What are your performance rigs?

[80's_Metal]

Generally the Mode Four, as a half stack.
My pedalboard is just an OD and a noise gate. Rarely a delay.
I use the Marshall footswitch for solos.(Which is why I use this amp)

Simple and brutal.

 

[Aceman]

Description Below

In signal chain order:

Guitar > Morley Liberty Wah. Great range, great feel, step and go ease for live

Wah > MXR Talk Box > Synth 9. These are limited use effects, but when you need a talk box, or I need to sub a synth part on guitar, they do best early in the rig. The Isolated Power on there powers the Wah, Talk, and Synth because the Synth9 can be a noisy mofo!

Synth9 > POD Go. The Pod Go is my main "rig" which consists of mostly the following chain from the guitar
- Boss SD1 for boost > Marshall JCM800 > Marshall 1960 cab with Greenbacks and slightly off center SM57 > Dimension Chorus > Digital Delay > Hall Reverb
- I have various patches that might change up the Delay settings (middle of welcome to jungle), add a Flanger (Downboys, Barracuda), or Reverb (Mostly a hall setting though)
- I also have other patches; An Ampeg Bass patch for the songs I play Bass on (LA Comp into Ampeg SVT), A Fender Twwin (with an EQD Pluems and a Rat plus Delay & reverb) in case we need to do something mild (Summer of 69 = Twin + Blues + Reverb), and an Acoustic Setting (In case I need to play Electric + acoustic on a song like Modern Day Cowboy) or the Acoustic dies). I use a JC120 when I play the Synth9 as an Amp setting. Still of the Night has a Soldano SLO 100 and some other effects like a noise gate and Tremolo for the Cello Solo.
- I run it like a Pedal board, with 5 pedals in a patch.
- I use an EQ for lead boosts around +34 Db

Finally, off to the right (or out of the way) is my Acoustic Board

Guitar > Monte Allums Modded CS3 Compressor. Makes any live offs like too lightly picked arpeggios or too hard slammed strums nice and even. Always on.
Compressor > Digitech Mosaic. 12st simulator because Wanted Dead or Alive and a few others just sounds thin without it. Does a good job live. See "Wait At Hennessy's" for an example on YouTube.
Mosaic > Zoom A2 Pedal. Here is where the Magic happens. I use a Martin HD28 Model that really does a number of my cheap Ovation. after EQ and some delay, great live acoustic sound.
Zoom > Aphex Acoustic exciter. For the band, this is off. I only use it for my DI. Solo, I'll use it to put thump and shimmer back after all that electronic gobbly goo.

 

[Aceman]

That said...conditions permitting, I can use this:

Guitar > Wah > Talk/Synth > Mesa Stiletto > Zoom G3N in the loop for Chorus/Delay/Reverb etc) > 2x12 or 4x12 Cab

> 2x12 or 4x12 Cab

 

[zionstrat]

Description Below

In signal chain order:

Guitar > Morley Liberty Wah. Great range, great feel, step and go ease for live

Wah > MXR Talk Box > Synth 9. These are limited use effects, but when you need a talk box, or I need to sub a synth part on guitar, they do best early in the rig. The Isolated Power on there powers the Wah, Talk, and Synth because the Synth9 can be a noisy mofo!

Synth9 > POD Go. The Pod Go is my main "rig" which consists of mostly the following chain from the guitar
- Boss SD1 for boost > Marshall JCM800 > Marshall 1960 cab with Greenbacks and slightly off center SM57 > Dimension Chorus > Digital Delay > Hall Reverb
- I have various patches that might change up the Delay settings (middle of welcome to jungle), add a Flanger (Downboys, Barracuda), or Reverb (Mostly a hall setting though)
- I also have other patches; An Ampeg Bass patch for the songs I play Bass on (LA Comp into Ampeg SVT), A Fender Twwin (with an EQD Pluems and a Rat plus Delay & reverb) in case we need to do something mild (Summer of 69 = Twin + Blues + Reverb), and an Acoustic Setting (In case I need to play Electric + acoustic on a song like Modern Day Cowboy) or the Acoustic dies). I use a JC120 when I play the Synth9 as an Amp setting. Still of the Night has a Soldano SLO 100 and some other effects like a noise gate and Tremolo for the Cello Solo.
- I run it like a Pedal board, with 5 pedals in a patch.
- I use an EQ for lead boosts around +34 Db

Finally, off to the right (or out of the way) is my Acoustic Board

Guitar > Monte Allums Modded CS3 Compressor. Makes any live offs like too lightly picked arpeggios or too hard slammed strums nice and even. Always on.
Compressor > Digitech Mosaic. 12st simulator because Wanted Dead or Alive and a few others just sounds thin without it. Does a good job live. See "Wait At Hennessy's" for an example on YouTube.
Mosaic > Zoom A2 Pedal. Here is where the Magic happens. I use a Martin HD28 Model that really does a number of my cheap Ovation. after EQ and some delay, great live acoustic sound.
Zoom > Aphex Acoustic exciter. For the band, this is off. I only use it for my DI. Solo, I'll use it to put thump and shimmer back after all that electronic gobbly goo.

I'm amazed.. had no idea you had such a collection.. fun to see a talk box... They can be so much fun, but I got tired of rigging them.. clearly you have far more patients than I do.

 

[JMP/HBE]

 

[Aceman]

I'm amazed.. had no idea you had such a collection.. fun to see a talk box... They can be so much fun, but I got tired of rigging them.. clearly you have far more patients than I do.

The talk box is easy to set up. Tube up the mike stand, and done. Only use it for one song (Livin' On A Prayer) but for that one song - epic.

I have like 120 pedals (30+ are tremolos). I just never get rid of anything.

 

[Securb]

They can be so much fun, but I got tired of rigging them.. clearly you have far more patients than I do.

I have the same one it is a dream to set up. The gain is built in so nothing needs to be up stream from it. Put it first in your signal chain and it turns off everything downstream, turn it off and there is your amp again. I use mine for Sweet Emotion with my cover band.

 

[Aceman]

I have the same one it is a dream to set up. The gain is built in so nothing needs to be up stream from it. Put it first in your signal chain and it turns off everything downstream, turn it off and there is your amp again. I use mine for Sweet Emotion with my cover band.

Yeah - I avoided them forever because I had heard about what a PITA they were to deal with.

This thing is basically nothing but a a Pedal up front, with an extra tube that goes to the mike, and done.

Open up Living On A Prayer, The Zoo, Hair of The Dog, Sweet Emotion, Kickstart My Heart, etc.

Could you use a Wah and maybe a Flanger to faux it? yeah....but people dig it in the crowd. It's a unique sound and they know it.

 

[Securb]

Could you use a Wah and maybe a Flanger to faux it? yeah....but people dig it in the crowd. It's a unique sound and they know it.

My H90 has a WAH/Talkbox setting that sounds great, but the audience goes nuts when they see the tube in your mouth.

 

[Ascension]

My Church rig is a PRS Custom 50 head into a captor X. The Church board has a George Dennis Optical Wah, Keeley 4 knob compressor and a Nobels ORD 1 into the front of the Amp. Through the loop is a Xotic Super Sweet, Boss DD 7, Rocktron Deep Blue Chorus and a Strymon Blue Sky.
Big gig rig is a first gen US built real PRS Archon head on a PRS Big Mouth Deep 2/12 or a Mesa widebody 1/12.
Saller rooms get ether a PRS Sonsera 20 combo or my Zinky Blue Velvet combo. The Play out board runs a Wamper ERGO and a Belle Over drive up front. In the loop its a Xotic Superclean, Boss DD 6, Alaba Cetus verb and a Newnauber Wet V5 verb.

 

[zionstrat]

My Church rig is a PRS Custom 50 head into a captor X. The Church board has a George Dennis Optical Wah, Keeley 4 knob compressor and a Nobels ORD 1 into the front of the Amp. Through the loop is a Xotic Super Sweet, Boss DD 7, Rocktron Deep Blue Chorus and a Strymon Blue Sky.
Big gig rig is a first gen US built real PRS Archon head on a PRS Big Mouth Deep 2/12 or a Mesa widebody 1/12.
Saller rooms get ether a PRS Sonsera 20 combo or my Zinky Blue Velvet combo. The Play out board runs a Wamper ERGO and a Belle Over drive up front. In the loop its a Xotic Superclean, Boss DD 6, Alaba Cetus verb and a Newnauber Wet V5 verb.

Well that's a lot of variety! Sounds like you got it thought out.

Have to admit I don't understand the church board aspect.. are you saying you your signal goes into the board and then out effects loop, through your effects and back into the board? If so how do you control that from the stage?

 

[Chistopher]

Man, look at all those dinosaurs. These days I'm running Rat, H90, IR2

 

[Butch Snyder]

My rig for pretty much everything. I sometimes use my Hot Rod Deluxe, but I have this Line 6 dialed in pretty good and it's reliable. I don't use it as a modeler and I don't do any fancy switching on it. I set it up for manual like it's a regular single-channel amp.

 

[alex1fly]

Helix in stomp mode, Boss Katana 50. Simple and easy. I have snapshots programmed to try out, but my band has been on an acoustic kick since May so I haven't been able to air it out yet.

 

[Aceman]

My H90 has a WAH/Talkbox setting that sounds great, but the audience goes nuts when they see the tube in your mouth.

My POD Go has one. Never could get it to do what I needed. Interesting sounds, but didn't work for me.

 

[JMP/HBE]

 

[Mincer]

A rig I will debut this weekend will have a Fractal FM3 into a Fender FR10, which is a full range/flat response 1x10" closed back cab made for modelers. I am still getting used to selecting chains of effects, vs being set up like individual pedals where one switch = one effect. You can do that on the FM3, but it also has 'short presses' and 'long presses' which takes a little getting used to. Over all, it is a smaller rig than a Line 6 M13 or Fractal FX8. I am all for downsizing. So far, it sounds fantastic, and it is plenty loud.

 

[zionstrat]

So cool! I have definitely considered the FR-10 when modeling..

On the other hand one of the reasons for this thread is I wanted to see how small I can go.. how heavy is the FR-10?

 

[Mincer]

So cool! I have definitely considered the FR-10 when modeling..

On the other hand one of the reasons for this thread is I wanted to see how small I can go.. how heavy is the FR-10?

Maybe 25lbs?

 

[Coma]

This is what I'm currently putting together. Used to be a 100w head and a sizable pedal board, but I got sick and tired of hauling heavy gear to places with no parking close to the venue. It hasn't been field tested yet, so to speak, just got the amp and MultiFX a few weeks ago. And the cabs don't get dragged along to gigs, most places provide a back line.

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