Chords for Matthew Stubbs GA-20 Rig Rundown

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_ _ _ _ [N] Alright, hey guys, Matt from GA20 here.
I'm gonna walk you through my rig that I use live with the band.
Let's start with the guitar.
For the most part, _ I'm always using this on stage with GA20.
It's a mid-60s,
Silvertone
_ 1454.
_ For the most part, it's stock. _
Let's see, well, the most obvious thing that's happening here is the middle pickup has been removed.
It actually, I think I blew it up and I got to send it up for repair,
but I want to keep using the guitar, so I had my tech. _
_ Wire it up just with two.
So these switches, if you're not familiar with the model, these are just on-offs.
So _ each pickup has an on-off.
If it goes down, it turns it on. _
Okay, I had it refretted when I got it,
so the frets are in better shape and I had the Bigsby rebuilt.
And the last thing that I did with this guitar that I do with a lot of Gibson guitars that I use live,
I have it rewired
_ basically like a Telecaster.
One volume, one tone.
That's it.
These are just connected.
So when I'm playing live, _ on-off, on-off,
_ volume, tone.
Kind of like a Telecaster as far as the tone controls.
Just makes it easier and less blending live.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ D-Arm and Gold [N] Foil pickups, and that's that.
Fully hollow.
Tuning keys are original on this one.
All right, let's go to the pedalboard.
_ _ _ _ I'm using a one-spot C5-7 power brick.
Can't see it, but it's underneath to power everything.
_ Then I plug first, I go into the Boss tuner, TU-3.
It's the third generation one.
I seem to break a lot of tuners and this one keeps up.
It doesn't seem to break, so that's good.
Next along the chain is first generation Seymour [Eb] Duncan pickup booster.
I've used this pedal, man, _
as long as I can remember.
I almost always just leave it on.
_ You have a three-way selector, [Eb]-1-2. _ Typically, I want it to be just a clean kind of fatter boost, _ but [B] not really change the tone. I leave it on zero. _ [E] And one acts more like a P90, two [Eb] more like a humbucker, and then you get this thing if you want more volume. But I usually keep it down. You can hear it right here. I'll turn it off. _ [E] Here it is off. _ _ _ _ Off. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Am] Just a little bit fatter, cleaner. I [E] guess it's kind of like the Klon, only you can buy those for $50. _ _ _ _ Moving on. _ [B] I love Lonnie Mack and Robert Ward, and this pedal basically _ is like that. It's a pitch bending vibrato pedal made by Big Tone. It's called the Maggie. [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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It's a [G] stereo pedal, but the way I'm running it right now is just mono, so you can switch here. So I'm on mono. You get your intensity. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
Zero outer space. _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ Now, if you [Bm] use it in stereo, it does sound pretty cool. I just don't have it rigged up that way for now. All right. So from there, _ _ _ I'm going that Maggie into Catlin Bread Topanga Spring Reverb, which _ [Eb] to this date, my favorite. My favorite spring reverb digital pedal. _ That one's off at the moment. You'll see me pan out. I got two of them, and people keep [A] asking me why I have two [G] on my board. With GA-20, there's times where I use quite a bit of reverb, and I got sick of bending down, basically, _ from song to song. So I have them preset. I tried it a few different ways, like just having one crazy and one mellow. I actually _ decided that I like both of them kind of set, [E] kind of chill, not crazy, like that's just one on. And then I set the other one kind of chill, too, but they both go on at the same time. _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
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_ _ _ [Bb] I basically have them all set at 12 [Bm] o'clock. The one that _ goes a little extreme, I have the dwell up a little bit. _ Okay, and lastly I have the Orange Detonator [Bb] AB box, which right now I'm just not using [F] it. _ _ _ But when I get backline amps, we're playing festivals or I'm flying in and out, and I use two amps, this is nice because it also has a phase button, so the amps aren't [Bm] running in phase. _ And it's also a Y, so ABY. _ Typically, if I'm [Eb] using AB, I'm just using the Y feature, [Bm] two amps on all the time. And lastly, my Altoids thing, everyone asks what that is. That's just where I keep my guitar picks. I always lose them. _ _ _ [A] _ Moving on to the amps. _ _ [Cm] _ [B] Now, like I said before, they're both just on all the time. [Bb] I'm not going back and forth. GA-20, we don't have a bass player, so Pat and I both use _ blackface Fender amps on the bottom. We try to keep them pretty clean, low end. _ I go through the left channel, I bypass the trem, I bypass [Bm] the reverb. A lot of times I feel like that channel is a little fatter, and I have my reverb on the ground anyway. _ _ _ And you'll notice I'm going into one, and then out of the input two, I just run a guitar cable up into the other amp, the GA-20. _ So they're just both on, and I never have a problem doing that before I had an AB box, so I still do that. _ Bright switch. _ It really just depends on the gig. I play a lot of the higher parts in the Pat plays the low end typically, but we do switch from time to time. So it just kind of depends on the way the room sounds. I never really put the volume on the bottom amp much past [N] three, three and a half. _ It just starts breaking up, and I don't need to have to break up too much. _ Treble, bass, _ five, six, depending on [G] the room. And that's that. Amp stock, _ except for the [N] speakers were switched out a long time ago to Reverend Alltone, _ and they're ceramics, so I get a little more headroom, a little tighter. Moving up here. _ _ A 1960-61 Gibson GA-20, that's where we got the band name. We were using these when we first started. _ _ This one's seen lots of gigs. It's got some glue and some duct tape on there. I go into the first [Bb] channel, and I run this one really not crazy loud. This is your volume right here. [E] _ _ [B] I'm going to turn the black bass amp off so [E] you can just hear that. _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Em] _ Turn it up a little bit. _ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [E] _
_ _ And when [Bm] I got this amp, it was pretty dark. [Gm] I had my amp tech stand day. I think he switched out a cap or something and just opened it up and gave me a little more treble. So now the treble, I'm [B] only running it on two or three. [Bm] Where's that on? Maybe on two. _ _ _ _ _ _ Let's go back to the Vibra-Lux, and I'll just show you what that sounds like without the tween amp, [Eb] too. So I'll put this back. [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [C] This is both of them. [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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So that's it. That's my rig with GA-20 live. The only other thing you might see different if I'm playing is I use _ _ Black Bass Pro Reverb, which is basically the same amp, but two 12-inch speakers. So if we're playing bigger [A] rooms, I do switch out, and sometimes we use that. All right. If you like what you see, please share it and check out our page. Thanks. _ [N] _