Steve Vai’s touring rig is not what anyone could consider carry-on luggage. You have the Axe-Fx III, and the tricked out 12-switch FC-12 floor-based controller. There are the Ibanez signature guitars, and many, many versions of them – the JEMs, the PIAs. Okay, his 'board is relatively simple, but then there’s the Hydra, and the complicated routing that goes with that. But what about when Vai has a date with an orchestra?
Well, as Vai’s tech Doug MacArthur reveals in a new YouTube rig tour, that’s a different ballgame, and it might come as a surprise, but that’s an opportunity for Vai to dial things back a little and take a more minimalistic approach.
