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he should just get an Axe FX or helix, no one out the front could tell the difference...
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As guitarists, we should defend the crap out of any guitar based music. There are many guitar bands I don't like, but I still prefer musicians to DJs/Charts etc. More musicians the better, more future people will pick up a guitar etc...
I'd just like to point out I'm not defending Mayer specifically, or Bonamassa, or "the blues". I just don't think it's helpful or constructive to bring artistic critique into a discussion about gear.
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Here's the Edge's 2015 rig for comparison. I'm guessing he will use it in the same way. A bank per song with multiple patches used within that.
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Thing is, people paint you into a corner, I like Mayer, but I'm not a huge fan of Bonamassa, I'm not even a massive blues fan, but it is a music form I grew up with and have a huge amount of respect for. I like loads of stuff, good music is good music, and I'm just as likely to listen to the Velvet Underground or the Flaming Lips as I am Mayer.
What really winds me up is when people type "blooze" in a derogatory way, as if you're only allowed one pedal if you play such a lowly art form, and as if you are somehow on a higher musical plain because you are using your pedalboard to make abstract soundscapes, it's a complete load of nonsense and shows a real lack of musical awareness IMO and it's lazy.
At the end of the day, it's whatever the user wants
The Gilmour PULSE rig is pretty special since Pete handbuilt a 24 loop MIDI switcher and amp controlle for him- it's in the LH rack.
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Besides, it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
If I had techs and sound guys to help set up, and roadies to vary all the shit, and played stages bigger than matchboxes?
Hell I would too!
If you have a look, the top left buttons scroll banks up and down, so that will be song selection. And with each bank there will probably be messages sent to midi effects telling them what preset to go to, what delay time to use etc.
The vast majority of the buttons - the top right and entire middle two rows - always do the same thing. Each of those buttons turns one effect on or off. So no matter what's going on in terms of your bank/ patch choices, you'll be able to see at a glance what's on or off and add/remove individual effects as easily as if you had the actual effect pedal at your foot. This comes in handy because it means that no matter where you are in the set, if something breaks you can bypass it easily. If the singer calls out a song you've not programmed in you can just wing it, and if you just fancy trying a different overdrive in a song it's as easy as hitting that one switch.
The bottom buttons are presumably the song specific presets. So you don't have to tap-dance with the middle rows, just one push brings up specific combinations of effects. So if you've got it all dialled in nicely, you only need to change bank once per song, and other than that you can stick to the bottom row of footswitches.
So it looks like the controls of a particularly complicated spacecraft, but it's not really all that. And if you want a backup to make sure the show goes on... suddenly it appears twice as daunting, but it's really not.
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I've just listened to Continuum for the first time, on my train journey home out of interest having read this thread. Is that not one of his blues based albums then? I only heard one song that was bluesey apart from the Hendrix cover which doesn't count. Are there any where he actually plays blues? Seems all fairly inoffensive stuff otherwise, seems fairly subtle guitar work which would make sense with the millions of fx conversely as I think it does take a lot of possibilities to show restraint with them.
My only thought re the millions of buttons, if you just have a bank per song then patches lined up for the sections, why not let somebody else switch it for you and save you the bother?
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