00:00Hey everyone, this is Andy Black Sugar with KMFDM. I'm at the Brave in Milwaukee on a blustery autumn midwestern afternoon.
00:15And I'm going to show you my gear that I'm using for this tour.
00:20Basically because I like to travel light, the whole rig is right here in this shot.
00:25So I'm going to go through everything piece by piece. It's basically this guitar, which is a Sully Raven that's made of mahogany and maple and ebony.
00:36It's got size queen jumbo nickel frets and hip shot tuners and bridge Sully pickups, which I'm very happy with.
00:47And I'm going to go through the pedals and stuff and there's some interesting stuff that I'm doing that's a little bit unorthodox.
00:54But it's relatively straightforward. So for 90% of the show, maybe 95% of the show, I'm using this sound.
01:01It's just sort of a crunchy, heavy metal riff delivery machine. And I use a few other sounds which I'll get to. But basically what I'm doing here is I'm going into a few pedals.
01:08And then ultimately the atomic amplifier 12 is doing all the amp modeling.
01:15So as far as the pedal chain, first thing is this fab flange, which is just for silly stuff.
01:22And this electro harmonics pitchfork.
01:29This electro harmonics pitchfork is a really crucial pedal because it allows me to cover all the tunings that are needed for this show.
01:36So for instance, I need to do a lot of whole step down.
01:43So for instance, I need to do a lot of whole step down.
01:48What I like about this pedal is it tracks really well, even for super note-y stuff.
01:58So for instance, I'm doing guitar solos and stuff, I can keep it like it.
02:15So if I'm doing guitar solos and stuff, I can keep it like it.
02:21So yeah, I think I have four tunings in total for this for this show, including whole step down, half step down and whole step up.
02:42It's like an F sharp standard.
02:49So in other words, I would have had probably have four guitars tuned all differently and then four backup guitars, which is not feasible.
02:59So with this pedal, I can do the whole show with this guitar.
03:02Next up is the boss super shifter, which I'm using for sort of extreme dive bomb.
03:10Occasionally subtle things, you know, this kind of...
03:22And then finally in the pedal chain, this is actually an important...
03:39An important part of the whole thing is the Eventide H9.
03:44The odd thing that I'm doing with the H9 that nobody else is doing as far as...
03:48I'll just demonstrate how I'm using this knob to control parameters within that pedal.
03:53So right now I've got like a sort of...
03:57Sorry, like an analog delay.
03:59So I'm basically using this as a wet dry knob for that one.
04:11Let's try some other things.
04:14Here's a sort of a custom patch that I made that tunes the guitar up and down in fourths, fifths and octaves.
04:21So you can do some pretty crazy stuff with that.
04:36I'm using it for KMF with this sound.
04:40So I'm using the knob to cycle it up through all these intervals from really low and guttural to...
04:55Let's see what else I got in here.
04:57This is one of my favorites.
04:59I call this one Shatter.
05:00This is a backwards patch.
05:05Basically I have it set up so it starts out with no delay at all.
05:12So this is sort of like a...
05:19Sort of no effect.
05:22And then as I roll it in...
05:26You start hearing reverse delay.
05:31If I roll it all the way up, it's just reverse.
05:35So there you go, that's the backwards thing.
06:03And then I've got this rocket dive bomb thing.
06:06So that's just for certain parts in the show where I want to be particularly obnoxious.
06:21And then, so finally, let's talk about the amp modeling here in the amplifier 12.
06:26Okay, so this is the main guitar, rhythm guitar sound for the...
06:31I sort of have a loud version of that.
06:34By the way, that's got a little bit of stereo chorus on it, which is audible in my stereo wedges that I have in front of me.
06:43I also have a pair of stereo wedges on stage left so I can run over there and play on that side of the stage.
06:50I have sort of a lead guitar version of this, which is louder and it has delay.
07:06I've got this kind of less distorted version of that sound.
07:18And then this is sort of a shimmering, clean sound that I showed you before.
07:24I'm only using that once in the whole set, which is for Bumaye.
07:36I've got this wah lead, this sort of auto wah lead guitar sound.
07:40And then this clean funky thing, which we're using a few times in the set.
07:56And that's basically the whole rig.
08:09I'm using the atomic amplifier box as a backup.
08:15Which basically has my main, my primary, you know, 95% of the show rhythm guitar sound loaded into there in case something happens.
08:24But nothing has happened yet.
08:27So yeah, that's basically it.
08:30This is it, everything.
08:32This is the whole rig.
08:36It's me and these things.
08:40Somehow we're doing a rock show with all this.
08:44Andy Black Sugar signing up.
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