neil zaza fx setup

[echoist]

i promised Vaiyen i'll post the pic of paul gilbert's fx setup when he was performing here, but have not gotten to developing the pics yet. but here's neil zaza's setup when he was here last year for a clinic.

he's got 3 keeley stuff: the compressor, keeley mod ts9, and the colourful stompbox. that box is suppose to give him the midrange tone like one u get when u set the wah in mid sweep. you can programme a few settings on that. the ts9 is mod to his specs. the rest are stock:dd5, phase90 (older version), vox wah, tu-2, hugh & kettner tube preamp. i know he borrowed that from a cort rep coz he blew his sansamp tri-amp. u can see a pack of 9v batt on the upper left. i can't remember if he prefers batteries or there is no power supply for some of the stompboxes. all this are run through the fx loop of the js peavey head/cab. he bypassed the preamp section of the js head. using the hugh & kettner as his preamp instead. such sweet tone he got.

n here's paul's picks

the two on the left are his older picks from the two clinics he had here the last few years. the yellow one is from the concert. it is a 0.7mm tortex. (the white ones are not as thick as malmsteens like i mentioned sometime ago, my apologies! it could be between 1.2 to 1.5mm)

that's what i have for now. hope you guys like it.

 

[wangdexian]

I love you.

 

[pooo]

THANKS DUDE!!!!!!

 

[MrRhoads]

: )~ vox!

Is that a bundle of batteries at the top left corner?

 

[wangdexian]

Yes, it is a bunch of batteries.

 

[BlackMoo]

Wheres his Valvulator?

 

[moggie_54]

Zaza Zaza!!!

 

[Fruitwine]

er, zaza's vox wah is modded for true bypass, and the colourful box thing is called a nova wah. beautiful pictures btw u rock ^^

 

[echoist]

hey, glad u guys loved this!

Is that a bundle of batteries at the top left corner?

yes, that's a bunch of 9v. he asked for them. i can't remember if his power supply for any of his efx was not wrkng, or he prefers batts. he wants them there so he can switch batteries on the fly.

Wheres his Valvulator?

he didn't have that during the clinic. i was told something blew-up, that's why he borrowed the hugh & kettner.

since u guys really love him, i have other info here too: he uses regular slinkys 10's then, he's switched to markleys i guess now. n here's the pick he uses:

the one on the left is the one pick he uses for the whole of the asia clinic tour last year. look at the wear on the pick! the one on the right is his spares.

that's it for now. i'll try to put gilbert's fx setup for his concert here once i've developed the film.

 

[MrRhoads]

He standby two picks only for gigs?

 

[echoist]

no man, actually he have a bunch (more like a small pack!) of the blue ones with him. but he uses only the one purple one. i got that piece from him and also the new blue ones with his signature. i think its dunlop too, only its blue.

 

[psionic]

yea its the same 2.0mm pick

 

[MrRhoads]

Cool! He's a great player!