Rig Rundown - Jacob Binzer (D-A-D)

In this video lead guitarist Jacob Binzer (D-A-D) shows us his live rig and demonstrates some of the settings he uses when playing live with D-A-D.

00:00 - Intro riff
00:16 - Basic dirty rhythm sound
00:42 - Dirty rhythm sound with more gain / the Van Halen sound
01:13 - Dirt sound with delay
01:30 - Solo sound (gain & delay)
02:01 - Amplifiers (Friedman BE-100 Deluxe & Marshall JCM 800)
03:06 - G-Force delay, TC Electronic
03:19 - Proctavia effect pedal
03:31 - The riff from "Monster Philosophy"
03:44 - Effect pedals explained
04:17 - System Interface (for amps), custom made Skrydstrup
04:39 - MR10 Loop System, Caveman Audio
04:53 - I/P Selector, custom made Skrydstrup
05:03 - Gibson Les Paul, Murphy Lab ’59
05:27 - Gibson Les Paul, Classic (back up guitar)
05:27 - Gibson Les Paul, Classic (back up guitar)
05:47 - PRS Mira guitar (“the throwaway guitar”)
06:58 - Fender Jazzmaster ’63
07:21 - Playing the Jazzmaster
08:38 - SC1 System Controller, Caveman Audio
09:38 - Explaining how to make the “Spaghetti Western sound” used on “Sleeping My Day Away”
12:02 - Mic’s used for guitar cab (Shure SM57 & Royer Labs R-121)
12:56 - Dual Mic Preamp, Caveman Audio
13:31 - Playing Chopin’s “Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor”

Jacob is an avid Caveman Audio user and has multiple custom-made products from Steen Skrydstrup. The SC1 System Controller is used for switching between the different presets. All the pedals are connected to the MR10 Loop System to make sure there is impedance correction on every loop, as well as silent switching.

https://caveman-audio.com/sc1/
https://caveman-audio.com/mr10/

The latest edition to the amps is the Friedman BE-100 Deluxe. It is used for the “dirt rhythm” sounds, whereas the JCM 800 is used for the clean sound.

The amps are connected to the interface, custom-built by Steen Skrydstrup. From the interface there is a line signal to the TC Electronic G-Force, then from the TC Electronic G-Force to the power amp, and lastly to the delay cabinet. From the delay cabinet the sound plots into the clean and dirty cabinet.
The live sound is a mixture of the 3 cabinets. The first cabinet is the clean sound, the second is the delay/effects and the third is the dirt sound.

These are the effects that Jacob uses when playing live with D-A-D:
Boss CS2 Compressor
MXR Micro Amp
Boss Metal Zone
TC Electronic Spark Booster
Tube Screamer TS-808
Electro-Harmonix, Pitch Fork Pitch Shifter
Voodoo Lab Proctavia
Dunlop CryBaby
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus (Power adapter)
TC Electronic G-Force

The main mic used on the cabs is the Shure SM57. The addition to the SM57 is the Royer Labs-121. The combination of the two mics together works really well. The SM57 and the Royer go into the Dual Mic Preamp, custom-built by Steen Skrydstrup.

The main guitar that Jacob uses at the moment is the Gibson Les Paul, Murphy Lab ’59. His backup guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Classic from 2000.

Jacob’s PRS Mira guitar is only used for the last song in the set, because as a finishing act Jacob always throws his guitar up in the air, and usually it lands safely (in a softy net) behind his cabinets.

Whenever Jacob wants clean sounds on the stage he uses his Fender Jazzmaster (1963).