Frank Gambale

In this interview Frank Gambale discusses his gear used on the Soulmine record.

I’ve played a whole bunch of pedals over the years. One of my favorite BOSS pedals is the BOSS Chorus, the light-blue-colored CH-1. When I first heard it, I went, “Wow. How could anyone play guitar without a chorus on it?” It’s just a beautiful sound.

"Gambale's DV Mark amp provides his effects, which he controls with his Rolls MIDI buddy controller. He also employs a Boss FV-500L volume pedal and a Planet Waves tuner".

The tuning I came up with was an adaptation of a recent tuning called “Nashville tuning,” which was also a preset on the [Roland] VG-88. The VG-88 was what really enabled me to discover my new tuning, so I’m extremely grateful for that. I started playing around with that preset, and realized I could play pretty much any voicing I wanted. That was when the whole idea came to me of switching notes into different octaves.

I have used many of the other BOSS Distortion pedals, and the [OC-2] Octave pedal; I found it an interesting and easy way to make your guitar sound huge. It’s like having another guitar or bass playing at the same time. And I’ve always had BOSS tuners, because it’s extremely important to stay in tune.

In this interview Frank Gambale discusses his gear used on the Soulmine record.

"Gambale's DV Mark amp provides his effects, which he controls with his Rolls MIDI buddy controller. He also employs a Boss FV-500L volume pedal and a Planet Waves tuner".