John Petrucci | Dream Theater | Part 1: Ernie Ball & Music Man | Thomann

Kris had the honor to talk to John Petrucci about Dream Theater, Ernie Ball, Music Man, MESA/Boogie, occasional BBQs and much more. Petrucci gear in the shop: http://tho.mn/r5gum Watch the second part of the Gear Talk here: http://tho.mn/c9asb Interesting bits and pieces: 0:00 Introduction 0:36 25 years of Images and Words Tour with Dream Theater 2:41 Dream Theater influences 4:00 Geartalk 5:10 What's new with Ernie Ball & Music Man? 5:26 Music Man John Petrucci Majesty Signature 5:52 From bolt-on to neckthrough design 6:58 Design of the Majesty 11:22 Illuminator Pickups tweaking 12:39 Piezo System 13:23 Piezo Clean Sound | Playing 14:41 Splitted or not splitted for Cleans? 15:23 TC Electronic Dreamscape 16:16 Clean Sound from the amp | Playing 16:22 Clean Sound from the piezo | Playing 16:29 Combined clean sound (amp+piezo) | Playing 18:10 Have you considered putting single coils in your Signatures? 19:02 Buffered Preamp in the guitar 19:25 20dB boost on the volume control 20:08 20dB boost usage | Playing 21:15 Ernie Ball Paradigm Strings 23:02 How is your relationship to the Ernie Ball family? 25:10 Recording of Images and Words Webshop: https://www.thomann.de Facebook:   / thomanninternational   Twitter: @thomann   / thomann   Instagram: @thomann.music   / thomann.music   Pinterest:   / thomannde   Visit our blogs: GER: https://www.thomann.de/blog/de/ ENG: https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/ FRA: https://www.thomann.de/blog/fr/ ESP: https://www.thomann.de/blog/es/ ITA: https://www.thomann.de/blog/it/ NED: https://www.thomann.de/blog/nl/