The making of a HUGE rack (Petrucci)

[GodOfRhythm]

Mark Snyder (Petrucci, Metallica,....) building Petrucci's latest rig (Roadkings / Lonestars).

It is quite frankly...insane. I mean the shockmount rack alone probably costs as much as a small appartment, eventhough it's probably as big as one too.



Part 1:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KXYdUtL6xnI

Part 2:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yDckVFz_4vU

[Norton]

Petrucci's a spoiled guy.Just buy a 2000 dollars amp and play it.But no,he needs a 200.000 dollars rack and a tehcnician works for 500 dollar/hour

[petedz]

Pretty cool. Petrucci does a demo of the rig here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e2uklZ7_C5s

[GodOfRhythm]

Didn't see that one yet, Petedz. Great vid!

There's other Demo vids as well, the coolest is probably the one where he demos his IIC+ rack (the sound on that is INSANE). And of course the Budokan review.

[sl2lover]

Saw them last year for Gigantour! Best live sound I've EVER heard by far!! By any band! When Megadeth came on after, they sounded like a wet tape compared to Dream Theater! Whatever it takes I guess!! Can't say much though, cuz I'm a gearwhore myself!

[Endrik]

kudos to John for using the right brand of amps

[Cleveland Metal]

kudos to John for using the right brand of amps

Strange, I didn't see any VHT or CAE stuff... hehe...

Man, I'm such a rack fag, and that video still about put me to sleep...

[cookiemonster2]

I don't understand why he needs Roadkings for high gain and Lonestars in a whole separate set-up for clean. I thought the whole deal with the Roadking is that it has everything in it including the Lonestar cleans. So why not just change from one of the high gain channels on the Roadking to the clean one? I guess it is a problem I will never have to worry about.

[quakana]

SH*T I thought this was a documentry on Pamela Andersons twins or something....anyway....Nice Rack!!!

[nonamemx]

I would love for John to walk in at the end, after its all finished, and be like "Yeah, uh. . I dont think I really want all this, I think Im just gonna use a Mark III combo... so if you could just. . put all this shit back into its packaging, that would be great. . thanks.."

[Model 6 Matt]

Hahahahahaha, now that would be awesome to see, "just take it all back"

[Endrik]

I thought the whole deal with the Roadking is that it has everything in it including the Lonestar cleans.

The fact is that Roadking's cleans don't sound like Lonestar's cleans.

[MBreinin]

I like his "dry" tone, has like 6 repeats and is drenched in reverb.

Mike

[-Boris-]

it is different from person to person, but not huge fan of his tone. somehow sterile, and on fast runs it's just all the same

i like it more lively

[Matt Crooks]

I don't understand why he needs Roadkings for high gain and Lonestars in a whole separate set-up for clean. I thought the whole deal with the Roadking is that it has everything in it including the Lonestar cleans. So why not just change from one of the high gain channels on the Roadking to the clean one? I guess it is a problem I will never have to worry about.

The first series of RKs didn't have the Lonestar cleans. The second series (supposedly) does.

I do know is that the cleans in my RK mk.1 are great.