QUOTE (Sensible Jones @ Feb 26 2012, 04:50 AM)
Wow!! He still uses a Zoom 9030????
I have 2 of those and don't really use them!!
Steven has always been about the playing over the gear which you have to give him credit for. He uses one of his signature distortion stomp boxes for boost. I've tried this pedal and it's basically a pretty standard Ibanez overdrive paired with another fairly standard ibanez distortion. Neither one very distinctive in terms of tone and far below the punch/grit of the old green tube screamer. But as it is VAI honestly, it's mostly about the wah wah, the whammy bar and Steve Vai himself.
My current pedal board is still the crusty DIGITECH GNX3 which was all the rage with Metal Heads for it's crazy gain and spot on tube screamer emulator. I keep it around most for use as a preamp as the amp modeling in it is quite good and using it in the chain before Guitar Rig for example, makes software emulation a lot more convincing.
I actually use it on a mixer stand in the studio to have acces to the controls, as shown here below the keyboard.
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