Rob Caggiano

Rob Caggiano using his Custom esp Guitar

It’s just an offset body. It has an alder body, maple neck, ebony fingerboard. The bridge pickup is my signature DiMarzio that I developed with those guys back in [pauses] 2011? I guess.

We have a Gretsch electro-acoustic. Like I said before, on the new album there are a few songs where the sounds are a little bit different, and I think the Gretsch hollow-body, the Black Falcon kinda vibe, suits a couple of the songs really well, and obviously the acoustics. We got through a bunch of songs into the setlist, and we found that a lot of the older songs were tuned a whole step down and the whole new record is in standard tuning. So the way we had the setlist on the first night, there were just way too many guitar changes and it just messed up the flow of the show.

"Its vesatile and the clean channel is killer" Rob says.

Guitar World:

Basically it’s the same company as [VHT]. The only difference is the faceplate and the logo. I have been using the Pittbull Ultraleads since ’97 maybe. With Anthrax, on tour I was using Marshall 2000s, the DSLs, just because they were really easy to find anywhere in the world, and they are a really solid, consistent amp, but in the studio it was always the Pittbull Ultraleads for me. When we did the Big Four Tour with Anthrax, Steve [Fryette] sent me his new amp called the Sig:X. At the time it was his latest. That became my amp for that tour and I have been with it ever since. I love it. It's a more versatile amp. The Pittbull is a three-channel amp also but the clean channel is unusable - for me at least. The clean channel on the Sig:X is a lot more versatile. And the gain, it has all the crunch I need. It’s got that big, classic VHT/Steve Fryette sound. On the Sig:X it’s KT88s [valves].

According to the positive grid website, rob uses the bias head along with bias fx

using it with Volbeat

using it with volbeat

using it with Volbeat

using it for lead sound

"Its a killer overdrive" Rob says

using it with Volbeat

using it with Volbeat

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It's a very unique overdrive pedal. It has a very distinct sound and is very fat sounding, which is why I like it. It’s very juicy sounding. I would say that 98 per cent of my sound is the amp (the Fryette Sig:X), so that's the meat and potatoes of my sound. For my solos, I kick on something interesting. I use the lead channel on the amp for the rhythm sound and the rhythm channel of the amp with the gain dialed back for the lead sound and I use a pedal in front of it, just to kick it in.

We have a Strymon Flint reverb. That is only for certain parts. We literally haven’t even used it yet. [To Jerry] We used it last night!? Oh, we are still dialing it in. Not the tremolo, though. No. We use the reverb side. We have some new songs on this album that have a lot of the tremolo effects so that's why we got this pedal.

We started playing those new songs, literally, two days ago! We are still working out the patches and the presets and all that stuff. Jerry will be controlling the timing of all that stuff, the tremolo, and also the delay. That pedal is amazing. I am really diggin’ that delay pedal. But Jerry times it out.

Shure endorsed band, Anthrax uses Shure's UHF-R wireless transmitter, according to Shure's artist page.

I wanted to have a cabinet off to the side, mic’d up, going through a Neve 1073-style mic preamp, so there will be a 57/421 on one speaker, and in the same cabinet in another speaker there will be another [Shure SM]57 for the solo sound also going into a 1073 Neve, that goes also into an 1176-style compressor.

According to the positive grid website, rob uses both bias head, and the bias amp software