David uses Fender electric guitars, Taylor Acoustics, McIntrye pre-amplification, and Fender amplification.

LIVE

One of the main "live fly around pedal boards" consists of a prototype McIntyre tube pre-amp/compressor, and is routed through the following pedals.

Early picture of pedal board A-03

The Blues Driver, and MXR pedals were added to this rig on the road, after this picture was taken. 2 original blackface Fender Super Reverb Amps are usually at the receiving end of this signal.

David has several of these boards with slightly different configurations, it's a quick fix for "no frill" fly out gigs that are "One Off's" when David doesn't have a rig out on tour.

I know a constant with him is McIntyre tube pre-amplification and compression, and he rarely leaves home without a dan-echo pedal, those items seem consistent with the boards I have seen in his arsenal.

STUDIO

David's studio setup is one of the most extensive out there, with over 100 devices and amps to hook a guitar up to, there isn't one set rig to post a routing path for. David usually experiments in the studio, on the fly, and tries different guitar/amp/effect combinations for different musical situations.

A look at part of David's studio setup, the camera lens wasn't wide enough, there is actually more !

A look at one of the racks

The Fender Bassman amp has been converted into a McIntyre Blues Maker Amp, modified by John McIntyre himself, it is power soaked by a Palmer load box (5th in the rack) and hooked into loop #1 of the Bradshaw/Rocktron programmable switcher (#2 in the rack), the front end of other amps, and other pre amps such as the Sans Amp (#3 in the rack) are looped into the Bradshaw/Rocktron box (up to 9 amps, or pre-amps) and finally routed through a Stereo Tube effects-loop (#4 in the rack) where levels of the Alesis Quadreverb (1st rack space) can be blended with the source tone, without running the entire signal path through the unit.

 

I have much work to do on this page, and I need to get together with David's Tech for help and explanation of the systems and equipment I will be showing on this page, but he is unavailable for most of this year due to an extensive schedule.

David also has a large collection of vintage guitars which I intend on photographing, and posting on this page, so, keep checking back.

All of the amps, guitars, gadgets, pedal boards, and racks of gear,will eventually be catalogued, and thumnailed on this page

Thank-you for your patience

Robert Carey.