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Premier Guitar is on location in Des Moines, Iowa, where PG's Rebecca Dirks talks with Dustie Waring and Paul Waggoner of Between the Buried and Me. In this segment, they discuss how they use both Axe-Fx and traditional amps and pedals in their rigs.

Guitars
Dustie plays modified PRS Custom 22s built to be lighter weight with obeah wood, and loaded with his signature DiMarzio pickups and a Floyd Rose. Paul plays PRS Custom 24s with Bareknuckle Blackhawk pickups. Both guys tune to C# standard and used custom gauge D'Addario strings: .011, .014, .021 (wound), .032, .044, .056. They use Line 6 Relay G50 digital wireless units.

Amps and Effects
Paul and Dustie's setups are very similar: Fractal Axe-FX Ultras through Mesa/Boogie stereo power amps. Dustie uses a Stereo 2:100, while Paul uses a Simul-Class 2:90. Both have Stereo 2:50 units for backup. The Mesas power two Port City 212 cabs (each) that are running in stereo and have Celestion Vintage 30s.

Dustie controls his Fractal with an MFC-101 and sets his patches based on basic tones. His main "chunk" sound is based on a Mesa/Boogie with an Xotic BB+. His main clean is a Dr. Z and Fender Twin with Reverb and delay, while his clean lead adds in the Xotic BB+.

Paul controls his Fractal with a Rocktron All Access foot controller, but sets his patches up in song mode, with rhythms, leads, and other patches for each song—even using a banjo-sounding patch when necessary.

Both guys use Mission Expression pedals for volume and wah through the Axe-FX, use TC Electronic PolyTune tuners, and employ a Port City Salem boost on their board. Paul's board also has a Wampler Faux Tape Echo and Wampler Levithan.

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Andrew on 05/16/2013	Paul's PRS is feckin beautiful. And Dustie's octave patch name HAHAHA
Magneto on 04/01/2013	"Dank ass chunk" HAHAHA!
Ben on 03/26/2013	Well I think he means pedals mostly. Yes, Axe-FX has every bell and whistle you need, but who really uses ALL it can offer? It looks like they use Axe-FX for their amps only to me. I think what he was getting at is that they just have a board to control Axe-FX, a tuner, expression pedals and that's basically it. And they just use a few guitars. In one tuning. They don't need millions of guitars in all these different tunings, just a PRS in C# and that's it. So simple. (And you'd think a prog metal band would have a lot more!)
riplead on 03/21/2013	I wish these guys would do less talking and more playing. It would be nice to hear the sounds they're describing...
Tony Mallory on 03/21/2013	Thank you PG for finally using lapel mics. Much, much better.
Stitch on 03/21/2013	WTB: Dimarzio's Dustie Waring pickups
Tim on 03/21/2013	Thats literally all they have, 2 guitars and bells and whistles. Hell Paul has a banjo preset.
Ethan on 03/21/2013	You realize what an Axe-FX does right? It's basically every bell and every whistle.
Mike on 03/20/2013	My favorite thing about these guys rigs is that they only use one or 2 guitars and have a very low key set up. They don't need all the bells and whistles like other bands usually have

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