The version used on the Trio era pedalboard is the Mk1 pedal before Dunlop took over manufacturing for Way Huge effects. This has been John’s delay of choice since 2004 and has been seen on most pedalboards through his whole career. John would use the TS808 or the BD-2 as his main overdrive and would stack them together when extra gain is needed. In recent years he has favoured the TS-10 but at this point in time he was still using the tried and tested TS808 pedal. The Ibanez Tubescreamer has always found its way onto one of John Mayer’s pedalboards at most stages of his professional career. This was a common mod that many professional players had done to their BD-2 pedals. It adds an additional switch called the “Phat mod” which boosts the low frequencies that the pedal has available. The modification changes the tone of the pedal slightly from the stock version. The BD-2 that appeared on John’s pedalboard in 2005 was modded by pedal guru Robert Keeley. Not only does this allow a volume boost, but also a gain boost. John would run this before his overdrive pedals so that it hits the overdrive stage harder. Clean boosts are often situated at the end of a signal chain so that it just takes the guitar signal as you hear it and lift it in volume. The Katana is a clean boost that offers a large volume lift. Not really an effect but this is the tuner that John was using on the Trio era of his career. There is no information to how John would have set his up. RMC Wah pedals are fully tuneable and have a range of internal trim pots and dip switches to allow the user to tune the wah’s voice to their own needs. While not many detailed photos of his pedalboard from this era exist, it is believe the wah he used on the JM3 tour and album was the RMC3. He enlisted bass player Pino Pallidino and drummer Steve Jordan and with a stripped back guitar rig, he let the music do the talking. The rig he used in 2005 with the John Mayer Trio.Īlthough he was receiving mammoth success as a solo artist, John had a desire to play the clubs again as a trio, playing a more earthy and bluesy style. In this article we are going to look at one of John’s more stripped back rigs. Known for his affiliation with Dumble amplifiers (You can easily expect to pay over £80,000 for one!), vintage guitars and high end pedals, he’s not a cheap player to tone chase. He may divide opinion with some of his antics but let’s face it, he’s a great player with a fantastic tone. Many write him off as a flash in the pan pop artist, but the truth is, John Mayer is a guitar player through and through.
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