Andee Blacksugar With KMFDM - Show Me The Gear
Guitarist Andee Blacksugar shows us the gear he's using on a Tour.
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00:00 Hey everyone, this is Andy Blacksugar with KMFDM. I'm at The Grave in Milwaukee on a
00:12 blustery autumn midwestern afternoon. And I'm going to show you my gear that I'm using
00:19 for this tour. Basically because I like to travel light, the whole rig is right here
00:24 in this shot. So I'm going to go through everything piece by piece. It's basically this guitar,
00:29 which is a Sully Raven that's made of mahogany and maple and ebony. It's got a Size Queen
00:39 jumbo nickel frets and hip shot tuners and bridge. Sully pickups, which I'm very happy
00:47 with. And I'm going to go through the pedals and stuff. And there's some interesting stuff
00:52 that I'm doing that's a little bit unorthodox, but it's relatively straightforward. So for
00:59 90% of the show, maybe 95% of the show, I'm using this sound.
01:03 It's just sort of a crunchy, heavy metal riff delivery machine. And I use a few other sounds
01:25 which I'll get to. But basically what I'm doing here is I'm going into a few pedals
01:32 and then ultimately the Atomic Amplifier 12 is doing all the amp modeling. So as far as
01:38 the pedal chain, first thing is this Fab flange, which is just for silly stuff.
01:43 And this Electro-Harmonix Pitchfork is a really crucial pedal because it allows me to cover
01:54 all the tunings that are needed for this show. So for instance, I need to do a lot of whole
01:59 step down.
02:00 What I like about this pedal is it tracks really well even for super notey stuff.
02:22 Especially guitar solos and stuff, I can keep it...
02:24 So yeah, I think I have four tunings in total for this show, including whole step down,
02:38 half step down, and whole step up.
02:41 It's like an F# standard.
02:51 In other words, I would have had... probably have four guitars tuned all differently, and
02:56 then four backup guitars, which is not feasible. So with this pedal I can do the whole show
03:01 with this guitar.
03:03 Next up is the Boss Super Shifter, which I'm using for sort of extreme dive-bomb...
03:18 And occasionally subtle things, you know, this kind of...
03:22 And then finally, in the pedal chain, this is actually an important part of the whole
03:41 thing, is the Eventide H9.
03:44 The odd thing that I'm doing with the H9 that nobody else is doing as far as...
03:48 I'll just demonstrate how I'm using this knob to control parameters within that pedal.
03:53 So right now I've got like a sort of...
03:56 Sorry, like an analog delay.
03:59 So I'm basically using this as a wet/dry knob for that one.
04:12 Let's try some other things. Here's a sort of a custom patch that I made that tunes the
04:18 guitar up and down in fourths, fifths, and octaves.
04:21 So you can do some pretty crazy stuff with that. I'm using it for KMF with this sound.
04:40 So I'm using the knob to cycle it up through all these intervals from really low and guttural...
04:49 Let's see what else I've got in here. This is one of my favorites. I call this one Shatter.
05:06 This is a backwards patch. Basically I have it set up so it starts out with no delay at all.
05:12 So this is sort of like a...
05:17 Sort of no effect, and then as I roll it in...
05:23 You start hearing reverse delay, and if I roll it all the way up, it's just reverse.
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06:01 So there you go. That's the backwards thing, and then I've got this rocket dive-bomb thing.
06:06 So that's just for certain parts in the show where I want to be particularly obnoxious.
06:21 And then, so finally, let's talk about the amp modeling here in the Amplifier 12.
06:25 Okay, so this is the main guitar, rhythm guitar sound for the...
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06:32 I sort of have a loud version of that. By the way, that's got a little bit of stereo chorus on it,
06:37 which is audible in my stereo wedges that I have in front of me.
06:42 I also have a pair of stereo wedges on stage left, so I can run over there and play on that side of the stage.
06:49 I have sort of a lead guitar version of this, which is louder and it has delay.
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06:58 I've got this kind of less distorted version of that sound.
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07:12 And then this is sort of a shimmering, clean sound that I showed you before.
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07:24 I'm only using that once in the whole set, which is for "Boo My Eh".
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07:30 I've got this wah lead, this sort of auto-wah lead guitar sound.
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07:51 And then this clean, funky thing, which we're using a few times in the set.
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07:57 And that's basically the whole rig.
08:10 I'm using the Atomic Amplifier Box as a backup,
08:15 which basically has my primary 95% of the show rhythm guitar sound loaded into there in case something happens.
08:25 But nothing has happened yet, so that's basically it.
08:31 This is it. Everything. This is the whole rig.
08:37 It's me and these things.
08:40 Somehow we're doing a rock show with all this.
08:44 Andy Blacksugar signing off.
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