How about Stevie Ray Vaughan

[peaveyplayer]

You guys here at Guitar Geeks had SRV rig how about it?

http://www.custom-sounds.com/srv.htm

http://www.texasflood.com/

I'd like to know all the different 32 amps he use on IN Step album myself

[guitarsavvy16]

DUDE I TOTALLY AGREE

of all the people they dont have rigs for they leave out SRV :mad: I also am very interested in finding out how he created his tone

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by guitarsavvy16
DUDE I TOTALLY AGREE

of all the people they dont have rigs for they leave out SRV :mad: I also am very interested in finding out how he created his tone

amen

Depends on what tone you are after?

[wihaga83]

Dude, his tone is awesome, really inspired many guitarist....

[guitarsavvy16]

i totally am going for the tone he had at his appearance on austin city limits in 1983. I know he used his dumble and some fenders but inot sure which ones they are

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by guitarsavvy16
i totally am going for the tone he had at his appearance on austin city limits in 1983. I know he used his dumble and some fenders but inot sure which ones they are


Fenders were Vibroverbs 1x15
Marshall Town and Country 2x12 JBLS
Dumbles the ones they call mother Dumbles Dumbland land head which he used one number plug stright into that Dumble for Texas Floods

[Mobisimo]

they had an SRV rig at one point. it didnt come back after the big update they did at the end of last summer. i as well would like to see his rig up again.

peace

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

the 1983 Austin City Limits was at around the same time as when the El Mocambo video was filmed. so i'd imagine his rig was the same....

2 1x15 vibroverbs
1 super reverb

his famed 62 strat

vox wah
ts-808

and a **** load of volume!!! that's the key right there


you are talkin to an SRV freak here!

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by bLuZ_RoCkz
the 1983 Austin City Limits was at around the same time as when the El Mocambo video was filmed. so i'd imagine his rig was the same....

2 1x15 vibroverbs
1 super reverb

his famed 62 strat

vox wah
ts-808

and a **** load of volume!!! that's the key right there


you are talkin to an SRV freak here!

I thought he had 2 super reverbs and Lenny and main

[stratocaster83]

actually I have to disagree.

I like his tone, but it was a bit of too much for me. although I -of course- never met him, I can feel his passion while playing. I read an interview of tommy shannon, and he recalls that stevie had the gift of "being out" during performances: he didn't care about anything but playing. that's pure feeling, and only little other guitar players can achive this status, and most of them only for certain songs and for a limited amount of time.

well, that's the most important lesson I learned from SRV: passion. that's what music's all about.

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

he didint have 2 supers in 1983, he might have owned 2 supers but he didint use them both at that time. if you watch the El Mocambo video, he has 2 vibroverbs one on either side of his super. both the el mocambo and the austin city limits were both filmed in 1983 so i suppose he had the same rig. although he was changing gear quite often (even up until his death) so it might have varied a little. but i know for sure he wasint using the dumble or the marshalls yet.

bottom line is, even if you had the same gear down to the very same patch cords or picks or whatever, you'd still never sound like Stevie. Even the closest "clones" like Kenny Wayne and others (besides chris duarte because he's the closest thing to Stevie tone wise that anyone is ever going to get to hear! believe me!) come close, but they still dont have that special something Stevie did.

it's harder to come up with your own style and sound than it is to copy someone else. simple as that.

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by bLuZ_RoCkz
he didint have 2 supers in 1983, he might have owned 2 supers but he didint use them both at that time. if you watch the El Mocambo video, he has 2 vibroverbs one on either side of his super. both the el mocambo and the austin city limits were both filmed in 1983 so i suppose he had the same rig. although he was changing gear quite often (even up until his death) so it might have varied a little. but i know for sure he wasint using the dumble or the marshalls yet.

bottom line is, even if you had the same gear down to the very same patch cords or picks or whatever, you'd still never sound like Stevie. Even the closest "clones" like Kenny Wayne and others (besides chris duarte because he's the closest thing to Stevie tone wise that anyone is ever going to get to hear! believe me!) come close, but they still dont have that special something Stevie did.

it's harder to come up with your own style and sound than it is to copy someone else. simple as that.


Ok I wasn't sure. Because I remember in Guitar Player Archives that he was using 2 Super Reverbs and Dumbles along with his vibroverbs for Couldn't Stand the Weather.

I agree Nobody will ever recreate SRV tones. He was the only one who could, but unfortunately he isn't here anymore and that is a sad fact

[leeferdude]

Taken from an exerpt from 1992 Guitar Legends featuring SRV-


Like most blues men, Stevie Ray Vaughan was partial to certain instruments and amps. But he wasn't above playing around. The "Number One" axe in Vaughan's life, however, was a well-worn '59 Fender Stratocaster.

"It has a 1959 body and 1961 rosewood fingerboard neck," expained Stevie. "I had to replace the neck because the original fretboard was getting too buzzy. My guitar tech, Rene Martinez, did a wonderful job trying to preserve the original neck, but one day we looked at each other and he said, "Unless we want to do major surgery, we really ought to find another neck." Right around that same time I found a left handed Strat that i really liked. In some ways i think left-handed headstocks work better."

The '59 Strat also is equipped with a left-handed (upside down) vibrato-bar unit, a la Jimi Hendrix and Otis Rush. Stevie strung his guitar with heavy gauge GHS strings (highest to lowest: .013, .015, .019, .028, .038, .058) and replaced the stock frets with bass frets (which are far wider than the stock Strat frets of the 1960's) for improved grip and increased sustain.

Besides Number One (which was destroyed one month before Stevie Ray's death, when a piece of scenery at the Garden State Art Center in New Jersey crashed onto a number of SRV's guitars), Stevie used a slew of Strats including an off-white '61 with a custom pickguard by Martinez, and "Charley," a 1983 custom Strat that Vaughan received as a gift from the late Charley Wirz, of Charley's Guitars in Dallas, Texas. The "Charley" Strat, which can be seen on the cover of Couldn't Stand The Weather, features Danelectro pickups. On the back of the guitar a simple message is engraved on the metal plate where the neck joins the body: "To Stevie From Charley. More in '84."

The unique, hollowed-out yellow 1964 Strat (nicknamed "Lenny"), used on such classic cuts as "Lenny", "Tell Me", and "Honey Bee", was unfortunately stolen. "It was originally owned by someone in Vanilla Fudge," recalled Stevie. "It had four humbuckers in it. Charley Wirz took the humbuckers out and replaced them with a single Strat pickup in the neck position. It would probably be hard to recognize now. That was the first guitar Charley gave to me, and it means alot."

Finally, when the Texas blues man was in a mellow mood, he was known to play a Gibson Johnny Smith model arch-top electric/acoustic jazz guitar. The instrument can be heard on "Stang's Swang"

SRV began his recording career using the combination of Marshall 2X12 combos (for clean sounds) and Fender Vibroverbs/Fender Super Reverbs (for distortion) heard on Texas Flood. By 1984, he found his signature tone in two Fender Vibroverbs and a Howard Dumble 150-watt Steel String Singer.

His signal processing gear was deceptively simple-- an Ibanez Tube Screamer (for volume and gain boost), a Vox wah-wah pedal (or two, as on "Say What") and, occasionally, a Fuzzface and Octavia. The rotating speaker sound (like the Leslie cabinet of a Hammond B-3 organ) on "Cold Shot" was produced by a vintage (late-Sixties) Fender Vibratone Unit.

"I have the Tube Screamer, a wah and the Leslie on my pedal board," explained Vaughan. "The whole system can be activated or deactivated with a simple on/off switch. When I do a song like 'Third Stone From The Sun,' I can't control the feedback with the effects on, so I switch 'em all off and then kick it back when I'm done."


Whew...that was alot of typing. Maybe it can help yall out! :D

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by leeferdude
Taken from an exerpt from 1992 Guitar Legends featuring SRV-


Like most blues men, Stevie Ray Vaughan was partial to certain instruments and amps. But he wasn't above playing around. The "Number One" axe in Vaughan's life, however, was a well-worn '59 Fender Stratocaster.

"It has a 1959 body and 1961 rosewood fingerboard neck," expained Stevie. "I had to replace the neck because the original fretboard was getting too buzzy. My guitar tech, Rene Martinez, did a wonderful job trying to preserve the original neck, but one day we looked at each other and he said, "Unless we want to do major surgery, we really ought to find another neck." Right around that same time I found a left handed Strat that i really liked. In some ways i think left-handed headstocks work better."

The '59 Strat also is equipped with a left-handed (upside down) vibrato-bar unit, a la Jimi Hendrix and Otis Rush. Stevie strung his guitar with heavy gauge GHS strings (highest to lowest: .013, .015, .019, .028, .038, .058) and replaced the stock frets with bass frets (which are far wider than the stock Strat frets of the 1960's) for improved grip and increased sustain.

Besides Number One (which was destroyed one month before Stevie Ray's death, when a piece of scenery at the Garden State Art Center in New Jersey crashed onto a number of SRV's guitars), Stevie used a slew of Strats including an off-white '61 with a custom pickguard by Martinez, and "Charley," a 1983 custom Strat that Vaughan received as a gift from the late Charley Wirz, of Charley's Guitars in Dallas, Texas. The "Charley" Strat, which can be seen on the cover of Couldn't Stand The Weather, features Danelectro pickups. On the back of the guitar a simple message is engraved on the metal plate where the neck joins the body: "To Stevie From Charley. More in '84."

The unique, hollowed-out yellow 1964 Strat (nicknamed "Lenny"), used on such classic cuts as "Lenny", "Tell Me", and "Honey Bee", was unfortunately stolen. "It was originally owned by someone in Vanilla Fudge," recalled Stevie. "It had four humbuckers in it. Charley Wirz took the humbuckers out and replaced them with a single Strat pickup in the neck position. It would probably be hard to recognize now. That was the first guitar Charley gave to me, and it means alot."

Finally, when the Texas blues man was in a mellow mood, he was known to play a Gibson Johnny Smith model arch-top electric/acoustic jazz guitar. The instrument can be heard on "Stang's Swang"

SRV began his recording career using the combination of Marshall 2X12 combos (for clean sounds) and Fender Vibroverbs/Fender Super Reverbs (for distortion) heard on Texas Flood. By 1984, he found his signature tone in two Fender Vibroverbs and a Howard Dumble 150-watt Steel String Singer.

His signal processing gear was deceptively simple-- an Ibanez Tube Screamer (for volume and gain boost), a Vox wah-wah pedal (or two, as on "Say What") and, occasionally, a Fuzzface and Octavia. The rotating speaker sound (like the Leslie cabinet of a Hammond B-3 organ) on "Cold Shot" was produced by a vintage (late-Sixties) Fender Vibratone Unit.

"I have the Tube Screamer, a wah and the Leslie on my pedal board," explained Vaughan. "The whole system can be activated or deactivated with a simple on/off switch. When I do a song like 'Third Stone From The Sun,' I can't control the feedback with the effects on, so I swith 'em all off and then kick it back when I'm done."


Whew...that was alot of typing. Maybe it can help yall out! :DCouldn't Stand The Weather


Good article except one problem the guitar that was stolen was called "The Yellow One". Lenny, the other guitar, as far I know and have read wasn't never stolen. and Scotch after butterscotch guitar he had was one its way to being Number ones Replacement.

[stratocaster83]

Originally posted by leeferdude
"When I do a song like 'Third Stone From The Sun,' I can't control the feedback with the effects on, so I swith 'em all off and then kick it back when I'm done."
(SRV)

I can't understand this part. what did he mean? he used the TS-9 with the fuzz face?!? did he have so much gain from what amps? please, can someone clear it up for me?!??!?

[leeferdude]

????

Who knows...thats where it ended in the mag

all i know is that they guy had one of the best tones

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

his ts-9 was used more for a clean boost than anything else. So i think what he meant was when he'd turn off the effects, he could control the feedback from the loud amps better with his guitar (volume and tone knobs, fretted feedback, etc.) than he could with the effects on because of the extra gain they added.

but i know for some leads he'd use both the ts-9 (which was later replaced with a ts-10) and the fuzz face. quite often actually...but we have all heard that when stevie set his amps, he usually set them flat out with the volume on 10. so that of course would cause feedback by themselves.

i hope that clears things up....

[guitarsavvy16]

I know for a fact SRV had his dumble from his Austin City limits rig in 1983. I saw it just yesterday when i was watching the dvd. So unless someone has previously formentioned that he had it then . im telling you now he had it.

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

then why didint he use it at the el mocambo in 83? i guess thats only something he could answer huh? hehehe...

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by guitarsavvy16
I know for a fact SRV had his dumble from his Austin City limits rig in 1983. I saw it just yesterday when i was watching the dvd. So unless someone has previously formentioned that he had it then . im telling you now he had it.

I'm sure he did. Because Texas Flood is recorded with the Dumble and Number one. Also Stevie Had MRX Loop Selector which enbale him to switch his effects on/off.

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

another interesting fact is that he'd put his tubescreamer before his wah, which is interesting because not alot of guys do that. it's an old Joe Walsh trick.

[Greyskull]

Stevie was right when he put the TS9 BEFORE the wah...it sounds so much better.

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by Greyskull
Stevie was right when he put the TS9 BEFORE the wah...it sounds so much better.

Yeah it has syn sound to it if you listen to Voodoo Chile on Alive Live when SRV plays lower notes it really almost sounds synthesize strings.

Oh by the way. Our host the Guitar Geeks did something for us and that is post SRV 84 Rig which I will say thank you guys and gals. But one Pedal is missing and that is Stevie Ray Vaughan also had an Echoplex in his rig. Just wanted to pass that along.

I also you guy and gals at Guitar might want to try contacting Rene Martinez SRV guitar tech and Carlos Santanas he can fill in any other detail that you didn't get for Cesar Diaz.

[guitarsavvy16]

I love his version. almost better than when Hendrix does it. Also, is it CHILD or CHILE????? I eman god does it matter?

[Crash]

According to the back of the record sleeve, it's Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child(Slight Return), from what I've heard the first was a typo.

[guitarsavvy16]

i may rest peacefully now thanks to the input of you !! i thank you dearly:D

[leeferdude]

i always thought that voodoo chile was the acoustic jam that hendrix did and the wah wah one was called Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

[flamekaster]

Guys

I am form Texas and i konw some people that worked on SRV's stuff way back then. In 83' Stevie's MAIN rig, was 2 supers and 2 vibro verbs. he used 2 tubescreamers and 2 wha, that is how he got that sound for Say What. one wha open one wha closed. The fuzz face floated in and out of his rig. He didnt start using the dumble steel slinger until later late 80's when he started using the Marshall. SRV's rig changed comtantly. Do you think he could really use 4 amps in the El Macombo. It wasnt that big of a club!!!!

[guitarsavvy16]

well, if he didnt start using his Dumble til lthe later 80's how did he record al lof Texa Flood on it? answer me that one.

[flamekaster]

I am talking live. THere is no telling what he really used in the studio. He used alot of differnt stuff in the studio, like all guitar players.

[guitarsavvy16]

I saw it o nhis Austin City limits DVD. With my own two eyes. And yes i know what his dumble looks like. Figure that one out eh.

[flamekaster]

I talked to some freinds that know rene martinez ( SRV's tech)
During the Texas flood era his standard was 1 Super reverb, and 2 vibroverbs. During the Coulnd't Stand the Weather era, Stevie added a super reverb, and a 100 watt marshall. He didnt get the dumble until 85or 86 during the soul to soul era. He used the dumble on the soul to soul album. He DID NOT have or use a dumble until then!!!

[guitarsavvy16]

on the 1983 version of Austin city limits you can clearly see several times that he has his dumble with him. just buy the DVD and watch it urselves. guur i know what i saw:mad:

[flamekaster]

Well since you think i am wrong, call mr martinez, stevies tech, He live in Dallas. My freinds at the store where Stevies #1 neck lived after a truss fell on it, until mr martinez sold it, told me this information. More than 1 of them knew SRV. I really think they know what they are talking about.

[stratocaster83]

maybe, since it was a pretty important gig, he just had the dumble for that night, and that's all... you know, I really think that stevie is laughling out loud about this arguing!

you know, you could have recongnised him even if he was playing through a solid state danelectro combo!!!

[peaveyplayer]

What I would like to know is the Names of all 32 amplifiers that SRV used for In Step.

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

RIG FOR RECORDING "IN STEP"


1959 Tweed Bassman 4x10"
2 Dumble 4x12" cabs
2 Marshall 4x12" cabs
1962 Twin Reverb
Marshall Major 200-watt Super PA into Marshall "bathtub" 4x15" cabinet
Marshall Major 200-watt Super Lead into 8x12" KTR88 cabinet JCM800 100 watt half stack
1 "bathtub" Marshall cab w/ 4x12"
300 watt Dumble
150 watt Dumble
2 Super Reverbs
Mesa-Boogie Simul-Class running Fender Vibratone
Vibratone in separate room, with Variac controlling speed
Magnatone
Fender Harvard
Roland Jazz Chorus
Groove Tube preamp
Variacs to adjust and sync power requirements
Fuzz Face
Cry Baby
Echoplex
Cyclosonic "auto-panner" on Riviera Paradise
Liked Groove Tube feeding Roland, plus Marshall, plus Bassman
Tried Tube Screamer feeding another TS feeding Bassman
(These are the amps mentioned in various interviews)

there you go!

[VillageIdiot]

Ummmm...

http://guitargeek.com/rigview/308/

They do have it. :)

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

that rig post isint totally reliable. it even says so at the bottom.

[peaveyplayer]

Originally posted by bLuZ_RoCkz
that rig post isint totally reliable. it even says so at the bottom.

Yeah. Besides that is his 84 rig from Couldn't Stand the Weather. I'm sure Adam (Forum moderator) is trying to get a hold of Rene Martinez since he also work with Stevie Ray Vaughan as well to finish the rig step.

At least I hope Adam is trying.