Friday, March 14, 2025

30 thoughts on “Rig Rundown – Incubus’ Mike Einziger

  • It’s 2024 and we live in the era of programmed delay pedals that snap to BPM of each song via midi along an entire circuit of other pedals and processors. These guys were heroic in making what they did with what they had available.

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  • I am a big fan of their music. Einziger is a big part of the Incubus sound and composition content. However, as far as his ability to articulate a practical and concise description with any degree of eloquence? zero / zilch / nope

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  • I’ve never seen a guitarist in a band this big playing with combo amps. Wonder why he uses those instead of the big tube heads

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  • So cool to hear specifically the pieces that are implanted on three different songs that are probably incubus faves of mine.

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  • call me old school or romantic , but i will always think of Mike as a PRS player , even though he only played those for a short time in the late 90s- early 2000's , i guess because it coincided with Incubus peak in popularity.

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  • He seems so humble and I absolutely adore his unique use of effects. Mike is a special guitarist no doubt

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  • He looks like a rock and roll version of the late, great Michael Brooks (political commentator)

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  • Very melodic guitarist, knows how to serve the song, doesn't play too many notes to impress the fools. See songs like: Just a Phase, Deep Inside, Pardon Me and Stellar…

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  • i find it cool that mike isnt super technical, unlike pedal demo guys (who are all awesome in their own way). like he still prefers the old school.

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  • I truly like how these guys, Incubus, is big.. They have gotten BIG over the years. But they still seem very humane and humble. I like that!

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  • This is great but he has such a specific heavy distortion that when he goes from a quiet verse to an extremely heavy (you literally feel the "weight" live) chorus and I really wanna know how he does that! I guess the answer is the distortion of a separate Mesa boogie? I just want to be able to do that with a pedal. Anybody have any recs on a meaty distortion pedal that you can kick in on a chorus that still let's you hear the higher strings? I love big muffs but they cut out the higher strings too much and I need to hear those while playing lower stuff at the same time.

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  • I am trying to find out what 6 string banjo Mike was playing in Prague for Hans Zimmer. If anyone knows or is able to point me in the right direction, it would mean a lot. Thanks, everyone.

    Edit: nevermind. I was able to reach out to Mike directly. Thanks though everyone!

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  • "I went through a lot of different guitars… Fenders, Gibsons… SGs, Telecasters, Strats…"
    No mention of PRS's eh?

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