Jared James Nichols '23 European Tour Guitar Rig Rundown!
[Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] there can be only one so there's only one only one ladies and gentlemen G James Nichols what's up everybody glad to be here it's a pleasure to have you one of the hardest working guys in rock and roll and modern day Legend in your own right it's great to have you back in the UK going man everything's great we we have been playing like every single day for the past 31 days yeah and this is like your first headline tour of the year a few times in the UK and Europe stuff yeah as you know you know we've hung out many times I've done a lot of oneoff Headliners this is the first proper one where it's like we're going you know in the UK it's nine shows we did Spain we did France Switzerland going to Germany Sweden have you had much of a break in between shows none like we've had 3 days off hey kids if you getting into guitar and touring and you want to tour just make sure it's like it's almost like camping it's like you're you're uh urban camping yeah I can imagine man but it's been so great man the shows have been great I'm I'm just so happy to be out here and even though it's only 40 days in the energy is still maxed out as always jjn shows I saw videos of you last night You're Still rocking just as hard as you were 40 days ago yeah man it's funny because it's almost like as the tour you get into it it just starts to go it's like every day you just get a little bit more and then you don't want to get comfortable so you keep pushing yourself yeah you don't want to hit the ceiling but you keep pushing the ceiling higher and higher that kind of thing it's uh it is funny though because it's almost like you got to be able to flip a switch to cuz you'll be tired you know it'll be a long drive day whatever and it's like when you get here when you're ready you just got to go man yeah just just got to do it for sure man speaking of doing it this wasn't here last time we spoke we're doing it dude this is something special to you and it's more than just a fancy liqu of paint isn't it it is there's there's a few upgrades to this that I'm so happy this is the blues power JJ signature Les Paul Custom this comes out on November 14th I'm really excited about this one i' I've set it for every single one and I'm not trying to be like a a shoe salesman but the reality is every single for Old Glory incredible for gold Glory what can we do to refine it cool color what else can we change on it but this one I had more input to say hey I want to design a P90 so I got with Seymour Duncan yeah noiseless P90 which is like I know a lot of people would say oh man you can't have a noisess P90 it's not the true thing I get what you're saying you can get L this P9 but it doesn't really sound like the real thing that sounds like the real thing this thing is awesome they sent me I remember Seymour Duncan they were so on it man they sent it to me and the first thing I did is I plugged it in compared to Gold glory and I was like if anything it's just got higher output and I was like I'm not mad at that so then I started to play it and I remember when I played it just a simple fact I'm so fast um I saw a thing with bamasa the other day he said he uses his tone knob and volume knob like 100 times a show I'm at least a thousand cuz with a P90 it's like I'll play something yeah all the time straight but with this one we have a little bit of oh let me turn this off the cable's a little microphonic but to have nothing to Super Barky and it has a ton of overtones which for me is the best part because I don't have to sacrifice how I'm going to play and say well I'm gonna like lose out on this but hey it's noiseless it's more like I can still get all the sounds like a roll it roll it down roll it down still has all that sensitivity and then when you roll the the tone [Music] off roll it up a little bit it's got everything man so the Dynamics that is there though and that's what that's what gets lost in P90s when they get kind of hucked up almost and the reason you love P90 so much and everyone loves P90s is the Dynamics and the overtones and stuff so the fact that you managed to marry them and cross pollinate them so nicely together is just it's awesome but what's cool even if you're watching this and you're let's say you're like I don't care about that how that guy plays whatever that's cool but the reality is give this a shot in a P90 guitar because I think uh across genres this is going to be a really cool thing that you could put in it's like non-invasive you don't have to mod your guitar you can pop this thing in and you don't have to worry about that 60 Cycle especially in the states man it's like I turn it up you know even at the lowest volume so that's a game Cher for this guitar you can buy that off the shelf as well BEC comes stock in Old Glory exactly and besides the P90 we have USA Electronics nice which are great because you're you're essentially getting the same thing you'd get in a Gibson USA then going to the back mhm we have how do I flip it there we go flip it like that locking tuners locking tuners this was surpris it's taking you so long to do on your guitar absolutely Hammer the strings when you're making a pitch Bend and all this crazy [ __ ] what's funny man is is playing I always would just oh stretch it more stretch it more and then my friend at uh aljn at epone goes hey man uh you ever mess with locking tuners and I was like I was kind of like no it's too modern you know but then he's like you should try them so they sent me a set I tried them out and wouldn't you know it the guitar was it was killing so the reality is to have just these little upgrades locking tuners the tuning stability so much better having this pickup the USA electronics and then this cool pelum blue finish I just love it one thing I'm curious about gold Glory was like a multi-layered gold yes is that a mul cuz it looks more pel and blue than any other pel and blue is that like a fancy multi-layer blue or is just cuz the stage lights right now I think it might be the stage lights cuz sometimes it comes off like in a weird silver and stuff but um you can really tell the dish on the top as well with oh yeah yeah it's really cool the one thing I do know is it's like a matte pel and blue yeah and I have another one at home this is my Europe one but I've been playing it a lot and it's cool yeah get shiny in Parts it just what I love about the epon now especially these uh gold glories they're not trying to be anything than what they are and they just rock and the finishes are cool and they properly speced as well so it's mahogany mahogany proper iony and stuff like that and I will say this is the third ation of the guitar um everyone's getting better like it's almost like it's getting more streamlined well I've got the original Old Glory and I think it's kickass just yeah yeah for sure so that is the new guitar that's ity let's talk about something a lot older and switch it up to the world famous Dorothy yeah man all right cool so as you know you've you've spent some time with this one I have indeed and uh like I said in the last video we shot earlier in the year that's all Linked In the description box down below so you can check out the history of Dorothy cuz the history is crazy it's crazy this is more of a wellness check because it's been a few months and it looks so much better SL worse than the last time I saw it yeah I had a friend the other day say hey man you should think about putting some clear coat on it because it's getting bad and I said no never so as you can see this right here the arm is is just really starting for the people that don't know would you mind quickly explaining about about dthy in a brief term so this guitar uh long story short uh a a friend now friend on Instagram messaged me he said hey man I found this guitar it was in a tornado it I found it in my yard and he sends a picture and I remember I had to tap to view the picture I tap it the neck completely snapped off but the body was there intact all of the knobs was was there a bit of a neck or was it Justus yeah you can see right here like where the okay the heel was there but the neck was gone on and I I knew right away you know like all of us we we nerd out about this stuff this P90 with the two side screws gave it recognition to be one of the earliest Les Paul so when I saw it I went whoa that's something special this guitar was in a tornado and then this guy found it and the owner it was her her dad's when it took him like a year to find her and they found her and she said oh just hang it on your wall I claimed it on my insurance so anyways he asked me if I know where um I could help get this guitar restored I said absolutely and then of course I threw in a little cheeky I was like hey man if you uh ever just want to get rid of it I'd love to make you an off mhm so 2 days later he calls and he goes hey man I've been talking to my wife and I just want to give it to you yeah that's insane I'm like you want to give it to me dude I said you can I said it's worth a lot of money even in the state it's in now it's like one of the first yeah it would be one of the first 50 or 100 that's insane so the pots date to May 1951 so it predates the or original po as well yeah all original all original electronics and so this guitar I sent it to a friend at JW restoration he's a legend who's a legend and he literally handbuilt this neck using inlays from 1952 he had this hunk of Brazilian rosewood that was so old he said he' had it since he was like 14 years old oh wow built the neck and the original first Les poles didn't have binding either so that's why I expect like that as well yeah he even asked me he's like dude you want me to put binding on it I said no man leave it how it would have been we're not trying to disguise the fact that the neck had been ripped off but leave it how it would have been and what's cool is I love it how it doesn't have binding it gives it a different feel besides that Joel kept the heel intact look at this thing in the back I see in the background to look at that yeah man so you can see that is all from me but you can see some chunks out of here and chunks out of the bottom that's all from the tornado and this body is a little thicker than a normal Les Paul um just a prototype thing uh this cavity looks like it was carved out by hand with a chisel which is crazy and then the other thing is it has a center seam flame Maple top as a burst wood so they were still incredible yeah and you can see I mean it's starting to pop a little bit but I think we got a little bit of give it a couple years and you will be totally be able to see the center SC flame this has be one of the most played 50s as poles on the entire 100% hands overall like the bur and as well like it has to be so like this like we were talking about the checkup like this now right here I play with my fingers so this is coming in naturally from just pulling up on the strings and that's cuz I lay my pinky there yeah I've got a couple of guitars like that as well you see the little pinky marks and stuff I'm exactly the same so this thing is just an ultimate Road dog it's a beast I'll play this guitar for I play the uh the blues power but then this is 90% of my set yeah and it's just such a great guitar besides the fact of it being a kind of a holy Relic in Gibson culture it's just a great guitar with that was there any inspiration with the toneal to pickups to absolutely like this absolutely because the one thing I find which is so funny because it's a noisess P90 and this very much isn't yeah it's so microphonic I can sing in it but the reality is it's like how do we get some of that overtone just to it's almost like it just you hit a chord and it just you hear everything around it yeah and uh the aggressiveness this guitar I did a session with Joe bamasa and even Joe was saying dude that's one of the best sounding P90 Les poles you want to hear it should we hear if she stillar that's serious let's [Music] [Music] [Music] see Jesus we have jar back to [Applause] the we put a little bit more on there my friend put some Sizzle [Applause] [Music] [Applause] on if you got to declare that tone of Customs when you come across the border cuz like you need a license for that that's crazy also it's you know I I obviously play with a lot of uh gain or whatever but even when you roll it back man [Music] [Laughter] the it just has the tone [Music] it's like syrup man it's just so sweet I know it's wonderful it's funny cuz with uh with this one and with with the Blu bar what I'm noticing now is the more you let your guitar breathe I know the sounds so funny but I can play something harus will get it though like kind know what you mean and it's like if I play like a simple lick like I I literally I'm an e right just let the guitar do its thing sometimes and it's like damn let it sing for it'll that like it'll Dix toate the next nose to you know where it wants to FL right I I could talk about the guitars all day the stories of the guitars let's get into the rest of the rig what strings do you rock these days Dr cuz obviously playing with your fingers it's got to be quite a a personal thing about choosing strings and stuff oh yeah so I've been working with Dr for a few years now and to be honest I love them I use the 10 to 40 49 set of veritas and to be honest dude these strings have been on this guitar for like the past six shows oh really and I've been like crazy these strings are the toughest strings I've ever played and I truly love them them and I feel like they stay in tune great they just they just really rock and um Dr veritos yeah are you the kind of guy that goes up a string gauge you're in a two cuz your fingers get stronger or uh I haven't yet but I did bring some 11s okay cool I'll probably stay here but I I I do do that sometimes because you just then you start overplaying you know but yeah Dr verit man aome usually AC what pics you use but obviously you don't use Pi so let's your cool straps and stuff why' you get your cool straps oh this is a red monkey strap they hook me up with that nice one red monkey great company yeah they're cool so people watch and check out red monkey they make awesome guitar straps and stuff absolutely well I think that's all to do with the magic that is you let's go down the cables and talk about next to pedal board let's do it okay so let's start out uh I have a very simple pedal board this is what I've been using for probably the past 6 months um CLA mhm yes everyone knows about the CL it's a expensive staple then I'm I'm literally having that and then I'll stack it with this vram tube screamer my friend Tyler at iban has hooked me up with that they're unbelievable things they're like a secret ref is all the people that know like if the know good shoes humors will know all about these and if you don't you need to know I knew he hooked it up with me and I looked up the price and I went whoo that's really expensive cuz I regularly use just an 808 or ts9 I put it on the board and I remember I was playing and I was playing and I was playing Rhythm and we were playing like a pretty big kind of haul and I clicked it in and not only did it obviously give me all of what I was looking for that tube screamer punch my the volume literally popped up and I was like oh dude this is the one so those two are a great combo yeah there's funky little special dip switches inside they get two game stages and stuff I didn't even touch that yet you haven't got it to I mean if you touch it yeah that might blow people's minds but it's already you're already this close to blowing people's minds exactly and then the polytune yeah standard tuner sorry for your clone one thing you're actually rocking like a lot of gain on that a lot people use the CL these days use it as either the mythical just a little clean boost you don't engage any diod and all the rest of the [ __ ] so yeah that's it's nice to see someone actually crank the game on a yeah I turn that up because the TR the true reality of that is the the there's something really great in the clip of a CLA and for the way I play with my fingers I love Leslie West and when I play like a um let me see if I go like this and I [Music] [Music] do I use that gain all the time sometimes sometimes I turn that gain all the way up you [Music] know [Music] so yeah I'm not scared of the gain on it yeah awesome man yeah I think right at the start You' got a very unique special War as well oh yeah so this is new to me a 1967 uh script original yeah which is insane to have on a stage and not in a glass case it's insane yeah so my friend Charlie doy um I helped him do some stuff and he hooked me up with that WWA and when I mean helped him do some stuff he got rid of a really cool guitar and and uh I said hey Charlie got some really cool wwas man and he's like yeah I'll hook you up so cool gu I'm guessing it was a really cool 50s something 50s why I help a friend do something I like help move a s and stuff like I don't help them yeah I got some good friends hell yeah so we tried out 12 of them yeah 12 uh script walls and uh picture walls so we didn't look at the bottoms because I didn't want my eyes to dictate what the sound was supposed to be and we we did a shootout for about an hour and that was the winner it's got all the sweep is great the the thing I never knew because I've only played Modern Day WS there's something so Musical and nuts about these waas dude I just love it is that the way they're made do you think or is it just because of the age of them like the components age and I think probably the components in the age the old lead solar and stuff and also I think like with anything you know it's like old cars and stuff it's like you know there's a certain charm like when you start up an old car and old stuff but now nowadays sometimes it's like there's things like a WWA it's like wah wa make that sound this thing you can make a ton of different sounds yeah would you mind showing us some of those sounds let's do it man let's do it so check it out here's the [Music] Wawa it's got a really glassy sound it's really touch sensitive too so as I roll up my volume I get that [Applause] handrick [Music] I really the why I liked it was [Music] the it's got that it's got a punch to but it's not brittle it's not too bright so here's it all the way [Music] off and then as you keep adding to it yeah then you can [Music] start and then of course if you get really low on it you can [Music] start and I just love the the [Applause] [Music] vocal it's a great example of how many different ways you can use a war as well you haven't just got a do the hendri and you can utilize it in so many awesome ways and I feel like sometimes man I put I use it all the time and people are proba like dude shut the W but I just love like it's like singing like VOC quity yeah it really is so I'm super lucky to have this gear man Super Lucky yeah so what's birthing all this amazing so the Black Star yes here we are so check these out these are the uh I don't know how you'd say they're they're oversized not many people Eclipse me but I'm going to like stand over here cuz you're just eclipsing me Jared I'm sorry these are the oversized cabs uh these have uh uh the GT 175 speakers in them okay and the deti the same as your signature signature what was happening is as I started to play a little bit bigger rooms I was noticing that the JJ and20 as much as I love it I need more headro so I opted we had these great uh black star made me these which I love that's not just a testament how your career is going though isn't it bigger and bigger and bigger good problem to have oh yeah then this guy right here 50 wat St James and yet again it's all about the headro so for me I'm running it on the second Channel literally the gain all the way up volume all the way up diam everything's kind of at noon and then I just rock that Master wherever I need to go yeah so it's pretty simple man it's a super simple setup but the the range of tones you get and the Dynamics within each of those tones is just second and on there's literally no one and I'm kind of praising you right now but there's no one on the planet right now which gets this kind of stuff from this minimal amount of gear it's insane Jared it's it's really important for me though um cuz it really does come from the player right it's about you and it's it comes out of you and it goes in but all of these things I I just wanted to try and find the best tools to make my sound and a lot of this stuff is way above my pay grade to even have as far as like out on the road but the fact that I have it I think it's really important that um you know some people are coming to the shows now to hear this guitar they're like I want to see that guitar the guitar is just as famous as you and so yeah man and like the WWA it's like sure we could put it in a Cupboard and never use it or I could just take it everywhere around the world and you know so I try I'm trying to be more minimalist with what I have and just keep it a really efficient rig and just simple man unbelievable well thank you so much for your time Jared I can't wait to see you again tonight it's going to be kick ass tear it up thank you PMT thank you guys for watching thanks for watching [Music] [Applause] cheers
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