Michael you remember your reaction to "Big Mike's" by Dijon? Mk.gee was the guitarist and harmony vocals in that video!

He plays into an old roland VG-8 and Tascam 424 4-track as a pre-amp with some effect pedals so the sound breaks up and distorts as he plays harsher and gets a clean tone when not. Its a super cool effect that rewards dynamic playing. Thats not something I'm aware of anyone else doing before

When he paused the video  @ 4:03 and then resumed right after, hahahaha I love Mk.gee reaction videos man he's something special

He uses a VG-8 Roland synth pedal that creates his tone. He also splits the signal that gets sent to a tascam 424. One clean signal from his guitar and the other from the midi pickup. It is actually happening right there in the bus. This is his live tone during shows

It happened on the bus.  Slamming the direct input.

You've heard him before! He is the guitarist for Dijon. The one that caught your attention.

Mk.gee is unreal. You need to watch 'are you looking up (live)' and 'little bit more (live)'

His playing is definitely live. That’s what makes it so good and unique. He’s got some percussive and ambient backing tracks but they all meld together in such a way that confuses your ear because his guitar tone embeds in it so perfectly creating almost this affect of not knowing sonically what’s what. Definitely special and hasn’t been done before. The way his tone breaks up because of the old cassette preamp that rewards his dynamics. It’s Hendrix vibes to me. In the sense that one of the things that was so brilliant about Hendrix other than his playing was the fact that he created sounds out of his guitar that nobody had heard before, that were so different. Nobody had heard anybody use a guitar like that before. Mk.gee is definitely doing that on some scale. There’s even a video of Clapton talking about how special Mk.gee is on YouTube 🩵💕

So to break it down:
1.He plays into a Tascam portastudio and uses the preamp as a drive pedal
2. He uses a rager FX gated reverb pedal to only make the reverb present when he gets loud
3. The driving bass you hear is actually his thumb, he’s playing a baritone guitar
4. He also uses a Roland VG-8 synth pedal that makes it have that interesting synth-like sound
I may be missing something but that’s the basic premise of it

Mk.Gee reminds me of what it was like when James Blake launched onto the scene. Taking opposite things that people already know and love (singer songwriter, early dubstep), and completely doing it different than anyone would think, and breaking "rules" along the way

He plays a Baritone Fender Jaguar into a Tascam 4-track using a FX rainger for modulated breakup. Basically, he plays a guitar with extended range into a tape machine/mixer’s cranked  pre-amp that can be hyperclean or dynamically hard clipped with modulation coming in from his FX rainger pedal. You also can't ignore his use of vintage casio piano and synth pads contributing to his 80's production sound. Very unique player, we probably haven't had a trailblazing player this infamously break into the mainstream since Tim Henson.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE BIG MIKE’S!!!!

What's funny about this is Michael's Dijon video is what turned me onto Mike (Mk.gee) in the first place. That led me to his back catalog; Museum of Contradictions, Pronounced McGee etc. and why I got Two Star the day it came out. I saw him 4 times
on this last tour, the best shows I've seen in a decade. His guitar is a standard scale MIJ 90s Fender Jag converted to handle baritone flat wounds tuned to A. The reddit kids have a million ways of recreating the tones, some of which are pretty close ... the key components are the Tascam 424 as preamp, Roland VG-8,  Rainger FX Reverb.

more Mk.gee !!!!!!

4:00 nah he felt what we all felt 🥲

4:01 that's what all of 2024 felt like as an established mk.gee fan

this entire performance is fully live. no backing tracks, although he does have his friend Andrew aged playing counter melody, and then playing the chords over his solo, but the crazy pops, modulation filters, and everything is from the Roland vg-8 running in parallel

finalllyyy ive been waiting for this video for so long

Mk.gee turns a teacher into a student

Saw him live it still sounds just like this (even better lol)