GEAR

My set up and gear is pretty simple and traditional.

For most gigs and sessions, I use a pedal board with a good number of pedals.

For more traditional or low volume gigs, I may just bring a guitar, chord, tuner and amp.

In this video, I go through my current rig and describe what I’m using and why:

I believe in getting a nice, fat and clean tone out of the amp before incorporating any pedals.

After you get that tone, bring in the effects as you desire.

I generally keep the Memory Man and RC Booster on pretty much all the time for my taste. I also love the vibrato setting on the Memory Man. It’s really great for ballads.

The Nobels pedals are set to be stacked (one lower gain and one a little higher), and I use them together to boost a solo or just if I need more gain.

The Arion Chorus is mainly for a Leslie effect. I use the DD-6 for splitting two amps or sometimes for the reverse delay effect.

I turn my guitar volume and tone knobs all the way up and just adjust my right hand style for dynamics.

Here’s the full board:

I also have a smaller board I use for live gigs and smaller sessions:

This is what works best for me.

In my opinion, there are no rules at all with gear or music in general.

Experimenting is how I learned everything I know to this point.

Stay tuned and in tune!

– Guthrie Trapp

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