Rick Lee James demos his live performance rig: a Visual Volume pedal, Boss Dual Footswitch, Vocalist Live 3 harmonizer that splits his vocals into three parts, and a Boss RC-300 loop station with three independent loops. He layers vocals and drums using a Taylor guitar with an internal microphone to record live loops for his Basement Psalms recordings.
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This is Rick Lee James. I had several people ask me recently if I could show them my pedal setup that I use when I'm playing live and just kind of tell them about it. Somebody actually asked if I would just take a picture of it, so I thought, hey, picture's worth a thousand words, so a video might be worth even more. So quickly, I'm just gonna show you my pedal setup here. So here goes. Alright, I hope you can see everything okay. I start— I use this Visual Volume pedal is what it's called. Actually, when it's all plugged in and lit up, you can actually see these little bars here They light up and actually show you what level your volume is set at so you can come back to an even tone every— or even level every time. This Boss Dual Footswitch actually controls a pedal that I'll show you in just a second. This is the Vocalist Live 3. It's been out for a few years. I haven't seen too many of these, but I use them. It does add harmonies to my vocals. It can split split my vocal up into 3 different parts, so at times I use that when I'm playing live and I don't have a band with me. And then this is the thing that most people ask about, I think. This is the Boss RC-300. This pedal over here controls this pedal when I want to change channels and go back and forth or erase a channel. As you can see, there's actually Hopefully you can see, it's a little dark in the basement. You can see there are 3 different pedals, loop stations kind of built into the board there, and you can control the volume with it up there. Sorry for the darkness, which is not the greatest light down here. There's some loop effects and things like that, but that's my setup. That's where I'll record things on, play it back, I'll erase things. I'll get drum beats going through my guitar and all kinds of different fun stuff. So, uh, I hope that's helpful for any of you that were wondering about my setup. And I also use a Taylor guitar which I borrow from a friend of mine that has a microphone built inside of it, and he's been gracious enough to let me take that on the road with me. I used it to record Basement Psalms live, and so I can actually sing into the guitar, record loops from that. And so when you look at the kind of overhead setup from above, when I plug it all in together, it looks about like that. There they are in the cases. So that's kind of my stage setup when I play.
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