John Petrucci

John Petrucci recorded Train of Thought only with Road King , Octavarium (Road King & Mark IV) and Suspended Animation (Road King & IIC+) This image shows the equipment that John used for the 2004 Train of Thought tour. The rig includes three Mesa Boogie Road King heads.

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"I've got two Mesa 4x12 cabinets that sit off stage that are with a mic up for the PA. They're just isolated from everything else, which is good because they're extremely loud," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

In this video, John Petrucci explains how for the 2014 Along for the Ride tour, he scaled his MESA® touring rig down to a Triaxis™ Preamp, a 2:90™ Power Amp and two Rectifier 1x12 cabs and two 1x12 Mini Rectifier™ cabs. At 1:03 he says, "I'm only using these 1x12 Recto cabs, which sound absolutely enormous, in a stupid way."

"Through the interface we then hit the input of the Mark V on top and that's the main tone. We use channel one and channel three primarily. This amp just does so many things and it's just great sounding. I can't come up with more good things to say about it. It's just an awesome amp. This particular one is the one we recorded the album with and it ended up in the rig," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

In this video, John Petrucci's guitar tech, Maddi Schieferstein, gives a rundown of the guitar rig that was used during Dream Theater's 2014 "Along for the Ride" tour. The Mesa Boogie Triaxis can be seen at 0:23.

At 0:37 you can see the Mark IV in his rack, he also used it in the Systematic Chaos album

John Petrucci is playing Randall heads and cabinets in this video

In this video, Petrucci uses the Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ Head. "When it comes to the Mark IIC+, John is truly one of the worldwide experts on the Mark IIC+, next to Founder Randall Smith, Tone Boy Doug West and Mesa Chief Technician Mike Bendinelli. In this video, John explains how the Mark Five’s C+ Mode was designed around the best and most prized of the Mark IIC+ amp configurations available (since there are many different configurations of Mark IIC+ out there) while playing a few riff examples from the song “Enigma Machine” off the latest 2014 album titled after the bands name."

"The other cool thing you'll notice is that we have this gigantic rack of Crown power amps, and these power the thumpers," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

At 1:02 in the video, John says " I have been playing Mesa for over 30 years, and as many of you know im a huge fan of the Mark IIC amp, as you can hear it on almost every dream theater album. My new signature amp is based off the Mark IIC."

Premier Guitar, 2019

Yes. This whole record was my Mesa/Boogie signature. It’s a dream come true for me. The Mark IIC+ was the holy grail Boogie that came out in the ’80s. It’s on Master of Puppets and everything. Then, finally, I convinced them to do a reissue and we made it into my signature head. So not only is it a bona fide reissue, but we modernized it as well. So, it does everything it could possibly need to do. My guitars on the record are mostly the Majesty plugged straight into my JP-2C. And that’s it. If I plugged my guitar into that amp, cranked it, and we looked at each other, like, “Holy shit, that tone is unbelievable,” then it’s the engineer’s job to capture it. Put a mic on it and make it sound like that coming out of the monitors. And for the first time, we added a little bit of room mic.

At 5:04, John Petrucci and Doug West reveal that in the album "Images and Words", John used a Mesa Boogie Quad Preamp

John Petrucci explains in this video how for the 2014 Along for the Ride tour, he scaled his MESA® touring rig down to a Triaxis™ Preamp, a 2:90™ Power Amp and two Rectifier 1x12 cabs and two 1x12 Mini Rectifier™ cabs.

At 2:26, you can see the 2x12 cabinets

I was curious to know what gear John Petrucci used before going with Mesa Boogie and in this video, you can see him using Randall 4x12 cabinets with a Randall Head if anyone could tell me what head they think it is it would be much appreciated

According to 2019 Premier Guitar interview, Petrucci's Mesa Boogie cabinets are loaded with Celestion Vintage 30s.

In celebration of John’s talent, his life-long dedication to our shared art, and the long relationship we’ve enjoyed with him, we are proud to introduce a MESA® first; The JP-2C™ - Our first unlimited-build Signature Amplifier. And YES… it’s a MARK IIC+! A next generation Re-Issue of the legendary amp so many Recording Artists, MESA enthusiasts and Tone Freaks the world over covet, often searching high and low to find. Only THIS IIC+ pulls in an enhanced feature set born from our collaboration with John over a period of three decades of research and development.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, John used F-50 Head back in 2002.

On this photo, you can see Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Rackmount in John's rack.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, John used Mesa Boogie Rectifier 4x12 Traditional Straight cabinets back in 2002.