Hi Neon, I worked for Dino on the reunion tour. Here’s what’s going on.

Lou used the Rick into the tuner into the Fulldrive into J’s broken Super Hard On into whatever amps would work that night. The Hard On was just used to split the signal into two amps. At the beginning of the tour he also used a Boss Sampler/Looper and sometimes other distortion pedals. Last summer he used a Pod for a direct signal to the PA.

J used his Jazzmasters or Rory Gallagher Strat (and once a Goldtop conversion Les Paul and once a Greco LP copy) into a Home Brew Electronics Germania treble booster (looks like a MXR) into his Bradshaw Custom Audio Electronics rack system.

This has a Marshall midi preamp for rhythm sounds, a Custom Electronics Univbe, CE tremolo, and a Line Six Echo. J used an old Memory Man at first but it broke. The pedals in the rack are an old Big Muff (everything all the way up), a custom made master volume control box to cut the Big Muff output in half for rhythm, a MXR Blue Box, Boss reverb,and an old EH Electric Mistress. On the pedalboard he has the switches for the pedals and a custom made Teese wah and a Boss tuner.

Be aware that his EH pedals are all very old and the new ones don’t even come close to these sounds.

His amps are old Marshall Super lead/bass/or PA heads. He also used new hand wired Super Leads which sounded very good but were really no more reliable than the old ones. J also used a tweed Victoria 100W Twin, a purple Vic Twin head, a new Vox AC 30 head, and various rented Fender Twins at different shows.

Hope that’s a good answer to your question, the band’s management asked me to list this stuff long ago. Your offer of a billion dollars was much more generous than what they offered.

Darren- He runs it straight into the amps as if it’s an effect. He is also able to bypass it at any point and run straight through the Big Muff. The huge sound he gets, when it is suddenly ten times louder, is the preamp bypassed and the Big Muff straight through, all controls up full. He turns his Marshalls about half way up with all tone controls on full.

He’ll have to get his HBE Germania pedal put in the rack and control it with his Bradshaw switch system to avoid anyone trying to pinch another one !

that’s all he uses for the reunion tours…..for the later Dinosaur gigs (1993 ish onwards) he used a lot more effects. Around 1997 I think he had the biggest rig regarding effects, the CAE switching system was around 3 times the size of the one he currently has.

Neon- there’s no difference, it’s just the same variation you find in any pedals. The yellow one sounded fine, the purple just had an extra edge to it.

Stanner- I think the Marshall preamp has a setting to go between +4 or -10. I never really see the back of it because of the way the rack is configured. J’s heads are definitely not modified with effects loops or to work only as power amps, although these are options for people who prefer things to be more conventional. I wouldn’t be suprised if Bradshaw worked some magic to make the preamp more compatable within the rack itsself.

thats correct,

The yellow version is called the Germania 44 as it has the OC 44 germanium transistor in it, thats the only circuit difference between the purple and the yellow version