DREAM THEATER Guitarist Demonstrates How He Gets His Sound (Video)

December 15, 2010

Guitarist John Petrucci of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER visited the Mesa Boogie factory in Petaluma, California in June 2010 and plugged straight into a Mesa Boogie Mark V to demonstrate how he gets his sound. Part One of the video below focuses on John's philosophy on getting his clean sound in channel 1 as well as some crunch rhythm sounds in Channel 2. Part Two gets deep with his Channel 3 high gain settings and the power of the Graphic EQ. The video and audio was recorded with John's Music Man JP6 model guitar plugged directly into his Mark V head (stock Mark V with 6L6s) and a Rectifier Standard Slant cabinet which was live in the room for the shoot. It was close mic'd with a Shure SM57 on the 8 ohm Vintage 30 speaker of the Recto cab. A Royer 121 was also used a couple feet back to capture a little more space. From there it went straight into the video recording rig.

For more detailed info on the Mark V, check out the product page for the full specs rundown.

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