I am almost 60 years old. This is a really nice visit with a really awesome professional. Thank you for letting us come into you office and see how you work. Really nice to see all your life collection of guitars and to just visit with you. Thank you for taking time to just share what this part of your life and work is about. I enjoyed the visit. This is a a nice way to see how it gets done by a pro. For Some of us dreamers this is our only way to see the way it is done. James in Dallas, Texas.
I've watched Dave online many times and have seen REO several times. Dave seems like a great person, and I love how much he enjoys everything about guitars. Dave has played those REO songs probably a thousand times, but every time he seems like he's having a blast. Keep up the good work Dave!
Dave Amato is an awesome guitar player. From Reo Speedwagon. I saw him playing before he is totally cool God Bless him on the road in the near future. I hope take good care of himself during the. Covid 19 pandemic stay healthy dave
I saw REO in SoCal this last summer......Dave has a SERIOUSLY great live sound....Its as close to the sound in my head as Ive ever heard. Les Paul and cranked Marshalls.....
AH! An ES-335 from the Custom Shop in Memphis. He has a red one AND a blue one. Love that Pelham blue with a Bigsby vibrato and the "custom-made" sticker from 50's. SICK!
Dave certainly has the highest quality guitar arsenal including the best technology. A pleasure, how happily Nick and Dave talk. The customs with three pickups are also a penchant for me. Thanks Sweetwater and Nick
That JCM800 amp, Dave Amato has in his rig, is the 100-watt Marshall model of the 2205 (which is the 50-watt amp that Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave uses). And he hasn't changed his tone on the amp since!
I like that patch on the display of the Custom Audio Electronics controller. "Mr. Clean" (named after a brand of cleaning products). A good laugh on that.
The Ovation company in New Hartford, Connecticut is very innovative. Taking it to a new level with their technology. I heard Bob Marley used one, but a nice bluish-white hue.
To me, Dave Amato is a superb, top guitar player, one of the very best. Unfortunately, he's kind of overlooked, I guess as the great Terry Kath (Chicago) was too. Dave Amato is 🎸uitar 👑ing!
The triple-pickup Les Paul Custom always gets a whole lot of fun. Up position is the neck pickup, down is the bridge. And in the center, it's the bridge and middle (those two which sounds like a fat Stratocaster tone). Kind of thin and nasal, but sounds good.
That '56 Fender Strat Dave has is vintage-looking. For a nice shiny glossy finish, I use 3M auto body imperial hand glaze instead of wax on my custom guitars and basses.
Dave is as cool and fun to be around as he is laid back. He is genuinely stoked with living life. He is cool as hell but when he plays, he's all business. I got to hang out with him at Namn in 89? He good friends with my friend Joshua (another monster player) He knew everyone in the biz and everyone wanted Dave to play their shit. Jim Marshall was really fond of Dave. Same when we went to the Gibson and Fender booth. He was like Royalty. Your seeing 25% of his ability in REO Speedwagon.
A Marshall Valvestate 80/80 power amp in the rack. I'm actually getting one for my Rocktron Prophesy I guitar preamp out to two slanted Marshall 4x12" cabinets for monitoring, but no mics.
Dave is not that effects heavy. He just uses reverb from an old Lexicon PCM70, an 850 millisecond delay from the TC Electronic 2290 for solos, compression from a dbx compressor, an Eventide harmonizer like Steve Vai, a Leslie cabinet simulator by Hammond (the good old Hammond B3 through a Leslie), a Uni-Vibe like Jimi Hendrix used, a Line 6 MM4 modeler for a nice lush chorus and a Vox wah-wah pedal in the FX loop to his Bob Bradshaw (Custom Audio Electronics) switching system.
Surprised to see the overall master on 1. Haven't played this model. It must still be very loud. On stage he needs to coax a note into feedback on a couple tunes.
Eric Clapton does his show with only 2 electric guitars. A main one and a back up. 11 guitars for 14 songs is a non sens. And today's guitarists would play better live if they were using a main guitar for almost the full show, because they would feel very confortable with it. This is how it used to be. Hendrix didn't change his guitar for every songs, he used one for the show. The same for Jimmy page, Jeff Beck, and many others.
LOVE DAVE BUT IN REALITY..... I SEEN JEFF BECK PLAYING OUT OF ONE TWEED FENDER PRO JR IN CONCERT WITH A TOTALLY AMAZING SOUND SO IN MY OPINION ALL THIS STUFF IS NOT NEEDED PERIOD ,
I heard Connecticut has wide-open spaces. I mean, COME ON! What would the citizens of the state Connecticut have to offer us in our world? Lyme disease. Thank you.
LOL. Someone is still stuck in the 80’s with all that old rack gear. I don’t think the drunk cougars at the shows will notice a difference if REO Speedwagon were playing through a Kemper Profiler or Line 6 Helix. 😂
@@smoggy1964 I toured with rack gear and a couple of 4x12 cabs for 10 yrs. MIDI switching with a Ground Control Pro foot switcher. I got rid of all that nonsense, and haven't looked back. I have a bunch of boutique tube heads which I use at home and in the studio, but gig with a Kemper Profiler. There are older players like Steve Vai who are always open to trying out new technology, and then there are those that are stuck in the past or too stubborn to adapt to new technology. Being in my 40's now, I will even say that I wish all the gear that exists today existed 20 yrs ago or even 10 yrs ago. A lot of companies are really changing the game.
I'm sure this guy's great, but massive rack systems with 8 backup systems and 48 guitars really bore me. I'd rather see a small pedalboard and 1 or 2 guitars that do it all. Just my preference. Ninety nine percent of the guitarists in the world can't afford a knob off of a custom shop guitar and this guy has tons of them.
Bore you ? Gave ME a freaking boner and the guy is a professional musician. I mean, what else do you expect him to spend THE MONEY THAT HE HAS EARNED on ?? Like telling a car mechanic that he has too many tools.
Dave has a phenomenal old school 80s shred tone. Listen with your ears and not your eyes. Marshall 2210 is a beast of an amp. Check out REO at the moon dance jam tone for days.
He's a shlock rock 80s guitarist. Squeally riffs. Stupid songs. he's was at the right place at the right time I guess.... Did he write any big hits for REO? Maybe he made money touring in the 80s/90s
Dave is as cool and fun to be around as he is laid back. He is generally stoked with living life. He is cool as hell but when he plays, he's all business. I got to hang out with him at Namn in 89? He good friends with my friend Joshua (another monster player) He knew everyone in the biz and everyone wanted Dave to play their shit. Jim Marshall was really fond of Dave. Same when we went to the Gibson and Fender booth. He was like Royalty. Your seeing 25% of his ability in REO Speedwagon.
He didn't write their big songs ... He came in after Gary Richrath left. He plays in clubs now. I don't know, there just something off about having guitars you will never play stuck in a warehouse. It's not like when Clapton was picking up Strats for cheap....these Custom Shop.Gibson are real coin. I just hope if he has kids he was a good provider for the things that really matter in life. I don't know much about him...
I have a Les Paul Custom Shop Black Beauty. I don’t need any other guitar. Maybe I get a Telecaster down the road, ONLY because this black beauty is heavy. Tone and sustain is unreal imo. But if I had more money than I could spend in a life-time (like him) I would probably collect guitars for sport too.
I am almost 60 years old. This is a really nice visit with a really awesome professional. Thank you for letting us come into you office and see how you work. Really nice to see all your life collection of guitars and to just visit with you. Thank you for taking time to just share what this part of your life and work is about. I enjoyed the visit. This is a a nice way to see how it gets done by a pro. For Some of us dreamers this is our only way to see the way it is done.
James in Dallas, Texas.
Dave is such a cool dude, he sounds like a happy Christopher Walken
Derek Wisby exactly 😂😂😂
I've watched Dave online many times and have seen REO several times. Dave seems like a great person, and I love how much he enjoys everything about guitars. Dave has played those REO songs probably a thousand times, but every time he seems like he's having a blast. Keep up the good work Dave!
Dave Amato is an awesome guitar player. From Reo Speedwagon. I saw him playing before he is totally cool God Bless him on the road in the near future. I hope take good care of himself during the. Covid 19 pandemic stay healthy dave
Drink every time he says "Custom" 😆
I saw REO in SoCal this last summer......Dave has a SERIOUSLY great live sound....Its as close to the sound in my head as Ive ever heard. Les Paul and cranked Marshalls.....
Dave Amato's hair down below his shoulders is frizzled like a LION'S MANE.
very clean set-up and great cable management. he should give his tech a raise!
AH! An ES-335 from the Custom Shop in Memphis. He has a red one AND a blue one. Love that Pelham blue with a Bigsby vibrato and the "custom-made" sticker from 50's. SICK!
Dave's got a natural mullet! 😆
Balding up top, still partying on down the back! Bahahaha!
Dave is such a great guy and he has a great rig. I used a 2205 for years and it was always my go to amp.
I love that double-neck Fender that both Dave Amato and Richie Sambora from Bon Jovi have.
I love that Solo plastic up on the strobe tuner. No-one has ever seen that before, but it's a cup. A SOLO CUP! (chuckles)
I get that pun. "Tony Byrd is the mechanic and Dave Amato is the race car driver".
Dave certainly has the highest quality guitar arsenal including the best technology. A pleasure, how happily Nick and Dave talk. The customs with three pickups are also a penchant for me. Thanks Sweetwater and Nick
That JCM800 amp, Dave Amato has in his rig, is the 100-watt Marshall model of the 2205 (which is the 50-watt amp that Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave uses). And he hasn't changed his tone on the amp since!
I like that patch on the display of the Custom Audio Electronics controller. "Mr. Clean" (named after a brand of cleaning products). A good laugh on that.
Look at that flamed maple top on the '59 Les Paul. It's a NICE flame.
I love Dave (and REO). He is such a great guitarist and a collector nerd! His Gibson TV "The Collection" video is really awesome!
Take a shot every time he says ‘custom shop’
7 minutes in and I'm hammered. Call an ambulance, SEND HELP!
"Triple pickup' and 'stock' also get a good run!
Dave Amato what a nice guy. Found him at Norms ;-)
Dave is a great guy and player
Dave is and always will be, my favorite guitarist. Such a talent. And what an easy guy to interview! He loves what he does and it shows. Thanks Dave!!
Fascinating, it’s incredible to see how he gets that sound, crafted over many years of playing
The Ovation company in New Hartford, Connecticut is very innovative. Taking it to a new level with their technology. I heard Bob Marley used one, but a nice bluish-white hue.
I would absolutely buy his signature , if there was enough money in my entire country for one!
To me, Dave Amato is a superb, top guitar player, one of the very best. Unfortunately, he's kind of overlooked, I guess as the great Terry Kath (Chicago) was too. Dave Amato is 🎸uitar 👑ing!
The triple pickups & the bigsby is my dream.
The triple-pickup Les Paul Custom always gets a whole lot of fun. Up position is the neck pickup, down is the bridge. And in the center, it's the bridge and middle (those two which sounds like a fat Stratocaster tone). Kind of thin and nasal, but sounds good.
You're right, Derek Wisby. Dave does sound happy like Christopher Walken.
That SG at 9:54 closely resembles the Gibson SG Custom that Barry Goudreu of Boston used
That '56 Fender Strat Dave has is vintage-looking. For a nice shiny glossy finish, I use 3M auto body imperial hand glaze instead of wax on my custom guitars and basses.
All of your rig videos are sweet(water)!!!!
What a great collection of guitars, it'd make Bonamassa jealous :p Cool vid!
Such a nice bloke
Saw him with REO Speedwagon in Nottingham supporting Status Quo ,!!!! Didn’t know at the time it was Dave top bloke
Dave is such a cool guy
Dave is as cool and fun to be around as he is laid back. He is genuinely stoked with living life. He is cool as hell but when he plays, he's all business. I got to hang out with him at Namn in 89? He good friends with my friend Joshua (another monster player) He knew everyone in the biz and everyone wanted Dave to play their shit. Jim Marshall was really fond of Dave. Same when we went to the Gibson and Fender booth. He was like Royalty.
Your seeing 25% of his ability in REO Speedwagon.
I dont know what dave pays his tech but he needs a raise!
Look at those beautiful les pauls
Love that Pelham blue 335. I’ve only seen Pelham blue on SGs and a Firebird.
I agree with Dave. That’s the best LP top I have ever seen as well. Oh boy...
"There you have it. Three!" Like the symbol of the band Chickenfoot with your three fingers (that makes a foot). Bye, everyone!
I love "Old School"! Like me!
Great looking flame top, like it a bit better than mine!
great player!
His Signature Les Paul's are really cool.
A Marshall Valvestate 80/80 power amp in the rack. I'm actually getting one for my Rocktron Prophesy I guitar preamp out to two slanted Marshall 4x12" cabinets for monitoring, but no mics.
Dave is not that effects heavy. He just uses reverb from an old Lexicon PCM70, an 850 millisecond delay from the TC Electronic 2290 for solos, compression from a dbx compressor, an Eventide harmonizer like Steve Vai, a Leslie cabinet simulator by Hammond (the good old Hammond B3 through a Leslie), a Uni-Vibe like Jimi Hendrix used, a Line 6 MM4 modeler for a nice lush chorus and a Vox wah-wah pedal in the FX loop to his Bob Bradshaw (Custom Audio Electronics) switching system.
When you have a spare to the back-up spare.
Hear that? Gotta do the what the purist has. Techniques, theory, all kinds of stuff to make people happy.
0:00 my favorite guitar and I’m not even a les Paul guy
"Кастом шоп" без работы не останутся :)
Dave sings a D note at 6:08 FYI
what a nice hair cut
Like 555 👍✔
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His guitar looks just like the Joe Perry model
Ryan Murry indeed
Surprised to see the overall master on 1. Haven't played this model. It must still be very loud. On stage he needs to coax a note into feedback on a couple tunes.
Jesus, how much is all this equipment worth in there...
Eric Clapton does his show with only 2 electric guitars. A main one and a back up. 11 guitars for 14 songs is a non sens. And today's guitarists would play better live if they were using a main guitar for almost the full show, because they would feel very confortable with it. This is how it used to be. Hendrix didn't change his guitar for every songs, he used one for the show. The same for Jimmy page, Jeff Beck, and many others.
This should be a Gary Richrath video !!!
He's dead dude
Gary wouldn't be a very good interview. He doesn't say much these days.
LOVE DAVE BUT IN REALITY..... I SEEN JEFF BECK PLAYING OUT OF ONE TWEED FENDER PRO JR IN CONCERT WITH A TOTALLY AMAZING SOUND SO IN MY OPINION ALL THIS STUFF IS NOT NEEDED PERIOD ,
I heard Connecticut has wide-open spaces. I mean, COME ON! What would the citizens of the state Connecticut have to offer us in our world? Lyme disease. Thank you.
LOL. Someone is still stuck in the 80’s with all that old rack gear. I don’t think the drunk cougars at the shows will notice a difference if REO Speedwagon were playing through a Kemper Profiler or Line 6 Helix. 😂
R J when you have as much money as Dave you can use what you want
@@smoggy1964 I toured with rack gear and a couple of 4x12 cabs for 10 yrs. MIDI switching with a Ground Control Pro foot switcher. I got rid of all that nonsense, and haven't looked back. I have a bunch of boutique tube heads which I use at home and in the studio, but gig with a Kemper Profiler. There are older players like Steve Vai who are always open to trying out new technology, and then there are those that are stuck in the past or too stubborn to adapt to new technology. Being in my 40's now, I will even say that I wish all the gear that exists today existed 20 yrs ago or even 10 yrs ago. A lot of companies are really changing the game.
R J like you - he can do what he likes, he hasn’t done that badly- don’t think he will be short of a few quid
every kemper/axefx guy always leads with “I have a bunch of boutique tube amps”
Remove the dislike on this vid!
I'm sure this guy's great, but massive rack systems with 8 backup systems and 48 guitars really bore me. I'd rather see a small pedalboard and 1 or 2 guitars that do it all. Just my preference. Ninety nine percent of the guitarists in the world can't afford a knob off of a custom shop guitar and this guy has tons of them.
Good to be king
YEP! Old school earned his way!
Bore you ? Gave ME a freaking boner and the guy is a professional musician. I mean, what else do you expect him to spend THE MONEY THAT HE HAS EARNED on ?? Like telling a car mechanic that he has too many tools.
Dave has a phenomenal old school 80s shred tone. Listen with your ears and not your eyes. Marshall 2210 is a beast of an amp. Check out REO at the moon dance jam tone for days.
He's a shlock rock 80s guitarist. Squeally riffs. Stupid songs. he's was at the right place at the right time I guess.... Did he write any big hits for REO? Maybe he made money touring in the 80s/90s
Nice guy. More Les Paul's......boring.
this guy is a joke.
Simen Stubbrud sounds like you are a bit jealous
Dave is as cool and fun to be around as he is laid back. He is generally stoked with living life. He is cool as hell but when he plays, he's all business. I got to hang out with him at Namn in 89? He good friends with my friend Joshua (another monster player) He knew everyone in the biz and everyone wanted Dave to play their shit. Jim Marshall was really fond of Dave. Same when we went to the Gibson and Fender booth. He was like Royalty. Your seeing 25% of his ability in REO Speedwagon.
ridiculous.. i love guitars but this is an illness.
I dunno, if I had the financial success he had, I'd probably be in the same boat lol
@@grisok me too you can never have enough guitars or amps.🎸🎛️🎸🎛️
He didn't write their big songs ... He came in after Gary Richrath left. He plays in clubs now. I don't know, there just something off about having guitars you will never play stuck in a warehouse. It's not like when Clapton was picking up Strats for cheap....these Custom Shop.Gibson are real coin. I just hope if he has kids he was a good provider for the things that really matter in life. I don't know much about him...
I have a Les Paul Custom Shop Black Beauty. I don’t need any other guitar. Maybe I get a Telecaster down the road, ONLY because this black beauty is heavy. Tone and sustain is unreal imo. But if I had more money than I could spend in a life-time (like him) I would probably collect guitars for sport too.
@@dba4292 me too 🎸🎸🎸👍👍☺️