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Rig Rundown: Jimmie Vaughan

See the stripped-down rig Vaughan uses to get his Texas blues-rock tones.
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We caught up with Jimmie Vaughan's guitar tech, Mark Weber, to check out Vaughan's simple-yet-effective setup. Watch him take us through the rig in detail:

Guitars

Vaughan travels with two MIM Jimmie Vaughan Signature Strats relic'd to look like his original guitar he played in the Thunderbirds. The guitars are stock with a V-shaped neck and Fender's Tex Mex pickups and strung up with custom gauged flatwound strings starting at 10.5 up to 50 or 52. Vaughan uses a Schubb capo so that when he plays a song in a different key, he can use fingerings from more familiar keys. For picks, he uses hotel room keys cut into different shapes.

Amps

Vaughan runs dual Grammatico Kingsville amps tweaked to his desired sound. They are run simultaneously with slightly different settings based on the room into a Voodoo Lab Amp Selector. His only pedal is a stock Boss Tremolo pedal used for "Scratch My Back."


     

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Jay
on 01/24/2013 		I've seen him run 1 amp mic'd and one not mic'd at Yoshi's in SF - gets the detail of the mic'd one and the open-ness of the other one, creates a natural spacial effect that along with the unreal tone of the Kingsvilles is something to behold!
blues wannabe
on 12/26/2012 		best dang interview i think i ever seen straight talk, thx jv
George P Manning
on 10/04/2012 		I see both amps mic'd
TJ Nugent
on 04/20/2012 		I take it that he uses the Voodoo Switcher just to be able to run out to two amps and that doesn't actually switch between them. At least from the setup, one amp was mic'd, but that doesn't mean that the other isn't being run to the PA direct. That is the question I would ask. Whey one mic when he has a different setting on each amp? Also, does he switch or not? His tech said they both run at the same time. Interesting.
Tim
on 04/19/2012 		Can I just say that Jimmie is the man? Simple rig. It's all in the fingers, baby.
Anthony
on 04/19/2012 		what are those straps? beautiful!



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