Slash's Live Marshalls & Effects

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[@BruceKnouseMusic]

Love seeing an artist actually using their signature gear!

[@Storm762x39]

Most of them do

[@Storm762x39]

@Dusty Hall precisely, the real achievement is when an artist uses the only signature gear under their name and not exclusively a very high end version over a more affordable version. For example Matt Heafy using his Epiphone on stage.

[@rmnyc1]

Actually when he was touring solo I saw he did when his tech Ace did his rig rundown. He actually used 2 of them. Clean and dirty. Now it appears he went old school w his amps. I owned an AFD 100 SCE #37. It was truly an awesome amp!

[@VincentVader]

I wish Slash would should show up for his rig rundown.

[@poisedforduty]

He cant even OPERATE his rig....

[@Ewald_93]

He did a video with mark agnesi

[@Joshcheyka]

@@poisedforduty he actually does lol theres pics of him at practice operating the effects himself!

[@thelespauldude3283]

@@poisedforduty almost no big artists dance on their pedalboard on stage lmao

[@DaGuyver]

​@@thelespauldude3283 Well. It's not a matter of how big you are. Some prefer it doing it themselves and others not. With Slash it just didn't work out. He couldn't do both things at the same time. Playing and switching. So he left all the switching and fancy stuff to his tech. Not a big deal. Slash's rig isn't complicated. He also doesn't use many effects. Only on certains songs. He didn't use effects in the old days. He added those later on. Same songs now just sounding like intended when they were in the studio recording it. His most 'relevant' effect is his wah (and in the old days the talk box).

[@celsosaucedo7221]

Every day I dream of seeing this gentleman at a concert making all the changes in real time.

[@ryderhowell3196]

Met him once. Real nice guy

[@Chaomhainn]

Nice to have a techie supporting the artist . Very interesting the bells and whistles being delivered by someone else but dedicated hired techie ! For Slash it has been a live a learn in the many years of his musical journey .

[@ESPE2M1]

I'm just a hobby guitarist and that's all Greek to me. Some amazing shit there. Slash is an incredible guitarist.

[@truescotsman4103]

toni iommi did something similar on the album paranoid. they used a combo amp at the console directly in front of tonys guitar so he could get the autofeedback effects he was used to getting on stage or live at rehearsals. you can hear it on stuff like the intro for warpigs.

[@GordonSchindell]

OK, well if Slash can get by with just this, I guess it's time for me to simply my rig a little!

[@ant_yep]

🤣

[@yellingelk]

Yep... Slash shows us all, just how little you actually need to play rock'n'roll! Just guitar straight into amp! Simple.. just like that! Thanks Slash, for giving us all a little perspective... and for KEEPING IT REAL!!!!

[@allguitar3349]

With JUST this...lol...right on brother

[@lbinok]

I loved that the EQ was blacked out .....

[@miloshudec1686]

hello...theres nothing interesting...it is setup only for slightly balanced sound from wireless...please look on other slash rigs video...there it is without black tape...but it is not interesting too much...if you are looking for instant slash solo eq setup...like I do years before...(;...easy setup for slash sound is updown smile...with boosted mids...(;...

[@mikegleeson8733]

Its only blacked out so that the sliders don’t get shifted accidentally

[@iaoshua]

yea eq would be really mysterious but thankfully ears

[@LeviBulger]

i really need a Flanger for one part of one song in the set. Better get a full multi-modulation effect rack processor!

[@robertkorn]

and it's not even set for flanger, it has a phaser sound dialed in

[@flybynight1929]

Thanks for re-releasing these RR's, they're all great, if only to see the old JB and the new, improved JB, sans the hair dye.

[@mophead1666]

PG please catch Johnny Marr sometime and get a rig rundown. He's a legendary guitarist with a very unique sound. +He loves talking about and is very passionate about his sound and gear.

[@TheSunMoon]

Basically it's not so basic to me.🤣

[@thebetterspidey6115]

It’s just Les Paul + Marshall

[@ESPE2M1]

Too high tech for me to comprehend

[@ROKZLEON]

That CAE MXR Boost/Overdrive is a cool pedal!!! Nice to see him using it.

[@NelKazam]

I knew a guy like this once who sold offshore tax shelters in Roatan. He talked to a client for 45 minutes. Then he left. The client turned to me and said, “that sounded really really good. I have no idea what he said, but it sounded great and most importantly , everything is going to be okay!” So we went to a bar and gave his card to the bartender. In comparison, this guy was crystal clear… theres a guitar… 6 Marshall’s, apparently heavily modded, 4 or was it 5? 4X12 bottoms, some buttons… an MXR EQ that requires a SF86 security clearance to see… some other stuff, and did I mention, 600 tube driven RMS watts pushing 20 12” speakers. (Thats right kids…600 watts. Each rig capable of producing 135db… so can you add those together? And whats that, the equivalent of an Atlas V booster in your guest room? basically very simple basically. Is there going to be a quiz?… I feel the need to go to the bar.

[@guitarshredder1972]

Why did he look like he was gonna piss his pants when telling the signal path????

[@briantomkinson7134]

You cant even see any creases where the EQ sliders may be, very well covered up lol

[@drewg3087]

Kt88 hell yes. Played an Orange OR50 one day at GC and it had gold lion KT88s and still remember that tone. One day!

[@NelKazam]

I forgot to mention, I love JB. I keep old Premier Guitar issues and reread Johns last page column routinely. John should be the editor. He’s an actual player with real world experience. Keep on keepin on. In one of his columns he quoted an FOH engineer named Wayne who said “theres no money above the 5th fret”. John chimes in and says this is not his opinion and he likes all the notes… too funny. Actually this quote comes from Tommy Tedesco, who as a member of the Wrecking Crew, played on everything from the theme to Bonanza and the radio show Gunsmoke, to Monkees sessions.

[@yellingelk]

Yep... Slash shows us all, just how little you actually need to play rock'n'roll! Just guitar straight into amp! Simple.. just like that! Thanks Slash, for giving us all a little perspective... and especially, for KEEPING IT REAL!!!!

[@donniesavage2051]

I agree a lot of Sounder special effects he wouldn't sound like he does unless he had them paddles and all that technology

[@therollband1290]

Slash is the coolest man

[@alexng3375]

How do they get the feedback ? I dont get it. Feedback signal send to Slash pickups?

[@scav76]

So,when did movie director Michael Bay became Slash's guitar tech?....A very talented man!!!!

[@markdwighttadina7655]

Fun fact : Some of his Amplifiers survivef the 1991 Riverport Riot

[@laytonyonaka6259]

For the octave fuzz what’s the settings inside the pedal for the octave up

[@balke7935]

Why is the boss noise suppressor stomp taped off? Like he’s hiding it.

[@birdmansclambake]

That was hella cool 😎 thanks for posting!

[@_roddypiper_]

i’m trying to figure out what tool I can use to check for default usernames and passwords (admin/password for example) on my externally facing websites and networking gear. would this tool work for that? if not, any suggestions?

[@stephenchow5161]

got to write down those rack wah settings!

[@phillippehrson4908]

Take a shot every time he says "basically".

[@evanward4303]

Take a shot every time he smacks his lips

[@TheSunMoon]

Basically we'd get drunk.

[@Nghilifa]

Take a shot each time Slash says "all things considered". You'll be dead in a couple of mintes, guaranteed

[@verbalizerone]

@@evanward4303 doing it now!

[@verbalizerone]

Ok I’m out of bourbon and am swtc ing to vodha 7:00 in

[@fionn8057]

WHY did it go from a couple of stacks to all this? What's the point?

[@UnboundOdysseus]

Tell me again how the maple top affects the tone... LOL !! Slash is the reason I started playing electric guitar. Some day I'll own a Les Paul. Maybe when I retire.

[@thegingerpowerranger]

That's great!

[@leofinley4144]

Hate it when the artist themselves don't trigger the pedals on stage.

[@clautontodt910]

Whats the settings in the mxr eq? He's on the front or on loop? Thanks from brazil

[@stevenbeecheymusic]

I love amp land

[@shaunw796]

Is that basically it?

[@larrydj549]

Box of sound

[@kingfisher7960]

Awesome to see! 😊

[@dmoeseneder]

Why no Marshall AFD 100? Its also an signature model

[@mikeyn3611]

Keeping in mind with all this gear, Slash only needs a guitar, cable, amp, and pick. The rest just adds to his playing. It’s not required. Like Eddie Van Halen, Slash’s fingers are the real effect.

[@mumusjackson98]

As you can see, we can"t see the settings of the EQ. Slash don"t want to share the secret of his tone.

[@PooNinja]

EQ covered for protection from the boots or eyes??

[@JeffIndigo]

It's just a frown curve for the mid boost anyway

[@nunocarmona]

@@JeffIndigo Which incidentally is the "secret" of his tone

[@yellingelk]

So... so what you're basically saying... is Slash can't actually control his 'own sound'? Right..?

[@glennpace9783]

Curious that the MXR EQ and the Bossto it's left had gaffer tape blacking out the settings....wonder what the secret sauce is?

[@TempoDrift1480]

It's done so nothing moves. It's not to hide anything. It wouldn't take much to work it out with the same pieces.

[@duppykitoon]

That is so sick.

[@SOBRANTE409]

Did someone give John a valium? This the calmest I've ever seen ol' Bohlinger lol

[@geruto17760]

Probably wondering what the hell this all in aid of....

[@doctoribanez]

Damn thats crazy.

[@stevegardiner8473]

He didn't want to give away MXR EQ settings, or what speakers are in those cabs. 😁 Still interesting though 😉

[@blacklion401]

Dude I just watched and was thinking the same thing 😂

[@andressnakepit]

the speakers are Vintage 30 and the eq setting is a sad smiley face boosting the mids and cutting lows and highs

[@adamwayne6476]

Wow, doesn’t get more pro than that!

[@johnnydogs217]

Awesome

[@hawg427]

So a wireless system will add hiss to your guitar sound? Wow, what a setup.

[@michaelnero4033]

Slash's tech needs to talk to Angus' guy, that added feedback with latency issues wouldn't be acceptable there.

[@Nghilifa]

@@michaelnero4033 Angus doesn't use iso cabs, it's a traditional "hot" stage, so there's no problem there.

[@Joshcheyka]

@@michaelnero4033 lol that was referring to his Use Your Illusions recording setup.

[@TempoDrift1480]

@@michaelnero4033 I really don't see how that would cause any latency whatsoever. I've done this hundreds of times even live with a 6 inch practice amp next to two 4x12's. No problem at all.

[@BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy]

Guitar Tech: “… and that seems to work well.” Translation: We tried this after several bottles of Jim Beam and said “meh, sounds kinda good, let’s go with that.”

[@michaelmattson3515]

And I get grief for using a Boss BCB 60 with one guitar a Fender 40 year anniversary Strat with a Marshall 75 Reverb combo.

[@TempoDrift1480]

Oh yeah. I get shit because I run a pair of 6 watt heads each with a single 12. It's all people who can't even name a chord tho and don't know the difference between tempo and key. Don't pay them no mind. If they don't get it that just means they don't want to.

[@monmixer]

I always ran my effects in front of every thing. Just seems more sensible to me. I want to effect the guitars sound. Not the amplifiers sound.

[@TheArtofBlues]

Welp there goes the tube shortage.

[@MykEviiL]

The slash signature marshall is a replica of the original Jubilee's he had on tour voiced the same way. That's what I heard. Don't buy a rare slash marshall... but a jubilee reissue!

[@teddnagurski5583]

If he doesn't have any cabs onstage, why not just leave everything permanently miced up in the truck?

[@SoMyungJung]

might be because of speaker cable length between the heads and the cabs

[@teddnagurski5583]

@@SoMyungJung They could just leave the heads and cabs in the truck all mic'ed up. The Stones used to have a mobile recording studio that they parked outside venues and ran a snake to the FoH. It's the same concept, only reversed.

[@SoMyungJung]

@@teddnagurski5583 but what if something happens and the tech need to adjust the knobs of the heads?

[@teddnagurski5583]

@@SoMyungJung He'd be in the truck the whole time. In the video he says he watches Slash on a monitor backstage. Just put the monitor in the truck and have a second tech onstage to hand him guitars.

[@Watergrovey]

That tech really; really doesn’t want to be there.

[@killalllamas]

He’s been working very closely with slash for many years so it’s safe to say they may have slightly similar attitudes haha.

[@Watergrovey]

@the3-dkiller1 Yes. yes, he did.

[@JeffIndigo]

The lip smacking is unbearable lol

[@br1nk_0f_illusi0n5]

i’m so early!! wow. 🤘🏻🔥

[@UnremarkableMarx]

Those MXR choruses are massive tone sucks, even when bypassed, rotten buffers

[@evanmiller2579]

Who put this rig together? Had to be Rube Goldberg. All the in and outs into multiple effect gizmo units made no sense to me. 5 delay units, full Mod Pro for a Flanger sound that isn't used for any chorus so need an MXR pedal for that, 4 to 5 line boost pedals, and an MXR EQ pedal with "secret" settings. And the set-up for feedback? Come on. I have to believe there is a much simpler signal path that would produce the same results.

[@62SG]

It's called "playing in a stadium." 100 foot wide stage means you're on a wireless unit, means your switching is done from backstage, means you're standing under a massive lighting rig, means you don't have a live cabinet onstage to get feedback, means all of your pedals are isolated and MIDI controlled, means you have backups of your backups. The fundamental rig is very simple, everything that's complicated is just to facilitate the amount of switching that happens over the course of a three and a half hour show, and to make it very easy to replace any element that breaks down. I've seen Slash in small venues and his rig was made of the same gear but was much simpler: Cable into pedalboard, pedalboard into amp switcher, amps into 4x12 cab on stage.

[@DaveBaxterMusic]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@theedrstrangelove]

What ever happened to plugging into an amp and playing?

[@pacolts5658]

I would guess that playing into one head for an entire show would be incredibly difficult to get all the different ranges and voices that someone like slash would need.

[@markfreshwater3197]

What if the tech needs to have a dump? Oh the back up hats linked to the toilet via porta potty on a pully system linked to a fail safe gravity switch? All off stage of course.

[@zakkcovers18]

Cool 👍🎩

[@thekrevolution]

featuring michael bolton as the guitar tech

[@rmnyc1]

No more AFD 100?

[@philfrank5601]

Nope. Those amps are just endorsement cash for Slash. Not too many guys use their signature amps.

[@rmnyc1]

@@philfrank5601 Hey Phil. I knew I saw it somewhere: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrCq2V8lMSgnq8 It's from 2012 though. Can't believe how fast time goes. I'm getting old man! Also I loved that it can be dialed up to 100w or down to 0.1 watts and it still roared. Now I have an SL5 and it's a great little combo. Built like a tank! Now I just need my Les Paul back that I had to sell also. In the market now. Please let me know if you see anything 2018 or earlier...! Thanks Phil.

[@RikJSmith]

So , basically . . . . . . W T H ? 🎸

[@mrjackbagginz]

Jesus christ so much stuff,. I thought he just needs one amp a guitar and a cable to sound like slash 😂

[@JohnDoe-xr5is]

When he says 'basically'.....take a drink.

[@guitarfxdepot]

‘Basically I’ve got a bunch of other stuff I could be doing right now’

[@ledchickenfpv7164]

So why are they playing without a traditional backline? Have wives all gotten together to banish audio and other electronic gear from sight even on stages where musical acts perform now? The wedge monitors were first and are becoming a rare sight, now we're being trained to think of amps behind rock bands as unsightly? I will not stand for this! We must resist! Save the floor wedge! Save the walls of 4x12s! Next they'll be trying to get rid of venue sound systems entirely and just pipe the performance into the audience's earbuds at concerts. Stop the insanity! 😉

[@wienerstein2817]

It's not unsightly it's because guitar players insist on being the loudest thing on stage. There's nothing wrong playing tradition cabs on stage. Just stop making them so fuckjn loud. Millenials and Gen Z aren't impressed with volume anymore. They want clean and precise sound. Times are changing

[@DaGuyver]

Not sure how old this video is. If you're talking about GNR it's easy. Because of their stage setup, screens, lighting, imagery, visual show etc. Second is because Axl uses in-ears. The whole band including Slash switched to in-ears. You basically just need one or two cabs miked up. I believe Slash also used a boxed up dirty speaker sound in Velvet Revolver. His amps on stage were all dummies. Everything is backstage controlled by his tech. Also with GNR everything goes directly into the house system. Different when he was with Velvet Revolver or SMKC. But he also switched to in-ears a long time ago with his "solo". Hence the stage monitors disappeared with SMKC.

[@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185]

At first I thought who’s this weirdo ranting. Than I read what you were saying and I’m in!

[@ledchickenfpv7164]

@@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 Haha, cool. I was mostly just amusing myself by ranting about something I/we most likely can't do anything about, but I was voicing an opinion that I thought I surely wasn't alone in having. Some of us like stacks of amps and walls of speakers. Don't we? I appreciate your reply. Power to the audio equipment loving people! ;)

[@snapascrew]

It’s not rocket science. Sound engineers over time have realized that the same sound coming from multiple sources just messes the overall mix up for the fans. Guitar coming through a 4x12, a wedge, side fills, all bleeding into every other mic on stage (including the lead vocal) just sounds horrible. Keep the stage volume down and allow the front of house engineer to build the mix with complete control and the crowd gets a better show.

[@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185]

Im calling BS on Slash snapping the neck off a Les Paul while doing a bend. Just snapped it right off huh truss rod and all.. Not saying Slash isn’t a strong guy or anything but your name is Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mr Miagi I’m thinking that neck was already broken. You don’t snap a neck off a guitar while bending a string sorry. If SRV never snapped a neck off than Slash sure as hell hasn’t either

[@hardrockerdave94]

It wasn’t just bending a string - it was by simulating a dive bomb by grabbing the headstock and pulling it forward to slacken off string tension

[@vimfuego1191]

So what you're saying is...it's confusing as helll!!!!!

[@philzyqotsa]

all his Marshall's are modded look into that those are far from stock.

[@Joshcheyka]

They're not modded, the taped up MXR-10 EQ is where the real settings/modded tone lay.

[@philzyqotsa]

@@Joshcheyka look up Carlos mod tonetalk has a lot of shows on this topic. Honest truth stock marshalls sound like shit and the experts will tell you. Any guitar player worth anything playing a Marshall has it modded. The info is out there.

[@johnmarshall3903]

Get a grip dude, Marshalls rule, that's why all the greats use them.

[@vintagesound8112]

@@philzyqotsa sorry but I have to disagree. My 800 is totally stock and sounds amazing. It’s mostly down to the player and having a great guitar, and a lot less gain than you think. It’s all right there.

[@chegavara67]

...Kemper or Fx will do the same...no one in the audience will notice the difference... this setup was made yust to drive techs crazy.... :)

[@conradconstructioninstitut6045]

Id like to see when it breaks down slash come back there and fix it. I wonder if slash knows how all that shit works, hes an amazing guitarist and smarter then elon musk, i blame it on my parents

[@Bobby_Digital37]

Man that’s a complicated rig… but with just a few effects… Seems like maybe this could be simplified? But if it sound and feels good 👍🏾

[@spiderfan1974]

It's not that complicated a lot of it is duplicate gear in case something fails. I saw at least 3 wireless receivers. The other rig is a mirror image of his touring rig. If you had thousands of dollars to spend on gear you could do that too quite easily.

[@fasteddie8782]

Ok...you lost me ...from guitar chord...TO where again....hahaha....wow...crazy setup...can you say FUCKIN "MONEY"...

[@esmeulonsouzadeoliveira3636]

⚡🔱⚡👏👏👏 .

[@gitarbangsatchanel8036]

Even i sold my house&car, still can not buy this stuff lol

[@steveclark7736]

Alright but why they hiding the eq and Delay settings? It’s amazing that they used Randall’s for all of Appetite for Destruction but Slash uses a Jcm’s on stage. That’s so polar opposite, a solid state amp in the studio then a tuned out amp with El-34’s

[@MrAcEsNeIgHtS1188]

It may look like hiding. But it's a way to make sure settings won't get changed live by accident. Zakk Wylde had the knobs of his over drive on his pedal board removed so the settings won't change. Same idea-two different solutions.

[@johnfoskey7855]

Never heard that he used Randall amps

[@steveclark7736]

@@johnfoskey7855 it’s on a sweet interview section of the Appetite of Destruction LP set.

[@Nghilifa]

@@steveclark7736 Slash recorded his tracks on AFD with a Marshall 1959 that was modified by the late Frank Levi. Izzy used Mesa Boogie heads (mark series I think). No Randalls on that album.

[@johnmarshall3903]

Sorry dude, nobody plays Randall's except you maybe

[@Stratofennder]

Just guitar straight into amp ! That do.. but we can't achieve it with cheap amps 😅

[@skycramer8337]

From 2017, old!!!!

[@lucaszembrzuski]

I thought it was even older, John has grey hair now.

[@emilianogrzona9702]

It's so obvious how annoyed is that guy for having to give this interview, probably he was too busy for such a waste of time :v

[@superblondeDotOrg]

Yikes, Slash needs to buy a Flyrig. Eliminate all that gear with a single pedal with a second one for redundancy.

[@marvelharris9540]

this is old

[@dane4453]

Dude smacks too much while he talks.

[@xx55AC55xx]

Can you like stop reposting the same gear run-through from years back?

[@AnonYmous-jp8uu]

Slash is SO OVER rated

[@geocmartin6593]

Gee stop the wows, that's amazings, ooohs, and conduct a more professional interview dude.

[@TheDogPa]

Click bate rehash of old story. Pathetic.

[@tasteapiana]

And it's all powered 100% by that top hat he wears. Seriously, if he stopped wearing that hat we wouldn't be here now because he wouldn't be famous and no one would give two shts about what gear he uses - kinda like how when he makes a guest appearance how the house sound guy/gal turns him down because he's usually just playing embarrassing gibberish. Had Angus Young stopped wearing the school boy uniform in 1978 AC/DC would have still had sold out show after sold out show over the next 40 years. If Slash stopped wearing that costume gimmick hat, in precisely 2 seconds flat it would be Slash who? Guns and what? Every generation of kids has to have their poser in the equivalent of a batman costume.

[@Joshcheyka]

Slash would still be Slash, you're wrong.

[@tasteapiana]

@@Joshcheyka Gimmick look, gimmick name, Les Paul into a Marshall, how original, ummm, not. I'm VERY right.

[@cary3428]

That’s a lot of typing for a pathetic troll. Take a break.

[@tasteapiana]

@@cary3428 Careful, I might decide to take my break in that 1980s headspace where skin tight stretchy pants and big hair Hollywood extras bounce around out of sync to over produced ''rock'' from groups of bubble raised juvenile junkies that couldn't function without an A&R department. Then where would you be? You'd be stuck with me, all up in your fantasy land where you dive into MY opinion but somehow, through FCKING MAGIC, I'm the troll.