THE GHOST INSIDE'S (NOT SO) SECRET WEAPON | THE GOD RACK

The God Rack rundown I've been promising is finally here! Check out this in depth dive into our redundant Neural DSP Quad Cortex racks, In Ear set up and playback rig! I realized during the editing process that I probably could have been more detailed with some of the explanations, so if you have questions about anything drop them in the comments! I'll be sure to do better about that with The God Rack v2 later this year 😈!
The gear that makes The God Rack a roadworthy machine (Affiliate Links):
🛒 Neural DSP Quad Cortex - sweetwater.sjv.io/jrGJyb
🛒 Gator Sliding Rack Shelf - sweetwater.sjv.io/VmGZBk
🛒 Cioks DC7 - sweetwater.sjv.io/5gD1Zo
🛒 Radial BigShot ABY - sweetwater.sjv.io/k0mzZv
🛒 Radial BackTrack - sweetwater.sjv.io/AWbm2D
🛒 Midi Solutions Quadra Thru - sweetwater.sjv.io/B06xb4
🛒 Gator Rack Drawer - sweetwater.sjv.io/DK2QOG
🛒 iConnectivity Playaudio1u (Playaudio12 successor) - sweetwater.sjv.io/an05jq
🛒 iConnectivity MioXM - sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQZXL0
🛒 Universal Audio Apollo x4 - sweetwater.sjv.io/EK39R9
🛒 Sennheiser EW 100 G4-935 Wireless mic set - sweetwater.sjv.io/VmGZ2J
🛒 Sennheiser EW 100 G4-Ci1 Instrument Wireless set - sweetwater.sjv.io/B06xB0
🛒 Sennheiser ASA Antenna Splitter - sweetwater.sjv.io/Mm95gY
🛒 RF Venue Diversity Fin Antenna - sweetwater.sjv.io/nL7NAV
🛒 Sennheiser EW IEM G4 set - sweetwater.sjv.io/vN7y03
🛒 Sennheiser AC 41-US Antenna Combiner - sweetwater.sjv.io/y27yON
🛒 RF Venue CPB Beam Helical Antenna - sweetwater.sjv.io/LXQn5V
🛒Allen & Heath SQ5 Mixer - sweetwater.sjv.io/Gmvnon
🛒 Allen & Heath GX4816 Stage Box - sweetwater.sjv.io/EK39GW
🛒 Roland TM2 Trigger Module - sweetwater.sjv.io/AWbmaa
🛒 Radial J48 Direct Box - sweetwater.sjv.io/oq7zbW
🛒 Mission Engineering 25k Dual Output Expression Pedal - sweetwater.sjv.io/Nkr0kK
🛒 Peterson StroboStomp HD Tuner - sweetwater.sjv.io/75ZO5y
🛒 Ableton Live - sweetwater.sjv.io/21AjVM
Get your rig built by Brad and his team at Best Tronics Pro Audio (BTPA):
btpa.com/
Get your custom cases built by Rob at JustinCase:
www.justincaseco.net/
Grab my go to gear (Affiliate Links):
🛒 LTD SN1000 Evertune - sweetwater.sjv.io/Qyv2n9
🛒 Fishman Fluence Modern Pickups - sweetwater.sjv.io/DKZReG
🛒 Neural DSP Quad Cortex - sweetwater.sjv.io/jrGJyb
🛒 Cioks DC7 - sweetwater.sjv.io/5gD1Zo
🛒 Ernie Ball Magnum Slinky Strings - sweetwater.sjv.io/eK5kE6
🛒 Dunlop Flow Picks - sweetwater.sjv.io/Pyvm4j
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - God Rack/Guitar World build time lapse
2:00 - God Rack Rundown Begins
2:18 - Quad Cortex Racks
5:40 - Playback Rack
7:31 - Instrument/Vocal RF Rack
8:10 - In Ear Monitor RF Rack
8:42 - SQ5 Console For IEM Mixing
8:48 - Stage Box and Split
9:30 - Drum Trigger Rack
9:51 - Battery Back Up
10:18 - Back Of The Rack
10:37 - Rear of Playback Rack
11:43 - Rear of Instrument RF Rack
12:11 - Rear of IEM Rack
12:35 - Rear of Stage Box/Split
13:58 - Rear of Trigger Rack
14:11 - Rear of Quad Cortex Racks
15:29 - Pedalboards
16:41 - Guitar World
17:08 - Guitar Vault
17:20 - Ernie Ball Strings Galore
18:03 - Closing Words and Concepts for The God Rack
19:36 - WOMP WOMP
20:17 - Outro and Thank Yous

[@vigiltgi]

I’ll summarize this video by saying our live show wouldn’t work without Chris. He’s the god behind the god rack 🙌

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Zach knows how to turn it on now! 😂

[@JTCavey]

Can’t wait to copy your test answers

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Just be sure to change it a little so the teacher doesn’t know

[@calebbarrera8990]

Underrated comment

[@thexelijah]

coolest thing is having all the gear in fly racks already. can’t wait to copy this exactly 🤣

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Yeah having the fly rack option is a life saver! The v2 of the god rack set up were working on is actually to make it easier to ship the whole rack all over the world with us for tour, but we’ll still use the fly racks for fly dates and one offs!

[@pauliefear]

It’s crazy to see how much work goes into planning out a system like this. I’m also amazed at how all of those signals go from the stage, get split and processed by the QC’s/vocal chain/trigger module, and then back out to your IEMs and FOH with minimal to no latency. So cool to see you break it down piece by piece!

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Honestly, there have been many times I’ve sat and thought about how crazy it is that all of this stuff can happen at one time with no issues haha

[@antiphrost]

Let's go, new upload. And it's nerdy, my favourite! 🤓

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Nerdy is what we do here 🤓

[@paulbradshawguitar]

love this sort of content, thanks for posting the video and all the details, kudos 🙌

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Of course! Thanks for checking it out!

[@lntermilan]

thanks so much for doing this video in between your busy schedule, we really appreciate it and I don't think people understand how much goes in to making a video!

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

It was fun to make, there will be more coming, I'm enjoying sharing my gear nerd side with everyone 🤣

[@megtradamus]

This is amazing!!! Thank you for posting this!

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Thanks for checking it out and sharing it!

[@issy_dev]

I’ve created a similar (but much smaller in scale) rig for my band and it’s brought our show to another level. Being able to have the same consistent feed in your ears at every show and rehearsal is so great

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Oh yeah! I dont ever want to go back to playing without IEM's, it truly has helped us play more as a unit!

[@justinreasons]

I really enjoyed seeing you guys again earlier this year. I was wondering if you could go in depth on your light tree setup you had on your most recent US tour. Thanks for all the behind the scenes info!

[@misterkenova6695]

So sick. Cheers dude.

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Thanks for watching!

[@BTPA_USA]

Love it!! ❤

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

You guys are the goats!

[@jamess3036]

I’d love to see how the playback/tracks work with midi controlling the QC, on those laptops

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

This is coming soon! Should be one of the next videos coming up!

[@nicktheriaultmtl]

So cool to see all of this! And I agree, a bts of a concert day would be awesome.

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

I can definitely make this happen!

[@nicktheriaultmtl]

@@ChrisDavisTGIlet’s go!

[@KaiDown]

So sick, I can only imagine how many spreadsheets and diagrams went into the planning stages

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

So many phone calls and micro tweaks before setting it into motion haha

[@ryanunwin9213]

Lots of things I don’t understand but it looks awesome!

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

*Lot's of things to learn* 🤣

[@ryanunwin9213]

I’m not that technical haha but it looks like you’ve really compacted everything down, seems to work very well. Always love the videos dude

[@CuratorXAngelus]

I wish I could have nerded out on all of this in person at the Palladium or Toads this past tour! Next time you guys come through I am picking your brain for sure. Still stoked you let me check out the new guitars in person!!! 🤘 I also agree that a "day in the life" type video would be cool to see because you're all such awesome people!

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Literally any time! If you see me at a show, ask away I love chatting about this stuff!

[@CuratorXAngelus]

@ChrisDavisTGI we ran out if time at both meet and greets (I was too busy drooling over your custom shop guitar). But next time for sure!

[@spectralaudioco]

Massive W

[@offshot1st]

Amazing to see this :) And compare it with our tiny little rig.

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Tiny rigs matter too! Haha I have a video on my channel about a tiny flyable pedalboard set up me and our guitar tech built for us for a Latin American tour we did this year and it rules! The tiny ones are just as important!

[@offshot1st]

@@ChrisDavisTGI aha I'll check it out :')

[@Nilsje]

Nice rig and rundown! The iConnectivity interfaces seem like a big single point of failure, do you have backups for those too?

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Not currently, but they're built for this exact application and there are a TON of these units out running shows larger than ours nightly and I've heard of very few failures thankfully! Im sure at some point I will snag back up units to bring along with us!

[@mudwayne666]

This was so cool. Loved the editing. Do you have a redundancy for the C laptop? What happens if that goes out?

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

No redundancy for the c laptop or the Apollo, but in my experience and from talking to a ton of playback guru’s working with arena and stadium level artists, the Apollo would be the last thing to go down in our rig haha. Those interfaces are super stable and the C computer isn’t really doing any processing, it’s just hosting the Universal Audio Console app which tells the Apollo what plug ins to turn on and off, the processing is happening in the interface itself. I consulted a company that specializes in building playback racks when I was planning this out and they told me that they send artists heavily relying on vocal processing into arenas with one Apollo and one Console host computer all the time which shocked me to be honest haha

[@human9564]

Amazing Rig! What are your thoughts on the Pitch block of the QC? Is the sound quality good enough ( latency, artifacts) for live use, for different tunings, instead of bringing many guitars in different tunings on the road? Cheers

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

It’s actually great! We use it pretty heavily throughout our set! I try not to go more the a step or step and a half down if I can avoid it, and staying within that range it’s pretty clean and convincing, especially in a full mix! I know plenty of people using it to go down 2 1/2 steps or more and still loving it as well! Latency is no problem either!

[@chronicnarnia]

@@ChrisDavisTGIDo you use some EQ adjustments when using the pitch shifting? I find it can get muddy or less defined.

[@chronicnarnia]

Can you do a tone tour of guitars and bass? Would be cool to see some more detailed QC walkthroughs.

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Absolutely! Im going to do a walkthrough of the guitars with the other members of the band when we prep for our next tour!

[@Rilst0ne]

Maybe the real God Rack is the friends we made along the way

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

It would certainly seem so

[@andyrarick9891]

Dude I would kill to get you to build a rack for my new project! That thing is amazing!

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

I’m a brainstormer and idea guy, I dreamed up the whole rig and tried to imagine all of the worst case scenarios so that we could be prepared for anything! Brad and his team at BTPA built the actual racks for us and then Rob at JustInCase built the case for us and I just slid the racks in and wired them together! Brad and Rob are the real pros!

[@sensitivemarce]

So you go from guitar straight into de wireless without DI or something? interesting. Great video, as usual 🤘

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Guitar, into wireless body pack which sends the guitar signal to the wireless receivers in the rack and then straight to the Quad Cortex racks!

[@jamsscott]

Is there some type of redundancy for the Apollo?

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Not in our set up, that would require a second interface and I just didn’t want to spend that money when the Apollo’s are so stable. We do have a dry split of the vocals built into the playback I/O panel that we could swap over to super fast if needed

[@jamsscott]

@@ChrisDavisTGI yeah I agree with you on that!

[@DisengagePH]

Where can we buy the picks? That's so cool.

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Haha! We dont sell them currently so the only way to grab one is at a show at the moment!

[@draildrums]

Is your drummer using the TM2 for monitoring or just output to FOH

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Output to FOH and monitoring!

[@draildrums]

@@ChrisDavisTGI nice I’ve been thinking about this as well. Right meow close micing stuff which goes to IEM and front out house. Thinking this might be a bit more consistent. Btw can’t remember who but I took an automotive class and met one of the band members fathers here In MD, small world

[@BurningTheHeavens]

Searching for Solace instrumental album please ❤

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

We have instrumental mixes, I’m sure I can find a to get them out there into the world!

[@dntinker]

How about a day in the life of your guitar tech?

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

This is a great idea, I’d love to follow him around like his own personal paparazzi haha

[@feartheocean]

*pouts; yeets practice amp into the sun*

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

Practice amps matter too!

[@DiamondLifer]

“Best case scenario” I get it…

[@ChrisDavisTGI]

🤣🤣

[@mtndrew222]

Do yourself a favor and find you a Chris Davis. God. Tier. 🙌🏻