Guitarist Andee Blacksugar shows us the gear he's using on a Tour.
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00:00Hey everyone, this is Andy Black Sugar with KMFDM. I'm at the Brave in Milwaukee on a blustery autumn midwestern afternoon.
00:15And I'm going to show you my gear that I'm using for this tour.
00:20Basically because I like to travel light, the whole rig is right here in this shot.
00:25So I'm going to go through everything piece by piece. It's basically this guitar, which is a Sully Raven that's made of mahogany and maple and ebony.
00:36It's got size queen jumbo nickel frets and hip shot tuners and bridge Sully pickups, which I'm very happy with.
00:47And I'm going to go through the pedals and stuff and there's some interesting stuff that I'm doing that's a little bit unorthodox.
00:54But it's relatively straightforward. So for 90% of the show, maybe 95% of the show, I'm using this sound.
01:01It's just sort of a crunchy, heavy metal riff delivery machine. And I use a few other sounds which I'll get to. But basically what I'm doing here is I'm going into a few pedals.
01:08And then ultimately the atomic amplifier 12 is doing all the amp modeling.
01:15So as far as the pedal chain, first thing is this fab flange, which is just for silly stuff.
01:22And this electro harmonics pitchfork.
01:31and then ultimately the atomic amplifier 12 is doing all the amp modeling so as
01:38far as the pedal chain first thing is this fab flange which is just for silly
01:43stuff
01:46and this electro harmonics pitchfork is a really crucial pedal because it allows
01:53me to cover all the tunings that are needed for this show so for instance I
01:58need to do a lot of a whole step down
02:09what I like about this pedal is it tracks really well even for super notice
02:16guitar solos and stuff I can keep it
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02:24so yeah I think I have four tunings in total for this for this show including whole step
02:38down half step down and whole step up
02:41it's like an f-sharp standard
02:45so in other words I would have had probably have four guitars tuned all differently and
02:56then four backup guitars which is not feasible so with this pedal I can do the whole show with this
03:01guitar next up is the boss super shifter which I'm using for a sort of extreme dive bomb
03:09occasionally subtle things
03:19and then finally in the pedal chain this is actually an important part of the whole thing is the
03:41eventide h9 the odd thing that I'm doing with the h9 that nobody else is doing as far as
03:48I'll just demonstrate how I'm using this knob to control parameters within that pedal so
03:53um right now I've got like a sort of sorry like an analog delay
03:59so I'm basically using this as a wet dry knob for that one
04:10um let's try some other things here's a sort of a custom patch that I made that
04:16uh tunes the guitar up and down in fourths fifths and octaves so
04:22so you can do some pretty crazy stuff with that I'm using it for um kmf with this sound
04:39so I'm using the knob to cycle it up through all these intervals from really low and guttural
04:49so let's see what else I got in here this is one of my favorites I call this one shatter
05:00this is a backwards patch basically I have it set up so it starts out with no delay at all
05:12so this is sort of like a sort of no effect and then as I roll it in
05:23you start hearing reverse delay and if I roll it all the way up it's just reverse
05:34so there you go that's the backwards thing and then I've got a lot of
05:37so there you go that's the backwards thing and then I've got a lot of
05:39So there you go, that's the backwards thing, and then I've got this rocket dive-bomb thing.
06:09So that's just for certain parts in the show where I want to be particularly obnoxious.
06:21And then, so finally, let's talk about the amp modeling here in the amplifier 12.
06:25Okay, so this is the main guitar, rhythm guitar sound for the...
06:31I sort of have a loud version of that. By the way, that's got a little bit of stereo chorus on it, which is audible in my stereo wedges that I have in front of me.
06:43I also have a pair of stereo wedges on stage left, so I can run over there and play on that side of the stage.
06:49I have sort of a lead guitar version of this, which is louder and it has delay.
07:05I've got this kind of less distorted version of that sound.
07:17And then this is sort of a shimmering, clean sound that I showed you before.
07:23I'm only using that once in the whole set, which is for Bumaye.
07:35I've got this wah lead, this sort of auto wah lead guitar sound.
07:39And then this clean funky thing, which we're using a few times in the set.
07:55And that's basically the whole rig.
08:09I'm using the atomic amplifier box as a backup, which basically has my main...
08:17my primary, you know, 95% of the show rhythm guitar sound loaded into there in case something happens.
08:23But nothing has happened yet.
08:27So, yeah, that's basically it.
08:30This is it. Everything.
08:32This is...
08:34This is the whole rig.
08:36It's me and these things.
08:39Somehow we're doing a rock show with all this.
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