He builds boards for so many others, what does the Rig Doctor use on his own pedalboard? We found out! Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more pedalboard goodness!

@theodorek.b.2103

3 жыл бұрын

@Sweetwater! Thanks for doing this! More Rig Doc!!!!

Thanks for having me Don and Sweetwater! What a fun day!!!

@electricgypsyblues4761

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mason Can you give me your settings you were using on the Fender Michael Landau, I have one and your getting an awesome tone on this

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@electricgypsyblues4761 I think it was set pretty flat. Volume around 3, treble at noon, bass off, presence off, midrange 11, reverb around 9

@g.w.thurmond3691

3 жыл бұрын

@hercovintage sounds like a winning formula. Hold for ransom all those that you don't agree with or else. It sounds like you're just throwing stuff at the wall with no investigation of what's true of false and just seeing what sticks or re-telling what you read on the internet. Mason has and continues to address any of his shortcomings in a transparent way and for a lot of these accusations you're hurling, he's been culpable for that over seven years ago, admitted his faults and accepted the consequences. I think a lot of people could learn from being humbled like that and actually do what they say they're going to do.

@electricgypsyblues4761

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc Thank you

@theodorek.b.2103

3 жыл бұрын

​@hercovintage wow! You must be Jesus Christ himself. Listing another man's moral inventory without any mention of your own transgression. It's frustrating to see someone that actually doing the right thing and delivering on what they said, to have folks like you want to watch them burn. I've now own some Vertex pedals, and can tell you that they're rock solid, sound great, and are well built. But, moreover, I love the content that Mason and Vertex put out - it's actually the most helpful among any pedal, amp, or guitar builder out there. I think he's only rivaled by Josh Scott JHS, Brian Wampler, and TheGigRig in this regard - manufacturers putting out more content to improve user experience of other brand's gear over their own and actually creating more educated customers. I too have followed the events that transpired since 2014 with Vertex and you're retelling things here which are fundamentally wrong. First, prison? Give me a break. If selling a Wah pedal - no matter the context is a prison sentence, then you better ditch your bank and stash your savings in a safe. If the CEO of JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, or fill in the blank bank is able to walk the streets free with all the lives they've ruined, then put your money where your mouth is. LA Sound - he claims that Mason used a pedalboard of his in a website photo. I don't know as I've not seen hims how any evidence of that other than saying it, which the burden of proof is on LASD to substantiate. But let's just say he's right...did Dave build all the pedalboards for Mason and Mason took credit for it? Absolutely not. Mason was building these pedalboards for Landau, Scott Henderson, Josh Smith, etc. Dave is trying to correlate that Mason sharing a photo of a rig as his own somehow means that Dave is now the person that built all these celebrity rigs? Sounds fishy. What I read this as is Dave's way to kick a competitor when he's down. Dave had years to say things about Vertex if this was the fact, yet we only hear about it when Mason/Vertex are being flogged in the public square. It reads to me like Dave was irritated that someone 20 years Mason's senior was working with his idols like Landau and Henderson. You're right, Joe didn't like his Vertex rig, however, again it seemed like a dog pile on Mason as that rig Mason had shared out 6-8 months before the Wah thing happened and Joe made that statement about the rig. It seemed like it was a dispute about being billed more than anything. If Joe didn't like it, why not resolve it with Mason and tell him instead of the internet 8 months later? I've never see any other artist, Landau included, ever say the work was bad. Many of these big time guys like Robben Ford, Landau, and Josh Smith all had several Vertex rigs over a 5-6 year period. If he was so bad, why keep coming back to him? #3 I've talked to Paul several times about the Vertex Fuzz because I wanted one. He and Mason designed that - there's no issue there. Paul and Mason did that as a joint venture product. Why would you assert something like this that is clearly false? Why lie to prove that Mason lied? Why not spend the time you spend thinking about Mason on your personal growth? Are the enlightened people of the world really spending their time calling out others on the internet?

Love this video. I’m kinda late to the party but I just added 2 vertex pedals to my board and totally love them.

I like how mason communicates in a way that no matter your level of understanding, whether expert or rookie, or somewhere in-between, you still feel like you're part of the conversation. Learnt a lot from his videos through lockdown.

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rich! So glad you find the videos useful!!!

My, how the tables have turned.

Sure was nice to hear someone demo some great tones (not just fifteen, loud, louder, loudest distortions). Excellent.

This is such a quality pedal “philosophy of use video”, thanks to Sweetwater and the Doc!

Watched this on a whim and BOOM I got some free impulse responses! BLESS UP! Thanks all

Gotta love a pedal-builder’s board, you know he chooses these pedals carefully. When Mason described the tonality of the Ultra-Phonix as having that certain darkness to the overdrive, being somewhat similar to the ts10 but not quite the same, and when he played it it was exactly as he had described it. Someone like him who listens to these sounds under a microscope all the time really has the vocabulary to describe what’s going on accurately.

Very nice!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Craig!!!! Heck yea!

So cool!

I just got the vertex effect pedal board!!! Love it. Im also happy that he has a the captor M by two notes. I have an empress stereo buffer that can go to the two notes or go to my fender twin!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Heck yea! Sounds like it's a great rig already! So glad you like the pedalboard!

Love Uncle Mason "sharing is caring" Great information!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha! Hope you dug the video!

great video, love all the Sweetwater videos and love Mason's channel too, always great info, keep up the good work!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏 thanks Mark!!!

The IRs are awesome thank you very much!

Love Mason's work and his personality. You can tell he's a great hang. Kudos to Don for the interview.

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahhaha! Please tell my wife!!! Thanks for watching Michael!

@michaelgregory2231

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc Hey, that's my line! :-)

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgregory2231 hahahaha!

Great tones! What speakers in the Deville??

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Celestion V Type

sounds great

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

🙏 🙏 🙏

Jason, you‘re not at all a bozo, you sound killer! KILLER! I don’t need to hear sweep picking or anything like that. You, my brother, got tone! That‘s what a lot of folks are missing. What I am missing on your channel is you playing the guitar more often! Let us hear some more of that sweet tone! And just stay who you are. So good to see some love in this crazy world! Stay safe and all the best from Germany! 🙂

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Manuel! Thanks so much...I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It was a lot of fun to be there with Don and the Sweetwater crew. I'll keep that in mind in our future videos :)

Singular Sound's Aeros and Beat Buddy!

When I gig , I like to cut in the mix

I really like Sweetwater and Mason...who does the board for one of my favorite players John Scofield

Don and Mason, hey, Thank You! Actually really learned quite a bit from this video. Planning to rethink/redo the input front-end of my mini-board based on some of the stuff Mason mentioned and demonstrated.

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! So glad this helped!

Why do you need an input buffer when the Vertex Boost is also a buffer? (So are the Archer and the TS-10) And the fact that it's only one pedal away from the interface...

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Ideally you should always have an input and output buffer so you can 1) control your pickup loading 2) converted the input signal to low impedance (preferably around 100 ohms) and 3) have an output buffer so you don't rely on any pedal to drive the line back to the amplifier - most pedals don't have output impedances better than 1K which is a poor spec for driving a lot of capacitance on the output of a pedal with stability. I may have been able to get away with using the Boost as my input buffer since it has a 1M input impedance and 80 ohm output impedance, but if I swapped it for another pedal, like our HRM or Compressor - They're both true bypass, and the Klon buffer is no prize and nowhere near the quality of the buffer we'd use on the input of the rig, or the Vertex Boost. If you're using high quality buffers having the input buffer in series with the Boost or Archer 2-3 pedals in won't have a negative influence. By using an input and output buffer you have a hardware firewall that isolates the impedance of the pedalboard and the changes in impedance from pedal to pedal from the guitar and amplifier. This way you can change things on the pedalboard without any consequence and you have limited your variables considerably.

@phawinphan

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc Thanks Mason!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@phawinphan 🙏 🙏 🙏

His channel is awesome too, very knowledgeable.

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

🙏 🙏 🙏

What song is he playing when the video starts?

@aldoparra4473

3 жыл бұрын

Cissy strut

Love it!!!!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏

hi sweetwater

What amp is being used in this demo?

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Hot Rod Deville ML

@lcvol73

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc thanks for the reply. Great tones!!!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@lcvol73 sure thing!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@lcvol73 🙏 🙏 🙏

Funny there making a video with him but they still don’t sell vertex pedals

@idanramos1942

3 жыл бұрын

they do! they are selling the pedals and pedal boards!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Gabe, they've been selling our stuff for over a year.

@gabesguitarstuff9087

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc oh ok I must have bean thinking of another store Love your stuff btw

@gabesguitarstuff9087

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc ya don’t know how I mixed up my local store and sweet water that’s embarrassing

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabesguitarstuff9087 all good! Thanks for watching the video!

Sounds great. What is this pedalboard? Where I can find one?

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Its right on the Sweetwater website! Vertex Travel Lite with TL1 riser!

Yeah Mason! Love to see he genuinely likes his own gear

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Let's hope so...that'd be a drag.

Popcorn ready.

John Mayer is The Rig Doctor's personal lord and savior! Haha! But you gotta love his pedalboard philosophy and pedal choices.

Great , my kinda pedalboard. Mason what do you think of the Vemuram TS808?

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

It's great, but you can get great tube screamers for $100. I still love the TS-9 reissues even the TS Mini is wonderful!

How do we get the link to download his cabinets that he mentions at the end?

@sweetwater

3 жыл бұрын

@Luis Salazar sorry for the omission, we've added that link to the video's description text - thanks for watching!

@theodorek.b.2103

3 жыл бұрын

I downloaded them on one of the last videos! They're killer IRs! Thanks Mason for doing this!

@boimesa8190

3 жыл бұрын

@@theodorek.b.2103 are those the same ones? U have a link?!

@gainonten4031

3 жыл бұрын

@@sweetwater Wow didn't expect you guys to respond so quick!! Love your store and everything you represent for us musicians!

@theodorek.b.2103

3 жыл бұрын

@@boimesa8190 I think so...maybe @VertexEffects can chime in to verify????

well damn

Not for nothing, this is also the best playing I've heard from Mason

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Awww shucks...thanks Logan. One benefit of COVID has been brushing up the old chops. Now I just need to learn to play like Don Carr LOL

Next time they remake The Hulk .....

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

I get 'Jack Black' more often than I get 'Mark Ruffalo'

@neoaureus

3 жыл бұрын

Vertex Effects ...haha...love your playing and pedals !

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@neoaureus thanks so much!!!

No axis wah?

@ngleon6577

3 жыл бұрын

this is so damn old...

@TotalEvo7

3 жыл бұрын

Thats the past. No use in mentioning it again.

olaf the snowman

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Do you want to build a snowman?

@colsontowingllc3309

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc hahahahahahaha my grandkids watch this like 10 times a week...make it stop!!!!!!!

How do we know those pedals are what he says they are? For all we know, they could be other pedals he put a new housing on, as hes done in the past. Beware buying Vertex.

Well, let's just say YOU should be playing the guitar.. Sorry.

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Don is the pro...he would've sounded best, but hopefully you suffered through me playing ;). Thanks for watching Jeff!

@jeffliberatore3759

3 жыл бұрын

@@VertexEffectsInc Haha! Sorry, you were fine! I have some of your stuff anyway, so I am a fan! Great stuff!

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffliberatore3759 thanks for the support!

booooohhh, to that guy. he's a fraudster, steals and relabels other designs and effects. don't buy Vertex.

@patrickcarroll1754

3 жыл бұрын

Rafi, I get it, but Mason has rebuilt his reputation in a commendable way. I'd encourage you to check out what he's contributed in the last 5 years. He's earned back my trust. Hopefully, he'll earn yours one day.

@intensedad2827

3 жыл бұрын

could you explain this? what do u mean

@Burnt_Gerbil

3 жыл бұрын

How many versions of the “green box” tube screamer are there? Everybody copies those designs and adds their own mods to it. There are no copyrights on circuit designs. Why stop at pedals. How many versions of Marshall or Fender style amps are there? Nothing to worry about.

@theodorek.b.2103

3 жыл бұрын

@Rafi, do you know what actually happened? This is about the most uncharitable and lazy retelling of what actually happened. First off, he's not selling his own pedals here. It's about "What's On Your Pedalboard". 90% of the pedals talked about have ZERO to do with Vertex. Secondly, what happened with the Axis Wah happened 6 or 8 years ago. There was no pedal in question before that time or after that in terms of the validity or authenticity, so why misrepresent this as some sort of pathology when it was one pedal? Beyond that, every person that owned the product got a full refund - I don't see anywhere people claiming otherwise. Please name for me another CEO that faced the music and made people whole again 100% whilst in the midst of a public flogging as Mason did. Did Nike make families whole again whose children served as child labor to make training shoes? Did Apple make whole again the loved ones of those that committed suicided due to the working conditions they put employee's under in their iPhone factory in China? What about Toyota and the break failure scandal? VW and the emissions scandal? Are you coming after them just the same and boycotting their products publicly? Most people seeking restitution from any of these corporations are entangled in the cobwebs of the legal system for years and never get reconciliation. I think Mason resolved this with customers within 12 months. Why does the guy that makes guitar pedals get held to a different standard of morality that the guy that makes the shoes in your closet, or the phone in you pocket, the laptop in your satchel, or the car in your garage?

@VertexEffectsInc

3 жыл бұрын

Rafi, may or may not be aware, but every customer and dealership that ever owned an Axis Wah was provided a full refund, rebate, or exchange according to their desired restitution over six years ago. In fact, we still leave the door open to any owner of the product that was previously unaware of refund options and keep a public record of all Axis Wah refunds on our website for anyone to view since 2014: www.vertexeffects.com/redemption . The Axis Wah is not representative of our company values and the products we make. We've worked tirelessly to make a new impression and continue to maintain a high standard of quality and customer service with transparency around each product and its origins. All we can do is release the best sounding products possible and give our customers the best possible quality and support in hopes that with time we'll earn back their trust.

What always weirds me out is guys who will invest so much time and energy into pedals and tone and then just play basic blues stuff

@NobodyNewsNetwork

3 жыл бұрын

Because we have wasted so much time and energy on pedals and tone we have neglected our playing. I'm guilty of it.