• Trainwreck Express (Jan Marie and Shinobu, plus Tina on backup). • Komet 60 (several, with varying tube configurations) • Mesa Boogie Mark III Long Head (loaded with Sovtek 6L6 and preamp tubes)
Amplifier choice moved around a bit in the early part of summer tour before Trey settled on one Trainwreck (Shinobu) and one Boogie. A second Trainwreck, Tina, is currently used as backup. Earlier in the tour, Jan Marie was loaded with 6v6 and run as a clean amp, while Shinobu was loaded with el-34. The purple Komet 60 ran with 6L6 while in use. The Boogie made its triumphant return in Connecticut on July 23, 2024. It had otherwise not appeared on stage with Trey since Summer 2016, when it may have been backup. The last time we can confidently say that it powered the rig was Summer 2015. The Boogie lead channel is accessible by footswitch, so it is not being used exclusively for the clean tone.
Electric Guitar Cabinets:
• 2 x Paul Languedoc 2×12 cabinets. • Leslie G-37 rotating speaker The return of the old 80’s Languedoc cabinets came along with the Boogie Mark III in Uncasville. As we’ve documented at TGR, those Languedoc cabinets had been covered in tolex before the 2014 summer tour but the tolex has since been removed. The Leslie is in use, but offstage.
• Koa 1. Single output, no push-pull, no coil drop switches, no series/parallel. This guitar uses 50’s wiring for a super simple and very toneful setup. Loaded with TAF signature pickups by Rewind Electric.
Electric Rig Effects:
Gain/Overdrive • 2 x Tube Screamer (Analogman modded TS-808) • Ross Compressor
Voicing • Digitech Whammy II. • CAE Wah. • Line 6 M5 Stompbox modeler PRE.
Time-Based (reverb and delay) • 1 x Way Huge Supa Puss • Line 6 M5 Stompbox modeler POST. • Boomerang Phrase Sampler.
July 20 in Mansfield. A nice look at the full rig as it appeared early in the tour. Two Trainwrecks and two Komets, with the Komets used as backups during this period. Trainwreck Jan Marie is running 6v6 as a clean amp at this point. Trey is standing on a Porter and Davies KT Platform, which is designed to allow him to feel the sound of the instruments even though they’re using in-ear monitors.Here’s a great look at the beating heart of the pedal board from July 20. Across the bottom you can see switches for Leslie, Supa Puss, Nux Voodoo Vibe, two Tube Screamers, the Wah, and a universal tap tempo. Center bottom is an amp selector to choose between Shinobu and Jan Marie. In between the M5 unites, you can see the M5 presets available to select from, including Growler, Reverse, Delay, Sweep, Cave. There also appears to be a trigger for the Ross Compressor up there. Here’s our first look at the Mesa Boogie on stage in quite some time. In this photo from Uncasville, The amp rack has three units: The Boogie on top, then a Komet 60 in middle, and the Trainwreck at bottom. According to our archives, this is the first time the Boogie appeared on stage since Summer 2016. We hadn’t seen the uncovered Languedoc 2×12 cabinets since New Year’s Eve 2013-2014 at MSG.This great overhead shot from July 31 in St Louis reveals a rig that looks closer to the traditional 90s Trey rig than anything we’ve seen in a decade. You can see that the amp switch on the pedalboard has been altered so that it selects between the Boogie and the Trainwreck, rather than between two Trainwrecks. Also of note, Trey was trying a Vox Real McCoy wah on this particular evening, and you can see the VOX logo on it at bottom left. The McCoy was still in the rig as of August 6. Trey noodles on Koa 1 and the old Boogie during soundcheck at Uncasville 1. Fiddling with some sounds before Uncasville. Clear Analogman logo on the TS-808.This photo from July 21 shows the rig in mid-transformation, with a Trainwreck, a Komet, and two custom 1×12 cabinets flanking the amplifiers.This beautiful shot from Mansfield night 2 gives us a full color look at the rig in its full glory. Note the use of a Cioks AC10 power supply. behind the CAE Wah and Digitech Whammy. The yellow and black box toward Trey’s rear right is a selector switch that allows him to choose to have his vocal mic audible to only the band or to the full audience.
All photos by Rene Huemer and LivePhish and (c) Phish.
Thank you for the great update! It’s been fun watching all the amp and speaker changes in the early part of tour. Do you know if the Ross comp is a vintage unit or a reissue from JHS?
Great update! I’ve always dreamt of a rig that amp switches between a Boogie and a Trainwreck, and he’s finally done it! So my understanding is the Boogie is housing 6L6 tubes and is primarily being used as a clean amp, whereas Shinobu with EL34 tubes is serving as the dirty amp?
I’m a little surprised as I would have thought Trey would want the Trainwreck to provide his clean tone, especially considering the presence of the Mesa Boogie Lead Channel Switch. However, the EL34 tubes in the Trainwreck and 6L6 in the Boogie suggest the opposite. Do you have any examples of how exactly he’s utilizing these two amps, or when he switches between them?
His tone on Divided Sky at Alpine was just perfection. So stoked the Mesa plus Languedoc cabs are back! Feels like he’s achieved an intuitive balance of his classic tone & new. Perhaps needed for what lies ahead at Mondegreen? We shall see …
Alpine Divided Sky was so very sweet and powerful. I hadn’t noticed or heard about the Mesa Boogie until after that run, and it makes so much sense. 2024 is a special year already
Thanks – I’ll add that now. Rene and I discussed many years ago and he was comfortable with our photo usage on the website, which is of course for educational purposes and not for profit. But I do always intend to give him credit and I don’t always remember, so thank you for reminding me.
If you watermark them with your website, you should also watermark with name of photographer, not just in the text. So if people reshare your photo, proper attribution remains. Thanks for your great work!
Has Trey has abandoned the wet/dry concept at this point? Or is the reverb somehow run to the front of house/monitor mix but not through the cab? Anyone know how this works??
Related but separate question: is it safe to say all of his effects (including modulation and delay) are running into the front of the amp (except possibly reverb)?
I know the mark III does have an effects loop but I believe the trainwreck does not.
Do we know how this works? Is it a line out of the two heads into one reverb unit, then to the house? Or is the signal from the mic on the cab somehow split and reverb added to one half?
Trey has a Supa Puss on top of his rig, I bet it’s for a delay somewhere between short and long. He keeps tweaking it, I think he changes the amount of repeats. Thoughts?
I don’t know about you, but I feel like when the Ross > Boogie for cleans reappeared, it immediately injected so much inspiration into Trey’s playing (especially on the classics like YEM and Reba with those clean runs). When Trey was using just Trainwrecks or Komets (or Marshalls briefly), he basically had no crystal clear tone and wasn’t able to make a song like Foam sound right.
Trey almost was there for the MSG ‘23 shows I saw with the Deluxe for clean and Wreck for dirt, but this current setup with the Mesa Boogie in place of the Deluxe is simply my favorite Trey tone other than Bradshaw rack with the CAE preamp circa ‘95-97.
I’m a bit surprised Trey hasn’t tried a vintage Fender Super Reverb as a clean amp.
Thanks so much, Ryan! Super stoked on the return of the Boogie – imo it’s been sounding AMAZING so far!
This pic from sunday via @stocktonecustomshop, who got a soundcheck tour from Justin, caught my attention – looks like the Klon has re-entered as well! https://www.instagram.com/p/C-P65MzOOzG/?img_index=4
Thanks for all that you do!!
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Thank you for the great update! It’s been fun watching all the amp and speaker changes in the early part of tour. Do you know if the Ross comp is a vintage unit or a reissue from JHS?
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Vintage unit.
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Great update! I’ve always dreamt of a rig that amp switches between a Boogie and a Trainwreck, and he’s finally done it! So my understanding is the Boogie is housing 6L6 tubes and is primarily being used as a clean amp, whereas Shinobu with EL34 tubes is serving as the dirty amp?
I’m a little surprised as I would have thought Trey would want the Trainwreck to provide his clean tone, especially considering the presence of the Mesa Boogie Lead Channel Switch. However, the EL34 tubes in the Trainwreck and 6L6 in the Boogie suggest the opposite. Do you have any examples of how exactly he’s utilizing these two amps, or when he switches between them?
Thanks as always for the great info!!
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what’s the red pedal? Is that the nux? I thought it was blue?
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The Blue Nux was the Nux Monterey (a digital Uni-Vibe clone), while the red Nux is the newer-version called the Voodoo Vibe.
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His tone on Divided Sky at Alpine was just perfection. So stoked the Mesa plus Languedoc cabs are back! Feels like he’s achieved an intuitive balance of his classic tone & new. Perhaps needed for what lies ahead at Mondegreen? We shall see …
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Alpine Divided Sky was so very sweet and powerful. I hadn’t noticed or heard about the Mesa Boogie until after that run, and it makes so much sense. 2024 is a special year already
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Great writeup! This answered some amp questions.
Respectfully, I think some/most of those photos should be credited to Rene Huemer (official photographer) and not this website. Peace!
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Thanks – I’ll add that now. Rene and I discussed many years ago and he was comfortable with our photo usage on the website, which is of course for educational purposes and not for profit. But I do always intend to give him credit and I don’t always remember, so thank you for reminding me.
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If you watermark them with your website, you should also watermark with name of photographer, not just in the text. So if people reshare your photo, proper attribution remains. Thanks for your great work!
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Killer write up, as always, Ryan! Thanks for keeping us all informed
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Ryan
Thank you for your work as always!
couple questions….
so do we know if the Ts808s are currently released, then silver modded by Analogman?
is the Vox Wah modded at all?
and so- no rack units- the Supa Trem is missing too?
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Has Trey has abandoned the wet/dry concept at this point? Or is the reverb somehow run to the front of house/monitor mix but not through the cab? Anyone know how this works??
Related but separate question: is it safe to say all of his effects (including modulation and delay) are running into the front of the amp (except possibly reverb)?
I know the mark III does have an effects loop but I believe the trainwreck does not.
Someone enlighten me!
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He still has a wet-only reverb but it goes straight to FoH and the in-ear monitors. No need for additional speakers onstage.
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Do we know how this works? Is it a line out of the two heads into one reverb unit, then to the house? Or is the signal from the mic on the cab somehow split and reverb added to one half?
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The DM2000 returns for Dick’s!
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Trey has a Supa Puss on top of his rig, I bet it’s for a delay somewhere between short and long. He keeps tweaking it, I think he changes the amount of repeats. Thoughts?
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I don’t know about you, but I feel like when the Ross > Boogie for cleans reappeared, it immediately injected so much inspiration into Trey’s playing (especially on the classics like YEM and Reba with those clean runs). When Trey was using just Trainwrecks or Komets (or Marshalls briefly), he basically had no crystal clear tone and wasn’t able to make a song like Foam sound right.
Trey almost was there for the MSG ‘23 shows I saw with the Deluxe for clean and Wreck for dirt, but this current setup with the Mesa Boogie in place of the Deluxe is simply my favorite Trey tone other than Bradshaw rack with the CAE preamp circa ‘95-97.
I’m a bit surprised Trey hasn’t tried a vintage Fender Super Reverb as a clean amp.
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return of the table
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What is the mod on the TS-808? Silver? Or?…. thank you
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Yep, Silver.
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thank you for answering back on the TS mod! Awesome.
do you happen to know where the Ross compressor and the Tube screamers are at in his signal chain? Beginning? End?
thank you
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I’m wondering if anyone knows what speakers he’s using in the Languedoc cabs these days. Still the old Vintage 30s?
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Any chance you know which color stripe Trey’s boogies are? I heard they are red stripes but have read conflicting info on some forums.
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LONG LIVE THE ROSS COMPRESSOR!
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