Gear Rundown: Steve Lukather’s Pedalboard Secrets with Jon Gosnell (FREE 2290P PRESET)

[@tcelectronic]

The link for Luke's 2290 P preset is in the description. Look under the "Software" section on the right side to find it.

[@AndorMatus]

I love these classic rigs: guitar, pedalboard, amp, 4x12 box. Luke sound is amazing.

[@RambisRants]

Jon is a MASTER guitar tech! On top of that one of the coolest dudes in the biz 👏🎸🎶💯

[@projekct_amk]

Love the work that Jon does, he is the keeper of the best sounding guitarist in recording history. Thanks Jon, Steve and TC Electronic

[@tcelectronic]

Yeah it's such a great tone, glad you like it!

[@josecarlosramolete6109]

and I noticed: Luke no longer uses Strymon Power supplies for the effects he is using.

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

@@josecarlosramolete6109 Cioks power supplies replaced the Strymons last year.

[@jerseyrednek]

Steve is the best. I had to watch this twice to figure it out. Like everything he does, he makes it look easy.

[@stanesposito2664]

I saw them on this tour and was in front by the PA and didn't even need ear plugs. It sounded huge! I wish other bands would go for that sound. This guitar was my favorite that Luke used throughout the show.

[@berndkiltz]

Yes, saw them too in Bruchsal Germany. Unbelievable Live-Sound, TOP 5 I ever heard

[@tube33139]

Look up the video where Jon fixes Luke’s pedalboard on the fly during a song. True professional.

[@sld67869801]

That was amazing! A true master tech at work.

[@countstoneula]

I noticed they switched to the Cioks power supplies in this rig since that Zuma went down.

[@tel5690]

Steve's new single coil musicman guitar is so fire 🔥 those pickups are pretty hot...that tone is massive

[@Kasper911band]

Jesus this sounds amazing!! 🏆

[@johanrautenbach]

Many changes to the rig. It sounds freakin amazing. Love the Helios compared to the Ecstasy. That 2290 sounds awesome

[@collinjamesguitar]

Best tone Luke has ever had. Wow

[@pallobomba]

Great interview and interviewer

[@indigojc]

wao, this update was like the Christmas gift you got and need it sooo much, just you did not know you need it so bad. Thank you for this incredible update!

[@tcelectronic]

We got you 😎

[@Jeff-11_354]

The new guitar looks sick!

[@pc2908]

MOAR the “mother of all rigs”

[@BAND-MAID-USA]

This video just sold me on those Bogners. What a sound. But as far as no feedback on modelers, get a FreqOut pedal or on of the BOSS feedback pedals. Sounds exactly the same.

[@granddesignsstudio]

❤ Thanks to all technicians

[@InsideTheSound]

So inspiring!

[@rodenbergamplification]

Great job, Jon. You’re a master!

[@jaycareaga9929]

Pickups aren’t stacks they are heat treated Cutlass single coils. They utilize the new Music Man HT (Heat Treated) bridge pickup utilizes patent-pending heat-treated pole pieces with a large ceramic magnet and an overwound coil which increases output and widens frequency response

[@cblackwell781]

I saw a battery compartment in back. Are they active?

[@samclaymusic]

@@cblackwell781Luke has a 20db boost built into all of his guitars accessible via the tone control, that’s what the battery is for. The pickups are passive.

[@tcelectronic]

Thanks for clearing that up! :)

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

@@cblackwell781 not active pickups. The volume pot is a push-push pot to engage a 25dB boost.

[@chs7516]

@@samclaymusic Actually despite the passive pickups the entire circuit is active. It's always on regardless of whether the boost is engaged or not. This enables the balance to be adjusted across the pickup selections. Hence if you disconnect the battery, the guitar won't work.

[@cigarettesmokingman9471]

I don't like the obligatory delay and reverb on all the time. I like a marshall plexi just starting to get crunchy, short slapback, play softer or roll back the volume for clean and dig in for drive. Running an echo into a crunchy amp, instead of placing if after the preamp/drive, is such a cool sound.

[@AlexisGitarre]

Honestly, Lukes best sounds were in the 80/90ies. He used the circular delay, reverb and pitch all in parallel. not just serial.

[@djent1448]

100% true, i think in the last 10-20 years there was kind of a counter movement against the big rack rigs and sounds of the 80s/90s. But lets be honest it sounded the best (ofcourse maybe not in every application, but for players like Luke 100%). I have a feeling people now are starting to appreciate it a little more again, which you can also see in the prices of the old rack gear.

[@carlodevivomusicontent2138]

I don't agree, his today's sounds are so much more organic

[@djent1448]

@@carlodevivomusicontent2138 And there we have someone that’s part of the countermovement i was referring to. What tf is organic anyways in regards to guitartone bro? Thats almost the same as if i say ‘his tone today is more like a pizza’

[@carlodevivomusicontent2138]

@@djent1448 even chat gpt knows what an organic guitar tone is🤣 this just tells me the kind of guitarist you are🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@djent1448]

@@carlodevivomusicontent2138 Its a term that can be interpreted subjectively and doesn’t have the same meaning to all players, ‘organic tone’ is a different thing depending on who you aak. It’s a very vague term in regards to guitartone therefore i don’t like to use it, if you use it, you might aswell use words like pizza to describe your guitartone, since it says just as much. Anyway maybe it could suprise you how ‘organic’ a rack can sound, don’t listen with your eyes.

[@mammothaudioengineering]

Great video, but I do have a nitpick: At 20:53 he says "but you won't get that out of a modeller" - that's just false, straight up. This has nothing to do with the amp itself but all to do with the cab. If you get a modeller and put it through a poweramp, you can absolutely get feedback just like with an analog amp. Ask me how I know.

[@MFMusicLab]

Yes - odd that he’d say modeling is the limitation to getting feedback when it’s a matter of volume. But many people conflate those scenarios and compare a loud amp/cab to a modeler thru headphones or small speaker. Run the modeler thru a powered cab and compare that.

[@tcelectronic]

I believe you're right. Surely the feedback is a result of enough energy of the same content hitting the strings and creating this feedback loop. That can be done with a monitor using a modeller. When standing there, we just got overwhelmed by the feedback and the great coupling between the guitar and amp - especially at such low volumes. It's the feeling when the guitar and amp becomes one instrument, which can be harder to achieve using modelers. Or even using a real amp but with tons of pedals in front of it. I personally gig with an FM3 and monitors. It's a fantastic system, but it's never the same as plugging straight into the Super Reverb at home. /Michael

[@CodePoet]

@@tcelectronicThat’s as expected - put the FM3 (w/o a speaker sim) thru a powered guitar cab and you’ll be comparing apples to apples (more closely anyway) with an amp in the room. A modeler with cab sim thru a full range monitor is amplifying a simulation of mic-ed cabinet, not a direct cabinet sound. Or compare a mic’ed signal of your Fender amp to the monitored FM3.

[@tcelectronic]

@CodePoet I totally agree. This is not an apples to apples comparison. We've done many of those here at TC when developing AMPWORX. To @MFMusicLab point about conflating several aspects of the systems - we were totally guilty of that in this video. You could say the argument we made, was more about the use-case of a traditional guitar-amp-cab setup vs. the modern amp modeller to FoH setup. As Jon says "it's not hitting the pickups" when mentioning amp modelers. In your apples to apples test it would hit the pickups the same way (perhaps with a couple ms latency but that's irrelevant). The other point we made was about how clean the frontend is before the amp. This will interfere with the response and also feedback you get from the amp. That's the point about plugging straight in. /Michael

[@kjsdestin]

Latency, I believe, is not irrelevant. And I have yet to hear somebody do a side-by-side analysis. I’ve never played an amp modeler that reacted, the same as an amp. Have yet to hear anyone say that their modeler felt like a real amp. I don’t wanna take away from all of the advances that I’ve been made. When someone else is playing the amp modeler, it sounds fine to me. It just never feeds back as smoothly and at a reasonable volume the same way.

[@alessandrodecarli2462]

…and a Luke IV will made its way to my home…😂❤❤❤

[@NAntonsson82]

Thanx TCE for sharing😃👌🏼🙏🏼💯💫🎶🎸🔥🇸🇪

[@seanhoward5562]

Wow that pedalboard is an engineering feat for sure.

[@findJLF]

Monster tone!!!!

[@alanjacob8542]

Love that new guitar!!!

[@tcelectronic]

It's beautiful!

[@askekrogh137]

I'd agree with Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Though, I think the release of Appetite For Destruction is a very honorable mention. That album took the world with storm. Guitar driven music was big then, yes, but kids then and still want to be cool like Slash on a stage. When I ask my friends with no interest in guitar or rock music to name a guitar player, most, if not all, can only mention Slash. He and that album was essential to the longevity of guitar.

[@josecarlosramolete6109]

the bridge pickup doesn't sound like "single coil" at all. it sounds more like a stacked humbucking pickup just like YJM's.

[@andypearce5537]

We love Luke! Come to the Woodshed guitar experience.

[@AKustik632]

You can still get feedback if you do modeler hybrid like Rabea does.

[@gilguajardo7808]

Dawner Prince Boonar? Did I miss the mention? It’s really the only reason I watched this video once I saw the board.

[@drebatista]

Strymon power supplies out the window

[@johanrautenbach]

Can’t imagine why 😂😂😂. Oh wait there was that one time ………………….

[@mauriz451]

​@@johanrautenbachThe day Jon became famous!

[@randaldavis8976]

What was he using the Boonar for ? I have one and like it. Recognized it quickly.

[@tbgtbg6311]

How does the impedance of the reissue compare to the original? Is the PreAmp the same and the fidelity?

[@KubaTestujeTV]

Sound so goood

[@MichaelDurig1]

It is cool to think that my board parallels Luke's board.

[@RozsaAmplificationLLC]

Bogner's for amps!!

[@BoyAditya]

I remember seeing toto in 2001 with my uncle and older cousins. Steve still use rack like 2 half of fridge 😂... And then in 2010s I see him with this size pedalboard and 2 bogner amp. I guess this size of setup finally bscome his permanent rig (even though I see he change and update his pedals)

[@BobGuido]

Jon reminds me of Luke in many ways

[@bigjoeisgood]

It seems that the failure of Strymon's Zuma power supply unit during Toto's concert in Luxembourg last year left a bitter taste in Steve Lukather's mouth... Direct replaced by CIOKS DC7. I had the same experience (in my level ahah little stage) ; it's true that Strymon is very quiet, but so fragile that it can't withstand live use...

[@bks252]

I’m sure no one will answer this but if the compressor is first in the chain, why is it on the other side of the board? I guess my point is, why run a long patch cable when you could have a short cable and that might also lead to others using a shorter patch? Obviously he is a top notch professional and I’m not trying to challenge him but merely understand. I try to learn something from all of the gear reviews. Thanks to anyone who may clarify this for me!

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

The compressor is a recent addition, hence the placement of the comp.

[@zoeydee7168]

I heard Mattao Mancuso, who admittedly is a digital guy, say that he prefers to keep his pedals down to 3 tops, the same 3 for years and really, really dial into them to understand all their characteristics and he keep’s things simple. That said, Matteo had an absolutely gorgeous tone/sound and I am a fan of keeping it super simple as there is less to go wrong, the signal is cleaner and there is less to maintain on the road. Steve’s rig is a work of art, but I can’t say that the complexity of it adds or makes it that that much better than an approach like Matteo’s.

[@derekwilliams5149]

I understand it's TC Electronics but I kind of wish they talked about the pedalboard and what was in it. They kind of said it but it wasn't detailed like the other ones.. did I miss something? Is he using the switching on the amp or just just the pedals to get distortion?

[@grtxyz4358]

It’s a bit incoherent talk. But if you watch it closer you can see it’s both. They talk about that in the previous setup Luke did not switch channels but now he does. He uses the Boss switch next to the right quarter master for that. And he uses the volume panel on everything which changes the gain and stacks the drive pedals with either.

[@derekwilliams5149]

@@grtxyz4358 okay, I'll specify.. previous Steve Gear was very specific.. this one seemed like we've done this before. Just get through it.. I still have a Bradshaw rig but I guess I have to realize it's not premier guitar.. they were mostly talking about the 2290 and what it did. Incoherent means you had no idea what I was talking about. I was talking about gear.. on the previous pedal board before this one. He had the switcher for the Bogner. I didn't see that so I'm assuming that he's not or is he using distortion but not as much and getting it more out of the pedal? That's what I was trying to make clear.. I hope this is more coherent or else stop smoking so much weed.. 😂.. I don't even know why I'm talking to you. You have no idea. You're just a guy in the internet 🤣

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

@@derekwilliams5149 The Boss footswitch replaced the original Bogner switch. Luke doesn't turn of the amp's FX Loop. so there was no need for the Bogner footswitch which engaged the clean/dirty channel and the FX Loop. So, the Boss footswitch is only to engage the clean and dirty channel of the Bogner (main amp/right amp)

[@TheGgreen100]

Interesting that for this board they went with a different power supply than last time. Hmmmm I wonder why they did that lol.

[@tcelectronic]

👀

[@Mstopmaster]

I have the same compressor. Does it have any nose gate? Because mine has a hum itself 🤔

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

no noise gate. the board is absolutely quiet.

[@rogerfelez7478]

TC if you're listening, please make a TC1210 pedal

[@tcelectronic]

We're listening! We do have a TC 1210 plugin if you want to use it in a studio setting.

[@66bighorns]

Anybody know what pedal riser he's using, the hinged thing?

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

I built the board and the hinged tiers. the board is 42' x 14.5". there are two hinged tiers that I built rather than one long tier that would eventually sag. each tier is 19.75" x 5.75" x 2.5".

[@brentharmonmusicproduction]

I like it if TC Electronics would reissue the 1210 Chorus.

[@DoubleDguitar]

Goz!!!

[@ApolloSol]

ooof....Cant tell you how depressed I am that Steve aint here.... lol

[@tiborpecsi5483]

Do the DL8s also sound in stereo mode?

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

yes. The FX loop from the TC Electronic SCF is wired in stereo return to both amps.

[@tiborpecsi5483]

@@jerrynepomuceno5544 Thanks!

[@andrewarcher2773]

what songs does he use the Strymon Lex rotary on?

[@peterschaefer1665]

What is the gold little pedal at top right? I think he referred to it as the Benar?

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

Dawner Prince Boonar

[@JN-North.Guitars]

Surely you could have filmed the pedals the right way up! 😂🙃🙃🙃

[@tcelectronic]

You're right. We'll do that next time. Promise. :D

[@crock2434]

""Turns of screen rotation ,pauses,flips phone and pinch out to zoom.. ahhh the settings for the overdrive...splendid....""

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

The excessive rolling shutter compensation and quick aufocus in the video made hard to pay attention to what was being talked about.Why would you need autofocus on the pedalboard camera if it's set at a fixed distance?

[@tcelectronic]

Apologies for that, and you're absolutely right about the autofocus... Promise future improvements! :)

[@Fishbulb77]

Wonder why they’d want to be able to easily flip open the board to access the power supply 🤔

[@kodykindhart5644]

To fix it fast

[@Fishbulb77]

@@kodykindhart5644 sarcasm is easily lost in text I guess

[@PT1989Uke]

They also ditch the Strymon Zuma's🤣

[@Fishbulb77]

@@PT1989Uke second thing I noticed haha

[@jerrynepomuceno5544]

I built the board. Jon wanted easy access to everything, unlike with a Pedaltrain board.

[@rtp.locutornaestrada]

Bom dia, me ajudem com minha placa t.c eletrônic konekt 8 Me digam uma forma pra usar sem o cabo fireware

[@craigmolinelli7402]

Where is the free 2290 Luke preset on the site ? I don’t see it on the link.

[@tcelectronic]

It's on the right side under "software". You should be able to find "LUKE ALWAYS ON 2024" :)

[@carlossalazar4508]

You can get feedback from anything if you’re loud enough.

[@aguspindoTV]

9:20

[@KazKasozi]

Must only be me but the upside down board was killing me to watch. Otherwise nice info for us Lukather fans.

[@MikesTrueStories]

Luke daddy

[@Dudldom]

It's interesting seeing Lukather going from W/D/W Rack setups over to a tradional pedalboard.

[@Rdrr-l9t]

The host from TC talks way too much.. we don't need him to interrupt jon every time...

[@peteyoung7665]

His doing his best to at least get one word in which must be very hard.Steve's tech sure can talk.

[@Rdrr-l9t]

@@peteyoung7665 The point of the rundown is for the guitar tech to speak about the gear...

[@rudicci]

I read this comment at the beginning of the video and thought the host was imprudent or talking over, but now, after 22 mins in... completely disagree with your take. This might be the 4th of 5th video I've watched of Jon going over Luke's rig and it is the first time someone keeps track and makes questions to get more inside of the board and amps. I just felt the guy was actually excited to talk about gear.

[@josuastangl7140]

There are some hosts for these rig rundowns that are far worse, I don’t find this one to be that bad actually

[@jfrog1979]

Disagree. I think he did a great job and asked a lot of good questions that we were all thinking. You should chill and eat a gummy or somethin😜

[@goswo]

TC, who?? You sold the company and lost your soul. Sad story…

[@georgyj111111]

A nightmare........

[@randy_magnum01]

Can you tap? Bro, it's a single coil, you can't tap much else beyond that. How is this guy hosting???

[@roscius6204]

Are you talking about the stacked bridge pu, because it possibly could be.

[@jaycareaga9929]

@@roscius6204They aren’t stacks they are overwound heat treated Cutlass single coils.

[@jaycareaga9929]

You can tap a single coil Schecter did it for years.

[@randy_magnum01]

@@jaycareaga9929 what's beyond a single coil!?!

[@nathanhickey2430]

Upside down w.t.f. ???

[@delachance7861]

Punaise ,c est chiant ... Le mec te casse les oreilles avec sa distorsion.

[@tasteapiana]

Glad that Steve got away from those horribly thin sounding rack setups. He's the kind of player that is so versatile that it's a shame when all of his sounds had that processed skim, like a film of plastic, sitting atop across every ''patch''. Plug him direct into a real amp and let him wail, of course he needs some mod and delay but make all that secondary to his tone. The folks in the higher $ seats need to be hit in the gut with a fist not with an ice pick in the ear.

[@ericajohnson7535]

hard to follow.

[@1961boogie]

Guitar out of tune

[@Stereostupid]

Slightly! The g or b strings 🤔

[@ulissespacifico]

This dude is asking the question is a joke!!! Let it flow brother … don’t be a pain in 😂😂😂😂

[@rajkomilosevichguera4547]

so damn mediocre, all this... they wouldn't know a good tone if it bites their asses...

[@kodykindhart5644]

Steve doesn’t know good tone 🤣🤣

[@deltafit]

Come on then, grand master of tone, what would you call 'good tone'...?

[@rajkomilosevichguera4547]

@@deltafit Trucks, Buddy Guy, Betts, Green, Cooder, Jimi (etc)... but then again you need personality for that. Not pedals... PS: for you guys here, I'm only 'master', to call me 'grand' you'd need understanding, which you do not have...

[@rajkomilosevichguera4547]

@@kodykindhart5644 yep, Steve doesn't know good tone. Tsa fact. What's on this video is not tone, ts just same EQ aim, used by thousands of morons because you all don't know basic fact: tone should be extension of yourself, not the Fkn instrument. Better now?

[@robm709]

@@rajkomilosevichguera4547 tell me youve never played on a big stage without telling me youve never played on a big stage