My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall

Carl Broemel provides his list of gear to Guitar World while discussing the album "The Waterfall" from his band, My Morning Jacket. The amp is mentioned in 2021 Premier Guitar interview.

Carl Broemel provides his list of gear to Guitar World while discussing the album "The Waterfall" from his band, My Morning Jacket. The amp is mentioned as 1950s Fender Tweed Deluxe in 2021 Premier Guitar interview.

Carl Broemel provides his list of gear to Guitar World while discussing the album "The Waterfall" from his band, My Morning Jacket, in this June 16, 2015 interview.

• GUITARS: (James) Early Sixties Gibson Barney Kessel, early Fifties Martin 000-style acoustic; (Broemel) Duesenberg Starplayer, Gretsch Tennessean

• AMPS: (James) 3 Monkeys Orangutan; (Broemel) Fender Tweed Deluxe and Seventies Vibrosonic; (both) Fender Sixties Princeton Reverb, Gibson Maestro Reverb-Echo

• EFFECTS: (James) Spaceman Sputnik Germanium Fuzz; (Broemel) Roland RE-201 Space Echo, Fulltone Tube Tape Echo, Spaceman Saturn V Harmonic Booster, Ibanez tube screamer

Carl Broemel provides his list of gear to Guitar World while discussing the album "The Waterfall" from his band, My Morning Jacket.

Carl Broemel provides his list of gear to Guitar World while discussing the album "The Waterfall" from his band, My Morning Jacket. 2021 Premier Guitar interview talks about Broemel pulling Tube Tape Echoes out of use for practical reasons:

James and Broemel are no purists, and both embrace digital gear when it helps get the job done. Broemel concedes that, sometimes, it's just a more reliable method. "I took my Fulltone [Tube] Tape Echoes on the road for a while," he says. "But there was one Bonnaroo we were playing, and I pulled the top off and the tape had melted. It was too hot, and there was dust and moisture in the air. You can do it, but if you want your tape echo to work the entire show, maybe it has to live in an air-conditioned box."

Carl Broemel provides his list of gear to Guitar World while discussing the album "The Waterfall" from his band, My Morning Jacket.

Carl talks about his pedal setup at 6.55 onwards.

https://youtu.be/IbThmyd0wvA?t=415

Carl talks about his pedal setup at 6.55 onwards.

https://youtu.be/IbThmyd0wvA?t=415

At around 9.20 in this video you can see Carl talk about the Empress Tape Delay he uses in his touring rig. The amp is mentioned in 2021 Premier Guitar interview.

Carl uses a MF Delay by Moog for his lap steel effects rig as seen in this rig rundown at 15.25 onwards. The amp is mentioned in 2021 Premier Guitar interview.

At 3:17 of Premier Guitar rig rundown, Broemel is showing his new Duesenberg Caribou. The guitar is mentioned in 2021 Premier Guitar interview.

After 3.10 in this video Carl talks about his 12 String Double Cat.

Broemel discusses the lap steel in Premier Guitar rig rundown. The lap steel is mentioned in 2021 Premier Guitar interview.

James used this guitar for recording most of "The Waterfall". It is unknown whether he used it live, because he usually uses the Ventura Barney Kessel model live. The guitar was also listed among the gear used in 2021 Premier Guitar interview.

I wrote a lot of The Waterfall on a Gibson Barney Kessel I found that I really love. Last night I was playing another favorite: my mom’s guitar when she was a kid, just an old, no-name kid’s guitar from the ’50s.

Mentioned in this February 12, 2015 article from the Vintage King website.

Jim James' musical evolution has seen him move from just fronting his band, My Morning Jacket, to a much more production-based role on their latest Grammy-nominated release. Sharing a co-producer credit with Tucker Martine on The Waterfall, the band's seventh studio album, James looked to use a combination of vintage gear and faithful reproductions from Retro Instruments.

For the recording of "Believe (Nobody Knows)," Martine and James utilized two different vocal chains as the song employs doubled up vocals. For the first vocal, the duo used an RCA BK-5, which was plugged into a Retro Instruments OP-6 (a modern recreation of the storied RCA OP-6) and then run through a Retro Instruments 176. The second vocal was recorded by a vintage Neumann U-67, run through a Telefunken V76 mic pre and another Retro Instruments 176.

Mentioned in this February 12, 2015 article from the Vintage King website.

Jim James' musical evolution has seen him move from just fronting his band, My Morning Jacket, to a much more production-based role on their latest Grammy-nominated release. Sharing a co-producer credit with Tucker Martine on The Waterfall, the band's seventh studio album, James looked to use a combination of vintage gear and faithful reproductions from Retro Instruments.

For the recording of "Believe (Nobody Knows)," Martine and James utilized two different vocal chains as the song employs doubled up vocals. For the first vocal, the duo used an RCA BK-5, which was plugged into a Retro Instruments OP-6 (a modern recreation of the storied RCA OP-6) and then run through a Retro Instruments 176. The second vocal was recorded by a vintage Neumann U-67, run through a Telefunken V76 mic pre and another Retro Instruments 176.

Mentioned in this February 12, 2015 article from the Vintage King website.

Jim James' musical evolution has seen him move from just fronting his band, My Morning Jacket, to a much more production-based role on their latest Grammy-nominated release. Sharing a co-producer credit with Tucker Martine on The Waterfall, the band's seventh studio album, James looked to use a combination of vintage gear and faithful reproductions from Retro Instruments.

For the recording of "Believe (Nobody Knows)," Martine and James utilized two different vocal chains as the song employs doubled up vocals. For the first vocal, the duo used an RCA BK-5, which was plugged into a Retro Instruments OP-6 (a modern recreation of the storied RCA OP-6) and then run through a Retro Instruments 176. The second vocal was recorded by a vintage Neumann U-67, run through a Telefunken V76 mic pre and another Retro Instruments 176.

Mentioned in this February 12, 2015 article from the Vintage King website.

Jim James' musical evolution has seen him move from just fronting his band, My Morning Jacket, to a much more production-based role on their latest Grammy-nominated release. Sharing a co-producer credit with Tucker Martine on The Waterfall, the band's seventh studio album, James looked to use a combination of vintage gear and faithful reproductions from Retro Instruments.

For the recording of "Believe (Nobody Knows)," Martine and James utilized two different vocal chains as the song employs doubled up vocals. For the first vocal, the duo used an RCA BK-5, which was plugged into a Retro Instruments OP-6 (a modern recreation of the storied RCA OP-6) and then run through a Retro Instruments 176. The second vocal was recorded by a vintage Neumann U-67, run through a Telefunken V76 mic pre and another Retro Instruments 176.

Listed in this June 16, 2015 Guitar World interview.

• GUITARS: (James) Early Sixties Gibson Barney Kessel, early Fifties Martin 000-style acoustic; (Broemel) Duesenberg Starplayer, Gretsch Tennessean

• AMPS: (James) 3 Monkeys Orangutan; (Broemel) Fender Tweed Deluxe and Seventies Vibrosonic; (both) Fender Sixties Princeton Reverb, Gibson Maestro Reverb-Echo

• EFFECTS: (James) Spaceman Sputnik Germanium Fuzz; (Broemel) Roland RE-201 Space Echo, Fulltone Tube Tape Echo, Spaceman Saturn V Harmonic Booster, Ibanez tube screamer