Dweezil Zappa Full 2024 TONE TOUR

Thanks Cooper. One wonders if now ,that DZ has integrated his III to do the stereo work of separate IIs, that we may revisit some of his current presets, as the set he marketed some years ago was somewhat disappointing as they were largely designed on the two-unit setup…….
 
Insane rig. Would be interesting to see how he routes the pedals inparticular. All in the loops? I guess fuzzez are in front of it. If so, gets the input gate turned off when using those pedals?
 
bradlake said:
Thanks Cooper. One wonders if now ,that DZ has integrated his III to do the stereo work of separate IIs, that we may revisit some of his current presets, as the set he marketed some years ago was somewhat disappointing as they were largely designed on the two-unit setup…….
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It appears that if one wants to shell out whatever Cliff wants us to pay for the the no-longer -a-mystery VP-4, the leaked manual lists several presets based on Dweezil and Cooper’s collab as well as many tempting preset surprises…
 
Was at the Atlanta show and it was cool to hear Cooper and Beato get a vocal shout-out during Approximate. After watching this video, I will make sure I sit in the center for future shows to get all that stereo goodness!
 
I saw his band open up for Spinal Tap at a NAMM show in the 90’s. They did 70 songs from the 70’s in 7 minutes. They only let 100 people into the show and I was one of the lucky ones
 
I listened to my "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" and "Confessions" CD's endlessly in my car until some asshole stole them. Does he ever perform stuff off his old solo albums on tour?
 
GuitarAng3l said:
Insane rig. Would be interesting to see how he routes the pedals inparticular. All in the loops? I guess fuzzez are in front of it. If so, gets the input gate turned off when using those pedals?
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I help build and program Dweezil's Rigs for tour. (Also did Zach Tabori's, Dweezil's rhythm guitarist/aux Drummer. G66/Cooper has a video on that rig too) You can see my handwriting on a lot of the gaff tape on the rack.

He uses (and talks about it at 4:13 ish in the video)
He swaps his pedals out all the time, so thats a moving target.
One rack drawer of pedals for the left side
One Rack drawer of pedals for the right side
One Rack drawer of pedals (and stuff on the floor) going into both sides.
One Rack drawer of time based effects pedals in loops that can be sent to either side or both. Each preset we built places the effects loop block(s) in different parts of the signal path. This imho gives you so much flexibility with outboard pedals. Sometimes the loop is only on the left, other times on the Right, other times both.
No Gate. We spent a ton of time getting noise out of the rig in his studio.

We routed it so that he still gets send DI Guitar direct signal without having the pedals affect them so He can blend that in at will. (it's the FAS Expression pedal) It really helps with the articulation of the notes while having all the effects and fuzzes blended in.

If there's one thing I can say that Dweezil does that nobody else does, it's his use of blending L or R guitar signal into his main tone to achieve really incredible effects. He does this on the fly with the expression pedals as you can see in Cooper's Video.

Always a fun rig to work on. Kudos to Cooper for another great video.
 
Hellbat said:
I listened to my "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" and "Confessions" CD's endlessly in my car until some asshole stole them. Does he ever perform stuff off his old solo albums on tour?
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Same - I listened (still do) to the Dweezil and Z albums a ton - lotsa fun!
 
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