John Petrucci

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."

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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 talks at length about and demonstrates the features of his signature Dreamscape modulation pedal from TC Electronic in this video.

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And obviously, I’ve had the relationship with TC Electronic for a long time and I used my signature Dreamscape pedal. Another cool thing we used a lot is TC’s 2290-DT plug-in with the desktop controller. The 2290 was always a staple in all of my rigs, all my big refrigerator racks. And the plug-ins really sound true and authentic. So we ended up getting Ben Grosse one, and he used it on the mix. Whenever you hear a chorus and a guitar, that’s what it is.

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.

On 3:40 John Petrucci Looks Using Ibanez Talman 90's Model

"I remember when the 535Q first came out, with the adjustable Q and frequency range, when we were writing the Scenes from Memory album. I dialed in the perfect sound with that pedal, one I’d never really heard before. We wrote this song “Home,” which has this big wah riff to it. The wah simply accentuates the riff, but it created a unique sound that’s crucial to the impact of the song. If you play that riff without the wah, it just doesn’t sound the same."

"We get into the seven-strings, which is the exact same guitar [as the JP11] but with an extra string. Same color, same neck, same everything. The gauge is the same as the standard except it's got a .56 for the low B," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

In this video, at 15:59, Petrucci discusses his Effects setup, amongst the pedals visible is an MXR Raijin Drive.

"The Ernie Ball volume pedal is actually a control pedal for the Axe-FX II for the volume. Instead of running audio out and back, you know it's 100 feet of cable that you don't have to run, it's just a control pedal," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

"We're using all the JP11s now, except for one guitar. So this is the main JP11 and it's kind of a silver color. I think was the last prototype before they went into production. This is the one [John Petrucci] used throughout the whole recording of the new album. It has DiMarzio Crunch Lab and Liquifire, it' a signature set of pickups from DiMarzio. Then it's got the Ernie Ball Piezo system on the bridge, which all his guitars come with. For string gauges we're actually using a new custom gauge, it kind of changes around whenever he feels like it. Starting high to low, it's .010, .012, .016, .024, .036, .046. Dudley at Ernie Ball came up with that gauge for himself and said 'You guys should try this out,' and we did and [John] loves them. You can't really go to the store and buy them off the shelf but we put them together as we need them. back in the Ibanez days he used the Ibanez version of a Floyd, the Double Locking. When he went to Ernie Ball he said, 'We don't want to do that. Let's do something different.' So they came up with that one and it works every bit as good and you don't have all the hangups of the Locking or anything like that," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

"The acoustic [output] plugs into a Fishman Aura Sixteen pedal in the back and that goes to a DI and right out to the PA. It's Program 13 I think - I don’t know what it's called. We just kind of swipe through them as he's playing. So a 50/50 blend and the volume all the way up on the pedal.

As is reported on his official website, John Petrucci used this pedal back on the Black Clouds & Silver Linings Tour.

This is a video of John Petrucci talking about how he uses the Boss eBand JS-10. At 3:50, he says, "Its a practice workstation powerhouse. I love it."

This image shows the equipment that John Petrucci of The G3 Jam, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess, explorers club, and Nightmare Cinema, used for the 2004 Train of Thought tour which includes a DBX 266XL Dual Compressor Gate.

At 22:30 Maddi explains they recently added the TC Electronic Mimiq to the rig to provide a wider, stereo image.

"We did some extensive testing over the summer last year while we were in the studio and can't tell a difference between a cable and the wireless anymore." - John Petrucci's guitar tech

"The loop system is actually an old Axess GRX4. John has been using the Axess Electronic stuff for a long time. So when we built these we saw we had some extras laying around, because you can't get them anymore, and we put it to use," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

"In the electric [signal path] side we come in and hit the Dunlop Wah system first and then out of there we actually come up to this little satellite pedalboard," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

"The signal path comes into the Framptone A/B box. I've got two outputs on there - one is electric, one is acoustic. The acoustic plugs into a Fishman Aura 16 pedal in the back and that goes to a DI and right out to the PA. In the electric side we come in and hit the Dunlop Wah system first and then out of there we actually come up to this little satellite pedalboard. When we first built this rig we did everything in the box in the Axe-FX, and he missed having pedals that he could kind of mess around with. So we went with this," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

As shown on the Ernie Ball website, John Petrucci uses these strings on his guitars.

John Petrucci uses his signature Jim Dunlop picks as can be found on Petrucci's official website.

This is a picture of the rack John used for the 2002 World Tourbulence tour. Among the various units there's a DBX 166A (eighth from top to bottom). Confirmation of this being John's rack can be found in this diagram from Guitar Geek and at :15s in this video.

Reverb.com commented on a video of john saying that he used a royer r-121 and a shure sm-57 in the video.

John Petrucci can be seen holding this guitar in the source photograph. He also uses this guitar in the video for "Lie".

"We got a Boss TU-3 tuner," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

"We got a pair of 57s, one on each cabinet," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.

"A Boss Phase Shifter" is used in John Petrucci's pedalboard, according to his guitar tech.

As seen on his website and on many stages, John Petrucci is using his double neck JP signature model.

As is shown on his official website, John Petrucci uses this processor to handle his sounds, both in live and in studio.

According to John's DiMarzio players page he uses a PAF 36th Anniversary bridge pickup in one of his guitars.