The official YouTube channel of Iron Maiden He has published this week one of those videos we like: a complete tour made by the guitar coach of Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden of the team that has been using until the end of 2024. It is the period that coincides with the “Future Past Tour”, the tour corresponding to the most regular album of the British group, “Senjutsu”.
Sean Bradythat is the name of the coach, it seems aware that it is a video for the official group channel, and not for a specialized guitarist channel and does not want to bore people with too many details. As a result, it shows in images some pieces of equipment, but often it does not name the models, nor gives exact details of the routing or what songs each configuration is used.
Even so, the video is the sea of usable, and we will try to name the main pedals, amplis and guitars that appear in the videoas well as some details of its wireless equipment, in-ears and signal routing.
Of course, one of the main ones that are shown is its Jackson Adrian Smith Signature In transparent green, whose accessible version had its own news on this page. It shows two of them, one is a prototype and the other is the production model; The difference between them is not very clear, since it mentions that the standard model “has the maple mast”, when the prototype clearly seems to be mane. Maybe he refers to the final finish, Gloss instead of satin. Or that the prototype seems to have a more orange color, common in Arce with a certain age, or in the one that has been tied to simulate aging.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
Name some guitars on Drop D for songs like “Madness” [Can I Play With Madness] or “Heaven Can Wait”, although he does not take them out of the support. He does, however, his Gibson Les Paul Classic, which he uses for the theme “time Machine” of his latest album, and a Flying V that at the time the video was rolled has not yet been used in the Tour. A delight for any fan’s eyes is the Jackson with the “Two Minute to Midnight” graph on the body, which had not been used so far. It seems that Adrian can improvise – even in the middle of the show – that they spend a guitar to play one or another song.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
As for acoustic guitars, use two PRS guitars that were also used in the study to record “The Writing on the Wall” of the “Senjutsu” disc. For the appearance, it looks like a 50e or a PRS SE A60E Natural.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
As they are noted, Adrian’s amplis have not varied much in recent years: he uses two heads Marshall JVM410H, With an addition of the most curious. It is no valves secretly, nor any mode of the mind of an amplification guru, but A “hat” (so he calls him) made to stop interference. It is assumed that, in the middle of the radiofrequency quagmissions several that may be on a tour, the heads were doing antenna by capturing interference that translated into “strange messages from the outer space.” So probably under that paper or fabric that covers the ampi, there must be some layer of something metallic such as aluminum foil or other material shielding the head.
I think that in this video he does not mention which speaker model is connected, but he does say that the sound is directed to some IsoCabs (microfoned guitar speakers inside some acoustic insulation boxes) to avoid noise on stage.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
He has a good number of pedals, some already known from the Adrian team although they can be surprising, such as the curious Eric Clapton Signature Crossroads of Digitechconsidered by some as a Birria. But we will arrive.
Starting from the beginning, the first effect that “sees” the signal after passing the multiple stages of signal selection that we will explain in the “routing” section, there are two racks de wah Dunlop Crybaby. To assume that only one of them is used and the other is a backup or have two to have two very specific adjustments always by hand – I see a very slight difference in the controls of one and the other. These racks are a common solution in large stage artists, since they are controlled remotely by means of an expression pedal and avoid having to carry the signal to the front of the stage just by having a Crybaby sound.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
These racks are prior to the True Bypass pedal router (Voodoo Lab GCX) that manages several effects: among them there are quite affordable things for foot guitarist, such as the noise door Boss NS-2he Super Chorus CH-1the compressor Boss CS-3 And the aforementioned Digitech Crossroads Eric Claptona completely digital pedal that was presented in 2005 as part of a series of pedals that copied the sound of artists such as Scott Ian, Dan Donegan, Brian May or Jimi Hendrix.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
It is not that the guitarist community has a lot of love to that pedal, the truth, but it seems that Adrian has found use since 2015arguing that “there were some good sounds” that he recorded on his album “The Book of Souls”. The fact is that he really liked it, because he takes him around to go around the world for almost 10 years.
But let’s continue, there are two very obvious presences in its first pedal tray, which are two Tube Screamers de Ibanezpossibly adjusted differently from each other (or with stacked profits?). And that’s all in that first tray; In the second, the signal goes to a Line 6 HX Effectswhich comes to replace the ancient lexicon MX200 and MX300 (economic bastte units, but that sound frankly well, this is its own experience) that Adrian had. It seems that they use it in the 4 cable method, to have some effects before reaching the amplifier and others later. Is where the delays to different BPM for each of Adrian’s alone.
In that same tray we see another Tube Screamer and another Boss Super Chorus CH-1 but they do not seem connected to anything.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
There are four wireless equipment (probably to always have 4 guitars ready to be used at any time, or as Backups) Shure Axient – I don’t know if there is wrong in the name of the model, but I thought that this product family was only for a voice of voice – whose signs are directed to a quadruple input selector of the Whirlwind brand. From there you go to another Lehle brand selector, which selects among the wireless or a physical cable (in case something fails with the wireless) and between a third option: silence the signal completely. From there, it goes to the first effect of all, which is Rack’s Wah that we have mentioned before.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
The whole team is controlled by the Midi pedalera Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro and your bypass Loops rack Voodoo Lab GCX, A quite typical choice in this category of groups and tours. The pedaling is duplicate, not as much as backup, but because Adrian has an in front of himself in case he wants to modify something, but a good part of the change of presets is performed by their own are from the back of the stage.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
Rack feed is carried out by means of a Furman distributor, and there are also a couple of battery loaders, one of the Fischer Amps brand, and another shure (which loads the shure petacas) so as not to have to discard so many batteries with the wireless and ineal. Inese that, again, they are Shurewith headphones Jerry Harvey.
Yes there is something addition to mention: although obviously Iron Maiden has a monitors technician, Sean has a remote control of some of the channels of that table. In this way, if Adrian approaches him and makes some comment about what he would like to hear stronger or softer in his iners, he can do it from that little console. He also has a microphone to notify the main monitors technician and not stick a scare if he sees that the faders move.
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith team
Iron Maiden
A professional, but not capricious team
[Índice]Of course, it has a number of equipment and wiring that I would impress anyonebut after the experience we have seeing teams of professionals at this level, we can affirm that Adrian is a guy relatively simple. It could carry overd 500 euros to Montones, and yet Effects that many of the bundles have on our pedal companiessuch as Boss or the HX Effects. Until its predecessor, the Lexicon M200/m300, is one of the most economical multi -effects that exist – sometimes second -hand it does not cost 200 euros. Even the amplifier is relatively common.
Proportionally, there is much more money put in the Signal management: The selectors, switchers and MIDI controllers. And logically in the wireless section there is an investment much greater than that of an amateur team. But Iron Maiden needs to have guarantees that this part of the team works perfectly.
An interesting video that shows us that many times, there are no need for stospheric teams to play in the First Division.
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