Rig Rundown - Dream Theater's John Myung

[rudicci]

BTW... I want that freaky T-shirt! :D

[rudicci]

I had always thought that JMX used his mind power to set his gear up :P

[Siah2000]

haha square root of all evil. 666 lol nice shirt

[LACRIOSWI]

Pause at 0:19... Both of 'em epic faces...

[BOnEhEAdD]

COME ON I CAME HERE COS I HOPED ID HEAR JOHN TALK! I FEEL CHEATED!!!

[aledeville]

Such a good bass player, such good basses such good gear... but you just don't hear him in the mix. What a shame...

[panamanian911]

Archangel Myung has his own human to talk for him.

[DOATOfficial]

He hits that fretless twice...

[keygenswb]

I'll bet that guy can't even play guitar

[chaniejbernard]

this is proof John Myung never talks

[TheHornet79]

For a second I thought joe was Mike Mangini

[Jasonweckard]

I would totally dig a 6-string bass with a 5-string neck, my hands are just big enough to play a 4 string.

[bleh151]

THAT VOLUME PEDAL SHOULD BE ALL THE WAY UP

[Skoshtwo]

I was expecting Myung to talk about his gear. How stupid was I !!!

[xXxglassgowdreamxXx]

Zocco's shirt is awesome. lol

[overdriven77]

please do a lemmy rig rundown

[tommynnocker]

@overdriven77 this is lemmy's amp....we take his lead and plug it straight in and that's about it!

[yobhsiFehT]

Thumbs up if you checked the math on the tech's shirt:P lol

[drthunda]

Can those guys even afford a bass tech?

[scarred2112]

@drthunda JM's Rig is truly bare-bones for a touring band, especially when compared to the other instrumentalists. The complexity of MM's drum set-up, tear-down and unusual configuration, JR's ever-increasing KeyboardLand, and JP's Rig that's HUGE on the Amp/Rack side, has to include his piezo pickups, & massive amount of guitars (he likes a spare for *every* guitar, including 6 & 7s, Alt. Tunings, Baritones...) When JM has his on-board preamp hardwired, it's clear he's low maintenance... ;-)

[Doplegangsta]

THe 3 dislikes are huge "Blind Melon" fans.... that's in reference to a comment made by BM's guitar player :P. DT rawks!

[Siege900]

"So you BASSically found the right fit and feel for him." Nicely done.

[caressxofxsteel]

PG you never cease to amaze me with these gear rundowns! ive seen DT 3 times and most recently on this current tour i was in front row in pittsburgh and it was awesome. thank you guys for the rundowns!

[chhau123]

actually sm57 and sm58 are the some thing, except sm58 had a ball head

[ryonafan]

''so you flick the switch and you go into world domination mode...'' XD

[mrodr008]

Nice rack...

[AttitudeCastle]

What's the string spacing on the 6 strings he has?

[CSullivan1014]

Music Man needs to make a signature John Myung Bass! THOSE BASSES LOOK AWESOME!!!!

[gottaseeit46]

***Insert Generic Creepy Comment about Rebecca Dirks***



[vbdude006]

When talking about basses: say "bass-ically" a lot ....

:D

[neochase1]

cool stuff !

[Xcalith]

Nice shirt!

[TheDataMage]

... is that an SM57 that rebecca's using for the interview? 0-0

[premierguitar]

@TheDataMage We carry an SM58 and an SM57 in identical Shure bags. Unfortunately, we had a very short window of time for this shoot, and we didn't realize we'd grabbed the wrong Shure bag until it was too late to go back and get the SM58 bag. It worked fine, just looks a little odd.

[TheDataMage]

@premierguitar oh, it's not that it was a bad thing. I just thought it was interesting. The rundown was also very informative, as always.

[dellexgr]

@premierguitar lol, I wonder if any of the DT roadies there noticed that too.

[DuralastTurbo]

Now all they need 2 do is offer 6 string basses with guitar spacing. The worst thing about basses is the ridiculously, unnecessarily wide spacing.

[Moustachio101]

@DuralastTurbo Think about how much lower the frequency of a bass is, therefore the strings will have a wider vibratory path.

Basically the strings vibrate further than guitar strings, if you made a Bass with Guitar spacings the strings would vibrate into eachtother and would cancel each other out and cause that horrid sound, like when a string snaps and collides with the others.

[DuralastTurbo]

@Moustachio101 I play bass, & if U go grab 1 yourself U will C the strings don't move that far. 12-string guitar 4 example has them even much closer together than that, & I don't C U complaining. The absurdly unnecessarily wide over-spacing of bass guitars is a ridiculous long-standing joke, like the idea breast implants R a substitute 4 a sleek, athletic body =))

[Moustachio101]

@DuralastTurbo I also play bass and I'm studying music at college, sometimes the strings are too far apart, but they can't be THAT close together,

A 12 string gutiar is different because the strings vibrate in phase, so they are on the same wavelength.

I'm not saying "OMGDUMBSHIT" I'm just stating that having the strings with about 0.5cm (Like a guitar) on a bass just wouldn't work.

But I do agree that some basses, such as my own, the strings are too far apart and could be closer.

[DuralastTurbo]

@Moustachio101 U R just another sheep brainwashing yourself into thinking things R right the way they R. U R incorrect, & your playing would improve if the strings were spaced like an Ibanez Guitar =D Not super-close, but Ibanez is PLENTY! & U know it. No point reading your nonsense 'liquor is good 4 your health' nonsense. All basses should B 6 string, spaced like guitar. Do yourself a favor & put a guitar bridge on your bass & install a couple more tuners & ENJOY! =)

[Moustachio101]

@DuralastTurbo Uhh... Sure, I'll be sure to talk to my guitar technician about it...?

Also, Liquor is good for your soul, not your health ;)

[DuralastTurbo]

@Moustachio101 YES PLEASE DO! =D Have your guitar tech buy U a bass with a 'paddle' type head - U know, so it's easy 2 mod it with smaller keys, but 6 of them, then put a guitar bridge on it, & 6 bass strings =D

I would suggest an Ibanez - maybe an ATK? They have big heads, & fat necks. U don't want a 'jazz' style narrow neck, as the spacing would then B 2 close =( I've grown 2 H8 all my basses & am selling them 2 build custom 'guitar spaced' ones =)

[Alexander1208]

awww she asked the same question twice! and when she noticed it, it was so cute!!!! i love her!!!

[vaibhavnayel]

I have no clue about basses. I'm only watching for rebecca XD

[kalakuttakamina]

She had to call it sparkly did she?

[serazac25]

hope they make some sort of production model for that bass, maybe a signature

[PRSguy94]

If you take the number on his shirt and square it it equal 666.

[jomarthegreat1]

heh, two things: 1. it's funny to see everyone drooling over Rebecca (not that I disagree of course!) 2. she's doing the interview with an SM57... not wrong of course, just unconventional

[anthrmthrfckr]

THANK YOU REBECCA! =)

[SixStringHarmonies]

Rebecca's back.....thank the Lord.

Love Rig Rundowns, I get so excited when I see a new one on the home page.....wish there was a new one every day. Factory tours are pretty interesting too. This stuff should be a regular hour long weekly series on Palladia HD or a channel like it, (I don't think there is anything like it, but...) that would be awesome to see!

[Socioistic]

Ugh- ah!

Oh, sorry, I almost came when I saw the title.

[LeoRyzinsky]

The sqrt(666) of evil. Grim.



[akosiCoco]

Now that's a cool shirt...

[Metallimeister]

Great! She tried to get more secrets! Love it!

[toraliens]

Spoiler Alert: No Myung's voice, as usual....

[JonesDeLoggia]

Hellyeah! We want more bass rig rundowns!! Justin chancellor's gear!!!

[LuccaTotti]

The square root of evil LOL

[rodnicolo]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! :D

[OndskapensHersker]

Premier guitar delivers again.

[CMSpida]

i'm sensing a petrucci RR

[sartaajhussain]

@CMSpida False alarm, 'twas a petrucci BFR :P

[TheMetalerEricM]

Rebecca is the hottest gearhead, hands down.

[Metallimeister]

@TheMetalerEricM Any female gearhead would be the hottest gearhead haha.

[wolfman109h]

@TheMetalerEricM

How should I understand "hands down" ? :)

[Noldor82]

Fractal rules throughout the world!!!

[pompa98]

myung.....? really....?

[ivanspecs]

looks like AxeFXes are everywhere today :(

[Fabrimon]

finally!!!! something about john myung!!!!

of corse, he will never gonna talk about his rig... or anything else xD