>>This is Joe Bosso from MusicRadar and i'm with Michael Manning, guitar tech for Joe
Satriani. Michael, how you doing? >>Doing fine thank you.
>>We are in New York for the Chickenfoot gig and we are just getting ready for soundcheck
and Michael, what guitar here do you have of Joes
>>Well this is his new Chickenfoot guitar, chickenfoot logo, JS1200 I believe, and this
is his main guitar right now >>And I see it has the Chickenfoot logo of
course >>Yes
>>Any specific changes to his normal guitar? >>No, just I went from 10, from 9s to 10s
and it's actually dropped down a half step, took down a half step.
>>Ok, and why did you go from 9s to 10s. >>Well if you tune down a half step, the 9s
gets a little flimsy you know, just wanted a little meat to it.
>>Fantastic, so this would be his number 1 guitar on stage right?
>>Right >>And what would be the number 2 guitar?
>>Well number 2, is this guitar here, this is another 1200 which he has done a little
artwork on himself. >>Yes he has, there you go.
>>The famous Joe Satriani figures. >>Ok, and anything specific about this guitar
we should know? >>No, same as the other one
>>Ok. Now you've been with Joe for some time huh?
>>Yes I have, since 88. >>How has it been working with Chickenfoot
as opposed to working with Joe solo? >>Uh, it's more fun!
>>Oh yeah? >>Yeah, there's vocals you know, it's different.
Joes a lot looser and it's like all the focus is on him you know.
>>Ok. >>He's smiling a lot.
>>There you go. Let's go to his pedal board. >>You wanna? Ok
>>Sure. >>Well here we have a very nice looking pedal
board. It's a very simple thing, there's no effects racks or anything so the signal actually
goes into this Vox wah-wah pedal, and this POG here, to this micro POG, then we'll trace
it over here to the Voodoo vibe. The Voodoo vibe goes into this saturator here which is,
he uses these two together because the gains lower on that, this one here.
>>Ok. >>Then it goes into the flanger, into the
other, no i'm sorry let me correct that. It's going into here, then into the flanger. >>Ok. Alright.
Then it's coming out of the flanger it's going
back to the amps. These two delays, one is short, one is long and they are into the effects
loop of one of the amps, so he has a dry amp, and a wet amp.
>>Ok, and these are his new babies right? >>Right.
>>Ok, how are the new JSXs working out? These are the 50s right?
>>No, these are the 120 watts. >>Ok.
>>He's just using a clean channel, we've got 25W greenbacks in the cabinets, and they're
working out great. >>Well, can we get a demonstration of the sound?
>>Yeah sure.
>>You know, you'd think after 21 years of working for Joe i'd know how to play guitar.
>>I'm sure you're going to dazzle us. >>Ok, i'm not supposed to make any noise,
but so here's the delay, the short one, the long one, sometimes he'll use both at the
same time. Mostly it's just the short one. This here is the main saturator.
Which he gets all this gain from.
This ones quieter, cause he uses it with the Voodoo vibe.
The flanger. See they're telling me no noise, so we'll have to turn the gain down, so as
not to make that much noise. There's the POGs, and he uses this POG for his, they do a song
Highway stars and he's getting the Keyboard sound from getting these 2 POGs together I
believe. It does sound like a keyboard a little bit. And then here is his big bad wah right
here, which is just a wah-wah pedal. Basically that's it, but we can't forget this right
here though, a very important part of the rig.
>>What's that? >>Right down here, this is the power supply
that we use to get steady power to the whole backline, bass, drums and guitars.
It's a Furman AR-Pro, a very important part of the rig to me. A very long time ago, I think when
I did an interview with you on paper. >>Yeah.
>>And it was Juice Qs and it was powered by a Slim Jim, remember that?
>>That's right, exactly. >>Alright, well hey, thank you very much.
>>You're welcome. >>Michael Manning, this is Joe Bosso with
MusicRadar and thank you very much. >>Hold on.
>>Foot! >>There you go, thank you very much.
>>You're welcome.