DAN DONEGAN

Dan Donegan has A, B, C and D rigs. There are backups for everything. One gets the suspicion that in some vacuum-sealed flight case backstage there’s even a Dan Donegan clone, to be animated in case of emergencies. Hey, with all this pyro onstage – and, folks, there is a piano on fire – that’s just being prudent. Besides, this readiness is just part of Donegan’s ferocious work ethic. Guitar-wise, his rig is simple. He uses his stock off-the-shelf signature Schecter in various finishes. Amps? Bogner and Egnater. Nice. But the rack – a rig built at Best-Tronics, Illinois, by his tech Jeremy Jayson – is quite something. They don’t call it the Mothership for nothing. Of course, with his Fractal, Donegan says he has what he needs for effects but nonetheless his rack has a drawer filled with an Electro-Harmonix Ravish Sitar, Eventide PitchFactor harmoniser, Eventide ModFactor modulation, Eventide TimeFactor delay/looper and Eventide Space reverb. Y’know, just in case.

GUITARS

SCHECTER DAN DONEGAN ULTRA (VARIOUS FINISHES)

“When I started working with Schecter they wanted to build a model, and I was looking