The Mars Volta - At The Drive In - Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Gear Rundown - Guitars, Amps, Pedals

Artist Gear Rundown Number 3 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
Active since about 1990, Omar Rodriguez Lopez of At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, De Facto and Bosnian Rainbows (not forgetting his massive catalogue of solo work), has had an impressive amount of musical equipment over the years. In this video we're going to look at the guitars, amps and effects used on some of his biggest projects.
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[@tuckerpeters1913]

Also, according to an interview with Guitar Player, he plays with 13-56 gauge Ernie Ball strings with a wound third. Not for tone reasons. He has a very aggressive style and plays so hard his strings often go out of tune, so he uses heavier ones that can stand up to a good beating. Some funny excerpts, ORL: "Part of my discomfort also stems from the fact that I consider myself to be a very brute player. I’m not a guitarist with a lot of finesse or warmth, and I’m always awed when I hear those qualities in the playing of others. Most of the time I’m so much of a brute that I pull the strings out of tune. My mixing engineer [Rich Costey] always says that he can tell when he’s hearing a Mars Volta record because the guitars are slightly out of tune." ------- GP: "What picks and strings do you use?" ORL "I like the orange Dunlop Tortex picks and I use Ernie Ball strings gauged .013 to .056 with a wound third." GP: "Wow, is that why you don’t use a lot of vibrato?" ORL: "Maybe. I never realized my strings were so heavy until other guitar players were like, 'What the f**k are you doing?' When John Frusciante realized I had them he was amazed and kept asking me if I was really doing all those bends using those strings. But if I use lighter strings I really pull them out of tune, because as I said I don’t have a gentle touch- and that also affects my vibrato. Someone like John plays with a lot of finesse, so you can hear all those little things that he does with the vibrato and everything, whereas my playing is sort of bulldozer-esque." Source: www.guitarplayer.com/players/mars-voltas-omar-rodriguez-lopez-on-his-ongoing-battle-with-guitar-playing-and-love-of-effects

[@LieLikesMusic]

Thanks for compiling all this amazing info!

[@ennobunger563]

Because of that triangle in the backround I thought my ears were broken :D

[@robertchung8526]

What do you mean?

[@bernardogarciasound]

high pitched percussion. I also thought there was something wrong :0

[@Hoojo]

@@bernardogarciasound it was tripping me out as well.

[@odic7660]

Enno Bünger you look happy :D

[@lemonpi3386]

This video is amazing, so much information! Have to admit the bell sound in the background gets a bit annoying.... the funky guitar sounds good, but the chimey bell sound....

[@LochNessAnthony]

Lemonpi3 interesting. didn't notice myself.

[@harrisonstaley7742]

The triangle in your background music is the most irritating thing I've ever heard. Good video otherwise.

[@dearlyband7715]

Simply fantastic run-thru! And your humor doesn't suck either!

[@teunputker]

Thanks for this, great video :)

[@Hoojo]

Shit dude, you are fantastic at this. The detail you go into is unreal. Liked and subbed.

[@jbrewermusic]

such a great video as always, thankyou!

[@FutureSoundMusicLongridge]

Thanks

[@maxivazquez7731]

Great video and info

[@johnnyfalckon7299]

Great Channel!

[@damnitboy9635]

Omar had 2 black Supersonics that were modded the same way, though one had an oval sticker near the old input jack. Judging from pics I've seen from both, neither had the logo sanded off.

[@zachrouhana621]

Thank you so much love your videos

[@FutureSoundMusicLongridge]

Cheers :)

[@makotonidas]

nice, thanks

[@autopilotmiscreants]

This is amazing. Dustin Kensrue from thrice would be a cool video as well.

[@meydjazz]

I honestly didn't know the triangle in the back until I read the comments cause I was so interested in what he was saying. What annoyed me is how he tries to sound cool with the modulated voice and that echo. Who's with me.

[@continentalgin]

Certified guitar god. Genius.

[@alejandrogama7956]

At the Drive-in are like... like... way better than... THEY ARE FUCKING HUGE!!!

[@michaelgraham9774]

It's been a long time since this video and I'm sure Omar's gear has changed a bit. You should totally do a part 2

[@TheDaytripper114]

literally could not watch the full video because of the alarm clock chirp! 🙉🙉🙉

[@Buckle89]

That synth wah pedal my first pedal I ever had. I could've sworn that I heard it every now and then when I listen to their live shows back in 2006. I also thought I heard it a lot when the bass player will play live

[@TomsGreenMind]

Someone's probably mentioned it, but I think Omar started to use a Vox AC30 with Bosnian Rainbows. Also a supro guitar which spawned a new Ibanez sig (someone else mentioned this below). Cool video though, impressed you kept it to 13 mins lol

[@eljacoboese.in4k]

TIMESTAMPS At The Drive In 0:26 At The Drive In guitars 1:32 At The Drive In amps 1:56 At The Drive In effects De Facto 4:40 De Facto amps and bass The Mars Volta 5:10 The Mars Volta guitars 6:03 The Mars Volta amps 6:29 The Mars Volta effects 10:51 The Mars Volta effects 2011 Bosnian Rainbows 11:28 Bosnian Rainbows amps 11:43 Bosnian Rainbows effects

[@davidmunoz8215]

Never imagined that Omar used a Fuzz Face in At the drive in. Does anyone know what songs was it used for?

[@eamon5468]

more details about the mars volta ibanez, artcore headstock and hardware, I believe the pickup is an Artcore Humbucker Blade. Anyone sure about this?

[@Russell1982]

This was great and really informative but you missed out a lot of pedals from the mars volta board, including the boss bass synth, the Dunlop rotovibe, Ernie ball wah, z vex seek wah, mxr stereo chorus, boss reverb and a bunch of others. Maybe time for a part 2?

[@communionshaped]

is there anyway you could show some of these pedals in use on omar’s albums?

[@jeffreyg879]

Can you do a Billie Joy Armstrong gear run down please!!!!!!

[@Hophner]

please do dUg pinnick, chris squire, geddy lee, or honestly just any bassist.

[@smurfoffashroom5075]

Nick Valensi from the Strokes

[@RyanRenteria]

He missed Omar's brown orm1 from the octa tours, and his black jet king from the 2006, 2011 and 2012 tours. He also forgot to mention Omar's supro guitar and Ibáñez supro copy from Bosnian rainbows. He shouldn't have put the Ernie ball guitar in the tmv section, he has only played that in atdi. There's also the st Vincent custom model that he recently got. He should mention Omar's recent pedalboards too. antemasque 2015 had a completely different rig than Bosnian or atdi reunions. He used a fender mustang, A new pedalboard, and an orange half stack. Etc etc etc

[@FutureSoundMusicLongridge]

Ryan Renteria Omar's newer stuff could probably do with going in a part two. thanks for commenting.

[@andrewryan328]

YEAH, YOU BEST DONE GET THEM IN A PART TWO. HOW COULD YOU MISS THE BLACK JET KING FROM 06, 11', AND 12'??? C'MON FUTURE SOUND MUSIC, GET ONNIT. CAN'T BELIEVE IT YOU KNOW. GOTTA HAVE RYAN POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS? LET'S GO.

[@alexhennigh5242]

andrewryan328 Well i mean if its such an issue go make your own video

[@redacted1402]

brb while i go buy every pedal that was shown in the mars volta section

[@Roh8n]

Maton Mastersound not Powersound, never saw him with one personally.

[@jackperri3186]

I have an omar jet king for sale on reverb if anyones interested.

[@jarrettfinney4882]

Youre nuts if you think supersonics have bad pickups. Thats the only reason i play them at all is because the pickups sound so awesome. Sure, if you need to be a little more diverse and get clean sometimes, the arent the best, but theyre good enough for most of it. Throw some gain on there though and its one of the meanest guitars ive ever played. Truly. If there was a perfect punk guitar out there the supersonic might be it. Also, i might be wrong, but i think omar mightve had more than one. Look at it in the earliest days, its all torn up and stickered and taped, and he has to play over the controls, and the headstock is worn off, then around relationship of command, in the one armed scissor video it looks brand new practically, then right after, its like back to the old way it was minus the stickers and everything was nice and tidy. Also it said squier again after that.

[@BoyAditya]

Dude.. what's up with st. Vincent's left-handed guitar on the thumbnail.. you didn't mention it

[@smittenthekitteninmittens2679]

Man i bet his boards were huge!!..did he have 2 in his Mars Volta day?

[@Onamorata]

David Micheal Williams pretty sure he had 2 floor boards and then a table with other pedals. There's some live videos from the Frances era of him always tweaking with stuff on a rack

[@KevinDr007]

Could you please do Flea!? :)

[@Naxxx]

PLEASE DO BILLY CORGAN!!

[@amoebacakes]

ditch the high pitch beep in the back please!!!

[@FrenchOysters]

Do Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins!

[@zynthio]

do Jonny Buckland :)

[@Charlieharper435]

And ANTEMASQUE.

[@rodrigosuarez2914]

sergio medina from stolas or sianvar!!!!!!! pleas!!!!!!!!!!

[@davecarcel]

Rodrigo Suarez Will Swan! Zac Garren! Etc!

[@lamecasuelas2]

Do Andy Summers!/

[@kdogg7882]

Have you stopped making videos? This series was a really good start but stopped so abruptly.

[@alexhennigh5242]

You should cover Justin Beck from Glassjaw. He has such a unique sound and playing style so i can only imagine the cluster fuck he's running

[@michaelgraham9774]

Especially since they got rid of Todd. I wouldn't mind knowing what gear he's been using to make up for the lack of a second guitarist

[@angusnasta97]

Jonny Greenwood!!!

[@CosmicWaltz7]

The ORM guitar has always bugged me, because if it's supposed to read as "Omar", it should be OMR, yeah? Or, maybe it's supposed to be his initials: ORL. It's like a typo that made it all the way to the production phase.

[@FutureSoundMusicLongridge]

Good point! You could be right!

[@Wormsie]

I always thought the M stands for Model.

[@CosmicWaltz7]

@@Wormsie Maybe, I'd just be hard pressed to find any instances where he's referred to by only half of his last name.

[@endezeichengrimm]

5:56 Ernie Ball Music* Man

[@alexanderlumberjack]

jb does not stand for jeff beck.. its jazz blues

[@luispereztasso]

Mike Einziger.

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

JB= Jazz/Blues, not Jeff Beck, contrary to popular belief.