Show us your worship rig

[Tuto103]

hey yall...just wondering what everyone is using in their worship setting...feel free to post photos of your guitar/amp/pedals!

[Teleworshipkid]

Pedaltrain 2, chain is:
-Fender Telecaster FMT HH (amazing guitar, if I needed another I would get the same thing.)
-Fulldrive 2 FM/CompCut (in CompCut mode. I leave it always on, and hit the boost for overdriven tones.)
-Radial Tonebone Hot British Distortion (Marshall in a box. This thing is legit.)
-Ernie Ball VPJR w/ Tuner out to TC Polytune (amazing tuner, gonna get the EB active modded.)
-Strymon Timeline (AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!)
-Fender Blues Junior (Crazy good amp, but I smell a Morgan in my future.)
- Miked with an e906 (got this cool high contour switch.)

All wired up with George L's and powered by a Cioks DC10 (do any Danish people out there know how to pronounce it? I believe it's "chucks"???). Planning on filling the open space with a Disaster Area DMC-6 for the Timeline. Also working with JHS to replace the full drive with an EP/808 2-in-1.

[Parma_TeleMon]

I'm in!

Took about six months off and almost completely changed my setup, going from a Vox Tonelab LE to this:

[Parma_TeleMon]

...and the gang in da Rack (depending on the set):

[still_fiddlin]

Pretty simple right now.

[Telephonic]

This is my current rig, we use an SM57 on it...very versatile rig. -Gotta be with P&W!

Signal chain is (currently):

Tele- TU-2, Barber Tone press, Timmy, ODR-1, MI Audio Tube Zone (V4), Tube Zone (V2) (or Mercury Box), EBVPjr, Keeley TR-2, AMDD-5, DD-20, RV-5, RV-7 - Morgan AC20 Deluxe.

I switch pedals on and off depending on the set but there's also a mojovibe, a micropog and an analogman chorus that frequent the neighborhood...

[electrablue]

Originally Posted by still_fiddlin

Pretty simple right now.

My rig too although I switch between a LP, a tele and a strat depending on my mood.

[still_fiddlin]

Originally Posted by electrablue

My rig too although I switch between a LP, a tele and a strat depending on my mood.

We use Avioms, and it has taken over a year to get things settled with the sound guys so I have something in my monitor that approximates what is going to the house. I finally figured out that switching guitars was just one more variable that made it unlikely I'd be able to play without gritting my teeth :), so stopped doing it. It also required either a separate set of patches (single coil vs. humbucker) just for *approximate* tone/level consistency - too much fiddling around.

That, and the fact that I never melded with the Classic 60s Tele I had, and my "one-in, one-out" rule got applied when I decided I "needed" a bass, and sent the Strat packing (well, technically, just to the garage, but de-fretted waiting for a weekend not packed with honey-dos, so I can get it back together for the buyer).

Anyway, I like simple these days, and the POD makes it easier with one guitar to cover a very wide range of sounds.

[Telephonic]

We use Avioms, and it has taken over a year to get things settled with the sound guys so I have something in my monitor that approximates what is going to the house

We've had them about the same time frame and I still want to rip one ear out every time I play...(which I know is not good for you)

Any tips on getting an acceptable mix?

[still_fiddlin]

Originally Posted by Telephonic

We've had them about the same time frame and I still want to rip one ear out every time I play...(which I know is not good for you)

Any tips on getting an acceptable mix?

Not sure what the problem is you are having, but we have multiple problems, and, honestly, I'm convinced it's the sound guys who don't know how to use the equipment, but there's no good online documentation on the systems (that I could find), and there's just a lot of different mixers and components that enter in between your analog source and what comes back over the Ethernet cable. So, the best is to try and work your way back from your personal mixer (assuming there's no way to get a balance and save it at that point that works), and determine where things go south. My main problem was that no matter what the one guy did, it was always distorted in my mix. He said he did everything he could (for months and months), but then another guy came in and said, oh, yeah, it's probably this, and it got a lot better. However, I've come in some weeks and it's all back to bad sound, because they pull up some saved setting (big, Yamaha, digital console), and there's no time to adjust (i.e., find the guy who knows what he's doing).

I spent a fair amount of time taking the XLR output (studio - both channels to a Y for single channel "mono" output) into a little mixer I had at home, and just recording the patches I use, switching the FX1 (OD/dist) on off, and checking recorded levels, to make sure they were very similar, and the OD wouldn't make the sound guys go moving my level around during performance, i.e., just a tiny bit of boost, and keep some room on the guitar volume if you need to work it up.

Keep the ear - you don't want people saying about you, "He has Van Gogh's ear for music" :). And, good luck.

[bek]

I'm using mostly a hardtail Squier Strat with a custom SSH ultra-low-output pickups from VintageVibe with custom switching from our own Deaf-Eddie into a Roland Cube 30. Most of the time the Roland is on the Brit Combo (AC 30, I think), volume about half and drive about two-thirds, with a fair amount of reverb. I use a Danelectro OD pedal (the plastic-box one) and it's usually on, fairly low but enough to fatten and add sustain. I've been working an Epi LP Standard LE into the mix and my Hamer Archtop in, and that's been good. If I had druthers, I'd get a modified Nashville Power Tele-type arrangement, so I could get versatility with the addition of the more or less acoustic sound in there. I mostly go for a big Santana/early EC type of tone from the single-coil direction. I guess Trower-ish but of course not as big. I almost never try to replicate the recordings. I can't play it, so I might as well abandon pretense!

[bikeracr]

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/worship-s...rch-rig-6.html

[GregWV]

Here are a couple of pics. Sorry not all in 1 pic. My newest toy is the Vox AC15HW1. It KILLS!

My Teles- Hwy1 and Am Std.

My board has changed and the Rat is off and a Joyo Ultimate Drive is on. Great pedal that adds a little more low end.

[Telephonic]

Nice rig! Those HW Ac15's are amazing, great tones to be had in them.


Still Fiddlin - Thanks for the insight on the Avioms!

[kbraker]

Going to play this through the system in Tuesday to see how the music guy likes it.

[Telebrand]

Here is mine. I play at a cowboy church in southeast Texas.
Pedaltrain PT Pro:
Guitar to board via cable or Line 6 g50,
TU2...keeley blues driver...mxr cae booster...Monte allum sparkle drive...barber SS...fultone 2...ch1...phase 90...voodoo lab term...ernie ball volume...carbon copy...dd5.

Powered by a pedal power 2+, and mks power pad 2.

Blue tap tempo in bottom left corner for dd5, and custom footswitch for drri above volume.

(Dyna comp instead of bd2 temporarily)

[TheMick]

I've really been working on on getting my board 100% usable. In the past there have been a lot of unused effects. All this is used almost every week.

I use a Pedaltrain board. Everything is powered by my Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus. Here's the chain order:

-Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
-Paul Cochran Tim Overdrive
-MXR Carbon Copy
-TC Electronic ND-1 Nova Delay
-Melekko Omnicron Trem
-Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Reverb
-Vox Classic Wah
I also have a Korg Pitchblack Tuner coming out of the volume pedal.

Also this is played with either a '52 Fender reissue tele or a Tim Armstrong sig model Gretsch hollowbody, and is projected through a Fender Blues Jr. NOS Hot Rod III.

[electrablue]

Originally Posted by TheMick

I've really been working on on getting my board 100% usable. In the past there have been a lot of unused effects. All this is used almost every week.

I use a Pedaltrain board. Everything is powered by my Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus. Here's the chain order:

-Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
-Paul Cochran Tim Overdrive
-MXR Carbon Copy
-TC Electronic ND-1 Nova Delay
-Melekko Omnicron Trem
-Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Reverb
-Vox Classic Wah
I also have a Korg Pitchblack Tuner coming out of the volume pedal.

Also this is played with either a '52 Fender reissue tele or a Tim Armstrong sig model Gretsch hollowbody, and is projected through a Fender Blues Jr. NOS Hot Rod III.

Nice set up!

[TheMick]

Originally Posted by electrablue

Nice set up!

Thanks. I think it's finally getting to be a very functional board for how I play.

[kbraker]

I already posted my board. Here is an asat shot.