post pictures of your rigs and/or other people's rigs.

yeah, I've posted this a million times, but here's my shit to get this started:

BILLY CORGAN's Rig:

DAVE MUSTAINE's Rig:

TOM MORELLO's Rig:

JOSH / Cattle Decapitation's Rig:



that lehle A/B switch he's using is seiiiick.

RON/MALIGNANCY's Rig:

DIMEBAG's (VULGAR ERA) Rig:

Terry Bozzio.

Josh_hates_you said:

wow... his kit's smaller now!!! LOL!

holy fuck that's large.

Mike Gilbert / Severed Savior's Rack RIG:

that's the ENGL rack that I want... bastard!

DEREK B. / Rock Solid Amps out of FL's RIG

marco minnemann, arguably the best drummer in the world.

Josh_hates_you said:

what about Virgil Donati? or Dennis Chambers? they're both AMAZING drummers...

JERRY CANTRELL:

EDDIE VAN HALEN's Rig's

Im starting to wonder if eddie invented the mullet...or at least poularized it to the point of redundancy.


Im gonna contribute to this post as soon as I get some pics of my rig!!

I think it's hillarious that EVH has all the Marshall's. I heard he actually does use marshalls even though he's endorsed by peavey. hehe.

RustedAngel said:

LOL! that's what I've heard too...

I'll take some pics of my rig tonihgt at practice and post 'em to this thread once I get home.

I don't get what people do with all that equipment.

like why are there two heads in some pics? do they just route signal to all the different amps and then to a cab or two a piece?

I grew up doing the head + cab = your sound thing. I never got into rack shit nor do I even really understand it, so a lot of this is bizarre to me. I've rarely ever gone to shows in stadiums (been to the centrum like 2x) so I don't even know what to think when it comes to playing those places.

basically I've always worked to have a good, analog head with a responsive, well-rounded set of speakers. Nothing more, nothing less.

anyone care to do amplifier 101 for me?

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

I'm sure between RustedAngel and myself we could do a whole clinic on amp 101...

you up for it?

why does corgan have two 10"/8" mini little combos? for monitors?

umm....well basically poweramps just push your preamp sound in a rack system. so if you have a preamp like pod or a digitech, then your poweramp just uses that as a 'front end'
other than that, I dont think you really need all that equip in those pics...theyre rock stars, im sure theyre very eccentric.

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

maybe onstage ear tuning.....maybe a crappy sound he gets and likes in one of their many crappy sounding guitar breaks.

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

two heads? sometimes backup in case one fails, but also you can run two at the same time in more than one cab obviously. Or have each with different settings and you can A/B between the two.

As far as all the additional rack gear, to be honest, I don't even know. You'd have to be a super pro guitar tech to figure out what's going on just from looking at the pictures. You'd really have to have someone show you what's going on. I'm sure you need some monstrous sound to play arena's and for it to not sound whimpy. Sometimes they have like huge wall's of stacks in arena's so they'd need many heads to power it all. Some people just prefer rack gear, you can customize your sound quite a bit more and make it sound good if you really know what you're doing. I don't know what I'm doing haha, I prefer the sound/tone's of head's. I don't think many rack's by themselves can hold up against most 'boutique' heads. That's why you see some Bogner's in with the rack stuff. There's tons of technical shit to sound that's why there are professional guitar/amp tech's that just do that shit as a job and probably know way more than the musician using all the gear.

Those little mini-combo's? I'm not sure exactly, but possibly for the guitar tech to quickly test guitars or for billy to warmup...

Billy Sheehan's (Mr Big/Steve Vai) gear (at one point in time)



and here's my rig:

nice rig mike. bass players take notice.

nice rig Kalopsia.

How much volume can you get out of the SWR head? Is that 550 solid state watts? How much do you have to push the amp to be heard?

RustedAngel said:

He's not endorsed by Peavey anymore.

my shit like three months ago... now tonsof all my rack gear from my bedroom is right next to the computer. yay for synths:



THREE GAMEBOYS. yeah i am great.

I mean, WAS. I know they discontinued the 5150's.

ohyeah hey losers:


now on the back it says 5150... i think i'm going to light it on fire and smash it the next time i play.

those panoramic pictures are hillarious.

yeah and i actually manage to record shit too haha...

you should see the clean setup... two smallish racks and like $3000 worth of synths and other gear, but all i record with is gameboy directly to computer.

and i can easily one up those photos with a photo collage of my room.

mine's in the back left. shitty picture of it. pay no mind to the fagguloids.

RustedAngel said:

I bet you can really feel the prescence of those little combo amps during one of his gigs. He probably only usees those and has the rest just for show.

billy fucking corgan. jesus. look at that rig.

anyone have a picture of John Petrucci's rig? that thing's friggin IMMENSE

i want a matamp rig, even if they are kind of trendy in the "rock"world, the are pretty fair price for handmade tube amps....and i love the muddy sound. Before i can afford that im gonna get a laney set-up....well now back to the pictures.

Holy moses.

my rig is nothing to drool over (yet), but its got love.



i keep the crate 4x12 (loaded with celestion vintage 30s) on my side, and i keep the 2 2x12s (one loaded with blue marvels, the other with crap that i will be replacing) on the bass side. i have all these cabs because it is a full stack that i can transport all myself (i dont have a truck to lug around 2 4x12s with). eventally, i will be pulling a ron from malignancy, and getting 2 pod pros and running each one into separate cabs. i will drool that day. and you notice how i always play my soloist? its cus a have a really crappy backup. but at the moment i am building a rhoads copy that you will have to see to believe. pictures will be up someday.

The little combo amps are most likely there for his guitar tech to use for reference. They're not mic'd and they're not facing the crowd so they definitely have no intention of being heard by anyone outside of a three-foot radius.

The point of multiple identical amps is to send the same tone through more wattage to increase stage-volume before involving the house PA. Like in that pic of EVH all those heads are running the same shit paired to the same cabs or a small variety of cabs so he's pushing 1200 watts (12 amps X 100w each). He can route to all these amps at once via switch-panels like the blue one on top of the effects rack in Corgan's pic.
Sometimes big stage-setups use dummy cabs (empty cabs that look exactly like normal useable ones) just to take up space on stage and make it look like they've got more to their sound than they do.

By the way, this thread is fucking awesome. I have neither a camera nor anything really worth showing off at the moment though.

Hey Tom, Peavey actually just discontinued the name "5150", it's not the "6505" and they have the plus version too that is equivelent of the 5150 II. the board is the EXACT same as the 5150, just a different name and wooden filler for the front. also, they charge a tad more for them now.

And someone mentioned EVH playing the Marshalls, When you're EVH you can tell whoever "endorses" you what you're gonna play Im sure. PLus he still played the 5150's exclusivley. He may have only had a head unit contract too.. who knows.

Here's SOME of my rig...

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In that first pic, my Johnson Millenium 150 has it's back to the camera. But that's my Framus Dragon 4X12 Cabinet with my American Fender Strat.
that second pic of the Ibanez S470QS is also mine, but i'm thining of selling it.
I also own a Fender Princeton chorus 120, An Epi PL Standard (My first axe) and my main guitar for STF, a first run ESP/LTD Viper.

Im not a fan of rack equipment... I just rock my Sig 5150 with that Framus cab and I play through your basic Boss Noise surpressor and Boss tuner.

Björn Gelotte/In Flames Rig Pics

Wes Borland, heheh

I've got two large fries, a big mac, and a coronary failure at age 14.

Scott Ian / Anthrax's rig.

Richard K/Rammstein Rig Pics

All these MESA's have recently been replaced with ENGL pb's, lucky bastard.

Stephen Carpenter Rig Pics

Andreas Kisser / Sepultura Rig Pics


I believe Krisiun uses these now too:

John Petrucci 2005 tour Rig Pics





His Wife Rena is part of his rig.

RustedAngel said:

krisiun have been using those for a few years, im pretty sure. they were using them when i saw them in 2002.

yes, he was using a meteoro the last time I saw him too.

never heard of those.

What's the benefit of having two different heads going into the same amp for the same guitar?

I'm also taking this opportunity to ask anyone for suggestions in getting a power amp for my Marshal JMP-1

PatMeebles said:

well, you would have double the power than just using one head. You could have 2 different settings, maybe more mids on one head, and scooped mids on the other. Tons of possibilities.

for a poweramp, you could get a marshall 50/50 or a 100/100 if you want to power like 2 stacks, haha. orrrrrrrrr you could get this ;)

Is it sold in regular guitar stores? I was also thinking of getting a Genz Bens (or however the fuck it's spelled) cab to finish off the half-stack. I just don't know how these pieces will sound together.

not as pricey as most but here's mine.

Would you all now please post your addresses and work schedules? Fo rill' though, is anybody familiar with Ear Candy cabs? www.earcandycabs.com
I'll be ordering my first by month's end - Just waiting on that tax refund. Eventually, I'll have two of their Buzzbomb cabs (one loaded with Eminence Swamp Thangs, the other with Eminence Black Powders) powered by my sweet-tits Mesa Simul 2/95 (the one with the 6L6's AND EL34's). That, coupled with my twin dueling neckthru BC Rich Warlocks (American made, natch!) - one 6, one 7-string will have you weeping. Pics to come.

DaveSTF said:

i have the same guitar same color too and shit

Anthony nli said:

well i have an 8 ohm cabinet so i'm only pushing out 350 watts, if i had another cab or a 4 ohm cab i'd be getting the full 550. it's a tube head. one tube powers it, but it still packs a pretty good punch. in practice, my band members start bitching if i have my volume set at 4 or higher. live: i gotta put it roughly around 5 or 6.

I remember when I was in band that had a bass player that had a real bass amp. It was god damn loud, and we had to tell him to turn it down every 10 seconds. It was just the ampeg svt pro with the 4x10 cab.

John Petrucci's rig makes me want to throw up... and his wife makes me want to throw it in her, lol!

Kalopsia said:

Thanks for the info. Those EMGs in your Spector are wicked hot too. I have jazz bass that I modded from passive to EMG J pickups and its at least 5 times louder now.

The above post was me.

I always forget to log in.

heres my rig...pretty simple. No frills chawmp.

nice kok. bet that sounds fucking sweet.

thats my pretty basic rig. right now my poor ass has an epihpone LP standard, but for some reason it doesn't sound to bad out of that set up. i plan on getting a gibson SG or a ESP that doesn't have EMG's in it. and eventually get a sonic maximizer.

also Rob's drum set. just becuase i have pictures. it's changed quite a bit since this picture.

Hooker said:

I love it. I think itll sound even better when replace those poor tubes...theyre so beat.

sweet. earcraft is so fucking slow. my engl has been there since last monday and mark hasn't touched it yet. I need to learn how to bias myself.

ahh yes dovahh earcraft.....I dunno what to think about that place....they have some decent stuff, but theyre prices are a bit outrageous.

I'm really biased.

Blue said:

FUCK YOU. that is the best backup guitar you could ever find and someday you will realize that. that thing could kick the shit out of a rhoads copy any day you bastard. *end intense sarcasm*

hahahahahahahahahaha. if anyone couldnt tell, my backup just happens to be timmas guitar.

Recent DIMEBAG RIG Pics: (a week before he was shot)

bass cab

40 watt FM pirate radio transmitter:
in order, 4 Watt FM exiter www.nrgkits.com X10 ramsey PA-1 amplifier (4 in 40 out) made for 2 meter ham radio, but discontinued because of people like me, 9 pole low pass filter with a 110Mhz cutoff point.

1/2 wavelength dipole antenna tuned to 101.7:


5/8 wavelength copper j-pole:

WhyamIandasshole said:

i hate you so much.

Alesis Powertrip-8 power conditioner
BBE 482i Stereo Sonic Maximizer
Behringer V-Amp Pro
Peavey PV260 260W Poweramp (130x2 peak)

(not pictured)
Ibanez RG 520QSTB
Behringer FCB1010 - Midi Foot Controller
Peavey 412 Cabnet (huge pile of shit)

Ok guy, youre not allowed to make of fun of line 6 when U own a behringer v-amp.
It dosent work that way!!!!

yes I am, Line 6 is overpriced...

Pod Pro -> $500 +/-
V-Amp Pro -> $200 +/-

I like the way the V-Amp sounds better live. the pod sounds better direct though...

Karl Sanders / Nile

Re: BillyCorgan - Is that a fucking PC in the corner? Very random...

Kalopsia said:

I hate you. no, seriously, that's a nice setup, very close to my "dream rig".

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

Is it wrong that I just popped colossal wood?


Oh, BTW: *ahem* ... "RIGGS!!!" "I'm getting too old for this shit..."

Oh wait, you meant guitar rig.




200 watt Marshall Major. It weighs more than a cab.

Josh_Martin said:

I don't doubt it.

Man, I've always wanted to ask you: What the hell do you tune to in A.C.? Or is it any set tuning at all?

destroyyoualot said:

G, A, Y, F, A, G

destroyyoualot said:

When I was in AC I would just tune it down until it sounded cool.
One of the advantages of not having a bass player is there's no one to be in tune with.
It would probably range anywhere from C down to low G depending on what mood I was in that day.

If you're trying to figure out stuff from I Like it When You Die good luck. Seth did the overdubs on that because I was still pretty green at the time and we were in a rush due to our enormous recording budget from Earache. But I think my tracks and Seth's tracks are slightly out of tune with each other so it sounds kinda weird. If you put the balance all the way to either the left or right you will only hear one guitar track and that's more the way it was supposed to sound. (one of us is the left side and one of us is the right, I forget which is which)

Every release after that is all me though.

RustedAngel said:


That's what I thought, thanks.


Josh_Martin said:


I'm not sure it matters that much, to be bluntly honest. No, wait, this is RTTP, to be BRUTALLY HONEST.

I'm probably the only person in the world who noticed.

d00d, check out my sikk stakk:





Ok, seriously, this is my noisemaker:



Carvin cab, Crown power amp (scored for $50, thank you very much), SansAmp DI box, and Dean Hollywood "Z" with active EMGs. I still need a 4x8 cab, but I get by.

who's fucking rig is that?

Hooker nli said:

some guy over at HC that's actually selling everything in that picture except for the cabs. That would amount to like $15,000 just for all those heads, haha.

See, that's like head valhalla. My playing doesn't warrant any of those heads. I have some high end cabs, but those fucking heads.... I'd just.... there are maybe four people on earth who could do that setup justice.

My Rig.

Guitars are as follows:

Esp Ltd Ec-1000
Harmony Rocket
Ibanez Guitar composed of various Ibanez parts (rat guitar)
Fender Tom Delonge Strat
Ibanez g10 Bass
And an Epiphone SG bass

Amps:
Line 6 hd147 & Cab
Rocktron Replitone

(others include takamine acoustic/electric, line 6 fbv longboard, wireless rack, Korg d-12 digital 12 track, pandora px4 effects processor, class b and c fire-extinguisher, Over 8 gig bags, and one Rockcase)

my dream ibanez...

Purty -- what's the damage for that little gem?

$2,000 :(

ouch.

powerkok said:

Update:
I changed the tubes.
I also switched both channels to simulclass.
End result= sounds 100x better than I expected.
Im re- in love.

Oh cool....a b00by masher.
I need one of those too, along with my wife taser.

TOMAS HAAKE / MESHUGGAH

MESHUGGAH, no cabs.

Jeff Loomis / Nevermore / Studio Rig 2005

krank? cmon............

who cares if it's Krank, he's still shreds like a mother fucker!

whats wrong with krank? those amps are fucking ballsy.

powerkok said:

I like 'em, I'd rather Tom's ENGL though, those are even more ballsy

random:

Taste this shit, nigga

RustedAngel said:

what the fuck is going on there?

mamogram!

anonymous said:

You don't know what you're talking about, you dumb piece of shit.

it only took hoe many years to get that answer?

i hear those things hurt like fuck

ok, so, two years later, does anyone know what's happening in that picture?

anonymous said:

wrong!

RustedAngel said:

woah fuck i have that same binary blanket! You get it at thinkgeek?

RustedAngel said:
rgr

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