After soundcheck, I think it ended up around 3 Almost everything is off! Depending on how loud the Marshall is, that Drive knob could be anywhere from 0 to 4. You’ll notice that the knob settings look really funny. January 2001 – The Fillmore – San Francisco Almost all of this stuff has never been published before and has never left my computer.
Okay, so I’ve gone through a bit of my archive and pulled out a few things. He does things that look somewhat normal, then when you actually look at the settings, it’s a whole other deal. Definitely some very interesting things going on behind the scenes like Nix pointed out with the Tube Driver. Over the last 10 years that I’ve worked on stuff with him, I would usually take pics of all the gear and settings. I’ll have to dig through my photo archives. You gotta give him credit or being pretty creative with a bunch of gear that was both old and rather common.ĭefinitely simple but uniquely ingenious, also. When he would stop, the echoes would sort of fade in.
I always though it was clever to run the Tube Driver last in the chain, after the Echoplex, to get a sort of natural delay-ducking when he was playing faster stuff. He would sometimes switch this in on top of the other SRV-style. He had a second Tube Screamer on the Dumble line also, on his pedalboard.
The Tube Driver was specific to the Plexi, the Tube Screamer for the Dumble. (…) Another question…why were the Tube Driver and Tube Screamer ( one of two Tube Screamers ) mounted in the rack…were they switched on with a loop box of sort, or were they just always on, in line with a specific head ?Īlways on. I never got over playing through his Steel String Singer, and to this day wish I had ordered one when I had the opportunity. I played some shows with EJ around that time and what James listed is dead-on accurate. He used those for bigger venues to get more low-end from a Marshall cab wired in stereo with an open back. They weren’t Dual Showmans, they were Twins mounted in Showman shells. That rig is mostly right but for some reason on the ACL show I remember two Blackface Dual Showman’s stacked on top of a Marshall 4×12, wired stereo for the clean signal path…….
And, at the time, he REALLY liked old 80-watt Celestions. That cab goes to the Dumble sitting on the rack behind the twins.
Note that even though EJ had two Marshall heads on stage during ACL, the middle head was just a dummy. Tube Screamer or Tube Driver (both in rack depending on the day!)įender Spring Reverb (he stopped using it later and opted to get reverb from the house) MXR Digital Time Delay 1000ms (in big rack, also has switch for repeat hold on pedalboard)ĭumble Steel String Singer (amp also has multiple channels and functions that EJ could switch from a small wooden pedal above the TS808 on his board. MXR Flanger/Doubler (on floor in rack-used with a true bypass loop) TC Stereo Chorus out stereo to two Twin Reverbs In chain order and all switched by A/B boxes:ĭeluxe Memory Man (used with a true bypass loop) His rig is almost the same from his instructional video that was shot as the same place as his ACL show (KLRU in Austin). I’m pretty sure of the amps… maybe not….but does anyone have a specific diagram of Eric’s rig during this Ah Via era…down to the signal chain, and effects employed for which amps ? Pretty cool thread with some excellent details on old school EJ.