Simon McBride – Playing With Deep Purple, Awesome New Pedalboard, Engl Amp & More!

Simon drops in to collect his new pedalboard and treat us to some jaw-dropping playing Welcome to the show! It’s a treat to welcome back an old mate, Simon McBride to the studio. He has (relatively) recently taken on one of the biggest gigs in rock as the guitar player in none other than Deep Purple! In this show we talk through Simon’s Purple experience and take a walk through the pedalboard he’ll be using for the next big tour with the band. As ever, Simon’s incredibly melodic and mercurial playing is equal parts inspiring and astounding, so sit back and enjoy the stories and tones. And please visit That Pedal Shop Pedals & stuff in this episode • Shure GLXD6 UK & Europe: USA: • Digitech Whammy Ricochet UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Boss SL-2 Slicer UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Vahlbruch Octavia • Boss OC-5 Octave UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • JAM Pedals Retrovibe UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • JAM Pedals Waterfall UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • JAM Pedals Boomster UK & Europe: Australia: • Boss BF-3 Flanger UK & Europe: USA: • MXR ’74 Phase 90 UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • TC Electronics Plethora X3 UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Boss SDE-3000D UK & Europe: USA: • Boss RE-202 UK & Europe: Australia: USA: Gigrig Humdinger • TheGigRig G3 Interesting bits and go-to sections 0:00 Intro playing 1:45 Hello & welcome 2:40 Two rigs?! 4:00 How the Deep Purple gig happened 8:20 Following Blackmore, Morse et al 13:40 Standing next to Don Airey 15:10 Six 4x12 cabs? 17:00 Richie & Jon left & right? 22:30 Simon’s new board story 24:50 New Engl amp 28:05 No overdrive pedals - core tones 29:40 Today’s guitar? 33:25 Signal path explanation 35:50 Racks? 38:45 A quick listen to the main pedals 42:15 Phaser pre and post preamp 46:00 Richie didn’t use all those pedals… 47:15 Why the Boss Slicer? 51:20 The volume in huge venues? 55:45 Boss SDE-3000D Delay 58:40 Boss RE-202 Space Echo 1:02:57 How DO you play Smoke On The Water? 1:06:18 Why not a Strat? 1:07:50 Digitech Whammy Ricochet? 1:12:15 Try the new PRS NF53? 1:14:50 Try Dan’s Red Tele? 1:16:58 Some core tones from the rig 1:22:35 Simon plays us out Guitars in this episode • PRS 35th Anniversary Custom 24 • PRS NF53 White Doghair • Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here: Amps in this episode • ENGL E651 Artist Edition 100 • Marshall 1960Ax 412 with Celestion G12M Greenback speakers • Mesa Boogie 50/50 stereo power amp No longer made • Zilla Custom 412 with 2 x Jensen Raptor 100 and 2 x Celestion V30 speakers We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel. You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives Please visit our preferred retailers! UK & Europe: Andertons Music Australia: Pedal Empire