Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses

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Wow, what a nice surprise. For Janick and Dave too, please.
Adrian is so down to earth, love it. And I appreciate that he wanted to do something different by bringing back some of his old guitars, for nostalgia. Silver Lado is the main guitar now, he prefers is to the black Lado because it got a bigger sound. He hasn't recorded with it. Back in the day he had trouble with its tuning system. He recorded TNOTB solo with the red Ibanez. Btw, why it wasn't painted?

I wonder if he'll use the black Les Paul on this tour. It's a carried over guitar from the previous tour.

He is the only one in the band who plays in Drop D (white Jackson) and said he talked Jan and Dave into using it, ''to move with the times'', but they don't seem to want to. After rejoining, he wants to play stuff differently because Janick plays them the standard way. He praised Roy again.

He also mentioned that he has a different set of guitars for SK, tuned down a half-step.
 
Kalata said:
Wow, what a nice surprise. For Janick and Dave too, please.
Adrian is so down to earth, love it. And I appreciate that he wanted to do something different by bringing back some of his old guitars, for nostalgia. Silver Lado is the main guitar now, he prefers is to the black Lado because it got a bigger sound. He hasn't recorded with it. Back in the day he had trouble with its tuning system. He recorded TNOTB solo with the red Ibanez. Btw, why it wasn't painted?

I wonder if he'll use the black Les Paul on this tour. It's a carried over guitar from the previous tour.

He is the only one in the band who plays in Drop D (white Jackson) and said he talked Jan and Dave into using it, ''to move with the times'', but they don't seem to want to. After rejoining, he wants to play stuff differently because Janick plays them the standard way. He praised Roy again.

He also mentioned that he has a different set of guitars for SK, tuned down a half-step.
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Some of those things aren't accurate.

Firstly, Jan and Dave probably won't do a rig rundown. Ola probably reached to H through Instagram and they organised it. I think Ola got to do this because he bypassed the managment.

Silver Lado has a bigger sound because of two reasons. The minor one is the weight. But the big one is the bridge pickup. Black guitar has a DiMarzio Super Distortion, which is a ceramic magnet. Now, considering "The Grey Lady's" occasional feedback issues, I think that humbucker isn't wax potted and it has 2 coils with screws. All that leads me to one conclusion... I think it's a Gibson Dirty Fingers humbucker from the 80's (it's the same humbucker that was there during Live After Death). Or a Japanese Alnico V humbucker from the 80s.

Black LP is always there. As were the V and the Custom during TFP (they never saw the stage). Adrian fills up the vault and uses whatever he likes.

The thing about drop D is inaccurate. Janick played in drop D twice. IESF and Time Machine. His point about bass being the main factor to get the bigger drop D sound is correct.

He has a different set of guitars for SK in America. In Europe he plays the IM Jacksons, re-tuned. During last SK run in Europe, 2016 Jackson prototype was main Eb standard guitar, and the #2 Jackson maple/blackguard prototype with chipped pickguard was the main drop C# guitar. He even used the black LP Classic on some dates. The 2016 Green Sunburst prototype is getting carried from and to US.
 
Also, there is an explanation now about the two DI signals that were questioned about previously. Those are 2 DI signals from the secondary HX Effects that are used to widen his sound in his in-ears via ping-pong delays. It seems like Adrian is going for some kind of a wet-dry-wet setup of his guitar in his ears. The wet signals being the 2 DI's and the center being the iso cab.
 
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Also, there is an explanation now about the two DI signals that were questioned about previously. Those are 2 DI signals from the secondary HX Effects that are used to widen his sound in his in-ears via ping-pong delays. It seems like Adrian is going for some kind of a wet-dry-wet setup of his guitar in his ears. The wet signals being the 2 DI's and the center being the iso cab.
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Yeah from what I gather the main heads send to the cabs on stage, which probably go to FOH, as well as maybe a ISO cab going to FOH - for Pooch so he can dial in his own effects for FOH. And separate to that, there is the IEM mix signals with stereo delays and so on, that are only for H's ears, but might have a send to FOH anyway just in case. There must be some 'wet' (not necessarily stereo) signal effects going to FOH though as I'm sure there are some chorus/modulation effects that H would want in the FOH mix..

It would be really interesting to see an actual diagram of the signal path... Just so we can kind of see where it's getting split and where each signal ends up going for what purpose etc.,
 
2M2M said:
Yeah from what I gather the main heads send to the cabs on stage, which probably go to FOH, as well as maybe a ISO cab going to FOH - for Pooch so he can dial in his own effects for FOH. And separate to that, there is the IEM mix signals with stereo delays and so on, that are only for H's ears, but might have a send to FOH anyway just in case. There must be some 'wet' (not necessarily stereo) signal effects going to FOH though as I'm sure there are some chorus/modulation effects that H would want in the FOH mix..

It would be really interesting to see an actual diagram of the signal path... Just so we can kind of see where it's getting split and where each signal ends up going for what purpose etc.,
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I think all signals go to both monitors and FOH and then Pooch uses what he wants. Pooch stated that he wants to add delays himself in some cases, so I think he is mainly dealing with mono signal. There are also 3 guitarists, so having one in stereo would further fill the stereo spectrum space.

I think what Pooch uses is the main head with mono effects via the HX FX in the main rack. The main head has two mics on it and an additional Palmer speaker simulator. Those 3 signals make up Adrian's sound.

What Adrian gets is the ISO cab head in the middle with 2 DI-ed wet signlas from secondary HX FX in the ISO head rack, panned hard left and hard right. So, essentially an Edward Van Halen style wet-dry-wet.
 
matic22 said:
I think all signals go to both monitors and FOH and then Pooch uses what he wants. Pooch stated that he wants to add delays himself in some cases, so I think he is mainly dealing with mono signal. There are also 3 guitarists, so having one in stereo would further fill the stereo spectrum space.

I think what Pooch uses is the main head with mono effects via the HX FX in the main rack. The main head has two mics on it and an additional Palmer speaker simulator. Those 3 signals make up Adrian's sound.

What Adrian gets is the ISO cab head in the middle with 2 DI-ed wet signlas from secondary HX FX in the ISO head rack, panned hard left and hard right. So, essentially an Edward Van Halen style wet-dry-wet.
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That puts my rig on my last gig to shame. I just rocked up with a DI box and a tuner (and my bass of course!)
 
something interesting I noticed just now. I thought the thumbwheel adjustment was introduced initially on just Adrian's green Jackson in 2015-2016, and then eventually on his US production models (and potentially the SDX - I've seen a photo of an SDX with thumbwheel).
But just saw this while rewatching Rock in Rio 2013 (awesome show, I don't care what anyone else thinks haha) and Adrian's Drop-D Jackson has the thumbwheel. I didn't realise he'd got it on a guitar that far back..
On a separate not, speaking of Jackson guitars, it really bugs me that there haven't been almost any recent mentions of Adrian or his signature guitar on their social media - give H some love! :lol::lol:
 

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2M2M said:
something interesting I noticed just now. I thought the thumbwheel adjustment was introduced initially on just Adrian's green Jackson in 2015-2016, and then eventually on his US production models (and potentially the SDX - I've seen a photo of an SDX with thumbwheel).
But just saw this while rewatching Rock in Rio 2013 (awesome show, I don't care what anyone else thinks haha) and Adrian's Drop-D Jackson has the thumbwheel. I didn't realise he'd got it on a guitar that far back..
On a separate not, speaking of Jackson guitars, it really bugs me that there haven't been almost any recent mentions of Adrian or his signature guitar on their social media - give H some love! :lol::lol:
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2nd prototype of the blackguard/maple jackson always had it.

8431 aka 1st prototype has it since Freiburg 2018, when Adrian sent the original neck to meet its maker at the end of Iron Maiden. The original neck was replaced with a production one.
 
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