the fence about getting that Soldano Astro. You sound like you're nursing a cold. Take care of yourself Mike.
I was just getting over a nasty cold. I thought about taking the Synergy but the Syn2 and power amp was way heavier to carry. But it would have been a good option.
You must be getting paid a lot to endorse the astro so much... seems like the SLO 100 would be better? In a hard rock/metal band, in your opinion/experience, what would say would be the best head for a rhythm guitarist that is playing with a lead guitarist using the SLO 100? Would the Mesa Triple Crown 100 or even the Bogner Uberschall mkII KT88 150 be a good choice?
Michael was 20 watt amp loud enough/had enough headroom? 🙂
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Great video, the Astro 20 is on the top of my list right now. Did you find it was loud enough and you had enough headroom on the Green Channel playing with the rest of the band... especially with a drummer?
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@@nevusofota Thank you! Yes I caught that earlier... I'm asking about the Green channel specifically. There have been comments on some forum posts that there's not enough clean headroom for that channel in a live band setting. Just wondering what Michael experienced.
@@NasserSharaf I’ve had no issues with the volume of the clean channel. I posted a live video of my band covering the song Wait by White Lion. I think it may be a good example of the volume comparison going from clean to dirty. I use a compressor in the loop for my clean tone. Hope it helps.
The only real issue I had was that the 1x12 didn’t throw as wide as a 2x12 that the other guys were using. I rehearsed one day using the Astro and a 412 and THAT was awesome.
@@BigHairyGuitars Great to know that it's enough juice on Green. Seems like a fantastic and versatile amp.🤘
Cool amp, cool pedalboard,cool pedals, cool studio, cool camera and so on BUT. I can’t even imagine going through all of that amp and board setup to play cover songs for 20 ppl in a tiny bar. Nope.
What is the bands name? Homepage?
The MotherFathers. instagram.com/themotherfathers_la?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
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Great video start to finish! Interesting to see how a pro like you puts together a rig. Looks and sounds like you and the crowd really enjoyed it!