Tim Commerford is currently pulling double duty by touring with his new project Wakrat, which opens for his other project, Prophets of Rage. In spite of doing two soundchecks and two shows per night, Commerford was kind enough to meet with PG’s John Bohlinger to give us a look at his mighty rig.
Tim Commerford has played a lot of different basses over the years, but recently switched back to the Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay. Commerford travels with a bevy of stock StingRays that are strung up with Ernie Ball Slinky strings (.50–.105).
Here is No. 2—a StingRay with a rosewood fretboard. For Wakrat, all the basses live in a pair of tunings: C#–G#–C#–F# or D#–G#–C#–F.#;
For Commerford’s clean tone, he uses a 1978 Ampeg Classic SVT running into an Ampeg PR-810H cabinet.
For a bit more growl, Commerford uses his Ampeg SVT-2 Pro head running into an Ampeg PR-410HF cab.
A shot of Tim's rig onstage at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Commerford runs a 20' cable directly into an EBS MultiComp, which feeds an Ampeg SCR-DI and a homemade mute/splitter that also feeds a Peterson SC5000-II strobe tuner (not shown). From there, Timmy C’s signal hits a Countryman DI, an A/B box that switches between his two Ampeg heads, a Custom Audio Electronics Line Driver, and a Dunlop Cry Baby Mini Bass Wah. A TC Helicon Mic Mechanic is used for vocals, and the entire pedalboard is powered by a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2.
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John Bohlinger is a Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist best known for leading the band on NBC's Nashville Star, serving as music director for the CMT Awards and specials on PBS and GAC, and of course for his appearances in PG Rig Rundown, Review Demo, Axes & Artifacts, and What Bohlinger Plays videos.
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