His current Ernie Ball signature axe comes in both 6 and 7 string versions. He uses lots of wah on his leads.Copyright Dinosaur Rock Guitar, 2016. Rich Assassin.
I think was the last prototype before they went into production. See all. Consequently, his sound is more modern and processed than vintage. Then it's got the Ernie Ball Piezo system on the bridge, which all his guitars come with. It's a 712ce model. He approaches the guitar the way a grad student approaches his master's thesis.Versatility. And as anyone who's ever seen Dream Theater tear up a set of cover tunes live will attest, he's extremely well versed in the classic rock and metal of the 70's up through today.As far as lead goes, John truly can play just about anything — and you're going to hear everything he knows at some point. Both models feature Floyd Rose style locking tremolos.
I've seen him playing a strat, and my sister and her boyfriend say that he does. His setup includes signature model guitars from Ernie Ball Music Man, including a custom one with an aluminium top, and a Taylor acoustic. Alternate picked scalar runs, seamless legato passages, sweep picked arpeggios, pentatonic blues riffs, it's all there. Guitar Style. Judging by the year in which the video was shot it's most probably a Platinum Pro Series Assassin.It's his most new signature guitar series to dateOn 3:40 John Petrucci Looks Using Ibanez Talman 90's ModelJohn demos his Sterling EBMM JP60 here."The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. As seen on his website and on many stages, John Petrucci is using his double neck JP signature model.In this video John demos the sterling by music man version of his majesty. Originally picking up the guitar at the age of 12, Petrucci has received accolades from a wide variety of industry sources for his contributions. Since he formed the progressive-rock band Dream Theater at Boston's Berklee College Of Music,
John is a schooled player, and studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston as did the core of the guys in Dream Theater. See all Item description. BUT my friends say no.
Click here to let us know!Assuming this is the guitar he used in this video due to the style of the headstock"The last different guitar is the Baritone, and this is actually the BFR model before we came out with the JP10s and JP11s.
He made two of these which we possess. When he went to Ernie Ball he said, 'We don't want to do that. Shipping, Returns & Payments. All Things Heavy! John uses this on 'These Walls' which is tuned down to A. That's the only song he uses it on," says John Petrucci's guitar tech.John Petrucci plays this guitar in this video"This is a new thing. John has a very disciplined approach to playing and learning new techniques to incorporate into his playing. It's got the maple top on it and tobacco finish. Slave Output. This gives his notes the definition they need on fast, intricate patterns, and puts the guitar sound squarely in-your-face so it cuts through the wall of drums and keyboards that he competes with in the mix.Discipline. Dudley at Ernie Ball came up with that gauge for himself and said 'You guys should try this out,' and we did and [John] loves them. They're doing a little acoustic set depending again on the set list. Again, from the head rather than the crotch.John likes to close mic his cabinets with SM57s, and does not like any natural ambience at all in his recorded tone. Copyright ©2003 All rights reserved.John is a diehard Mesa man and has used everything from the Mark series to Formulas, Rectifiers, and the TriAxis. It is modeled off the JP15 so it has the same body style, but we brought back the arm scoop from the original JP line of guitars."At 3:44 you can clearly see John Petrucci using a JP6 Mystic DreamJohn Petrucci can be seen holding this guitar in the source photograph. We just plug it straight into a DI and that's it. So this is the main JP11 and it's kind of a silver color.
Best Selling in Guitar Amplifiers. New 3x3, 6 Button Footswitch (Bottom Row: Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3 – Top Row: Reverb, EQ 1 & EQ 2). " John tends to favor the Aeolian and Phrygian modes primarily, although there are examples of all modes in Dream Theater's music.John always has a huge effects rack. And he sounds like typical Berklee guitarist — everything is thought-out and and pulled off with ridiculous precision. We use this in the studio, it's a Taylor 30th anniversary.
Recently he's favored Mesa Mk.II C+ heads which are older 80s models. Tonight he'll use it on 'Endless Sacrifice' and then the other D song in the set is 'Forsaken', depending on what set list we're doing.