Juan Alderete

Juan Alderate demonstrates his FX32 Meat Box in this interview from Premier Guitar. At 5:16, he explains, “When it hits those subs out there it vibrates everything on stage.”Then this is the Meat Box and Meat Box is just sub. It’s just speaker popper… When it hits those subs out there it vibrates everything on stage.”

The “ba, ba” bass part on “Subump” is a sample of the DOD Meatbox. I was messing around with it one day and posted it on Instagram like, “Check out the Meatbox when you really distort it. It sounds crazy.” After I posted it, I was like, “I have to use that.” I tried to recreate that sound in the studio, but I couldn’t, so we basically took my Instagram video and sampled it—that’s that sound.

(Premier Guitar interview, 2017)

For Deltron 3030's 2014 tour, Alderete built a fly rig with the BR2, which he demonstrates at 1:07 and uses for the song "Positive Contact".

At 0:20 in this video, Juan Alderete explains his history with the Boss CS-2 compressor stating, “I have this compressor. It’s this Boss CS-2 compressor. I’ve been using that since RazorX. That was in 1986. I started using it because I started going to passive pickups but you know like back then everybody was doing harmonics.”

Juan explains what he likes about the CS-2 compared to other compressors by saying, “It’s just the most musical one. I’ve tried so many of them.”

This page of Dunlop's website lists the Way Huge Pork Loin Overdrive among Juan Alderete's gear.

At 9:15 in this video interview from Premier Guitar, Juan Alderete demonstrates his Digitech PDS 20/20.

At 9:36 in this video interview, Juan Alderete can be seen demonstrating the Pickle Pie B.

In this video showing cool pedal tricks, Alderete uses the MF Drive throughout, with an expression pedal controlling the filter sweep.

For Deltron 3030's 2014 tour, Alderete built a fly rig with the compressor being used in conjunction with his Endangered Audio delay. At 3:06, Alderete explains that it's used so the delay repeats stay quiet when going into regeneration.

Mentioned in this May 2, 2019 Instagram post.

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In this Rig Rundown video from Premier Guitar, Juan Alderete talks briefly about why he uses the OC-2 Octave. At 4:48, he says, “You gotta have this. Because it’s just a super musical octave pedal.”

On this page of Dunlop's website, it quotes Juan saying, "Punch your bass into the mix with the help of the MXR Bass Overdrive."

On this page of Dunlop's website, it lists an MXR M288 Bass Octave Deluxe Effects Pedal among Juan Alderete's gear.

"Maxon, a Japanese company, makes a wonderful, musical compressor that I love to use in the studio. It is of very good quality so I can use it in recordings and the studio. It doesn't enhance your sound like some compressors, rather it compresses and limits your output to make for easy recordings that sit well in the mix. I will be covering more compressor reviews in the next few videos...I hope you watch!" - Juan Alderete

He used the Pedal on the Dr. Octagon tour 2018. You can see it on his Pedalboard.

Featured in this March 9, 2018 Instagram post.

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"Having been a player that never used two phasers at once, I was pretty blown away with the sounds I was getting and I now have to retire my Phase 100's for the Phase 99!" via Pedals And Effects

At 6:15 in this video interview from Premier Guitar, Juan Alderete talks about the EarthQuaker Ghost Disaster. “This one is a great sounding delay, but the reverb is really cool too because I love it on dub bass lines with the flat ones and it’s super handy. When you’re trying to make an economy pedal board, well there’s two knocked out right there.”

Juan Alderete demonstrates his Line 6 DL4 at 9:36 in this Rig Rundown from Premier Guitar. He also uses the pedal at 10:25.

Juan Alderete demonstrates his Boss PN-2 at 18:12 in this Rig Rundown from Premier Guitar.

"Aldrerete uses the Bass Whammy at the end of his pedalboard to transpose what he’s playing to match the key of a song. 'I keep it as the last pedal in my effects chain so that I can send any sound I create through it, and the Bass Whammy will keep that sound intact while raising or lowering the pitch to match the song. It works fantastically well for this purpose.'" - Juan Alderete in this article from Digitech.

"In addition to the Bass Whammy, Alderete uses the DigiTech DigiDelay and Bass Synth Wah and 'a ton of DOD pedals.'" - Source.

Juan Alderete is listed as a "Bass Chorus Deluxe Artist", on this page of Dunlop's website.

Juan Alderete uses an MXR M-107 Phase 100 Effects Pedal, according to this page of Dunlop's website.

Juan Alderete's gear, according to this page of Dunlop's website, includes an MXR MC-403 Power Distributor.

Juan Alderete uses a Way Huge Electronics Green Rhino MKII Overdrive pedal, according to this page of Dunlop's website.

A Pigtronix Bass FAT Drive pedal is used by Juan per his artist page shown here.

In this video showing some cool pedal tricks, Alderete uses the tentacle throughout, and explains how while he usually uses it at the front of his signal chain, but someone suggested to try it at the end, and he really liked how it sounded.

For Deltron 3030's 2014 tour, Juan built a fly rig with the Rainbow Machine. At 3:53, Alderete shows it off, and explains how it adds a futuristic sound that fits in well with the band.

For Deltron 3030's 2014 tour, Alderete built a fly rig with the Great Divide. At 1:49, he explains more about it, and mentions it's probably his most used effect on the board. At 2:12, he demos it, and shows how it can match the low end of synths.

For Deltron 3030's 2014 tour, Alderete built a fly rig with the Particle. At 4:20, he explains it, and shows how he uses it for effects unattainable with just a bass.