 Hey everybody Doug Aldrich here from the Dead Daisies and I'm gonna do a rig rundown for you. Got a brand new collaboration with Blackstar so that's the main focus here and I'm really excited about it. So basically it starts with the guitar. This is a Gibson R7. It's from 2006 I believe in the custom shop and I refreaded it with Dunlop frets. They're they're a little bit bigger and they just you know it's like a fresh fresh thing for me to get new frets and I put in John Sir Aldrich Sir Aldrich Pickups. It's my signature pickup. I met John Sir in around 1989 and he rewound some pickups for me and they just sounded incredible. So good. So when I wanted to pick up for my last balls humbucker he did he took my specs and stuff and he did like four prototypes and I tried them all and picked the one I love the best and it's just it's a high output pickup but it's not compressed. It's really open and big. It's got a big bottom end so that's all good. I for generally I love the cable. There's nothing that beats the cable for me directly into the amp but for live it does sometimes create little situations where you can't move around or you can't you get caught up or the stage is too big cable is not long enough. So I'm using the best wireless on the market. Electrosonix is the wireless and what's so cool about it is I can transmit from my pedalboard so I don't have to go all the way back to my backline to transmit then run cable back out here and then back. Transmits here and then the cable goes back to the amp one time that's it and it's the clearest sounding one I think. As far as before I get before I get into the amps talking about pedals and stuff I basically with this Blackstar rig I don't need anything other than a wah and a talk box but I like to experiment and play around with different tones and stuff and it all kind of interacts in a cool way. So I've got a few pedals here from Dunlop starting with the MXR Phase 90. You guys all know the sound it's it's just that slow. I've got to set for that slow. Mark to it. You can speed it up obviously and get some really interesting sounds like faster. My favorite wah is the Dunlop Custom Audio Electronics Wah. It just has got a killer tone to it. Two channels. This one's been modded so that there's no channels it's just it's set for one of the channels. But it's also got when you buy it in the store it's got a boost if you want to have a boost for your wah to give it a little more gain and stuff. But for me I got plenty of gain going on different places. This is just a straight up wah for... Going into a magic box it's called a rocket fuel. It's an old signature box that I built. It's basically got two different sounds and it's got an overdrive and a clean boost. So the clean boost is interesting because it's just hitting the front of the amp a little bit harder and so you'll get like a little bit more bottom end boost. So you don't lose any bottom end. I love that. This next pedal here is a it's an Australian company called DVK. It's got a fuzz and a univibed to it. So you can get these crazy fuzz sounds like chorus. It's nice for clean bits but when you be heavy distortion it's like we are tuned down a half step. We're back up. We were down a whole step last last tour. Makes it you know a little bit grungier but it just makes it easier for the vocals. Maybe you don't have to sing as high maybe but it makes it heavier and a little darker but we I think this is the best tuning is down a half step. Copy that's set for like a crazy long delay right now so I can switch guitars. I'm gonna hit a chord. By changing the speed while you're when you've got a note holding stuff with that. Okay so the other other thing I got here is a talk box. It's not powered up at the moment but you guys know what a talk box is. I use it for a couple songs and make some noise and you and I and of course Dunlop hooks me up with those they're great. And then I got my I got a black star foot switch to just basically change voices between the two channels. So you've got the main channel for my main rhythm crunchy rhythm. And then you can clean the guitar. You get full crunch. Channel is for more solos so you got like a little bit more gain for solos. Last thing I have a delay box for kind of giving those little bit more spacious sounds. Off switch right there. I got two amps at the moment one's a backup. A cool thing would be to run in stereo sometimes to use both amps and stuff like that to get even a wider sound with so that your delays maybe pan. And then when you pan that wide in the mixer it it's just giant it's just a really big sound but when we got two guitar players you don't necessarily need that that giant sound because you know you got two. But the amp is really slick it's really cool and brand new this is the brand new HT 100 stage oh sorry HT stage 100 mark 3. The brand new amp you got a really killer clean channel as well that is uh wait here we go really nice. I'm just with with this particular set list we've got not really using the clean that much but I do love it it sounds amazing it's got every channel of the three channels has a separate voice that um gives a little bit different body to it. This is my main one. It's the lead channel that I was talking about. Three channels and then you got like a master section it's got I use a bit more bottom end with the resonance a little bit less top end and then your master volume here and I got a little buzz in the studio here so I'm going to turn it off but um it's a killer amp on the back it can have have a look um it's it's not wired at the moment but it's got a really good cabinet simulator that you can go directly to the mixer. What I'm doing is just basically running two cabinets off this 100 watt top and I got the effects loop with the delay in it and that's pretty much it so to wrap it up and basically just make it really quick. The guitar into the pedals via the wireless system and then the pedals can hit the front of the amp except for this pedal which controls on and off of the delay which is in the effects loop because it sounds better that way and then it's basically just in your fingers you know what you what you do so I hope you enjoyed it and look forward to seeing you guys on the road it's going to be great and we're powered by Blackstar full on it's it's going to be awesome thanks guys we'll see y'all