Guitarist Andee Blacksugar shows us the gear he's using on a Tour.
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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 I'm doing guitar solos and stuff, I can keep it.
02:01Like, it handles like that.
02:06So for instance, I need to do a lot of whole step down.
02:09What I like about this pedal is it tracks really well, even for super note-y stuff.
02:14note-y stuff so yeah I think I have four tunings in total for this for this show
02:36including whole step down half step down and pull step up it's like an f-sharp standard
02:45so in other words I would have had probably have four guitars tuned all differently and
02:56then four backup guitars which is not feasible so with this paddle I can do the whole show
03:01with this guitar next up is the boss super shifter which I'm using for sort of extreme dive bomb
03:10occasionally subtle things
03:20and then finally in the pedal chain this is actually an important part of the whole thing
03:41is the eventide h9 the 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 so
03:53right now I've got like a sort of sorry like an analog delay
03:59so I'm basically using this as a wet dry knob for that one
04:10let's try some other things here's a sort of a custom patch that I made
04:16that tunes the guitar up and down in fourths fifths and octaves so
04:22so you can do some pretty crazy stuff with that I'm using it for kmf with this sound
04:39so I'm using the knob to cycle it up through all these intervals from really low and guttural
04:49let's see what else I got in here this is one of my favorites I call this one shatter
05:00this is a backwards patch basically I have it set up so it starts out with no delay at all
05:12so this is sort of like a sort of no effect and then as I roll it in
05:23start hearing reverse delay and if I roll it all the way up it's just reverse
05:34so there you go that's the backwards thing and then I've got this
06:04rocket dive bomb
06:11so that's just for certain parts in the show where I want to be particularly obnoxious
06:20and 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
06:33I sort of have a loud version of that by the way that's um that's got a little bit of stereo
06:37chorus 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
06:57I've got this kind of less distorted version of that sound
07:05and then this is sort of a shimmering clean sound that I showed you before
07:21I'm only using that once in the whole set which is for Bumaye
07:28I've got this wah lead this sort of auto wah lead guitar sound
07:40and then this uh clean funky thing which we're using a few times in the set
07:55and that's basically the whole rig um I'm using the amp uh the atomic amplifier box as a backup
08:15which basically has my main my primary uh you know 95% of the show rhythm guitar sound loaded into there
08:23in case something happens but nothing has happened yet so uh yeah that's basically it
08:30this is it everything this is this is the whole rig it'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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