Gear.
Marco's touring rigs over twenty years, newest first: from today's single Fractal FM9 straight to the PA, back through the PFM pedalboards and amps, to the MIDI-switched Mesa Boogie racks he toured with in the 2000s.
Charvel Marco Sfogli Signature
Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HSS FR CM QM · Transparent Purple Burst
- Body
- Alder with quilt maple top
- Neck
- Caramelized maple, graphite reinforced, speed profile
- Fingerboard
- Caramelized maple, 12"–16" compound radius, 22 jumbo frets
- Pickups
- EMG 89 humbucker (bridge, coil split) and two EMG SA single-coils, active
- Bridge
- Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking tremolo
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Touring rig
TodayEverything runs through a single Fractal Audio FM9, with two expression pedals for volume and wah, straight to the PA in stereo.
PFM touring rig
PFMA Fractal Audio FX1 wired in the four-cable method with a Mezzabarba amp, which also switches the amp's channels, into a Mezzabarba 4x12.
PFM touring rig
PFMA pedalboard chain, from tuner and wah through compression, boost, drive, chorus and delay, into a Victory V30 head and a Marshall 4x12.
Touring rack
RackA MIDI-switched rack around the Voodoo Lab GCX: three pedals on a pull-out rail, three amps selected through a Mesa Amp Switcher, then Eventide and TC effects into a Mesa 2:90 and two Rectifier 4x12s.
Elements of Persuasion tour
James LaBrieThe rig for James LaBrie's 2005 tour: a Mesa Triaxis in stereo through a chain of rack effects, all on MIDI from a Lexicon MPX R1, into a Mesa Simul 2:95 and two Rectifier 4x12s.
Signal-flow diagrams from Marco's own rig charts.