Rig Rundowns
Summary: Premier Guitar’s world-famous Rig Rundowns take you backstage to explore the live gear used by your favorite guitar and bass players. Whether you’re into shred, country, indie, or classic rock, Rig Rundowns give you the lowdown on the instruments, pedals, and amps powering the biggest acts on the road today—and often we even coax them into demoing their favorite settings. Listen now and pick up new tricks for how to set up your rig!
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Podcasts:
PG's Rebecca Dirks is On Location in Chicago, IL, at the United Center where she talks with Rush's Alex Lifeson's tech Scott Appleton about the gear Lifeson is using on Rush's 2011 Time Machine tour.
Watch how the alt-rock pioneer’s front line use a pile of pedals to dish out some rough-and-tumble tones.
For decades, Timmons has wowed fans with his versatility and musicality. Watch as he demonstrates how he gets studio-quality sounds onstage.
The California rockers walk us through how they formulate hip garage-rock tones with some semi-vintage gear.
The chill, mostly-instrumental rockers breeze through a tonal equation that includes Ibanez guitars, Matchless combos, and a bunch of pedals.
See Jon Herington’s live rig used on Steely Dan’s summer 2011 tour.
The post-hardcore power duo dives into their go-to axes, goosed tube amps, and healthy stash of tone-warping noisemakers.
PG's Rebecca Dirks is On Location at in Iowa City, IA, where she catches up with Warren Hayne's guitar tech--Brian Farmer. In this segment, we get to see Warren's amps--Diaz, Soldano and PRS, which all run through Marshall 4x12--his guitars that include some Gibson Les Pauls, ES-335s, Firebirds and a very rare 12-string Les Paul.
The Lone Star rockers walk us through their powerfully simple setups.
The desert-rock party animals discuss the gear that gets the crowd to boogie.
The reunited duo share stories behind some of their favorite axes, and demonstrate how they craft their rootsy twin-guitar attack.
The top-shelf guitarist pulls back the curtain on the high-power amps, signature guitars, and boutique pedals he uses to power his live show.
Learn how the band covers everything from noisy, sonic assaults to dreamy, pysch-tinged surf-rock melodies with minimal gear and an overflow of punk-rock ’tude.
PG's Chris Kies is On Location in Chicago with guitarist Omar Rodrigues-Lopez and checks out his live rig.
The hard-rocking collective gives us a tour of their gear and shares some of their favorite tone tips.
