Rig Rundown: Whitechapel's Zach Householder, Ben Savage, Alex Wade & Gabe Crisp

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With extended-range, low-tuned, riff riders from Aristides, ESP, and PRS, these deathcore-dealing Tennesseans ain’t playing country.

Tennessee has a rich tradition that has helped shape American music. Memphis was a big contributor to blues, soul, and early rock ’n’ roll thanks to Sun, Stax, and the influx of Delta musicians. Nashville has been the long-standing capital of country music, and more recently, has developed as a hotbed of Americana storytellers. The Smokies and the surrounding Appalachian areas have given us bluegrass and undeniable icon Dolly Parton. However, while metal has eluded the Volunteer State’s thumbprint, Whitechapel’s six roughriders from Knoxville are looking to change that by showing off something a little harder than peepaw’s moonshine.

Since 2006, the three-guitar stampede has dished out eight devastating albums that combine death metal, hardcore, and melodic black metal, proving the Smokies can slay. This spring, Whitechapel took to the road, playing their seventh album The Valley in its entirety, along with favorites from their earlier work. Originally, their final stop was slated to be Nashville’s Basement East, but after it quickly sold out, their promoters elevated them to Marathon Music Works (which, once again, sold out). And that’s where the Rig Rundown crew caught up with them to talk gear.

Whitechapel’s guitarists Zach Householder, Ben Savage, and Alex Wade and bassist Gabe Crisp invited PG’s Chris Kies sidestage to cover their signature guitars, the inner workings of their unusual Kemper profiles, and how flip-flopping DiMarzio humbuckers made all the difference.

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00:00 – D’Addario String Finder
00:15 – Whitechapel Playing Intro
01:04 – Zach Householder & Chris Kies Intro
01:22 – Aristides 070s
03:42 – Lundgren Black Heaven Humbuckers
05:54 – Playing a Multi-Scale Guitar
07:07 – The Valley Tour Tunings & Strings
08:18 – Finding Aristides
09:52 – ESP ZH EC-7B QM Baritone Zach Householder Signature
11:12 – DiMarzio D-Activator 7 Flip-Flop
13:32 – Whitechapel’s Kemper Profiles
16:00 – Working with Mark Lewis
19:21 – Ben Savage’s PRS SVN Guitars
28:04 – Alex Wade’s ESP E-II M-II 7B Baritone EverTune
29:06 – Adjustments to Using EverTune Bridge
30:43 – Finding a Home at ESP Guitars
32:24 – ESP LTD AW-7 Alex Wade Signature
37:41 – Gabe Crisp’s PRS Kestrel Basses

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48 thoughts on “Rig Rundown: Whitechapel's Zach Householder, Ben Savage, Alex Wade & Gabe Crisp”

  1. sorry, but tonewood doesn't matter when you have 3 detuned 7 strings plus a detuned bass in a band lol. In a mix you will never never never hear the difference, ever. Maybe when listening to isolated guitar tracks, but in a mix, it's gone. Same with tubes in your head.

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  3. Seen these guys like 15 years ago in Orlando Florida open 4 Trivium really heavy i couldnt understand a word the vocalist was saying but they did rock hard awesome show

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  15. Since more bands are going digital/modeling rack rigs, could you guys dig into their racks in future rundowns?

    I’d like to nerd out over rack layouts and what they got in the racks and switching/midi if they use em.

    Great rundown otherwise though!

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  21. every explanation for tonewood always comes with “like, you know, like, hard to explain, feel, like, you know, like”.
    Learn how to speak before trying to explain woo woo bs, my guy.
    Hopefully Aristides pays you well

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  27. lol a buncha metalheads using 1000 tons of gain, gates, EQs, boosters, the same old DrOP G TunINg, and, worst of all, KEMPERS, talking about the difference tonewood makes is hialrious.

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  28. so, the tonewood thing, as far as I understand it, is not only a theory that difference in wood changes the sound of the instrument in some way, but also a theory that you can define the sound of the instrument by choosing the "right" wood for the job. Honestly, I'm ready to believe in the first part, although I think that if material of the guitar mattered a lot, aluminum or plastic guitars would be DRASTICALLY different from wooden ones in terms of their sound. But the second part is total psychoacoustics, sorry. Anyone who has ever worked with wood knows that there are drastic differences in wood density even in planks from one tree. Furthermore, there are dozens upon dozens of different kinds of mahogany, ash and other woods, so to say that mahogany in general sounds darker would be a very deceiving thing. Overall I'm not against people who choose to believe in tonewood, but when a dude says: "you're crazy to neglect tonewood", I think it's a wrong thing to say, sorry

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  30. Another great rundown, much appreciated. Real interesting to see this type of gear and what it takes to have studio based gear be road worthy.

    I think it would be the coolest if you guys could do Dolly Parton's instruments in this format. She's got everything and it's all coordinated…

    Anyway, great job as always.

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  41. Tonewood is only a thing in acoustic guitars because the top is what amplifies the vibrations from the strings. Pickups, Electronics (the amount of pots and their resistance, caps) strings(guage and age), scale length, bridge type and setup. are all that affect tone.How in the world would a pickup which only sends vibrations from their magnetic field through the pots, caps and into the jack out into the amp be affected by non magnetic tonewood. And fretboard wood is even less of a factor . but that is all about looks and feel.

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