Juan Alderete's Setup

Stickk · #1 11-01-2008, 06:47 PM

Juan Alderete's Setup

2004-2007
Basses

-1973 Fender Precision Bass
-1971 Fender Fretless Precision Bass
-1986 Fender Jazz Bass
-1977 Fender Jazz Bass
-Two Fender Geddy Lee Jazz Basses
-Fender Precision Bass with a Fender Jazz Bass neck

Amplification

-1971 Ampeg SVT Amplifier
-Early '90s SVT Cabinet
-Mid '70s Ampeg SVT Amplifier
-'70s Acoustic 360 preamp and folded 18" cabinet
-Sometimes used Ampeg 2X15 cabinet

Pedalboard

-This board is without a whammy, and has 3 moogs rather than 1. He changes his board often.
-Two MXR DC Bricks
-ADA Flanger
-'70s Electro Harmonix Micro Bass Synthesizer
-Two DigiTech Whammy IV Pedals
-Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator
-Digitech Digital Delay
-Three Boss LS-2 Line Selectors
-Fulltone Fuzz
-Musitronics MuTron III
-Electro Harmonix Sovtek Fuzz (Second Issue)
-MXR Phase 100
-Digitech Bass Synth Wah
-Boss PN-2 Pan Tremolo
-Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
-Two Boss CS-2 Compressor/Sustainers
-Dunlop Bass Wah
-Boss OC-2 Octave
-Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
-Line 6 DL-4 Digital Delay
-Ernie Ball Volume Pedal

2007-Present

Basses

-White Lakland Darryl Jones Signature Model (Fretted and Fretless)

-Black Joe Osborn Signature Model with Dark Star Pickups and Red Tortise Pickguard

-Juan Alderete Signature Model in the working

Amplification

-Two Ampeg SVT-VR Heads
-Two Ampeg SVT 180 Cabinets

Pedalboard

-MXR DC Bricks
-MXR Fat Fuzz
-Musitronics MuTron III
-Musitronics MuTron Micro V
-Two Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulators
-Maestro Ring Modulator
-Four Boss LS-2 Line Selectors
-Electro Harmonix Sovtek Fuzz (Second Issue)
-Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb
-'70s Electro Harmonix Micro Bass Synthesizer
-Two Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
-DigiTech Digital Delay
-Boss PN-2 Pan Tremolo
-Bos OC-2 Octave
-Dunlop Bass Wah
-Digitech Bass Synth Wah
-Boss GE-7 Equalizer
-Boss NS-2 Noise Supressor

Strings

-Juan Alderete endorses Ernie Ball Strings

Thumb Rests

-Juan Alderete has custom-made thumb rests on all of his Lakland basses, similar to Tim Commerford's thumbrests

Picks

-Juan Alderete formeley used orange Dunlop Trotex picks, but now uses white custom Dunlop picks

Please leave comments and suggestions, more bassists rigs are soon to come! Also the pictures attached were Juan's board before he put on the secondary Moog and Maestro pedals.

Ampeg SVT · #2 11-01-2008, 06:50 PM

He played Geddy Lee basses for sure, I have a mag that says he had 2 of them.

Quotes from August 2005 Bass Guitar mag (one with Timmy C on the front)

"Fender American series P-Bass with a Jazz neck"
"Alderete uses Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings and orange Dunlop Tortex picks."
"He sometimes rocks a Ampeg 2X15 cabinet"

"Here's a sample of Juan's effects: A/DA flanger; Boss DD-3; two Boss CS-2's; Bass LS-2's; Boss OC-2; early Boss PN-2 Tremolo/Pan pedal; Bass TU-2; Digitech BSW; DigiTech Digital Delay; two digitech Whammy's; Dunlop Bass Wah; 1970's EHX Bass Micro Synth; Ernie Ball Volume Pedal; Fulltone Fuzz; Line 6 DL-4 with expression pedal; Moogerfooger Ring Modulator with expression pedal; 1970's Mutron III and IV; MXR DC Brick; MXR Phase 100: Sovtek Fuzz"

Stickk · #3 11-01-2008, 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ampeg SVT

He played Geddy Lee basses for sure, I have a mag that says he had 2 of them.

Thanks, I'll change that.

Stickk · #4 11-01-2008, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ampeg SVT

He played Geddy Lee basses for sure, I have a mag that says he had 2 of them.

Quotes from August 2005 Bass Guitar mag (one with Timmy C on the front)

"Fender American series P-Bass with a Jazz neck"
"Alderete uses Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings and orange Dunlop Tortex picks."
"He sometimes rocks a Ampeg 2X15 cabinet"

"Here's a sample of Juan's effects: A/DA flanger; Boss DD-3; two Boss CS-2's; Bass LS-2's; Boss OC-2; early Boss PN-2 Tremolo/Pan pedal; Bass TU-2; Digitech BSW; DigiTech Digital Delay; two digitech Whammy's; Dunlop Bass Wah; 1970's EHX Bass Micro Synth; Ernie Ball Volume Pedal; Fulltone Fuzz; Line 6 DL-4 with expression pedal; Moogerfooger Ring Modulator with expression pedal; 1970's Mutron III and IV; MXR DC Brick; MXR Phase 100: Sovtek Fuzz"

Thanks once again, I'll change that.