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1. #GUITAR RIG PRESETS TOM PETTY HOW TO#
2. #GUITAR RIG PRESETS TOM PETTY SERIAL#
3. #GUITAR RIG PRESETS TOM PETTY SERIES#

The third channel goes to the second Bludotone head, which runs a separate PRS 4×12….” Each cab is 8 ohms.

#GUITAR RIG PRESETS TOM PETTY SERIES#

Channel two goes to one of the Bludotone tops, and that drives one PRS closed-back 4×12 cabinet with Celestion Vintage Series speakers and an open-back 4×12 Tone Tubby with red alnicos with hemp cones. > Adair: “Channel one on the amp selector goes to the Mark I, which drives the single- 12 cabinet. Apparently he is favoring the Bludos right now over the Dumbles.

> The amp racks have a spare Boogie head and two Dumble heads (more on his Dumble heads here). > The second and third channels are each custom-made 100w Bludotones.

#GUITAR RIG PRESETS TOM PETTY SERIAL#

According to Santana’s website, here are the specs: “Original 100w Mark I, purchased in 1973, no serial number, no effects loop, reverb, graphic EQ (never used) four Ruby Tube 6L6s three Ruby 12AX7 preamp tubes, one 12AT7 by Phillips.” > Channel one is a Mesa/Boogie Mark I 100w head. Here's his current pedalboard (VG mag photo – click to see way bigger). So I can run all the amps grounded for safety purposes, and there are no issues with hums. It will drive long cable lines, and with that in place I don’t have any ground loops. Adair calls it “the biggest improvement in guitar rig in 20 years, simply because it has floating grounds on the output.

> Stock Dunlop Crybaby GCB95, which is the original Crybaby. So the output of the guitar isn’t changed or boosted, it’s just maximized.” The input impedance of a guitar amp is typically 1 mega-ohm, and this is designed to trick the guitar into thinking that it’s plugged directly into an amplifier. But more important, it’s an impedance matching unit. A bright, ringing characteristic sound is preserved, even when using HI-Z guitar pickups with long cable runs. > Carnare GS-6 – From the manufacturer’s website ( more here): “Low capacitance and low series resistance provides improved frequency response (flat to 50kHz). The strings have with a thicker core and thinner windings. > GHS Big Core strings designed by Rene Martinez. > Usually his PRS Santana II sig model, salmon-colored. Here’s more detail on Carlos’ signal chain, from his tech Ed Adair via the VG article: > Jimmy Somma of Sommatone amps talking about how “you have to play the amp.” > Derek Trucks, when he played with Carlos, noted that Carlos “would show up an hour before his band, trying to improve his tone.” I love it! That’s a man who knows what he’s doing, and it reminded me of two quotes: > Two amp switchers and a wah. (According to the VG article, he has a TC Electronic DT delay offstage but it’s rarely used.) I thumbed over to the cover story, and whoa – what caught my eye was a shot of Carlos’ pedalboard, which is particularly timely to talk about in view of the recent John versus Johnny post.

#GUITAR RIG PRESETS TOM PETTY HOW TO#

I wasn’t sure how to post about it until I read the November issue of Vintage Guitar magazine, the one with Carlos on the cover. Not a whole lot of schizophrenia going on, at least that’s how I see it. Looks pretty cool (below), and you can tell by it that the guy has ears for what he wants. Carlos with the salmon Santana II (PRS photo).Ī couple photos have been kicking around on my desktop for a while now, of Carlos Santana’s amps.