Episode 99.8: Mark Lettieri Talks All Things Pedals, Guitars, and Gear!

Welcome to the Chairmen of the Boards Podcast! The ultimate pedalboard podcast with the foremost rig builders in the world: Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio), Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio), and Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects/The Rig Doctor). We've teamed up to democratize great tone and provide you with our best tricks, tips, resources and hacks so you can build the pedalboard of your dreams!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 Intro
00:15 Our guest: Mark Lettieri
01:55 Brian has started his own company
03:08 Back to Mark
03:26 How Mason and Mark first met
04:15 Mark started playing Rockett pedals when they were a new company
05:20 Mark also did video demos for the Vertex Boost MKI
05:55 Mark's Hollywood Bowl gig story
08:44 How to make a song longer mid song
11:05 How does Snarky Puppy have three guitar players?
12:39 How to make a band work
12:30 Grant on the ability to ‘stop and listen’
14:50 How can us guitar players be better at listening?
23:00 Musicians should be open to learning
25:13 Grant on Snarky Puppy’s keyboard player
28:30 Tonal Intermission
30:17 PRS Fiore
31:27 Other Fiore users
32:43 How the Fiore came to be
36:29 Fiore tones
36:58 Current guitar settings
38:38 Mason on HSS configuration
38:18 These famous session player guitars are OK
39:22 Mark on series/parallel configuration
40:47 Grant is blown away by Mark's tone versatility
41:22 Mark on his pedalboard
46:19 When writing, Mark isn’t thinking about tone
47:36 More pedalboard tones
54:51 How to balance having many options vs staying creative
56:39 No MIDI switcher need for Mark
58:50 Does limitation breed creativity?
1:02:50 What’s the Django glove?
1:03:59 Mason's final question for Mark
1:11:16 Grant's final thoughts
1:14:21 Brian's final thoughts and question
1:16:27 Mark's performance

//GUEST//
Mark Lettieri
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//HOSTS//
Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio)
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Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio)
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Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects)
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