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RIGGED: UNEARTH’S BUZ MCGRATH TAKES YOU THROUGH HIS ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL GEAR SETUP

Monday, July 18th, 2011 at 2:00pm by

 

RiggedBuz McGrath Unearth

As part of our coverage of this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival – currently winding its way through North America — we’re bringing you a series of “Rigged” columns in which several of the tour’s musicians take you on piece-by-piece guides of their current live rig setups. Check out what Machine Head’s Phil Demmel had to say about his super-sweet rig last week. Here’s Unearth’s Buz McGrath:

Greetings! Let’s have a look at the rig I’m using on this year’s Mayhem Festival.

The guitars: two ESP Horizon NT 7 seven-string guitars and two ESP Horizon FR-7 seven-strings:

Buz McGrath Unearth

I use the Samson UR-5D wireless. This is an older unit and has been discontinued, but I’ve stuck with it because it’s performed great for me over the years.

My pedal chain is a pretty standard set-up. Boss tuner to Ibanez tube screamer to Boss NS-2 noise gate:

I use the EVH 5150 III as my main amp. This is the head I have been using live for the past two years. Chris Cannella is my dude at EVH and they take great care of me.

Buz McGrath Unearth

I’m giving the Engl Powerball a test drive, which you can see in the above pic as the lower head. Sounds pretty sick so far.

These days I’m using the EVH 4×12 cabs for the first time. They sound awesome!!!

Buz McGrath Unearth

Thanks, everyone. See you out on the road!

- Buz McGrath / Unearth

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Makoto-Wakabayashi/1007321058 Makoto Wakabayashi

    those esps are a beut

  • PrEtTyLuSh05

    Is it me, or everyone’s using the EVH 5150 III or the Axe-FX Ultra on their rigs nowadays??

    • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f60fa9e6421f91d4c1d1d0e1fe20a144.png Goro923

      No, it isn’t. And you forgot the TubeScreamer.

      • Slaughterhouse

        There is a reason everyone uses the Tube Screamer. Can’t go wrong with it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Cimaglia/1097033911 Ian Cimaglia

      At least 3 bands on the Mayhem tour are using the Axe-FX (Trivium, Megadeth, Machine Head). I want one :(

    • builtforsin

      And before that 5150 II, and before that….5150

    • ChuggaChuggaDeedlyDoo

      I can at least understand the convenience of a unit like the Axe-Fx, but the 5150 craze does not make sense to me.

      • eetfuk

        It is a legendary metal amp and probably the most used amp in post 1990 extreme metal. All of this for a plethora of reasons. Some that come to mind: it’s fairly cheap, easily fixable, sturdy, and delivers a trademark ungodly, grindy, midrangey metal tone with an absolutely miniscule amount of tweaking. It doesn’t do anything else, but no one fucking cares. You buy a 5150 with a perfectly clear idea of what you’re getting into. Personally i’m a Mesa Mark series guy, but i’m a weird dude.

        • edika

          Also the EVH version of the 5150 and the III model has a very nice clean channel compared to the Peavey counterparts!

    • David

      Just goes to show had badly Marshall stumbled in the 80s with the JCM900 and beyond.

      If they had kept making good 800s and plexis, Marshall would still be a contender. Instead, laughing stock. Seriously, the JCM2000 has like 1 decent clean sound, and 1 decent classic, and that’s it.

      David

      • Adam

        used to run a JCM2000. switched to a 6505 II about 6 years ago. there’s no comparison.

  • Android

    Who the hell goes from using an Ibanez S to an ESP Horizon? Gross.

    • Slaughterhouse

      I was going to say the exact same thing before reading your comment

    • The Zapper

      He did have some sick LACS S7′s, but I’ve heard rumors that he might have switched in order to get a signature model with ESP.

      • Sylvester

        Eh, the ESP’s are nice (and I happen to like the Horizon series guitars), but I really loved all the custom S-Series guitars he had! I love mine!

  • Jeff B

    Whoa wtf is going on with his tuning? B F# B E A C#…? That’s like a 6 string Drop-B tuning, but Unearth has always just been standard tuned 7 strings(BEADGBE) right?

    • Slaughterhouse

      Yes, they always have used the 7 strings, but they do it the ASP way and just use Drop B tuning

      • Whale Biologist

        I’m pretty sure they play in standard seven string tuning (A440 with the low-B). Maybe the tape is meant to be a joke, since 90% of Unearth tabs I see are for 6-strings in drop-B?

    • Android

      Wow, that is really retarded. If you’re going to drop tune a seven, why not just drop it to A? Weird.

    • Coolface

      I don’t know if they have adopted this tuning recently, but I’ve seen them live multiple times and they always played everything in B standard tuning, you can see it clearly in the Sanctity of Brothers video where they’re playing the open E for the beginning riff

      • http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com Jeff B

        Yeah, that live DVD they did a few years back was all B standard too…

    • DJ Renault

      On the new album Arise The War Cry is in 7 string drop B (lift B? :P) for sure, see this video:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si289AXNQx0

    • lucifer

      have any of you considered that perhaps he has more than one guitar because he uses more that one tuning?

  • Fred Durst

    Suckalos… Sounds like Juggalos… Dick.

  • Buz mcgrath

    I would never use the word “suckalo” i dont know who put that in there.

  • John

    Bring back the VHT bro

  • Bryan

    hey buz–trade you my prs for your esp!!