John Petrucci | Dream Theater | Part 1: Ernie Ball & Music Man | Thomann

Kris had the honor to talk to John Petrucci about Dream Theater, Ernie Ball, Music Man, MESA/Boogie, occasional BBQs and much more.
Petrucci gear in the shop: http://tho.mn/r5gum
Watch the second part of the Gear Talk here: http://tho.mn/c9asb

Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Introduction
0:36 25 years of Images and Words Tour with Dream Theater
2:41 Dream Theater influences
4:00 Geartalk
5:10 What's new with Ernie Ball & Music Man?

5:26 Music Man John Petrucci Majesty Signature
5:52 From bolt-on to neckthrough design
6:58 Design of the Majesty
11:22 Illuminator Pickups tweaking
12:39 Piezo System
13:23 Piezo Clean Sound | Playing
14:41 Splitted or not splitted for Cleans?
15:23 TC Electronic Dreamscape
16:16 Clean Sound from the amp | Playing
16:22 Clean Sound from the piezo | Playing
16:29 Combined clean sound (amp+piezo) | Playing
18:10 Have you considered putting single coils in your Signatures?
19:02 Buffered Preamp in the guitar
19:25 20dB boost on the volume control
20:08 20dB boost usage | Playing

21:15 Ernie Ball Paradigm Strings
23:02 How is your relationship to the Ernie Ball family?

25:10 Recording of Images and Words

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