Al Cisneros

Rickenbacker is Al Cisnero's bass guitar brand of choice. He has used multiple models in the 4003 series throughout the years for live performances & studio work such as Sleep, Om, Shrinebuilder and his solo career. In this music video, he is playing "Dragonaut" with this guitar.

According to his Wikipedia, this is a part of his gear. In the Youtube video we can see that he plays this bass in a concert in Denver. The only 4080 in existence with Aquaglo finish, checkerboard binding on body and both necks, and full-width crushed pearl inlays. Constructed for Al using a 4001 body and hardware and custom woodwork for body and necks.

His main bass is a Rickenbacker 4003

Al can be seen playing this Rickenbacker in the photo, as well as several gig videos. It appears 4004-derived given the amount of knobs and switches as well as the neck pickup placement. Unlike a regular 4004, it has three pickups instead of just two, and one of the knobs appears to employ some form of sliding mechanism.

Here is seen playing his 5-string Rickenbacker

In April 2019 Rickenbacker honored Al Cisneros with a Signature 4003. Green Inlays, two single coils (neck pickup further to the bridge than standard 4003, two Pickup-Covers, Thumb-Rest

After recording Holy Mountain Cisneros used this Sparkle Green Rickenbacker on tour and while shooting the Dragonaut video.

Cisneros sold this bass before recording Dopesmoker. He talks to Bass Magazine how he tried to buy it back but wasn't able to.

At 6:56 Al is in front of his 2 matamp heads and matamp slave unit which are going into his 3 bass cabinets. He purchased when recording "Jerusalem" or "Dopesmoker" he still uses them in his band OM.

In reference to the gear shown in Such Hawks, Such Hounds video 6:56 the images are of Al Cisneros and original Sleep/Om drummer Chris Hakius.

The amps and cabs are as follows from top to bottom: Vivekananda MATAMP USA 6550 Custom Amp Vivekananda GREEN Electricamp USA KT88 POWER UNIT http://www.planetoftheamps.com/al-cisneros-electricamp-usa.html GREEN Matamp Slave 200 [Sleep era] http://www.greenamps.com/sleep/green-200-watt-slave-unit.html ELECTRIC AMP USA Bass 4x12 #1 ELECTRIC AMP USA BAss 4x12 #2 On both sides of the stack are: GREEN 4x15 Speaker Cabinets [Sleep era] http://www.planetoftheamps.com/om-al-cisneros-electricamp.html

Al's two amps engraved VIVEKANADA are two custom amps specially built for Al Cisneros. His name is engraved in the upper right hand corner. Both of the amps were built during Al's return to the music industry with his new band Om and used on his recordings.

The Green Matamp Slave was indeed made from an early 1970's era Matamp, covered in "green". You can see the inside of the amp at the link above.

The SLEEP era GREEN equipment is no longer owned by Al Cisneros.

In 2012 Electric Amp USA repaired the two GREEN 4x15's for Al Cisneros and boxed them up so they could be shipped to the new owner HANK3 in Nashville. Later in 2014 Electric Amp USA overhauled the GREEN Slave 200 and it too was sold to HANK3.

Al still owns his custom made Matamp USA and ELECTRIC AMP USA equipment for his personal use. Currently Al endorses AMPEG for his primary amps and cabs at shows and for his "B" line up now endorses ORANGE.

In this picture, we can see Al with 4 Ampeg SVT VR heads.

Al uses a Dual Dark half stack in addition to his Ampeg stacks.

Al uses an Orange 412 half stack in addition to his Ampeg stacks.

Al often uses a half stack with a guitar amp in addition to his Ampeg stacks.

Al has used a wall of Ampeg 810s for many years now. Incredible tone.

Two PF-350's are seen stacked behind Al, between the Ampeg SVT stack and the drummer.

Al frequently uses a half stack with a guitar amp in addition to his Ampeg stacks. At one point, it was a Marshall half stack.

In this video, Al is clearly seen using it, stacked on a SVT-810 cab.

In this video we can see turned on Mesa Dual Rectifiers next to Al's Ampegs.

In the photo attached we can see that the DS-1 is part of his pedalboard.

In the photo attached we can see that the TU-2 is part of his pedalboard too. Just a chromatic tuner despite this f*cker tunes in Drop C every time.

The pedal can clearly be seen on the left of his pedalboard. Al Cisneros uses this pedal with his band OM and is a key element to his fuzz bass tone. Listen to state of non return to hear the tone.

The pedal can be seen in the upper left hand corner of the atatched picture

The pedal can be seen in the center of the attached picture

The power supply can be seen in the centre of the attached picture

It can be seen very blurrily on Al's pedalboard. It does not have any inputs connected, which implies it's only used for playing pre-recorded samples.

It has been claimed that Al used this pedal on Shrinebuilder on many pages, including Mountainking's own webpage, Wikipedia, and numerous forums. On the Mountainking archive page, it is claimed that the Megalith prototype was produced for Al: "MEGALITH prototype. Built for Al Cisneros."

Can be seen on top right corner of the pedalboard.