Posted - Derek Trucks

This guy is, of course, a member of the Derek Trucks band, but also a member of the Allman Brothers Band, the legendary southern rock group. So I figured it'd be cool to research him.

An interesting thing I found about him is this:

"Trucks avoids processing and effects, preferring to get the purest tone possible by connecting his guitar directly to his amplifier. He modifies his tone with the controls on the guitar."

Guitars:
1961 Reissue Gibson SG

Amp:
1965 Fender Reverb
1968 Super Reverb (used as a backup amp)
Leslie rotating speaker cabinets

Other:
(In his Fender amp) Pyle Driver MH1020 speakers
Dunlop Pyrex Slide
DR Strings, custom gauge: (.011, .014, .017, .026, .036, .046)
No Picks!:

"Trucks regularly plays without the use of a plectrum (pick). He generally plucks or strums (together or independently) with his thumb as well as his index, middle, and ring fingers."

All info gathered from his wiki article:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Trucks

Derek Trucks: guitar
Gibson '61 Reissue SG
Washburn E300
Fender Super Reverb (circa 1964) with Pile Driver speakers
Sennheiser MD 409 and Shure SM57 mics on cabinet

onstagemag.com/ar/performance_derek_trucks_takes/index.htm

(from 2003)

We'll have to see if we can get permission to use these pics once the article is done:
flickr.com/photos/joelabbott/1529188486/
flickr.com/photos/joelabbott/1528325539/

Sweet. I didn't expect him to be a Washburn player. :huh:

I added the new article for derek: www.uberproaudio.com/content/view/255/38/

I also put in a request with that photographer for use of the pics of derek's amp. I'll move this thread to completed.

I got the permission to use the derek truck photos. I added them to the live site on his pic page.