Touring rig discussion thread

Hey all, Just thought I'd start this thread so people could discuss the best, most effective touring soloutions, and the gear they'd use, but like most of my threads (With the exception of my sting one) it will probably wither, and die.

Personally, as a guitar enthusiast I spend every spare second daydreaming, about the rig I'd put together in certain situations, and I've settled on this pedal board, with signal going from top to bottom, as guitar to amp:

1. COMP-keeley compressor pro
   1. WAH-CAE wah
   2. EQ-MXR Ten Band
   3. FILTER-Stereo Talking Machine
   4. GNARLY FUZZ-Fuzz Factory
   5. MUFF-Muffuletta
   6. UP BOX-Tycobrahe Octavia
   7. DOWN BOX-MXR Submachine
   8. DISTORTION-Suhr Riot
   9. OVERDRIVE-Palisades
   10. DIGITAL DELAY-Timefactor or Timeline
   11. ANALOG DELAY-Bellwether
   12. RING MOD-Ring Thing
   13. OCTAVE-Pitch Factor
   14. FLANGER-Airplane Flanger
   15. VIBRATO-Korg Nuvibe
   16. PHASER-Empress Phaser
   17. TREMOLO-Super Pulsar
   18. CHORUS-warped vinyl
   19. REVERB-Big Sky

http://equipboard.com/dukeuke/photos

this would be my amp setup

My best tour setups were very amp based. For straight ahead power trio rockin' i used the following as the finest incarnation of my fender/marshall rig:

Gibson lp standard, special and occasionally my strat

Radial tonebone aby w/tu2 on tuner out w/3rd switch set as a mute

Channel A to script logo mxr bluebox or vintage univox superfuzz set for gnarly octave fuzz w/low output for accent parts (rarely engaged), modified 2nd issue small stone, occassionly a mutron flanger annd sometimes a dm2, dm3 or carbon copy for slap into 63 fender showman normal channel input1 with 1st coupling cap value lowered to plexi bright input spec for less thump, trem channel disabled... settings vol 4, bright engaged, bass 3, treb 7 into whirlwind passive di feeding yamaha spx 90 for doubling effect with the speaker thru into a 1960tv cab with stock 90s uk greenbacks or 1960ax or bx

B channel to tonebender (vox, mk 2 or 3 or clone) or a silicon fuzzface set for lots of solo boost and low fuzz into a 100 watt marshall superlead cranked for good rhythm crunch (volume settings and channel used depends on the amp, i used a couple, all different but my main one had normal channel voicing tweaks and a bright cap mod), hot plate at -4dB attenuation (usually), lineout from hotplate feeding yamaha spx90 for doubling pitchshift effect, hot plate speaker out to marshall 1960tv with 60s greenback and marshall branded 80s v30 speakers in x pattern, spx90 to asr 100 watt power amp driving srock 1960tv or 1960ax

Yamaha spx90 fed an asr ss power amp and a marshall 1960 cab of any variety i had handy ny given year on the bassist's side of the stage... Big sound

http://equipboard.com/dukeuke/photos

this would be my amp setup

the ac30 doesn't have enough clean headroom to keep up with your other amps, a vintage ac50 or 100 would be better for the top boost clean you are envisioning thanks to the lower gain 12au7 in V1 and higher headroom power amp... or 3 ac30s with extension cabs?

and the triple rec and 5150 are almost the same amp in a lot of respects, both variations on the Soldano SLO100 circuit, both offering more features than the mighty SLO but way less overall tone... kinda redundant either way, particularly if you are only using them for channel3 and have 3 other crunch amps... also, the 2 orange heads in your crunch section will drown a 5f4 out completely, the bassman gets pretty mushy like the ac30 only moreso, its just not that loud, a low watt tweed twing will get the same sounds with more headroom and punch thanks to the dual 5U4 rectifiers vs the bassman's single GZ34... unless the master volume heads are going to be run very conservatively, then maybe, but dude, they don't cut the mic well until the output section gets cookin', class AB fixed bias ampssound anemic set low, even with tons of gain from the pre...

if I were doing your dream rig I would give you a stock 70s mv or 80 JCM800 50 watt marshall coupled with an older orange OD80 for crunch and the heavy side would be the engl coupled with a SLO100 all 4 amps through oversized mesa 4x12 cabs loaded with a mix of V30s or better yet WGS retros or veterans and H30s with bass cones, maybe the scumback version or the WGS reaper55hz for midrange cut and solid 'chug from the wound strings'... clean would be a hiwatt dr103 thru a hiwatt 4x12 loaded with the higher wattage fane cast frames OR crescendos plus a stock ac30HW2x or matchless dc30 and a fender high powered tweed twin for a well balanced rock n roll clean

also, that's a lot of stage volume for anywhere but an arena... I've played some big ass venues and a single 100 watt superlead can be loud enough notto need monitors.