Arctic Monkeys Latest Pedalboard

UgoUzuegbunam · Post by **UgoUzuegbunam** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:06 pm

Does have a picture or a link to a picture of Arctic Monkey's latest pedalboard, for Humbug???

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:07 pm

that a better topic... Decent question.

I have no clue though as I am not a monkeys fan.. Someone around here will probably have a clue.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:13 pm

Taken from a thread about one of their guitars. I worked this gig in December, so it's very likely the same setup they are using now. I think their road crew said they were taking a break in January then starting touring again.

BacchusPaul wrote:Yesterday I worked the Arctic Monkeys gig in Belfast. I worked all day (18 hours) and was there to set up their stuff, and was there between the bands to take the support bands gear off the stage.

The rack that this guitar was in had a Jazzmaster and a Jaguar too, as well as this and a few others, including a Coronado or Starcaster or whatever it is that has the kind of oblongey headstock. Just by looking at it, it looked like a shortscale neck. I was actually standing about doing nothing when the guitar tech was setting up the rack, so I got a good five minutes of look looking at the guitars form a bout eight feet away. I contemplated asking him about this guitar, but he seemed pretty fucked off or stressed out as it was. Then I was called away to load in the support's trailer.

The bridge pickup was indeed a Burns Trisonic (or at least something in a big, nickel case), with a humbucker in the neck. Strat bridge.

The neck didn't have a blank headstock but had a small circle (about two cm diameter) with a V on it. It's very possible that this was stuck on as a bit pf decoration to an otherwise blank Warmoth headstock, or it might be a custom guitar. Does anyone recognise this?

The other rack had two Gretsch guitars (an archtop and one one of those gorgeous black guitars with a gigantic pickguard, a very small solidbodied riceknbacker bass, and a smallish looking Ovation electric. I'm sure there were other things there two, but nothing caught my eye.

Amps:

On stage there were

Silverface Fender Bassman 100, with Fender 810 cab
Selmer Thunderbird Twin. Had a golden snakeskin cabinet.
Simms Watts 100 head
HiWatt combo with extension cab
Marshall JCM 800
Roland Jazz Chorus

I suspect that the Roland Jazz Chorus was for the keyboards/synths. There was a fantastic looking Korg Synth, finished in wood, and with a wooden stand. There was also a spiffy looking Nord Synth.

There were a few pedal boards knocking around. I can't remember what was on each one, but I remember seeing an OCD, a EHX Pulsar, something that looked like an A/B box with a Zvex style finish, and uh, lots of other stuff. Can't really remember this, sorry.

EDIT: I've remembered there was something called a Valve Slapper, as well as a Tube Screamer. There was a pedal that looked to be called something like a Great Fuzzilator, or something, but half the name was obscured by tape. Also, there was an EHX Hum Debugger and a Memory Man. And, there was an old Boss Chorus Ensemble. I don't know how old it was, but it looked nothing like any of the one's they've had out since I've been playing guitar.

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... tic+arctic

less_cunning · Post by **less_cunning** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:01 pm

there is a 212 page thread devoted solely to this topic on the Arctic Monkeys forum.

goldengurls · Post by **goldengurls** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:16 pm

i hear it's just a bunch a fake turds strung together with cords.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:49 pm

goldengurls wrote:i hear it's just a bunch a fake turds strung together with cords.

lal

you might be postwhoring to get to the classifieds, but this is gold.

goldengurls · Post by **goldengurls** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:17 pm

ah you know me from osg. I don't care about the classifieds per se.

Taylor704 · Post by **Taylor704** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:43 pm

Think that's from one of the recent tours

ChrisFFTA · Post by **ChrisFFTA** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:18 am

Taylor704 wrote:

Think that's from one of the recent tours

whats the white 5 knob thing in the (our) upper right?

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:26 am

They are playing here in town TOMORROW NIGHT (tuesday) but I absoutely cannot get off of work. I'm fucking pissed. I was going to take a ton of pics and bump this but no can do.

UgoUzuegbunam · Post by **UgoUzuegbunam** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:28 pm

Awww! Gutted!

Post by **Mike** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:10 pm

haha.. he got a pedaltrain and then put a board over the slats? That's an expensive way to go.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:18 pm

Logic sent me to "Maybe he uses the pedaltrain because it fits in the flight case?" and then i realized its on risers so it wouldn't fit the flight case anyways.
Oh, to be a rock star

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:23 pm

ChrisFFTA wrote:
Taylor704 wrote:

Think that's from one of the recent tours
whats the white 5 knob thing in the (our) upper right?

Thats a Death By Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun.

kim · Post by **kim** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:25 pm

i always wanted a fuzzgun

so pricey though

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:28 pm

Haze wrote:Logic sent me to "Maybe he uses the pedaltrain because it fits in the flight case?" and then i realized its on risers so it wouldn't fit the flight case anyways.
Oh, to be a rock star

He probably uses a pedaltrain on risers because his guitar tech told him it's the handiest way of doing this. It looks to me like the pedaltrain is on a frame which would let it sit inside a flight case just under the lid, so the flight case could be opened, the frame with pedaltrain could be lifted out, then a stack of stuff could be underneath that (guitar rack, for example).