Jonathan Kreisberg's pedals and amp

**Phil in London** · 02-19-2015, 05:04 AM

yd in London... unfortunately rubbish photo qual, sorry...

**David B** · 02-19-2015, 06:58 AM

Hi Phil
I have Kreisberg's pedalboard here in my house so will share a photo later.

The amp is my Deluxe Reverb, with JJ valves and an Eminence Cannabis Rex speaker. It was running in stereo with the Polytone (15" speaker) on stage next to it.

**jorgemg1984** · 02-19-2015, 07:53 AM

Great! So delay echolution... what about reverb?

**JazzyJim** · 02-19-2015, 08:32 AM

Looks like he has an Earthquaker Disaster Transport Sr. on there now, so maybe he's using it for reverb. I know he used a Nanoverb for a long time, though.

**jorgemg1984** · 02-19-2015, 10:26 AM

Yeah you're right! Thanks

**monkmiles** · 02-19-2015, 10:55 AM

Thanks for sharing Phil In London!.

He's been using that Sparkle Drive for a long time!

Very cool David B!

**David B** · 02-19-2015, 11:34 AM

Pedals:
EHX Freeze (modified to be triggered remotely from the Boss footswitch)
Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive
JHS treble booster
T1M modified EHX Micro POG
Earthquaker Devices Sea Machine chorus
Pigtronix Echolution
Alesis Nanoverb
EB volume pedal to control volume
EB volume pedal as an expression pedal to control delay mix

**jorgemg1984** · 02-19-2015, 12:00 PM

It's curious he still carries the nanoverb... so many good small reverb pedals these days!!

**David B** · 02-19-2015, 12:00 PM

Jonathan Kreisberg's pedals and amp-image-jpg

**JazzyJim** · 02-19-2015, 12:08 PM

Hmm, chorus not a Disaster Transport..... Serves me right for thinking what someone would use rather than what they do. I don't associate JK with chorus at all.

**Encinitastubes** · 02-20-2015, 01:24 AM

I was always curious about the stereo set-up. Is the Polytone for low end? Vice versa? Some other mix? Is he still using La Bella rounds?

**nado64** · 02-20-2015, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by jorgemg1984

It's curious he still carries the nanoverb... so many good small reverb pedals these days!!

I think the answer is given by Kurt Rosenwinkel on his forum :
Kurt's Sound « The Kurt Rosenwinkel Forum

yo, i think i know what you are talking about. and its because you mentioned kreisberg that i realized what it is, because last time i saw him i noticed that he was using a lexicon lxp-1 reverb, which is what is giving this crackling thing youre talking about. you can set the input volume so that when you are playing in the high register and playing hard, it clips the input to the reverb and produces what in my opinion is a very musical crackle. i used to set this on purpose to get this sound because to my ears it emulated the sound of strain that saxophonists get when they are playing in the high register.
from me to you...
kurt

**sjl** · 02-20-2015, 03:58 AM

It would be nice to hear just the guitar sometimes.

**Hjalmiz** · 02-20-2015, 05:42 AM

I don’t think that is it in the case . JK must run his Nano into a Loop pedal that handles the wet dry in parallel(If not how does he use the EB volume pedal as an expression pedal to control delay mix ?? ) The compression/crackling thing happens when your run guitar signal straight through the Nano/Lxp or whatever. I agree, the sound when you go straight into a Reverb that is not impedance matched to the guitar i nice. Some pleasant can happen if you get it right.
/P

Originally Posted by nado64

I think the answer is given by Kurt Rosenwinkel on his forum :
Kurt's Sound « The Kurt Rosenwinkel Forum

yo, i think i know what you are talking about. and its because you mentioned kreisberg that i realized what it is, because last time i saw him i noticed that he was using a lexicon lxp-1 reverb, which is what is giving this crackling thing youre talking about. you can set the input volume so that when you are playing in the high register and playing hard, it clips the input to the reverb and produces what in my opinion is a very musical crackle. i used to set this on purpose to get this sound because to my ears it emulated the sound of strain that saxophonists get when they are playing in the high register.
from me to you...
kurt

**GuyBoden** · 02-20-2015, 09:24 AM

Great post and pics.

**mr. beaumont** · 02-20-2015, 10:53 AM

I have a nanoverb that i still take everywhere in my gig bag.

Guy, yours was made of plastic? Mine's all metal and dead quiet.

**GuyBoden** · 02-20-2015, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

I have a nanoverb that i still take everywhere in my gig bag.

Guy, yours was made of plastic? Mine's all metal and dead quiet.

Thanks, I'll have a look for it, maybe it's not a Alesis Nanoverb, I'll edit my post, I don't want to be give misleading info.

Update: Sorry, I have an Alesis Picoverb, similar but different, not all plastic, but still noisy.

(It looks extremely similar.)

**jzucker** · 02-20-2015, 02:21 PM

the reason for stereo with a SS amp is for headroom. You get the sweet, compressed high end of the tubes but the additional headroom of the SS amp, not to mention having 2 amps gives you 2x the volume. Metheny was the first guy doing that but Bollenback, kreisberg and even george benson do that as well.

**Phil in London** · 02-20-2015, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by jzucker

the reason for stereo with a SS amp is for headroom. You get the sweet, compressed high end of the tubes but the additional headroom of the SS amp, not to mention having 2 amps gives you 2x the volume. Metheny was the first guy doing that but Bollenback, kreisberg and even george benson do that as well.

Jack, maybe silly question, but how does one split the signal? Is this a simple cable-tool, like for two headphones emerging from on iphone cable, or is there more to it (e.g. a 'distributor box' to preserve signal quality, whatever)?

update: found this, which solved my Q

Stereo or multiple amps

**nado64** · 02-21-2015, 05:07 AM

IMO, a stereo signal is not a splitted signal.
The left signal and the right signal haven't to be the same.
So, you can get one with two different pickups (ex: an electric signal on left and an acoustic signal on right).
or a same signal splitted with a modulation pedal (chorus, delay, reverb, ...).

**nado64** · 02-21-2015, 05:28 AM

Originally Posted by Hjalmiz

I don’t think that is it in the case . JK must run his Nano into a Loop pedal that handles the wet dry in parallel(If not how does he use the EB volume pedal as an expression pedal to control delay mix ?? ) The compression/crackling thing happens when your run guitar signal straight through the Nano/Lxp or whatever. I agree, the sound when you go straight into a Reverb that is not impedance matched to the guitar i nice. Some pleasant can happen if you get it right.
/P

I think JK plugs the EB volume pedal to the pedal expression input jack of the Pigtonix Echolution (delay pedal).
The manual says : "This jack allows foot-pedal control of delay time whenthe Modulation section is engaged. "
I guess the delay pedal splits the signal to two stereo signals (with a ping pong effect or another one),
and JK plugs the stereo output of the delay pedal to the stereo input of the nanoverb.

**Hjalmiz** · 02-21-2015, 05:32 AM

Aha ok, i Did not se that delay pedal. So left /right from the nano then goes to each amp i guess.

**Phil in London** · 02-21-2015, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by nado64

IMO, a stereo signal is not a splitted signal.
The left signal and the right signal haven't to be the same.
So, you can get one with two different pickups (ex: an electric signal on left and an acoustic signal on right).
or a same signal splitted with a modulation pedal (chorus, delay, reverb, ...).

hi, from other threads I take that one can follow basically 3 approaches:

@ split the base signal, so that the same signal arrives at 2 different amps (eg through the Lehle Little Dual http://lehle.com/EN/Lehle-Little-Dual)

@ generate a stereo effect (eg with a chorus pedal) and send it to 2 amps

@ Use a guitar with humbucker and piezo out (eg) and sort those to two amps.

The first option seems to be interesting too, since eg a SS amp and a tube amp can create interesting mixtures even if you have only one guitar out and do not use a stereo pedal.

**mangotango** · 02-24-2015, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by David B

Hi Phil
I have Kreisberg's pedalboard here in my house so will share a photo later.

The amp is my Deluxe Reverb, with JJ valves and an Eminence Cannabis Rex speaker. It was running in stereo with the Polytone (15" speaker) on stage next to it.

Thanks for this Dave B...and more importantly, thanks for INSISTING on swapping seats with me when my view of JK was impeded by a column (bad structural design by the Pizza Express, but anyway.....). Which meant that you couldn't see things properly for the second set. I should have stood somewhere and let you have your view, but the venue was jammed.

Top bloke.

**Fidelcaster** · 03-24-2015, 03:28 AM

A young JK endorsing a Yamaha. I have that same guitar, but I wonder if he ever actually played it (on his first record, perhaps? I don't have it.): http://download.yamaha.com/api/asset...asset_id=45447