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Rebecca Dirks is On Location at Tinley Park, IL, where she goes onstage and checks out John Mayer's current live setup with the help of legendary guitar tech Rene Martinez (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Prince, Mick Jones).

In this segment, Rene walks us through John's amps (Dumble Steel Stringer, Two-Rock John Mayer Signature, and Fender Bassman), his cabinets (Alessandro 2x12s with Celestions), his effects (including Eventide TimeFactor, a Boss GE-7 Equalizer, an Ibanez TS-10 Tube Screamer Classic, a Roger Linn AdrenaLinn III Beat-Synced Filter Effects Processor, a Korg Toneworks G4 Rotary Speaker Simulator, a Klon Centaur Professional Overdrive, a small Analog Man Comprossor, an original Marshall Bluesbreaker, a Keeley Electronics Katana Clean Boost, a MXR M-108 10-band EQ, a Roger Linn AdrenaLinn Groove Filter FX-Amp Modeling-Drum Box Processor, a Roger Linn AdrenaLinn II Beat-Synched Filter Effects Processor, a Way Huge Aqua Puss Analog Delay, and an additional Eventide TimeFactor), which is anchored by a custom Bob Bradshaw switching system and controller. Rene even shows off some of Mayer's 40 guitars he currently has on tour.

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noel on 04/16/2012	must be nice john, when are you going to write ANYTHING heavy. you have the gitrly/teenager stuff in spades. where's the heavy deep stuff? btw-u really seem to be a headcase of late. hope u get over yourself and get it TOGETHA jr!!!
DKblues on 11/25/2010	Thanks alot for this interview and good look into John Mayers current tour Gear. And to all the people saying John Mayer can't play the guitar... Well I think the words of René Martinez speak for themselfs, and I also think you might want to go see an ear doctor :)
JM sucks on 11/05/2010	It's not a childish argument. It just goes to show what an eccentric egotistical homo JM is, he is quite full of himself. The great ones of history didn't use half the junk this tool does. I don't envy Mr. Martinez at all. JM must be a real pain in the arse to be a tech for.
Graham75 on 10/26/2010	What is the point of this childish argument about how many guitars he takes on tour. It's his tour, they're his guitars and he's paying people to look after them. If he wants to take 40 guitars on tour, that's up to him. There's no right or wrong here, it's personal choice.
garry renfro on 10/16/2010	Well, I am another old geezer and have little use for lot's of effects and multiple amps playing simultaneously; in fact I keep my tone really clean. But, I think John has mad talent/skills, and have enjoyed a lot of his work the past three years or so.
Ric on 09/30/2010	For those of you that are dissin JM, I must have been getting something to drink when you were on satage, WTF Almost like you a saying EC can't spot a player.
dennisl59 on 09/24/2010	Call me an old school geezer but this is complete and utter overkill, especially the bradshaw setup. compare his rig and tone to eric johnson's or jeff or eric. And I can see 'maybe' 10 guitars for the road, but 40? give me a break. one more thing...he can't play his way out of a wet paper bag. in my opinion.
Rebecca - Web Ed on 09/22/2010	There's a picture of the rack on PG's Facebook page. It's a phone picture, but hopefully it helps: http://bit.ly/97noj0
dkfone on 09/22/2010	can anyone see what the settings are on his tubescreamer?
Michael Cannon on 09/16/2010	That was pretty great...Over the years I've learned to play with much less, a looper and with true by pass...but I have one thing John doesn't have for the Wah-Wah...Is the true-bypass-Wah-Pedal by G-lab...This thing is great and very smooth...Your wah-wah sets on it (on) and you put your foot on it and go...take your foot off and it's off with true by pass...So john if your reading this ...this is a must have...Michael Cannon / Danville,Pa

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