Rig Rundown – Umphrey’s McGee’s Brendan Bayliss, Jake Cinninger, and Ryan Stasik
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Premier Guitar met with Brendan Bayliss, Jake Cinninger, and Ryan Stasik of Umphrey’s McGee on February 6, 2015, shortly before their set at The Ryman in Nashville to see how they fuel their “improg” with multiple amps and a boatload of effects that yield a huge array of tones.
Brendan Bayliss has been playing PRS guitars for 20. His current No. 1 is Lucy, a lovely single-cut built to replicate Bayliss’ former No. 1, Felicia. The guitars are basically Mark Tremonti Signature guitars in disguise. Lucy and Felicia are stock, with the exception of the whammy bars, which have been replaced with a “Jake Blade”—a custom, ergonomic palm plate made from a piece of metal taken from a Harley-Davidson fuel tank).
When Bayliss goes acoustic, he plays a Babicz Spider.
Bayliss’ uses two pedalboards. The 1/4″cable from his guitar first hits a Sarno Music Solutions Steel Guitar Black Box tube-driven buffer/impedance matcher. From there, it goes to a Boss TU-3 tuner.
Then his signal jumps to the second board and hits a loop switcher that controls Stigtronics Compressor and Delay stomps, a Morley Steve Vai Bad Horsie Wah, Mesa/Boogie Grid Slammer and Tone-Burst pedals, Cusack Screamer and Tap-a-Whirl pedals, three Boss units—a DD-20 Giga Delay, an OC-3 Super Octave, and a CE-3 Chorus Ensemble—and two MXRs, a Flanger and a Phase 90. From the loop switcher, Bayliss’ signal hits an A/B box that switches between an Oldfield amp and a Stigtronics Overdrive that’s feeding a Mesa/Boogie Electra Dyne head.
Bayliss tours with two Oldfield combos he describes as “like a [Fender] Twin, only way sexier.” One is the canvas for most of his tones, and the other is a backup.
Bayliss also uses a Mesa/Boogie Electra Dyne that’s set for dirty sounds. The Boogie runs into a 2×12 Hard Truckers cabinet with Electro-Voice speakers.
To learn more about the gear behind Umphrey’s McGee, visit: http://bit.ly/UmphreysMcGeeRR
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Love the Thanks Mike sticker on the amp.
Jake is the man.
When Brandon made the wah sound, I LOL’d
No idea who these guys are, and while I agree Scott Stapp is a massive douche and I can't stand Creed, I felt that whole bit was a bit unnecessarily bitchy. I'm not a fan of Marks music but he's done more without creed than with creed by now.
Scott Stapp was whipped as a boy almost religiously, allegedly, it’s kinda sad but true. (Enter Kris Meyers) lol
Say you’re full of yourself without saying you’re full of yourself✔️
I’ve actually watched this several times already, but I always come back for ideas for my rig because Jake has one of the best tones that I have ever heard
Jake's a huge inspiration to me. not even a big UM fan anymore but I'll never be able to deny Jake's massive influence over my playing
Somebody needs to clean up those pedalboards. They looks like a high school project that was never finished.
Jake is the reason I got a G&L Comanche. One was hiding in the used section at Guitar Center when I was just looking and couldn't leave it.
Mark Benjamin from Niles/Buchanan?
Love these guys.
"knock on wood" knocks on head instead of guitar
Proceeds to Diss musician whose signature Guitar he calls his "number 1"
Kind of a dumb ass lol.
That toneburst is sick!
Shout out to the 812!
These guys are due for another rundown. Awesome to see the Umphreys and moe. Rundowns on here thanks guys ???????????? I’ve watched these multiple times searching for my sounds and jams
"Knock on some wood," while holding guitar. knocks on head
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WHAT IS THAT LITTLE JUKEBOX LOOKING THING ON HIS TEAL AMP AND WHY IS IT PLUGGED IN?!
I don't understand this video. Can't the artists play some music to demonstrate the sounds instead of just talking about them?
stasik… go take a shower
I listen to a lot of umphrey's, It drives me bonkers that in a lot of the mixes, live and soundboard, I can't hear Brendan cut through during his solos, bring up that mesa during solos!!
Cinniger is arguably the best and most versatile guitarist today. The way him and Brendan play together is something extremely special.
"Looking for a guitar that can do it all" then uses EMGs… ok
love or hate scott stapp it was still a douchebag move. he just couldn't resist the childish remark.
Gotcha ! 🙂
haha trashing Creed is always fun
Blake Mills rundown would be sweet.
Can we see the boats next time boys? Strings? Picks?
who makes the black box?
"I just don't like Scott Stapp." Neither do I, but I don't work in the music industry and I wouldn't talk about my peers in that way. That's just crappy PR. Hypothetically speaking, what if you have a chance to make some big money by working with the guy? Don't burn bridges people.
What was the intro song?
Where are their Becker Guitars?
i love this band
It is apparently a misconception that the bigger your speaker is the lower or deeper a sound you can get
If Brendan was more excited we'd have to sedate him! gotta love umphreys tho!
Wow, they have to be careful, if Brendan gets any more excitable a funeral might break out!
Who do these D-bags think they are. How dare you even make and agree with a comment like that. You two are so low class to comment on someone who is down and with possible mental health issues. This is a bad mark against Premier Guitar for even airing this. Hopefully you guys stay perfect in your own little worlds.
When will they play in England ???
Cannibal Corpse rig rundown?
LOVE watching these Rig Rundowns but damn, all these cool pedals and not one musician ever runs through them a bit!! Just play a note or two let me hear this stuff!
Great video Perry, solid like always! Is there any way you can do a Rig Rundown on Wes Borland!?
With Arms wide openaahhhhh ^^
Tremonti? Stapp?
Weren't they in a band called 'Creep' ; )
The Scott Stabb insult was a hair douchey
haha! love the Scott Stabb diss!
You know it's going to get nerdy when you're at the bass player and there's still 11 minutes left…