Dweezil Zappa Full 2024 TONE TOUR

yek said:
Is the musical feedback/sustain coming from a FreqOut?
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Brian Coonan said:
My question too - sounded FreqOut-y but would be curious to know.
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Edrod said:
I came to ask this same question. Hoping @Cooper Carter can share some light on this.
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Yes, you can see its red lights activating in third rack drawer from the bottom as it fires.

Though Dweezil and @Admin M@ have conceived a brilliant little preset that I did a bit of fine tuning on with Dweezil onstage that may very well be replacing that particular pedal soon. It goes beyond what's possible with the FreqOut in several ways...
 
Cooper Carter said:
Yes, you can see its red lights activating in third rack drawer from the bottom as it fires.

Though Dweezil and @Admin M@ have conceived a brilliant little preset that I did a bit of fine tuning on with Dweezil onstage that may very well be replacing that particular pedal soon. It goes beyond what's possible with the FreqOut in several ways...
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well that is exciting! The version that Simeon made was really cool but you just have to be really careful not to get any other notes in there especially the longer the note is held - would love to see what the three of you came up with!
 
Awesome video - I really should start listening to Dweezil. Only semi-recently started listening to Frank Z, but for me the highlight of You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore is the Dweez solo on Sharleena
 
Very cool video...whenever I watch Dweezil geek on on guitar tones and Fractal units I just want to immediately go make weird sounds heh.

I always liked how he went to great lengths to duplicate tones/FX from the various Zappa years. That is a big part of getting the right Zappa 'atmosphere' for his various compositions and Dweezil does an fantastic job doing that.

I particularly like how he uses the AXF to control FX so dynamically to enable a huge tonal color palette that he can feel (and seems easy to control).

Like he says, you can ride right on the crest of a dynamic interaction to bring in FX, etc. and that's something you can feel...that kinda stuff inspires you definitely.

Some cool takeaways throughout...I'm going to turn on the Ring Modulator, add some dynamic control (Envelope Follower, maybe an effect that follows pitch, pedals, etc.) and 'weird out' heh....

Cooper I wonder if you could talk a bit about his output stuff if possible? What he uses for monitors and what kind/type of IR's does he employ? He always had awesome fundamental, rock-ish, raw guitar tones to build on top of.

Thanks for the video....great job...!
 
Cooper Carter said:
Yes, you can see its red lights activating in third rack drawer from the bottom as it fires.

Though Dweezil and @Admin M@ have conceived a brilliant little preset that I did a bit of fine tuning on with Dweezil onstage that may very well be replacing that particular pedal soon. It goes beyond what's possible with the FreqOut in several ways...
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that's super interesting, i'd love to know what's up with that!
 
I think it’s the most refreshing and creative rig building I’ve ever seen.
Everything is so clever and tasteful.

It’s an art masterpiece.
 
Thanks for the great Video! I have two questions:
1.) How does the FOH mixer present the two Signals on the PA? Hard panned, or both centered and Mixed to taste? I assume that hard panned would have the audience on the sides miss stuff.
2.) are the 4 monitors in the back (i assume QSC) double Left and double Right? Did he talk about why he positioned them like that? He could also use them as regular stage monitors at his feet fireing backwards , or use them from the back but angled upwards, but he clearly chose this orientation sending most of the sound to his legs and at the audience.

Thanks so much for this interesting Video!
 
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 would love to know this too.
Does he have the pedals into some other mixer / switcher out back, or is he running a bunch of pedals in series and just using two loops on the AF3?
 
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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On the one hand I guess I have to respect those presets as creative achievements and I can not expect that everything is made available on a silver table. On the other hand it is breaking my heart that we don't have access to more Dweezil Zappa Presets. Because more is more, right? :)
 
Cooper Carter said:
Yes, you can see its red lights activating in third rack drawer from the bottom as it fires.

Though Dweezil and @Admin M@ have conceived a brilliant little preset that I did a bit of fine tuning on with Dweezil onstage that may very well be replacing that particular pedal soon. It goes beyond what's possible with the FreqOut in several ways...
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Very much looking forward to this, but if it's complicated- I would still wish for a single feedbacker block someday :P
 
RoshRoslin said:
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.
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That's insane! So I get the 6 pedals each for left, right and both with each rack controlled by a Hex.

As for the rack of time-based pedals, are you referring to the H90 and the TC 2290P?

Are some of the pedals in the "both sides" rack routed in stereo? (Such as the TZF2 and/or the Chase Bliss Preamp MK II), and is the CB Preamp MK II also setup to switch its slider presets via MIDI CCs?

I noticed he's also using a small splitter box of some sort on the floor, next to the FAS exp pedal for his DI blend. Which product is that one and how's that routed too?

Finally, since there's 18 rack analog pedals (not counting the TC2290P and H90), is he able to activate/deactivate them individually? If so, how's that achieved with the physical limitations of 12 footswitches on the FC-12? Or per preset are there only certain ones he has access to and I'm assuming there may be a hold to scroll function if he wants to cycle through to the other non-song specific ones?


Any chance you could do a quick diagram of the physical routing for this monster rig? I may want to try something similar for fun.
 
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