Mike Scheidt

Edit: As of 2021, Mike had Bare Knuckle Black Dog pickups installed in the guitar. https://youtu.be/ygmbRyQn0BU?si=lDl2F-pyqUDeHVV4

Original: “Brent Monson had a new model (the Nomad) he wanted to start putting out there, and I was first to get one. He did tweak mine for me however, as I like giant 40’s styled guitar necks. So both of my guitars have huge necks and Lace Nitro-Hemis pickups. Brent makes amazing guitars that are affordable and fantastically built. My Nomad with a zebra wood top is the best guitar I’ve ever used for Yob, hands down. Much love and respect goes to Brent Monson.”

http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/interviews/yob-jas-murray-interviews-guitarist-vocalist-mike-scheidt/

My guitar is a Monson Nomad. Brent Monson said he had a new guitar model and I started talking to him about getting a guitar made and he showed me the mockups of it, and the specs, so we tweaked it a little bit to my taste and pickups. I wanted a big baseball [bat neck], like late 40s Gibson-style neck, and so he built me this big ass Louisville slugger-cut-in-half-slab-with-frets-on-it neck. They’re pretty heavy and tend to be denser tonewoods that take A standard and make it decipherable, and I’ve been using compressors for a long time to help do that.

Though I’ve gotta say that EarthQuaker Warden has been really a neat compressor to use. I almost don’t use it in a way, because four out of six of the knobs are on zero. I have the tone at 11 o’clock and the level and the sustain up at about 50%, and everything else is at zero, so it’s really transparent. When I turn it off and on, tonally, it does all the things that I want it to do in cleaning up my signal, but it doesn’t have any negative impact or artifacts of crushing it, though I know that’s in there and I can go nuts with it - total Nashville picker - if I wanted to, and I like that fact. But I really like it, and the reason I say that is because I really like the tone of my amps.

MS: Absolutely. I really like the** Avalanche Run**. And I have yet to really dig in to everything that it has on tap. I have it set up pretty simply where I just have the tails set up and the one for one delay, and I have the reverb up just a bit, and I have the level and repeats about halfway up, and the tone is up a little bit, because I like it being a little brighter. I really love how well it tracks and how well that tap tempo tracks and being able to look down. That bright light tap tempo is just brilliant, because in any kind of lighting you can see what’s happening, and so not only am I using my ears to track it but I can look down at it too and make changes on the fly with it, and the changes happen so quick. I’ve had tap tempo pedals that aren’t that quick when changing, so I anticipate learning to love it more and more and more, and I already love it. I just used it once in practice and was like, yeah, that’s what I needed. We’re like the least professional band in some ways as far as that goes. “Oh, we have to start over, that’s out of tune”. We’re worried about aesthetics as far as how we present ourselves, but on the stage, we’re not super serious. We’re not jokey either, but we’re not about just trying to maintain this intense vibe. If something isn’t right we’re gonna stop and fix it, laugh about it.

The EQ in the Quantum Mystic is really helpful, and because it’s an active EQ, zero to 12’o clock is pretty normal EQ. Going past 12 o’clock, it’s feeding the gain stage, so you’re taking that frequency and coloring your gain with it. It’s like the gain gets brighter and brighter, and then it gets gainier and gainier with that frequency, and that’s cool, though on different backline setups, sometimes I don’t want the high to get gainier in the high, I just want more treble in that particular situation or a brightness, so the** Tone Job** seems like it would be a really cool thing to have where you can add bottom end without adding gain.

Initially we were introduced via my friend Chad Remains of Uzala. I tried out a number of Black Arts Toneworks pedals, all of which ruled. Mark of Black Arts asked me if I had my own pedal, what would I want it to do? That became a series of dialogues and prototypes then ended up being the Quantum Mystic Overdrive. I am truly in love with the pedal. Mark, Nicholas Williams of Dunwhich Amplification and Jason Scott really hooked me up with their time and work. Gratitude.

http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/interviews/yob-jas-murray-interviews-guitarist-vocalist-mike-scheidt/

This pedal was designed by Black Arts Toneworks in collaboration with Mike Scheidt. It's a dual overdrive containing Mike's previous signature Black Arts Toneworks pedal the Quantum Mystic and another low gain overdrive called the Witch Burner.

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/8zww1p/mike_scheidt_yob_pedalboard/

testimony : YOB came through town last week and sounded phenomenal, here's another shot of Mike's board (blue lights flooded everything out a bit). It's rare I see so much Mr. Black stuff on touring boards, the Shepard's End especially sounded great.

As of August 2021, Mike’s guitar was loaded with Bare Knuckle Black Dog humbuckers. Stated at 17:23 in a YouTube video from Fuzzlord Effects.

In the user-uploaded photo on Imgur, Mike Scheidt's pedalboard features the Whirlwind Rochester 'Orange Box' Phaser, highlighting its use in his setup.

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/8zww1p/mike_scheidt_yob_pedalboard/

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/8zww1p/mike_scheidt_yob_pedalboard/

He uses this effect for vocal reverb.

We can see this pedal on his board

In a user-uploaded photo on Imgur, Mike Scheidt is seen using the Black Arts Toneworks Witch Burner overdrive pedal.

seen on his board !

On the top right of the pedalboard, next to the wah.

Mike Scheidt uses the TC Helicon VoiceTone C1 Vocal Effects Processor, as noted in a discussion about his pedal board on Reddit.

at 18:17 in this video, mike mentions using D'Addario EXL157 strings.

In this YouTube video of YOB performing Adrift in the Oceans a Pickathon in 2019, it's clearly seen from 1:26-1:31 that Mike Scheidt uses a Marshall JCM 800 head.

In a Reddit post by user Malatesta721, Mike Scheidt of YOB is shown using the TC Electronic Ditto X2 looper pedal, positioned at the bottom left of his pedalboard.

Seen at the top right of the pedalboard.

Mike uses two 4x12 Mammoth Custom Cabinets, loaded with Eminence Man O War speakers.

He uses that vocal effect in his pedalboard.

Mike Scheidt is seen performing with his Woodrite Warlord at a performance in Boise in 2023, as evidenced by the image provided.

we can see Mike using an Orange PPC 412: https://ghostcultmag.com/interview-mike-scheidt-of-yob-the-ghost-cult-interview/

Mike Scheidt is confirmed to use a custom Matamp GTO 120 Black for both live performances and recordings, as verified by MATAMP Distribution, USA.

Mike Scheidt uses a vintage Orange GRO-100 amplifier during the live performance of YOB at Saint Vitus Bar on June 24th, 2017, as documented by Max Volume Silence on YouTube.

Mike Scheidt is confirmed to use a vintage Orange OR-120 amplifier, as seen in the article on YOB by Exclaim!.

Mike Scheidt is confirmed to use the Marshall 1960AV guitar amplifier cabinet during his performance with YOB at Hellfest 2012, as captured in the live video by Hellfest Open Air Festival on YouTube.

Mike Scheidt is confirmed to use the Marshall 1960B 4x12'' Cabinet, as evidenced by footage from the Hellfest Open Air Festival in 2012, provided by the YouTube channel Hellfest Open Air Festival.