Eraldo Bernocchi

!I mainly play in stereo, as I like ambient sounds, using a lot of delay for atmospheres or doubling guitars. If I go heavy I don’t use an amp. I use a Mesa Boogie Valve Twin pedal and its speaker emulator, or a Meteoro Doctor Drive or a Yerasov Pterodrive. All these preamps are tube powered. Yerasov is a small Russian company that does cheap preamps and effects but they really blast and have a raw sound. If I need to reamp things I go to external studios.!

I mainly play in stereo, as I like ambient sounds, using a lot of delay for atmospheres or doubling guitars. If I go heavy I don’t use an amp. I use a Mesa Boogie Valve Twin pedal and its speaker emulator, or a Meteoro Doctor Drive or a Yerasov Pterodrive. All these preamps are tube powered. Yerasov is a small Russian company that does cheap preamps and effects but they really blast and have a raw sound. If I need to reamp things I go to external studios.

"KING COCKROACH: The heavy riff is the Schecter going through an MXR Fullbore Metal—amazing pedal I’d say. During the mix I doubled it with a delay plug-in to open the sound. The reggae/dub part is a clean Mesa to delay and reverb."

"FIST FULL OF FLIES: Electro-Harmonix Q Tron (old model from 95/96) going to delay. Mesa in blues mode. The theme part is without the Q Tron. The heavy part is like the track before but with single coils."

"How did you get better at your current style? I’m self-taught. I don’t know how to read and write scores, I go by ear and only took two guitar lessons in my life. I have a style I created in order to compensate for what I don’t know. At 14 I found this classic guitar teacher (a guitar monster) who was giving guitar lessons. I called him up and he asked me what I wanted to play. Naturally, my answer was “heavy stuff.” He came to my house with a Gibson Les Paul Custom that I had only seen on record covers. He was already an idol. If you play a Les Paul Custom you MUST be great, right? At least when you’re 14 this is the vibe, if you know what I mean, after you discover it’s a lot different."

"My main workhorse is the Mesa. I have a lot of pedals but my favorites are the Line 6 M9 and M13 pedalboards. They have all the effects I want and I like most of them. I’m really not into the distortions of those boards but delays, modulations, and compressors are great. They have weird synth sounds I like to use sometimes. Another machine I can’t do without is the Eventide Space pedal. Those reverbs are just incredible."

"...I have a lot of pedals but my favorites are the Line 6 M9 and M13 pedalboards. They have all the effects I want and I like most of them. I’m really not into the distortions of those boards but delays, modulations, and compressors are great. They have weird synth sounds I like to use sometimes..."

"...I have a lot of pedals but my favorites are the Line 6 M9 and M13 pedalboards. They have all the effects I want and I like most of them. I’m really not into the distortions of those boards but delays, modulations, and compressors are great. They have weird synth sounds I like to use sometimes..."

"SCHIZOPOLIS: The beginning is some guitar drones; I don’t remember how I did them. The dirty riff is compressor, octaver, Mesa in blues mode, flanger and a room reverb. The super heavy part is the above with another favorite of mine the Digitech Synth Wah at the very beginning of the chain. The intermission part is a single coil sliding atmosphere with a massive reverb."

In the YouTube video titled "Eraldo Bernocchi Live at A?mas April 2017," Eraldo Bernocchi can be seen using an Apple MacBook Pro during his performance.

You can notice the Arturia Keystep in this video.