Jonny is now using his new Ondomo as his touring ondes Martenot! They replace his 80’s student model Martenot, which he used for touring in 2000 and 2016. Jonny has one Ondomo on top of his keyboard stand, and another on its own separate keyboard stand which is brought closer to Thom during How To Disappear Completely. Jonny visited Japan to pick up his first Ondomo in 2016, and had three more Ondomo delivered earlier this year.
Jonny also revamped his modular setup, which now consists of two 9U eurorack cases on their own stand, as opposed to a single 9U rack kept underneath his laptop. The patches on both 9U racks seem to be identical, so the modular on the left (unused during Idioteque) is probably just a backup in case anything goes wrong.
Jonny seems to be trying to make his setup more “modular” in the traditional sense, since his laptop setup now also has its own independent stand. Its rolling table is wheeled closer to Thom’s piano for Videotape, when Jonny plays a Max/MSP drum machine patch.
Jonny is no longer using Nigel’s Crumar Multiman-S / Orchestrator – his keyboard setup now consists exclusively of the Ondomo and his Fatar Keys SL-161. Jonny’s new keyboard stand appears to have a sliding tray for the Fatar.
Thom used Nigel’s sunburst Fender Telecaster for Burn The Witch. Nigel had previously used the guitar with Atoms for Peace in 2013.
Ed switched back to a Fender-only amp setup, after using a Fender Vibro-King Custom and a Vox AC30 on the 2016 tour. The new setup consists of two 4x12 cabinets fed by a single Fender amp head, possible a Bassman. The two cabinets are slightly angled upwards, making it easier for Ed to hear them and safer for fans at the front of the crowd.
The Ondomo is visible on the right side of the image, on top of Jonny’s keyboard stand (@xkurzx). Jonny has a BOSS TU12H taped to the top of it.
Jonny playing an ondomo when he picked up his first one in Japan (@ygrrrrr).
Jonny playing his modular during Idioteque (godieinhell2).
Thom and Jonny during a performance of Videotape (@suryaf).
Thom playing Nigel’s Telecaster on Burn The Witch (godieinhell2).
Nigel’s Telecaster being carried offstage in Fairfax, VA in 2013 – original post with photo by Gio.
Ed’s new amp head is behind and to the side of his cabinets, suggesting that he doesn’t intend to adjust its settings much (@simone007).
Some further updates:
There’s a small screen mounted on the upright piano, just beneath the camera. The screen is showing the feed from the camera, so it’s probably there so that Thom can better align his eye for You and Whose Army? (see the above picture).
Burn The Witch has been rearranged a bit, with Thom entering with guitar (Nigel’s Tele) near the start and Jonny playing their DSI Prophet ‘08 as well as guitar. Jonny plays the Prophet during the first half of second verse, and during and the second half of the second chorus (godieinhell2). Jonny had previously played his ondes Martenot during the start of the second verse and guitar for the rest of the song.
On Climbing Up The Walls, the second Ondomo and another keyboard (possibly the Prophet ‘08) are brought out to Jonny (godieinhell2). It seems like Jonny’s setup has been rearranged such that, whenever possible, he’s closer to Thom and the rest of the band.
Thom is using his 60′s Gibson SG for The Tourist. When the band last played the song in 2008, Thom played Jonny’s natural finish Gibson Less Paul (allbearsrule).
Thom at the piano during the band’s performance of All I Need in Miami (allbearsrule).
Post-Atlanta Updates:
Audio Kitchen posted a photo on Flickr identifying Ed’s amplifiers as their own. The two amps are called ‘Emcee’ and 'Burly Chassis’, each running into one of Audio Kitchen’s standard 1x12″ cabinets. Steve from Audio Kitchen informed us that Ed’s amps use the Big Chopper as their basis, but have a special reverb modification which uses amp’s second channel as a reverb return. This allows Ed to change the tone of the reverb using the second channel’s Baxandall EQ. The cabinets are fitted with Celestion Blues.
Additional photos of Ed’s setup show us that in addition to the Audio Kitchen amp heads, he is also using a Fender amp head of some kind. This is very likely being used as a spare, since Ed only has two cabinets.
Jonny is now using his Ondomo on Desert Island Disk. He initially loops a note played on the Ondomo, then spends the rest of the song adjusting the settings of a BOSS RV5 reverb. The RV5 is kept on the music stand next to the Ondomo.
During the 2016 tour, Jonny had used his keyboard Akai Headrush E2 to loop a chord played on the Crumar Orchestrator / Multiman-S. He would then manipulate the volume of the Headrush throughout the song.
Thom is also playing Nigel’s sunburst Telecaster on My Iron Lung (godieinhell2). Thom had played his ‘64 Gibson SG on the song since 2007.
On Paranoid Android,How To Disappear Completely, and The Numbers, Thom seems to have switched to using a new Martin acoustic. The new instrument is far less worn than Thom’s main Martin 000-18, which has considerable wear from strumming. The old Martin was still used to performFake Plastic Trees, however.
In 2016, Thom used his Gibson B25 for Paranoid Android and How To Disappear Completely and his old Martin for The Numbers.
Jonny adjusting a BOSS RV5 during Desert Island Disk (peterhutchins). You can also see him do so briefly in this video.
Ed’s amp setup in Atlanta (@chrisimparato). His small rack setup is is also visible to the right of the amps.
