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An Idiot's Rig Explained, With All The Shenanigans. It's All Rig & At Least Some Gig…

Welcome to the show. Arrrghhh, these ones are always tough. To lay one’s soul bare might seem like a manifesto, but it is merely a snapshot of a moment. And in this moment, this is my rig for a recent project. So put your best Gear Nerd Blinkers on and come inside my head, with Dan running fully complicit co-pilot.

Do you need this stuff? Emphatically no - nobody needs this stuff. Do you want this stuff? If you have a screw loose, of course you do.
Enjoy the show!

Notes and errors #1 The Two-Rock CRS got accidentally switched (by me while I was moving it) to its highest gain mode… which I don’t use. So some things are a bit crunchier than they would otherwise be.

Notes and errors #2 Something weird going on with the H&K Rotosphere. Mayybeeee it’s overdriving a touch too much, but it sounds weak and phasey. Meh. Doesn’t sound like that normally.

Mick’s Actual Manifesto…
Argh. Three hours trying to write something to justify this insanity and fend off some negativity.
I'm in my head and this is all ego. It doesn't matter, let it rain. It is what it is.

Pedals & stuff in today’s show
• JAM Pedals Wahcko Wah
• Thorpy Heavy Water Boost
• Kingsley Page Tube Boost
• JAM Pedals Tube Dreamer
• JAM Pedals Waterfall Chorus
• Free The Tone Flight Time Delay
• Dunlop Mini Volume Pedal
• JAM Pedals Harmonious Monk
• Hughes & Kettner Replex Delay
• Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere
• Chase Bliss Audio CXM 1978 Reverb
• TheGigRig G3 Atom

Guitars in today’s show
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - video here:
• 1965 Gibson ES-345 TDS
• Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom 1958 Flying V

Amps in today’s show
• Two-Rock Classic Reverb Signature 100 watt with 212 cab / TR1265B speakers
• Two-Rock TS1 50 watt with 115 cab / TR15 speaker

Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing
1:35 But how loud is it?
2:30 Why are we doing this
3:05 Need vs want
5:30 Explain the signal chain
6:25 Head case!
7:10 G3 controlling Rotosphere
8:15 Overdrive choices and dilemmas
10:30 Thorpy Heavy Water Boost
11:45 …and a bit of Tube Dreamer
12:30 The physicality of playing
13:10 And a bit of Page Tube Boost
14:10 Dan has a play with the gain pedals
17:45 Free The Tone Flight Time delay
18:45 Mick using MIDI?!
21:50 Two PC messages off the same switch!
24:05 What about the Hughes & Kettner delay?
26:00 Dan tries the delays
29:00 Chorus / vibrato
30:00 Vibrato solo’d
31:25 And now the ES-345
32:55 Slap and room reverb for blues?
35:00 Erm, volume and gain?
36:00 More bass then?
37:00 Out of phase pickups
38:55 Ohmergahd… Flying V
39:58 But a giant reverb too
41:45 Wah-wah!
42:40 The reality of it
43:28 Dan and SG
44:10 Both sides of the boost
44:50 Clean amp? Nope.
47:30 What about a lower-volume rhythm sound?
51:30 Closing thoughts - the least worst?
54:15 Too loud? And takeaways
56:30 Is this even relevant?
57:30 25 per cent extra energy at the gig
59:10 What about the Bigsby?

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