CIRCLE OF TONE. | 4 years ago

We discuss the Piggy's pedals, effects, guitars and amps of classic Voivod.

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On NF, Piggy used most of the time his Gibson Les Paul black beauty 1971, sometime he also used his not yet Liberatore guitar, the black one with the floyd rose, I'm saying this cause Piggy used to have his dad sending him bodies of designs that we both work on, the one that look a like BC Rich Warlock/bitch (shark fins), the red one on the Musique Plus video, I have one of those body here, it is the experimental one that Mauro Liberatore give to me for the 25th anniversary of Metal in Quebec, anyway to make a story short Piggy was a freak of modification, me a little less..., he used to take apart everything he own, but sometime with great result, and sometime not, I was saying almost a Liberatore just because, Piggy did not go for the one piece type of guitar until after Nothing Face, prior to that he would simply switch neck constantly on all his guitars, except of course his Les Paul, so for NF, he used that black sharp fins guitar but not with a Liberatore neck yet. Not sure of the brand of the neck, but he bought a bunch at Steve's music store in the 86-87, maybe Warmoth or something else, but it was always the Jackson style..., that I remember. On that Black one he had a white Dimarzio Super Distortion on the bridge position with a black Seymour Duncan quarter pound but set in the middle position not the neck, nothing for the neck position. I remember asking why and he just say it sounded better that way and didn't need a pickup for the neck position. I will send you a photo of the black body that I have here, you will see what happen when you do experimentation, he was so intuitive that guy, miss him for that. That is something we had in common for sure.

We had 6 Marshall back then, we used two each live and two for spare. Piggy probably used one of the JCM 800 2203 (with active fx loop mod) pretty much all the way, using 1960 cab with 75 I think. We re-wired them all to get them to 16 ohms instead of 8 ohms, they sounded much better, also we put a bigger wire gauge! As for the mics, it was pretty normal, Glen used 57 and 906 at close mic for the guitar blend them together, he used the Neve pre-amp 1081 and some Focusrite Forte Blue ISA 110 pre-amp as well. For FX it was his regular setup SPX 90 II for harmonizer and Ibanez DM1000 (dark gray) or perhaps the 1100 (white gray), I do have his 1000 here, he also had a 500 earlier. He love those DM so much, he used them all the time, we had fun with those too, making crazy tapes. Live he used to split his two amps setup with one DM, using the inverse mix, always pushing the phase inversion so much that drove our soundman Mike Amstadt crazy each time, but is sounded very good too, so big! I think he stick with that way after I left the band in 92.

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