Tom Dumont

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Riff tools

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Posted April 24, 2012
 

Hanging with Grover

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I popped into Grover Jackson's workshop today to have a look at the new guitars he's building. Serious hand-built craftsmanship! These things look and play crazy nice.

GJ2 Guitars

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Posted December 20, 2011
 

Chandler pedals

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Chandler Limited designs high-end, hand-made studio gear, but they also just started making these guitar stomp-boxes. The "colored boost" (red) is a live rig necessity for me now. It makes a warm and ballsy drive but also keeps clarity and detail in the high end. The "germanium drive" (blue) creates some low-fi grit and will help my guitar poke into a studio recording mix with character. Nice stuff!
Tom

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Posted September 28, 2011
 

Pistachio Div/13

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My new amp for shredding at home.

It's a Divided By 13 - CCC9/15 with 2 x 12" cab.


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Posted September 19, 2011
 

More Color

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Posted August 16, 2011
 

Recording Palette

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Posted July 5, 2011
 

Today's pedalboard

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From Left to Right: TCE Flashback, Love Pedal Babyface Tremolo, Malekko Vibrato, Ibanez Flanger, Tone Candy Spring Fever (reverb), Zvex Box of Rock, TCE Polytune.

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Posted March 29, 2011
 

Flanger

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Posted March 11, 2011
 

Studio tour

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No Doubt are in the studio for two weeks tracking a couple of new songs for our forthcoming album. A friend of ours named Spike is in the Producer's chair. I thought it'd be interesting to show you what it looks like, including some of the gear. We're in this place for 10+ hours a day at the moment, so there's plenty of downtime to take pictures. Enjoy!
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Posted January 5, 2011
 

Kennedy Center Honors

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A couple of weeks ago No Doubt performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC. We were asked to be part of the musical tribute to Paul McCartney, who was one of the honorees this year. We performed a four-minute medley of Beatles songs: Hello Goodbye, All My Loving, and Penny Lane. This was a career highlight for us in so many ways. All of us in the band grew up loving Paul's music, and to perform these songs for Paul himself was mind-blowing to say the least. Not to mention nerve-wracking! And to add to the epicness of it all, this was in the Kennedy Center Opera House, full of folks like President Obama, loads of Senators and Congresspeople and lobbyists and Merle Haggard and Oprah, etc etc. Also I sat next to Florence Henderson at the State Department dinner. She was awesome.

Crazy!

The whole show including our performance will be shown on television on CBS on December 28, 2010 at 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT

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Gear: In the spirit of the memory of George Harrison, I had my trusty Hamer Monaco outfitted with a pair of TV Jones Classic pickups, to capture the vibe of an old Gretsch like George used to play. Below is a picture of the guitar, plus the pedalboard my buddy and long-time tech Donnie wired up just for this show. The pedals are: Eventide Timefactor, Malekko Ekko 616, and Boss Chromatic Tuner. I used the Eventide for delays on the Reggae upbeats on "All My Loving" and the Malekko for a slapback vibe on "Hello Goodbye." And then just straight guitar, no effects used on "Penny Lane."

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Posted December 20, 2010