#Jerry garcia guitar rig mod#

Whole first set from night two streams on :Ĭomments welcome. Items belonging to members of the Grateful. īrief video clip of the end of 'Terrapin' which shows off a few effects. Grateful Dead gear going up for auction, including Jerry Garcia guitar & Wall of Sound components. I heard myself better onstage than ever before at this club (we play there a lot). The results were good - not perfect, yet, a little too bright (today I discovered that it sounds much better filtering out everything above 6kHz). Thanks to everyone who answered my newbie questions along the way. I used my guitar's built-in effects loop to run all the AxeFX pedals through, then came back out of the guitar to the amp, cab and reverb blocks. I modeled all my effects - QTron, Boss Octave, MXR Phase 100, MXR Distortion +, wah pedal and delay - as well as a nice Twin Reverb sound with some great spring reverb. I spent about three weeks dialing in a Garcia amp sound, using an impulse response curve of my own 2X10 HT cabinet with JBL K110s for the cabinet simulation.

#Jerry garcia guitar rig mod#

Coscia Guitars Bella > FYD waldotronics mod > MC2100 > JBL E120s. The other secret of Jerrys sound is simply this. Jerrys Tone with Dave McMurray Performing the Jerry Garcia Band Version of Sisters and. This gives better and more consistent control of the effects pedals and therefore the overall sound.

His sound goes from the strings, the pickups, the effects and THEN the volume and tone knobs. It turns out those estimates were a bit low Budman’s new owner. Jerry Garcia had his guitars built differently. Before the auction began, Sotheby’s estimated that it would sell for between 5,000 and 7,000.

My Jerry rig was serious - two JBL E120s in a Hard Truckers cab, Egnater M4 preamp T/D module, Acoustic Image Focus 2R for power amp, Real Tube Reverb, all the right effects, GCX, Ground Control Pro. Among the items sold as part of Sotheby’s From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends auction was guitarist Jerry Garcia’s amp, known as Budman. Garcia's tone was pretty unique, clean and warm, extremely articulate, and pretty hard to get with out a lot of gear and effort. Left my big ol' Jerry Garcia guitar rig home for a 2-night stand at a large Boston club with my Grateful Dead tribute band and played out with the Fractal Audio AxeFX straight to the soundboard and a couple of powered QSC K12 wedges onstage (one for me, one where my cabinet used to go for providing guitar for the people up front). If you appreciate Garcia's tone, you'll be interested.