Tantric comes from the bottom, knocks it out!
Kentucky-based rock band Tantric stormed through town recently in support of their new CD ‘The End Begins’ (very good, go buy it now!). The band has gone through a couple of different iterations over the years and was thought dead as little as two years ago, but singer Hugo Ferreria wanted to keep going and recruited former Fuel drummer Kevin Miller and ex-Dramagods guitarist Joe Pessia among others and recorded the new album – a solid fusion of angst, love, distortion and violins… yes, violins. WTDP? hooked up with Pessia after the show and got him to give us the low down on his pedal board. Read about the signal chain in Joe’s own words after the jump!
“From the guitar, I go into a MXR Phase 90, a Boss LS-2 (used as a A/B switch)… one signal looping the preamp section of a old JCM 800 head (going in to a Boss Octave pedal first), the other looping a three channel Hughes and Kettner Tubeman pedal (followed by a Boss chorus and a Digitech digital delay). Both loops alternate going into the power amp section of the Marshall head.”
“The Hughes and Kettner side also has a additional Whirlwind a/b/y box for adding/alternating an additional acoustic sound via a Boss acoustic pedal going into a Hartke AC120. Last pedal in the chain is a Boss noise suppressor connected, but not in line to a Dean Markley tuner.”
“The ‘meat and potatoes’ run through a Marshall 4X12 re-issue cab with 25-watt greenbacks. The clean and acoustic signals run through a Hartke 4X12.”
Sweet action! Thank Joe. To learn more about Tantric and hear songs from ‘The End Begins’, go here.
