Eric Johnson on His ‘Ah Via Musicom’ Pedalboard
There was only one way for EJ to get the tones right for his tour to celebrate his breakthrough album—he used the exact same pedalboard.
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If it was not EJ, the interviewee would probably just throw the interviewer out.
Great finally see signal path… got that going tonight just to locate pedal power cables
but have just about everything located minus mxr delay settings. But located original mxr on off box so thats handy and have the belle also so thats gonna feed the chorus in my case landau but should be fun to try into Dumble though the delay and plate sounds best post mic ill still be trying it through front end of amp tomorrow. just to tinker with that signal path see how it sounds I thought tube screamer came after fuzz also
Just learned he ran SSS into ODYSSEY so thought that was other way also but he llked preamp of SSS breaking 100 up what sound that was cracking the sky.
a nice dinner and dance my dear? and then the Marshalls get cranked to 11
Considering how gorgeous and polished his tone is you’d think his cable management would be neat and tidy ???? love how old school EJ is
Does anyone know what loopbox Eric Johnson puts his Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man into? I have a DMM, a TC Electronic SCF, and can buy a Belle Epoch, soon, since I really wanna copy his signal chain. Any help would be appreciated.
2:53 …… cool! ….. (I don’t know what the f@&& eric Johnson just said with all those loops and cables)
So thats how you pronounce ah via musicom
He and what everyone is looking for is really quite simple. Frank Zappa did it. The key is transformers. Some of these units have high quality input and output transformers. All one really needs for a great guitar amp are things like Demeter in you chain; but the key is use only those units.
That's an elaborate set up, but he knows what he's doing, because I went to see this tour, and it was awesome. Sounded just like it did when I saw him the first time during the original Ah Via tour.
That Memory Man is c r u s t y!
What venue was this interview conducted at? It looks like the same stage/room where the GE Smith rig rundown was….
Way too much s*** going on. Amazing player but it would be nice to hear EJ less dependent on all this ridiculous amount of delay and stuff. Makes me dizzy going through his chain.
He is very careful with the smallest details that interfere with the tone. But why is the pedalboard so "messy"? It's so many long and tangled cables. One day I want to understand this. (I'm Brazilian, I used google translator to comment, I hope I was understood)
Eric who is famously well known for his gorgeous, beautiful and meticulous tone has the messiest looking pedalboard I ever saw. I love it.
Belle epic! Real American. He didn’t hear about la belle epoch. The great French enlightenment period. Jesus Christ !!
Noise gate?
What the hell is he playing, dinner theatre??!?!!?
Big Johnson Guitarist.
Chicks dig it when you play Big Johnson
Why the hell would you ask a stupid question like that ? If he keeps the cry baby wah on all the time.
All those gear snobs don’t know sh&t.
That teeny tiny hat that guy is wearing looks so silly on his head. I can't imagine he thinks it looks cool. Had a Dallas Arbiter fuzz face back in the late 60s plus a Dallas Arbiter octave splitter. They just don't make pedals like that anymore.
Notice on the pedals no power supply used, probably reduces noise using only batteries
Is that tube driver set to unity gain? I’ve never used one.
Sorry, are those dinner tables???
Meticulous tone.
Glad to see the George L's cables on there. I still use and prefer them years after the hype has died down!
All these pedals on the market to make you “sound like” Eric Johnson and the man himself is using a setup that looks like it came from the set of the original Star Wars film.
This interviewer is the worst!
So that weird fat buzzy tone is tube screamer into the fuzz. Not how the “specialists “ on you tube say. Fuzz into the tube screamer. I tried it. It is bang on.
And now you know why some people can't stand the sound and bs behind Fractal.
Some people like things more organic and not all digital.
Those cables, orh lord
This is an old video………I've seen this before. Love Eric and his tone but if he's that particular as he is known to be …..give Daniel from the Gig Rig a call so he can get a proper pedal board going …….my pedal board is neater and cleaner than that rats nest for God's sake ????♂️
Eric is the coolest! Myself, I'd be nervous using such old gear on the road. But of course he has a killer tech.
Moral of the story: hang onto all your old gear if possible.
Damn… Plus it looks like he’s still using 30-year-old skinny cables on his pedal board.
Anyone know if the pedalboards are MDF or Plywood? Also, Is Eric using 3M Velcro or a thinner generic? Thanks in advance.
This is from 2018
Belle Epic lol. Americans and foreign words. Ha ha
Still running most of this stuff off batteries i see… LOL!!
Love to see some George Lynch. He has inspired me to pick up the guitar. I also have a YouTube Channel with live videos dedicated to him. Please check it out!
More?
I would be more nervous using those pedal boards, than remembering the thousand things one has to remember when doing a stage live gig…