Dan Donegan

The Disturbed axe-man prepares to level London’s Alexandra Palace with a lethal Bogner/Egnater tag team

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)

1 “When I started working with Schecter they wanted to build a model, and I was looking at body styles that they had in mind and came across the Ultra. I just fell in love with how it felt with me and how it looked.

“There are different paint jobs on them but they are basically set up the same; the same hardware, the same pickups, just in different tunings. One of my go-tos is my signature model that has the number 96 on it – that was the year Disturbed was formed. That’s usually the one I open up the show with and I play it a couple of times a night.