John Smith Shows Us His Crazy Pedalboard For Electric & Acoustic [Plus A 3-Song Performance!]

Mesmerising playing, unbelievable tones and captivating singing from this exceptional artist

Welcome to the show. It is with great delight and pleasure that we welcome our good friend John Smith back to Schwangri-La. John last appeared on the show in 2019 and blew us away with his unique approach to playing and writing.
Ahead of his 2024 album release and tour for The Living Kind, John has brought along his frankly bonkers pedalboard to guide us through the sounds and textures he creates as a solo performer. We get to hear a wonderful Mule Resophonic electric guitar as well as a custom-made Fylde electro-acoustic and, as if that’s not enough, John even plays us three tracks live from the new record.
Grab a beverage, sit back and enjoy the episode!

Pre-order John’s new release, The Living Kind: https://johnsmith.tmstor.es/
John on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thejohnsmith
https://www.instagram.com/thejohnsmith
https://www.patreon.com/johnsmithjohnsmith

Pedals & Stuff in this show
• Lehle Dual Expression pedal
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKgaWn

• Mission SP-25M Pro Expression Pedal Might be an Aero, not sure
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3bLEQPB

• Chase Bliss Audio Thermae
https://www.chasebliss.com/thermae

• Free The Tone Tri-Avatar Chorus
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z

• Neural DSP Quad Cortex
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/4byJyQ6
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y255ob

• Hologram Electronics Microcosm
https://www.hologramelectronics.com/microcosm

• Empress Zoia
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2k7bCFD
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xkPPoR

• Eventide H9
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3LTWjbq
USA: https://bit.ly/32eqHLm

• Strymon El Capistan V2
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3iwFut4
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyZZnN

• Strymon Blue Sky - links to latest version
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3SQdRe0
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JzaaZ7

• The GigRig G3
https://www.thegigrig.com/g3

Interesting bits & go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing
0:43 Hello & welcome
3:35 Recent pedalboard history
8:09 MIDI beckons
9:30 That weird time a few years ago
13:20 Making the new record
16:40 New sounds, new board
19:50 Amps today
20:13 Mule Resophonic Mule
21:20 John performs ‘Dividing Line’
25:30 Tuning on the electric guitar?
27:30 What’s under the board?
29:48 Inspiration for tones
32:30 John performs ‘Candle’
38:11 Electric guitar effect pedals?
41:22 Sampling and the Zoia
44:30 Metal music?!
47:43 John’s Fylde Smithcaster
54:10 Acoustic signal path
56:55 That rhythmic thing John does
58:30 What do the purists say?
1:00:50 Acoustic uses the same effects
1:04:20 Writing inspiration
1:10:10 QOTSA & Joan Baez
1:12:52 John performs ‘The World Turns’

Guitars used in today’s show
• Fylde custom-made Smithcaster
https://www.fyldeguitars.com/

• Mule Resophonic Guitars Mulecaster
https://www.muleresophonic.com/products/20968-mulecaster

Amps
• AER Compact 60 x 2
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z

• Benson Nathan Junior
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z

• Fender ‘65 Princeton Reverb with Jensen C12-K speaker
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKrrmo

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