Rig Rundown - Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2013
- www.premierguitar.com/Video/ Premier Guitar's Rebecca Dirks is on location in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she catches up with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' guitarist Nick Zinner and his tech Jesse Quitslund.
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The open tuning is EBEBBe and the modified version is CBEBBe for Y Control.
Nick is a fantastic guitarist.
Liam Wilson him and Jamie Hince are masters of making one guitar with octave pedals work stellar
Nick's tone is in his hands. If you have a somewhat noisy rig, it is the player who's rig it is, that will be the missing piece of the equation. It's a delicate thing.
I hope.so because his rig sounded like shit . You can buy fender frontman if that's the sound you want instead of waste a bunch of money
Tyson Rinker
Lol, as someone who owned a Fender Frontman for years, I can attest to this
There's something to be said for boutique pedals NOT made in China.
Like everything else produced overseas, the only criteria is low cost per unit, and such tech is designed for the landfill, so you will buy another sooner.The Line 6 and Digitech are renowned for their low quality,and the TC isn't far behind.Compare this to U.S . builders that still offer lifetime maintainece on hand assembled gear.Support Western small businesses instead of international corporations whenever possible.
Seeing boards like this makes me never want to hear shit about my 5 pedal board being too big ever again... Jesus
Did someone say Pajo? Goodness gracious. It would have been great to hear more about him and what his role was here. We had that grey Papa M album on the turntable in our apartment most days.
I always loved nicks sound
I love that he's still using the First Act! I used to work there!
Neato.
What makes her appealing is her flow of conversation which seems to get a very positive response from the person being interviewed
nick is got to be one of my favorite guitarists
His crazy tone works for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs cause they are a crazy band!
so cool. love zinner & the YYYs. thanks!
Johnny Marr really does regards Nick highly it seems, giving him one of his signature Jag. Nice touch
Thanks for the heads-up. I was wondering about this the whole time.
Damn I miss Rebecca
What happened to her?
I think it's worth noting that some of the most legendary tones many people hear on records (even live ones) are done with some studio magic. A lot of guitar tones by themselves without the context of what's being played sound harsh or strange but when mixed in with a full band it sounds better and the rest of the band fills in gaps.
And let's not forget that most of the tone is in the fingers and Nick wasn't playing the guitar. His tech was.
Been waiting for a rundown of Nick's gear forever!
That sounded awesome.
It still has an effect even with the mic well inside the drum. A tight front with a loose rear can yield amazing results.
Perv
10:25 "dont worry this is a typical loop" as the rig enters self destruct mode
I know this guy. He works at Guitar Maniacs when not touring. He fixed my Fender Twin.
We love you Rebecca!!!!!
That first act 😍😍
Not saying you're wrong, but a lot of why it sounds so thin is because the camera mic is mostly picking up the sound coming from that wedge monitor. Wedge monitor is usually set to sound that way to cut through the mix.
I happy to really love that tone. It's just monstrous and feral, I love it.
i need that one of line6 pedals.,
Using a metronome doesn't automatically make you a robot. Using a metronome gives you a reference point to better feel the song and play accordingly. Some players obviously prefer to not use metronomes because they have natural rhythm. But some players will want it just to remind them where they are.
14:23 Greetings from Indonesia 👋🙏 17th Aug 2023 = 78th Independence day (78 Tahun) #50TahunSTICKERS
Nice... Dr. Sheldon Cooper is now in a band... cool
Thats not a "Japanese copy", its a MIJ Contemporary strat (never made in USA, so their original model). System one bridge. Great guitars.
this guy keeps on saying overdrives are distortions and reverbs delays. it really bothers me
Nice that you always ask for the signal flow now. Pretty cool.
Anyone know? do drummers in big bands like these usually play with a click track? Just wondering...
i love indonesia...
I personally think this was a great rundown.
YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds fucking gnarly
Exactly
sick
Nick fidgets like really wants to leave, but it seems like he likes the questions Rebecca asks.
Nick Zinner monster guitar.
What open tuning? 15:23
I love Indonesia? Where this guys come from?
That was not the setlist that night.
I can't believe someone else is using a 1980s MIJ Fender Strat . . . well except for me. I don't see anyone at any level of fame use a Fender from that time.
You know those were just about the only Fender Strats you could get from 1985 - 1987 or so. The ones with the big bridges were "the" mass produced Fender Strats that were sold everywhere in the U.S. until Fender got there newly bought company/factory in the U.S. ready to go for mass production of all things Fender that we know today.
An Open Tuning??? Which open tuning?
dave pajo is now playing guitar for gang o four.... just saw him in sf a month ago :)
I love the tone. It sounds like his amp is a speaker in a trashcan back stage.
A First Act? that brand of wal mart bundle guitars?
Nick Zinner is The best guitarris !!!!!
Mexico loves The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
You are so funny, as they say he plays a Squier sometimes I was thinking lets have look some Mexicans will love that.
actually yes but their custom shop guitars are actually pretty good, one of the guys from mastodon plays one too i
That 64 jag!!! Mmmmmmm
do the locust rig rundown!
yumadapaka is Joey still in that band?
yumadapaka they still exist? i played with them at abc no Rio a million years ago. like 2000 ish.
Dude I’m shocked that korg works did y’all see the bottom 😮
... why is PG reposting this vid again? BTW apparently Rebecca is not the web editor @ PG anymore...
I went to that show! My pedal board, however, is not so big.
INDONESIA!
Great rig rundown. No idea why all the hate against nicks 'front' and the 'lame demo' by his tech...
Loads of great questions asked and obviously nick is just straight to the point. And why would a tech start smashing out a yeah yeah yeahs tune...
Genuinely loved this rundown cheers. Amazing live. Amazing amazing
I’ve got the exact same black Japanese Strat as Nick, albeit a little more original than his is now 😂 For anyone who loves playing a Strat, if you ever get the chance to pick up one of the early E series like this with the schaller system one, trust me you’ll never buy another. Probably a $1500 guitar and I’ve picked up Strats 3 times the price and nothing comes close
Why is the guy tuning the front skin of the bass drum, lol? Or what is he doing there.
Nice to know. Doesn't really matter for the setup my band has, as we mic it inside the bass drum. :P
Since when do you need tone to sound cool? I think his guitar sounds badass all the time and has a really unique sound.
For fucks sake guys! Not all rigs have to sound perfectly crafted and like everyone else. There is room for people to experiment with sound. And for all the bedroom guitarists who have never actually gigged, don't judge a sound until you've heard it in the mix. The sweetest solo guitar tones can get swallowed up in band mix. And some rigs of brilliant guitarists who sound awesome with the band, suck in isolation.
No problems, Rebecca here!
Did Zinner just wake up or what? Holy crap man.
Calling reverbs delays killed me
0:18 left She Nema?
that is one well used Microkorg !
He's tuning it the right way.
Fun job when you have to find which patch cables the dud
The Eventide Space and Strymon BlueSky are not delays. Some tech he is.
woah!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mitch Cavanaugh *technically* reverb falls into the broad category of delays
they sell that crap too, but they are mostly a custom guitar company, and they make awesome custom guitars.
That's not awkward. check out the J Mascis interview...
Derek Trucks Rig Rundown!
Yeah, because you're a tone expert!
Nick's shy demeanor reminds me of Eric Johnson. Both extremely introverted. But then you compare rigs and it's night and day. Nick's is just a bunch of seemingly random pedals strung together hissing out of control where as EJ's rig is meticulously and painstakingly crafted to achieve total sonic nirvana. What am I getting at? No idea.
I like it, It's Lo-Fi :)
Matt Pike of High on Fire is a customer of First Act Custom. And he usually plays Les Paul Standards - so he wouldn't play a crap guitar - unless you hate LP's lol... peace
I have a L6dl and its a great pedal, but I don't understand why so many pros use the looper! I find the looper rubbish on it. Plus you could just get an actual looper pedal instead of buying multiple L6DL..
pretty sure it’s because it’s easier to step on knobs with more surface area then a regular looper
Custom first act guitar?????
Ya, they've got a terrible name for having a custom shop that a lot of big guys use
I played this first act neckthru I thought the tone was pretty interesting
You guys should do a rig rundown of Orianthi, can't find anything about her gear anywhere!!
That's debatable
I dont think any of you haters have ever listened to a yeah yeah yeahs song!
I got a EH Graphic Fuzz when it first came out and I was very disappointed....
Do u still have it
A bad EQ with an even worse metal distortion,- not really even a fuzz.Maybe their (EHX)worst pedal.
Never heard Heads Will Roll? That's their most famous song.
17:05 "Paul Shaffer"
Plenty of drummers use click tracks. Tesseract and Animals as Leaders for instance, are they not real drummers?
Take a drink every time someone comments on Rebecca dirks
If Scott pilgrim was real nick would be him
No he woudn't.
Johnny Marr Jaguar for the WIN
Strymon Big Sky for a Slap back lol . Why not just get a DD3
Dave Pajo, Zwan!
Zwan was awesome.
so does the "clean"
Tame impala rig rundown!
What amp is this going through? A washing machine?
Look, Sheldon Cooper's brother....hahaha.
First Act?? This man can make any guitar sound great.
Super fun pedals. Cool Techy. And nice rack.
Edzel Mejia Huge rack....
Cool peds
Some of them do, some of them don't. My guess is that since they throw samples in the middle of songs he plays with a metronome in order not to f**k things up.