I read this on his forum,
www.hevydevyforums.com:
I use LTD 7 string Baritones for the new SYL with 81's and a fixed bridge.
I ust the strat and a Gibson sg with an 81 for DT. The strat has pearly gates and hot rails and a wango bar.
I use 5150's, but am starting to get a much better tone from a moded rectifier.
I use a noisegate, a roland gp100 for echo. I use a korg tuner, a boss floor tuner, a bad horsey pedal, a super overdrive pedal, a line 6 delay modeler.
Planet waves cables, Boomer 10-52s, 10-56 for the 7 strings.
The yellow dunlop pizza slice picks (the big pyramids)
He also posted his whole setup for those who are interrested:
OK, heres my guitar scoop.
For SYL, I used to use the gibson style black explorers. I've had many, and ****ed up most of them.
My first one previously belonged to James Hetfield, and it was in rough shape (I got it from ESP) That guitar now belongs to Brian from DTB.
I got another from ESP LA while I was writing City. That one I used for City and Ocean Machine, and was the first smoking sounding one I had.
I didn't find that they had tons of finesse, but they looked cool when you slung them low, so I sacraficed my playing for heavy metal stances for the first 5 years of playing them.
My main Eplorer before the LTDs was a black one with no fretmarkers. (It was custom, and looks coo-ool... but it sounds like ass, actually and has no weight to it) I use it for photos. I thought it had been stolen on the superjoint tour, but it ended up at mr. Anselmos house, and his guitar tech has to send it back to me sometime.
I may spray it flat black.
Now I use LTD's live. Why the switch? Because my old explorers have HAD IT, and the LTDs are free, basically. That being said...they look cool enough, and a grey explorer is novel for me. My main grey one actually has a tighter bottom end than the black, no fret marker one. (syl 3, dontchano...)
EMG 81's in the exporers. 10-52 strings, CGCGCE
except Detox which is DADGBE
Physicist is AAAEAE
I use either my custom ESP white triangle picks, or the Dunlop 1.00mm blue triangles...
(the pizza slice ones)
Now, for amps.
I've used 5150's for a long time, and they are really gratifying to play through...but their frequency range is much like a stereo that gives you everything at once...which sonds great by yourself, but a bit wierd if your playing with everyone. The Peavey sometimes gets in the way of the bass and the cymbals. That being said, for soloing...you can't beat it...'Away' sounds just like I wanted it to... but sometimes I find the rythm gets lost.
I have been working with Mesa-boogies now a bit since Jed got his... and although I'm not a total devotee to the overall sound of it yet, if I use the loop as an extra gain stage, I can replicate the peavey crunch with the rectifier with the added bonuse of having a head and cab that is specifically designed to sit and operate within the guitars frequency range in a band setting.
Therefore, I am using both. I use a JDI injector splitter box to seperate my guitar signal to other amps.
My DTB setup for guitars was Strats exclusively...but after the Symphony X tour, I wanted something that sounded heavier, with a
rosewood fretboard...higher output pickups, and intonation more like an explorer. (the strats are hard to finesse the tuning of on the higher frets)
Therefore...HELLO PAUL REED SMITH!!! Sling one of those puppies low through my guitar rig, and thats heaven for me.
Unfortunately, I can't budget one in right now, so I'm useing Genes. but GODDAMN those are beautiful instruments. The bridge is floating, but still has tone. Hoorah!
Man if he has na LTD Explorer 7 string baritone, I WANT ONE!!
Kim
