Exclusive: Haken’s Conner Green Shares His Tour Setup for “North American Fauna Expedition”

Haken released their seventh studio album, Fauna, and they’re currently on a coast-to-coast North American tour to support it. As you can expect, the English prog-metal band brings some serious heat on the new record from monstrous riffs to complex soundscapes.

Now that they’re taking that breadth of textures on the road, we caught up with bassist Conner Green to give us the rundown on how he completes his tonal palette.

“I’ve played Dingwall basses for many years, and don’t foresee that ever changing. For our North American run, I’m using my strikingly beautiful Dingwall Z3 6-string equipped with Dingwall nickel strings,” he writes. “The other half of the equation is my pedalboard… I’ve yet to figure out how to make a mic’d-up bass cab sound good, so I recently picked up the Jad Freer CAPO to use as an all-in-one preamp/saturator direct to the PA. Before that in the chain is a PolyTune Mini, an Empress compressor (with the 500 Hz notch engaged), an early ‘90s Boss OC-2 (with the ‘OCT 2’ pot disconnected), and an ISP Decimator Micro.”

Haken’s tour began on May 3rd and will run through June 3rd with stops across the continental United States and Canada. See below for full dates.

If you haven’t heard Fauna yet, check out Green’s playing on “The Alphabet of Me”:

Haken North American Tour Dates: