Guitars
For more than 30 years, Scofield's main guitar has been an Ibanez AS-200, but due to some travel issues he wasn't able to have it on this particular gig. On the latest album, Überjam Deux, he also used a Fender Custom Shop Relic'd Strat and a mid-’70s Ibanez T-style guitar.
Amps
When backline is provided, Scofield requests two reissue Vox AC30TB amps and then chooses one to use during soundcheck. When possible, his preference is for pre-2006 models.
Effects
In the Überjam group, Scofield needs a rather large palette of effects. This pedalboard, put together by Mason Marangella from Vertex Effects covers all the bases. The signal enters the board through a Vertex input buffer and then through a true-bypass loop that contains the DigiTech Whammy XP100. From there it goes through a TC Electronic Polytune Mini, Vertex Axis Wah, J. Rockett Blue Note overdrive, and a Vertex-modified Boss GE-7 Equalizer. Next is a breakout insert interface going into a Vertex-modified Boss CE-3 Chorus, Neunaber Technologies WET Reverb, and another Vertex true-bypass loop (for the Boomerang Phrase Sampler and Electro-Harmonix Micro Synth). Finally, the signal ends at another interface (single output buffer/splitter, splitting mono signal to two amplifiers).
Avi Bortnick Gear
Guitars and Amps
For his rhythm work in Überjam, Avi sticks with a Strat made up of a Highway One model body and EMG SA pickups. He strings it up with a .010 set of D'Addarios and plugs into a 2x12 Fender Twin Reverb.
Effects
Avi needs to cover a lot of tonal bases in Überjam, including triggering all the samples in real time, so his rig is a combination of the traditional guitar/pedal/amp setup and a more modern software-based approach.
The guitar first goes through an A/B switcher that toggles between the pedals on his board and a Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 USB interface. From the interface it goes to his Apple MacBook Air (running Ableton Live and MIDI Guitar) and the Korg Electribe.
Once the guitar leaves his A/B box, it goes into an Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer, Wright Sounds Fuzz-Stang, Vemuram Jan Ray, DOD FX17 Wah/Volume, Boss CE-2 Chorus, Boss TR-2 Tremolo, MXR Carbon Copy, and a Strymon El Capistan.
