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Rig Rundown: Primus' Ler LaLonde

Watch him demo the effects on his three wacky pedalboards as he shows us through his stage gear in the latest Rig Rundown
Premier Guitar January 2012

PG's Shawn Hammond recently caught up with Primus guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde before a show to check out his live gear. Watch him demo the effects on his three wacky pedalboards as he shows us through his stage gear in the latest Rig Rundown:

Guitars
Ler takes a number of guitars on the road, but his main guitar is a stock 2011 Fender American Deluxe HSS Strat (far left). He uses a number of other Strats, Teles, and two Fender Pawn Shop Series Mustang Specials. The green guitar is a replica of his '76 Strat he no longer takes on the road.



Amps
LaLonde, who used Marshalls for a long time, switched to the Fender Super-Sonic 60 for the band's latest album, Green Naugahyde. He mostly uses the dirty channel of the amp and controls the distortion with his guitar's volume knob. Atop his amp is a Korg DT-7 tuner. The amp is plugged into an EVH 412 loaded with stock 25-watt speakers and mic'd with Sennheiser e906s.

Effects
Ler uses a three-board setup to achieve Primus' off-the-wall tones. He says of his pedals, "Everything's usually pretty much maxed out and drastic, it's not very subtle with the effects!" Though he has a vast collection of pedals at home, these are the ones he takes on the road:


Board 1: Maxon Phaser, Strymon Ola Chorus, MXR Carbon Copy Delay, Fulltone Ultimate Octave, Dunlop Uni-Vibe, and Dunlop MC404 Custom Audio Electronics Wah (customized by Dunlop to be half Slash wah, half Dimebag wah).


Board 2: Empress Tremolo, second MXR Carbon Copy Delay (for solos and tweaking), TC Electronic Nova Repeater, Mu-Tron III+ reproduction, and EBS OctaBass. His third board (not pictured) has an Electro-Harmonix Ring Thing and a Radial Tonebone Bones Twin City ABY Switcher to go between his amps and his tuner.


     

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JustNapping
on 01/11/2012 		Ler sounded way more acid-guitar in the first 2 albums, and gradually progressed into a more progressive sound. I personally prefer Pork Soda. Ever album is like a different side of Primus, I see them all as equals.. even that new one.
Karlhungis
on 01/10/2012 		haha *grapevine not rainbow, i have no idea why i wrote that wrong...Freudian slip perhaps
Brit Peter
on 01/09/2012 		I prefer the Rig Rundown for Yngwie Malmsteen, that's a real rig.
Karl
on 01/07/2012 		all those pedals a little over the top a few of the sounded quite lame but thats my opinnion other than that nice set up and rig rundown
Mr. Blaileen
on 01/06/2012 		"Over the Electric Rainbow"? Haha, grapevine not rainbow.
RLow
on 01/05/2012 		Agree with Karl about Ler shining on Tales from the Punchbowl. My favorite Primus song ever is On the Tweek Again, Les and Tim almost battle each other on who's going to keep the rhythm while Larry shreds the hell out of it.
Karlhungis
on 01/05/2012 		to me ler shines the most on "tales from the punchbowl" it's when they started getting more progressive and it gave him a chance to stretch out and play more. i.e "over the electric rainbow" and "southbound pachyderm" great shit!
Bags
on 01/05/2012 		green naugahyde even has some timing issues. its still a great album though with huge potential but it needs a remix. i also have to say that they were better before the effects racks.. give me to defy any day!
Primus628
on 01/05/2012 		I agree Ler is too washed out on Green Naugahyde as compared to previous albums. Probably sounded best on Seas of Cheese.
Karlhungis
on 01/05/2012 		Bags you are right about the mix. Ler has always been pretty low in the mix for Primus which gives them their unique sound. The last album is great and I Les is the best bass player of all time but when I listen to it I wish the the guitar and drums were a bit louder in the mix. I



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