Stevie Vai is one of the premier guitar players of today. He is best known as being the main sideman for both Frank Zappa and David Lee Roth. As well, if I'm correct he was taught by Joe Satriani back in the early 80's. Correct me if I'm wrong guys.
I'm a regular subscriber to Guitar World's online and paper magazine. The online version you get so many great tips daily you can use in your playing and learning about gear, which I love, and I'm not even a musician.
I am putting up a video here of Stevie going through pretty much every aspect of his guitars,amps and effects board and how that's all coming together for his new Sound Theories Tour in the US and Europe. Plus some tidbits which will fascinate and titillate you about some new pedal and a new innovation he showed for one of his guitars. I think this video is chocked full of great value you can use.
Okay, I'm going to give you a cheat sheet here so you can refer to instead of just looking at the whole video time after time. Please take notes because Vai knows his stuff. He loves new technology and melding it with old analog technology.
Stevie Vai's Gear:
Note, I don't have everything he said, but the vital parts of the video I did all this. because I care about going the extra mile to provide value for you. Not everything is right and I apologize for that.
1:Bad Horsie Wah Pedal
2:Ibanez/Vai Prototype Distortion Pedal--Two pedals in one "Watch for this one coming out possibly"
3:Digitech Whammy Pedal
4:Then Front of Amp Rig--Carvin Legacy Stevie designed
5:Eventide Rack System which powers speaker monitors as well
6:By the way the signal chain Stevie goes through gives you an idea on how to set up your pedals
7:Stevie then said that the Eventide powers the big pedal board he has with many presets which I'll let Vai talk about in the video.
8:Oh, the presets go through the effects loop and amp like the rack system does.
9:Then a Morley Volume pedal. There are some things he wasn't quite clear on though.
10:Pedal board is all in one and you can set up your whole effects loop and signal chain to your amp.
11:Guitar signal gets split in the next box and one feed goes to the Carvin's,and another feed to another amp.
12: Don't know if I have this right, a Fender volume pedal is next in the chain.
13:If you notice, there is an MXR/Eventide and Boss pedals all going to a Fender for a different tone.
14:The MXR is a phase shifter and he has an EVH pedal as well.
15:And hard to see--Customized Monitor system built
16:Here's a tip: Stevie does not like to hear guitar when you're miking an amp and it's going through the monitor system. if you have a soundman you may want to tell him that.
17:Okay, Stevie says the feed from amps is then sent into monitor system.
18:In the monitor system the speakers are set up separately for the Legacy amps and the Fender.
great tip there.
19:He uses a Honeywell fan onstage to cool down and be cool.
20:Guitars:2 Ibanez Guitars are his main axes.
21:Here's more tips from Stevie.Play A chord and try to tune it to your guitar and get it in tune. This may not make sense but he continues. Conventionally tuning a guitar with open strings and play A chord it may not totally be in tune. Then he says if you were able to A chord in tune and played D chord, it would be out of tune. Hope that helps. If not go back and watch the video again.
22:This next part I found very interesting, but I didn't like where it might lead to technology wise. It would make it easier for any schmoe to play guitar. That's my fear.
23:Someone who is Vai's guitar tech knew someone else and they made an innovation to the frets making it easier to play every chord in tune. Please watch that part.
24:Here's something else Stevie said. Because the guitar has straight frets balances the tones and strings within the chord you're playing, it enhances the guitars sustain. Not sure if I have that right.
25: That's pretty much it guys.
I call Stevie Vai the "Rich Schefern" of Guitar. Rich Schefern is a well known internet marketer and they have the same styles in showing you and teaching you their gear and craft.
In the video Stevie and company are in the rehearsal stage still. I thought you should all learn from this guys.
Please take notes guys. You'll learn things your band can take to the bank.
Thanks to Stevie Vai.
I'm a regular subscriber to Guitar World's online and paper magazine. The online version you get so many great tips daily you can use in your playing and learning about gear, which I love, and I'm not even a musician.
I am putting up a video here of Stevie going through pretty much every aspect of his guitars,amps and effects board and how that's all coming together for his new Sound Theories Tour in the US and Europe. Plus some tidbits which will fascinate and titillate you about some new pedal and a new innovation he showed for one of his guitars. I think this video is chocked full of great value you can use.
Okay, I'm going to give you a cheat sheet here so you can refer to instead of just looking at the whole video time after time. Please take notes because Vai knows his stuff. He loves new technology and melding it with old analog technology.
Stevie Vai's Gear:
Note, I don't have everything he said, but the vital parts of the video I did all this. because I care about going the extra mile to provide value for you. Not everything is right and I apologize for that.
1:Bad Horsie Wah Pedal
2:Ibanez/Vai Prototype Distortion Pedal--Two pedals in one "Watch for this one coming out possibly"
3:Digitech Whammy Pedal
4:Then Front of Amp Rig--Carvin Legacy Stevie designed
5:Eventide Rack System which powers speaker monitors as well
6:By the way the signal chain Stevie goes through gives you an idea on how to set up your pedals
7:Stevie then said that the Eventide powers the big pedal board he has with many presets which I'll let Vai talk about in the video.
8:Oh, the presets go through the effects loop and amp like the rack system does.
9:Then a Morley Volume pedal. There are some things he wasn't quite clear on though.
10:Pedal board is all in one and you can set up your whole effects loop and signal chain to your amp.
11:Guitar signal gets split in the next box and one feed goes to the Carvin's,and another feed to another amp.
12: Don't know if I have this right, a Fender volume pedal is next in the chain.
13:If you notice, there is an MXR/Eventide and Boss pedals all going to a Fender for a different tone.
14:The MXR is a phase shifter and he has an EVH pedal as well.
15:And hard to see--Customized Monitor system built
16:Here's a tip: Stevie does not like to hear guitar when you're miking an amp and it's going through the monitor system. if you have a soundman you may want to tell him that.
17:Okay, Stevie says the feed from amps is then sent into monitor system.
18:In the monitor system the speakers are set up separately for the Legacy amps and the Fender.
great tip there.
19:He uses a Honeywell fan onstage to cool down and be cool.
20:Guitars:2 Ibanez Guitars are his main axes.
21:Here's more tips from Stevie.Play A chord and try to tune it to your guitar and get it in tune. This may not make sense but he continues. Conventionally tuning a guitar with open strings and play A chord it may not totally be in tune. Then he says if you were able to A chord in tune and played D chord, it would be out of tune. Hope that helps. If not go back and watch the video again.
22:This next part I found very interesting, but I didn't like where it might lead to technology wise. It would make it easier for any schmoe to play guitar. That's my fear.
23:Someone who is Vai's guitar tech knew someone else and they made an innovation to the frets making it easier to play every chord in tune. Please watch that part.
24:Here's something else Stevie said. Because the guitar has straight frets balances the tones and strings within the chord you're playing, it enhances the guitars sustain. Not sure if I have that right.
25: That's pretty much it guys.
I call Stevie Vai the "Rich Schefern" of Guitar. Rich Schefern is a well known internet marketer and they have the same styles in showing you and teaching you their gear and craft.
In the video Stevie and company are in the rehearsal stage still. I thought you should all learn from this guys.
Please take notes guys. You'll learn things your band can take to the bank.
Thanks to Stevie Vai.
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