Mark Lettieri Talks All Things Pedals, Guitars, and Gear!

Episode 99.8: Mark Lettieri Talks All Things Pedals, Guitars, and Gear!

Welcome to the Chairmen of the Boards Podcast! The ultimate pedalboard podcast with the foremost rig builders in the world: Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio), Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio), and Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects/The Rig Doctor). We've teamed up to democratize great tone and provide you with our best tricks, tips, resources and hacks so you can build the pedalboard of your dreams!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Our guest: Mark Lettieri
01:55 - Brian has started his own company
03:08 - Back to Mark
03:26 - How Mason and Mark first met
04:15 - Mark started playing Rockett pedals when they were a new company
05:20 - Mark also did video demos for the Vertex Boost MKI
05:55 - Mark's Hollywood Bowl gig story
08:44 - How to make a song longer mid song
11:05 - How does Snarky Puppy have three guitar players?
12:39 - How to make a band work
12:30 - Grant on the ability to ‘stop and listen’
14:50 - How can us guitar players be better at listening?
23:00 - Musicians should be open to learning
25:13 - Grant on Snarky Puppy’s keyboard player
28:30 - Tonal Intermission
30:17 - PRS Fiore
31:27 - Other Fiore users
32:43 - How the Fiore came to be
36:29 - Fiore tones
36:58 - Current guitar settings
38:38 - Mason on HSS configuration
38:18 - These famous session player guitars are OK
39:22 - Mark on series/parallel configuration
40:47 - Grant is blown away by Mark's tone versatility
41:22- Mark on his pedalboard
46:19 - When writing, Mark isn’t thinking about tone
47:36 - More pedalboard tones
54:51 - How to balance having many options vs staying creative
56:39 - No MIDI switcher need for Mark
58:50 - Does limitation breed creativity?
1:02:50 - What’s the Django glove?
1:03:59- Mason's final question for Mark
1:11:16 - Grant's final thoughts
1:14:21 - Brian's final thoughts and question
1:16:27 - Mark's performance

//GUEST//
Mark Lettieri
YT - @mjlettieri
IG - https://instagram.com/mjlettieri

//HOSTS//
Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio)
YT - @GoodwoodAudio
IG - https://instagram.com/goodwoodaudio

Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio)
YT - @omilionaudio
IG - https://instagram.com/omilionaudio

Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects)
YT - @VertexEffectsInc
IG - https://instagram.com/vertexeffects

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