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
Floyd Cassista Tele
Fender Road Worn Tele
Floyd Cassista Strat
Epiphone Century 1960
LSL Topanga
Gretsch Reverend Horton Heat signature model
Gretsch Electromatic
Jerry Jones Baritone
PRS McCarty
PRS David Grissom signature model
G&L ASAT Classic
Larrivee OM-9 acoustic w/ Fishman Matrix pickup
1933 Gibson L-00 acoustic
National M-2 resonator w/ Highlander pickup
Sim Daley F style Mandolin w/ Joe Mills mic & undersaddle pickup
1966 Fender Pro Reverb
1966 Fender Super Reverb
1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb
1966 Fender Princeton Reverb
Magic Amps Britt (AC-15 style)
Swart AST Pro
Vox Handwired AC-30
Vox Bruno
Matchless HC-30
Marshall Handwired JTM-45 Head
Avatar 2×12 cabs
Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
Vintage Arion Stereo Chorus SCH-1 (leslie)
Nobels ODR-1 overdrive (original)
Nobels ODR-1 reissue
XTS Custom Pedals Imperial Overdrive
Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive
Ibanez Mostortion
Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808 Keeley Mod
T-Rex tremster
Xotic Effects RC Booster
Boss DD-6 Digital Delay
Gretsch Play Boy Wah
Keeley Compressor (2 knob)
Robotalk
Earnie Ball VP jr
Boss PH-1r Phaser
MXR Phase 90
T-Rex Replica delay
Vintage Boss DM-2 delay
Radial Tonebone PZ-PRE acoustic preamp & DI
Fishman Aura
Boss TU-2 tuner
Peterson Stroboflip tuner
Moog Ring Mod