All things considered, I'm actually surprised how low the cost of even the most expensive rigs are, considering that the concerts themselves cost millions to put on. I wouldn't be surprised if just one light fixture for the bigger shows cost upwards of $10k, not to mention the control board and generators needed to power them. You'd think most of the cost would be in the guitar sound, but it's not.

While Richard Shaw was still in Cradle Of Filth, his live rig consisted of only two Mooer micro pedals: "005 Brown Sound 3" and "Radar", and Shure GLXD wireless unit, totaling around 700 dollars. He joked that he could carry his rig around in his pockets.

“Tone is in the fingers” -plays through $50,000 rig.

Saw a band in a tiny bar where the fire code was well under 100 people. The lead guitarist was playing through a Diezel VH4 half stack, so around $6100 new. And he had a pedal board, with a couple of Strymons, wah, EVH MXR phaser, tube screamer, controller, etc. Probably another $1500 including the board, ps, etc. The singer/rhythm guitarist's rig was a Boss Katana.

My live rig consisted of a Roland cube on top of a plastic garden chair!

I think one of my favorite expensive rigs was from my old guitar teacher. It was a First Gen Powerball, Orange 4x12, and an older TC Electronic Multi effects pedalboard which was surprisingly good

I like Guthrie's setup, sweet and simple. 😁

I'd love to see a part 2 to this KDH, some suggestions: Matt Pike of Sleep and High on Fire, Man has a wall of orange heads, with a few Laney and Green and Matamp heads thrown in. Amber Valentine of Jucifer, she has a wall of daisy-chained cabs so large its known to damage the structural integrity of buildings they play in. J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. also comes to mind Is known for his notoriously over-driven marshall stacks.

I wonder how much George Lynch's 80s rig would cost nowadays.

Megadeth's Rust in Peace tour is still the loudest concert i have been to after all these years.They had their sound down pat and dialed with suspended Marshall stacks on scaffolds.

Don't forget the wireless belt pack for the Shure Axient ADX1 coming in at $1668.00 each. That's a 4 unit rack of receivers. Most likely used for backup, but I imagine a Hand Held Mic as well. Those are 1K to 2K. Anyway, absolutely love your channel! I'm wishing you the best of success on KZfaq. Your needed here! Thanks

I would be interested in the Def Leppard for the endless sonic possibilities but at the same Nina Strauss shows it's all about the playing and that is good.On the other hand you understand that big productions imply top notch gear.

One of the best guitar channels on KZfaq. Love the variety and coverage of current events in the guitar world. Always dig your new videos

That is not guthries permanent rig, he’s only trying it out for this particular tour. Says in an interview he still prefers his victory amps and such, but wanted to experiment with the FM9 after working with Hans zimmer on some soundscapes for film

Tech is making really killer sounding guitar rigs much more accessible....I heard a live show right hear in Richmond Indiana two days ago just walking by and the singer/ guitar player sounded amazing he had a pedal board and a 4/12 Marshall Cab that's it and he could have played a far bigger show with no problem at all.... awesome! It's an amazing time to be a guitar player!!!!!

Should of checked out Tommy Emmanuel’s rig. A single Boss Tu-3. Great video mate, cheers.

This would be a cool series. Talking about different guitarists and different parts of their career. Zakk Wylde now versus 1992 with Ozzy?

Honestly there's no need for rigs more expensive than Guthrie's. Much less stuff to worry about and much less painful to replace if gets broken or stolen, and the audience will not tell the difference

I was a tech in the 80's. The average racks back then cost $50k or so with some (like EVH) spending over $100k. Touring has gotten a lot less expensive.

The 1960dm cabinets were priced at 1300.00 USD when they were released in 2012. I loved those cabinets. The Dave Mustaine cabs are wonderful, mid heavy beasts, perfect for life work.

I saw a rig walkthrough with Angus Young a short while back (1-2 years) and he has several vintage Marshall heads along with various wireless and switching items. I would love to hear the breakdown of a mixed rig like his.

Guthrie Govan is also using a powered FRFR stage wedge style cabinet (behind him) to hear his guitar. That was on the current Aristocrats tour. I was lucky enough to get to hang out during sound check and meet the band.

Most of what they're paying for are wireless systems, power amps, and speakers. They're all using about 1500-2500 in modeling amps, which is relatively affordable, and only expensive because they often have 2 of them. It's amazing that the average teenager could work a part time job, save up for a good modeling amp and a great guitar in the 800-1200 range, and never complain about "their sound" again. Or at least, not have any excuses other than their playing. It was not always this way.

this has been one of your best vids, do more!

I'd be interested to see a version of price of guitars brought on tour! But this was a great watch too!

Saw J5 live a couple years ago and was super fascinated by his rig. All boss, nothin overly fancy for sure. COOL fuckin player

Lol, i have an old SKB Pedal board with a 15 watt Eminence equipped solid state amplifier built in. It also checks the health of the Patch cables and can power up to 8 or 10 pedals. I' think i'll dig it out. It's like new in the box.

EVH’s last touring rig as a bonus would’ve been nice, but maybe you could do a whole video on every EVH touring rig. Great video!

Steven Wilson's rig prior to the Porcupine Tree reunion would be interesting since it's a fairly complex and high-end pedalboard into a Bad Cat halfstack, and then a little practice amp just because.

I thought the price of the Shure Axient was a typo. $7,000. for a wireless system!?! Holy smoke!

I would be happy to see more of this. It's like lifestyles of the rich and famous but for guitar. 10/10

I once did a gig for 350 people, I had an Ibanez Gax30 Gio, a line 15W Line 6 spider IV amp and 4 months of guitar total. Best time I've ever had.

Cool idea to look at the big rigs. 👍 I am building high end guitar rigs in Germany. I want to add some things, that are not always obvious to see. A rig is not just the "big" parts like the rack units, tube heads or a pedal board. A lot of money goes into installing all the components in a professional way e.g. connectors, cables, switching, buffers, signal routing, electric isolation, noise gating and so on. A lot of the cables have to be custom made to the needed length, soldered to connectors and fixed with cable ties. All this has to withstand the torture of touring and still be maintainable, just in case. Some rigs have more than one foot controller for wide stages or / and for the guitar technician who in some cases does the switching during the whole performance. Then - depending on the rig - there's a lot to pay for pro touring flightcases e.g. I have four Engl 4 x 12 guitar cabinets - the custom build cases for them add over 1200 $ easily - and a crazy weight. Usually you have multiple guitar transmitters. The list of things which are not that obvious to be added to get pro level goes on and on. And then for the very very big guitarist - some of them have rigs in different parts of the world as the fright costs are incredible expensive. So 20 k$ or 30 k$ for a rig without guitars and the guitar techs equipment is not that crazy. Of course, you can have e.g. an Axe-Fx (and a spare) straight to the PA and in ears and it would be not that expensive. A lot of guitarists use modeling or profiling because of ease of transportation and setup, but maybe more because of consistency of tone. I have to stop - I could write for days here. 🙈

Just saw Dave and Kiko in Raleigh NC. They used every penny of that equipment. Kick ass show. Thanks for the video 🤙🤙

also, I would love to see John Frusciante's gear up on the block. That's gotta be close to 6 figures before touching the guitars

I definitely would like to see more of this. Fun video, good work! The contrast in price between professional musicians gear is pretty astounding.

I was SO ready to be converting this entire video to Euro lol (it's actually pretty close to 1:1 right now anyway)...thanks buddy!

i use: marshall 1960a & b cabs, two marshall origin heads, pedaltrain flight case, ernieball volume, korg tuner, wolf computer, aB synthe, empress superdelay vintage, eventide space, zvex tremorama, zvex ringtone, zvex lofi, walrus slotva, electroharmonix cathedral and holiest grail into little dipper+vox delaylab (looper)

I respect when an artist who can essentially afford any combination of gear on the planet decides to use a very basic setup of commercially available, relatively inexpensive equipment. There’s nothing wrong with being a gear hoarder, spending decades chasing very particular sounds and spending insane amounts of money to do so but it’s cool when someone gets all of the sounds they want from a single multi-fx unit and an off the shelf amp. Lots of people just buy and buy and buy and never really end up satisfied.

The Edge. Never been a fan of u2 but I watched a rig rundown with it and it’s mad fascinating.

I've got a Mode 4 cab and I bought it 2nd hand for £450 (although that was 14 years ago) as a reference for anyone curious

Not that its expensive or anything, but i have a full 21u rack of pure 80s hairspray metal

I'm fairly certain the Mustaine cabs are just 1960Vintage, with a metal grille added. The stock 1960AV is a couple hundred $ more than your standard 1960A.

Great video, as always! Could be fun to look at some other rig rundowns. Thanks!

GC has the Mustaine cabinet on its website, out of stock but $1199.00 apiece through them.

I'm using a Boss Katana MK2 100w, 2 cheap Behringer Pedals and mainly a highly upgraded 100€ Strat (with upgrades more ofc). I have no need for more.

Would be interesting to know the price of Yngwie Malmsteen's rig, as well as Slash's.

i think Petrucci's rig, with 2 mesa mark V signatures, 2 axe fxIII, a bunch of pedals and isocabs, plus micellaneus, would put all these in the ZOOM 505 category XD.. but that shure axient is putting a heavy weight on those rigs, it is ridiculously expensive, but i've heard marvels of it

Hey dude, GREAT CHANNEL…no pretentious horse shit, no paid for “reviews “…just guitar talk and FUN…which is the entire effin point, some seem to miss that

Billy Corgan has been known to have an insane rack rig. I once saw a picture that had at least two Diezel VH4s in some insane sized case, surrounded by stuff I'll never understand.

Great video I loved it and all your other videos too. You should look into some of the jam guys Rigs. For example Trey Anastasio’s - the guitar player from phish - dry amp alone is $150,000+ Trainwreck. I think in the touring world overall - just from my point of view - it’s either Trey, John Mayer, or Joe Bonomasa who have the most expensive rigs. They use a lot of vintage gear though so it definitely tips the scales.

Half the players are already using digital, this was unthinkable a few years ago. It won't take long to see a full switch, at least live.

Great video! I'd love to see a breakdown of Larry LaLonde's (Primus) rig from a while back... Dude had 3 pedalboards and 2 super sonic 100s. Also, I remember a rig rundown of the (I believe) Imagine Dragons guitarist which would likely blow Megadeth's price total out of the water...

Also need to include total weight and approximate space needed to transport lol

I've seen Vai once and he sounded absolutely amazing. I severely overestimated his rig cost. Those custom shop guitars might drive that cost up a few dollars... 🤘🤘🤘😄😄😄

Interesting comparison. Here in Australia, gear is hideously expensive. I have a Mesa Subway bass rig and a pedal board. The total (in USD) adds up to 5540 freaking dollars, and I play in a part time covers band. I could only afford it because I wasn't dumb enough to think I could make it as a full time muso. lol.

Dude I was hoping for Matt pikes rig cost. As many orange rockerverbs and dual darks as he can find and a literal wall of 4×12s. Also I wonder how much the grateful deads rig used to cost. Great video

I saw Kiko this year in Montreal and i must say not only was he a mindblowing musician, my friend and I noted how great his guitar sounded. (By the way between us we've seen almost A LOT of guitarists!)

Phil from Def Leppard is prime example of modeling technology being just as good as tubes in a live situation. The coast ( nothing to Phil) is worth every penny. Seen them live with Motley Crue( I'm a die hard Motley fan) and can say that every single night, there sound is perfect, and way better and way louder then the Crue. I'm not even a big Def Leppard fan. But they earned my respect. In a stadium, I'm betting you can't find a clearer, more consistent sound. It elevates them to higher standards live

Great video. I'd love to see what value was involved in assembling Little Manhattan, as well as the cost of the Buzzard basses.

This was a really good video! I’m running an Axe Fx III Turbo now…. it’s unbelievably amazing!! Took a long while to save up for it, but it’s very, very worth it!

do this but with old rigs from the 80s like Zack Wyldes 1987 rack or Steve Stevens in 1988, EVH in 1993...

Great video. Interesting. I run Furman power conditioners, a JX-44 into 2 Quad Cortex units, an FM3, and an old Digitech GSP-2101LE, and I slave the power section and speakers from two old Fender Red Knob Twins. What I don't have is that sweet wireless. Clearly it must be the best one. Good grief, it's half the cost of rigs that had one. I never even knew it existed, but I think I'll stick with my 12' Mogami cable. I don't have any stadium shows lined up at the moment. 🤣

great vid! plus take into consideration the cost of The Guitars as well :)

Would of loved to see Alex Lifeson's rig cost . Probably a quarter million with those washer and dryers.

I liked and subscribed solely for the Warwick hanging, similarly to me swiping right on dating apps for T&A 😬

Love the vids mate! Would be curious about Angus Young’s off Rig Rundown but then I guess like you said you can’t really put a price on the vintage stuff…

When I look at rigs I'm usually looking at the "tone producing" items. The amps, the FX unit, pedals, etc. I never thought "That wireless is $750" or "That power supply/conditioner is like $900."

Great video, I'd love to see a breakdown on Matt Pike from High on Fire

Please do a part 2! Including Tosin Abasi's rig.

I enjoyed this video. It was very well put together. I was just thinking, what about David Gilmour, Steve Lukather, Jimmy Page? Those can’t be cheap at all.

can you find out what a metal core band like beartooth is using price wise? love the effort and quality you put into these videos

Cool video. I definetly appreciate all the work you put into this. Nice job man

When I was touring my rack rig w/ axe FX was around 13k to 15k. I stopped using pedals to simplify my setup and had everything programmed into the axe FX and used the axe FX floor controller and custom Ernie Ball expression pedals.

Good shit man, great idea for a series… more pls :)

I was really hoping you'd have John Petrucci because I feel like he's gotta have the most expensive one. Last I checked he had several Mesa Boogie Mark V's, a few Axe FXs, the necessary switchers & power conditioners, and so on.

Reminds me of Malmsteen describing his rig in the late 80s, with 23 Marshall heads, & 27 Marshall cabinets 😅

Excellent video concept brother.

When I was a kid learning to play, my dream rig was a Marshall MG15 and a Boss ME-50.

I wonder what Robert Fripps setup cost. I saw him at a G3 years ago, performing solo. Well not him per se, I saw a man walk into this huge box made out of different effect devices, synths and god knows what. Then the box made weird noises for about half an hour. Everyone clapped at the box while exchanging confused looks. Then Steve Vai came on and it was awesome.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I remember reading Guitar World that had rig setup in most issues. always found it interesting

The Steve Vai rig looks like mine but its not what I was shooting for, just where I wound up, LOVE my Synergy SYN-2 rack unit into Fryette 2/90/2 but the cab sim is quality for my late night digital needs!

I remember going to watch Dream Theatre and John Petrucci's rig was insane.

Can’t forget Sunn O))). They run like a dozen or so Sunn Model Ts and a few Ampegs and with the prices on reverb right now that’s like $75K just in amps.

i actually have the same rig as one of the people you mentioned today, Nita Strauss, ive been using a gt1000 since they came out and its just fine, i was amazed listening to her talk about hers though, she uses some presets and away she goes, when i got mine, i researched relentlessly on how to get the best sound out of it then built my patches from the ground up, it took me about 3 weeks tweeking it before i started gigging with it

Great video. it may be interesting to see some of the guys using vintage gear- Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, etc.

Those Powerstages are amazing for just a straight clean signal. I had the little 100w floor model, with mono, and that thing would SCREAM!! I couldn't imagine standing in front of a set of amps pushing 1400w of that lmao!! I will say that if it were me I would use those for recording since it's so clear, but I'm betting Dave wants that clear signal/sound everywhere he goes so I bet he uses them in both applications.

Great idea for a series!

Cool, but why are any of these rig prices shocking, it would be uneconomical to use less efficient & controllable gear setups on tour. A slick stage setup pays for itself in no time… Musicians just accumulate over time these pricey electronics they have to buy or what suppliers or developers give to them… moreover these rig prices pale in comparison to the valuation of guitar collections of many virtually unknown people. Thanks man 👍

This rig analysis was freaking positively informative 👏🏻 👌🏻 Thanks.

Kiss : " Play-back for sure, dude ! Priceless..."

Haha I use to chase gear, I got rid of all my pedals and went to a very few just like Scott Ian did. Less is more, I even use positive grid through my studio monitors to practice without paying $1000's of dollars for tones. The only physical amp I own now is one Marshall combo, all my amp heads are gone with the wind. Watch the documentary "It might get loud" I think The Edge had the biggest effects rig and it looked very expensive. BTW JOHN5 won guitarist of the Year a few years back.

“Its just a bit of fun.” Is that a Father Ted reference? My lovely horse?

More of this, please

It would be interesting to do like a "guitar heroes" rig line up for cost. Pink Floyd's alone would be worth just seeing the early gear and if it is still available or what is equivalent. Zeppelin, Robby Krieger from the Doors...oh and to add Ritchie Blackmores, Blackmore knight rig, with all the lutes and classical instruments

Great video! I'm sure the Malmsteen back line alone would crush the list lol!!

great video. some of my favorite players, and actually , the last 3 concerts i saw were nita strauss, john 5, and megadeth.

Guthrie has a little full range speaker cab on stage too.

Surprised you didn’t include your fellow Irishman The Edge’s rig. His rig, amp and guitar collection is insane.

Also, do Matt Bellamy. Lots of info there but you probably have to include his guitars cos they are packed with effects