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Equipment & Such
The following information is from On Stage
magazine (the Jan 02 issue), Rockpublication.com
and HT booklet.
Mike Shinoda: guitar, vocals, MC
PRS Custom 24 guitar
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier head
Mesa/Boogie 4x12 cabinet
Audio-Technica ATW-R73X guitar wireless
Audio-Technica ATW-T73 wireless vocal mic.
Chester Bennington: lead vocals
Audio-Technica ATW-T73 wireless vocal mic
Joe Hahn: turntables and samplers
Vestax PDX-2000 turntables (2)
Rane TTM 54i Performance Mixer
Behringer Eurorack MX602A mixing console
dbx 166 stereo compressor
Boss GT-5 Guitar Effects Processor (for distortion)
Whirlwind MultiDirector DI
Akai MPC2000
Akai MPC2000XL
Iomega Zip 250 Drives (2; store samples for loading into samplers)
Furman PL Plus power conditioner
Rob Bourdon: drums
Gretsch drums:
22" x 18" kick
10" x 12" rack tom
12" x 14" rack tom
16" x 18" floor tom
14" x 4 1/2 snare
14" x 5" snare
Zildjian cymbals:
18" A Custom Crash
19" A Custom Crash
20" A Custom China
14" A Custom Hi-Hats
22" A Custom Ride
Akai S6000 sampler
Akai MPC2000XL sampler
Alesis DM5 drum module
Rane Headphone Mixer MH4
Rane Crossover SAC22 (stereo two-way crossover) for shaker
Aura Shaker
Mackie M-1400i power amp
Pintech Pads (2; freestanding triggers)
Roland KD-7 Kick Trigger Unit
ddrum Trigger (on snare)
Whirlwind MultiDirector DI
Gibraltar Cage System
DW 5000 kick pedals
Furman PL Plus power conditioner
Brad Delson: guitar
Terry C. McInturff Taurus Sportster guitars
Ibanez 7-string guitars
PRS Custom 24 guitars
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier heads (2)
Mesa/Boogie 4x12 cabinets (4)
Shure UHF guitar wireless
Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer
Boss DD-5 Digital Delay
Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
Furman PL Plus power conditioner
D'Addario Strings
D'Addario Cables
Shure Wireless
Phoenix: bass
Music Man Stingray 4- and 5-string basses
Ampeg SVT Classic heads (2)
Ampeg SVT 8x10 cabinets (2)
Shure UHF guitar wireless
Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
dbx 160A Compressor/Limiter
Tech 21 SansAmp PSA-1
Demeter Tube Direct
Furman PL Plus power conditioner
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Here is an excerpt from Rockpublication.com's
interview with Brad Delson about his equipment
and playing:
Q: I have the guitar player of Linkin Park,
can we go over some of your equipment that you use.
A: Sure. I play Paul Reed Smith guitars. I
also play Ibanez seven string. I use Mesa Boogie
Direct Firehead and Mesa Boogie cabinets and I use
Boss effects pedals, D'Addario strings and D'Addario
cables and Shure Wireless.
Q: Mesa Boogie, That's beautiful man. You can
get a lot of nice of distortion sustained from that
alone.
A: I use natural distortion of the dual
rectifier heads, which is freaking the best. I don't
know. I've never played another head that I like.
Q: Do you have a half-stack or what?
A: Well actually, I'm using anywhere between
2 and 4 cabinets for a show. I feel like, it just
depends. You've got to try it out for yourself. You
know what I mean - whether on big stages, some
people recommend running two heads and four cabinets,
but for the most part, I could run one head and two
cabinets and get away with it.
Q: What does that 7 string do for you?
A: It makes it sound really heavy, even though
I'm just a little guy playing the guitar. I only use
it on two songs, but those are two of my favorite
songs on the record - those are "Run Away" and "With You."
Q: I know Korn uses 7 string a lot but they use
a lot of open tuning. Do you do that?
A: I do. My tuning is everything is down a
half-step. Usually everything is down a half-step. So,
it'll be D-Sharp, C-Sharp, G-Sharp and then I take
bottom string and I do another whole step down, so it's
like drop D, but it's half lower, so it's actually
C-Sharp, G-Sharp, C-Sharp, F-Sharp, A-Sharp, D-Sharp
going up.
Q: Are you always looking for new gizmo's are
what have you that are out there? There's a lot of
special effects. You could overwhelm yourself.
A: There are. Like I'd say ironically, our DJ
has more guitar effects processors than I do, because
he goes into like experimental stuff. And he's actually
running a Boss foot pedal like a multi-effects
processor on his turntables, whereas I'm just using a
few key pedals, like a delay, a chorus, and sustainer.
Because my sound is really straightforward, but I just
need a few key pedals so I can accomplish what I want
to. I'm not trying to sound like space age or anything
like that.
Q: Now those large red head phones you wear are
they wired in or is that for show?
A: If I tell you, I'll have to kill you.
Linkin Park's Mobile Recording Rig
*Recording on their tour bus for the 2nd album*
"It all sits in the back lounge [of the bus], which is about 8 ft wide, 12 ft long, and 7 ft tall. We have a dual-processor [Apple Macintosh] G4 with a flatscreen monitor running Digidesign Pro Tools 5.1 Mixplus, [which includes] a 24-bit 888/24 I/O box and a seven-slot Magma expansion chassis with one Mix Core card and two DSP Farm cards for all the plug-ins. We also have a Roland JV-1080 [synth module] with an Orchestral expansion card, an Emagic Unitor-8 [MIDI interface], a Glyph rack with three hot- swappable hard drives, and a VXA tape backup drive. I [Mike] use Mackie HR824 powered monitors; I seem to get my best mixes with those and a pair of Sony headphones. We do the scratch vocal tracks with a Shure SM58.
Thanks to pushmeaway.com
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