More Gear Bands (I like) Use
(the often crappy www.guitargeek.com has more info like this)
Vox AC30
radiohead
trail of dead (crowning of a heart, others)
brian may (Queen)
OK, THE JONNY GREENWOOD SECRET:
run the shredmaster first in the chain at max gain,
into the SD-1 set for low gain (or whatever overdrive you own, I use a drivetrain II, which works very well for this)
into the clean channel of the deluxe 85 (or whatever amp you own)
the trick is this specific order of the pedals
both pedals on. the overdrive shaves off the fizzle of the shredmaster
making it smooth and focused. I love this tone!
note: sounds great through my selmer/celestions and my deluxe 85,
but sounds a bit crappy (nasal) thru the silvertone/jensens,
so speaker selection is important. (big muff is opposite, awesome thru silvtone/jensens, crap thru celestions)
thru the celestions: more creamy
thru the deluxe 85: more shreddy and modern
mic selection and placement also affects tone greatly
in the glastonbury 2003 performance, I'm sure that jonny was running through the distortion channel of his little fender combo...it has an unmistakeable trashy/plastic sound. if you have access to bootlegs, you'll notice this tone on fake plastic trees and other songs.
NOTE: in recent years jonny has been using a "Fender Eighty-Five", NOT a Deluxe 85
(he used the Deluxe 85 in earlier years). I'd have to do some research
with gig pictures to find out when he made the switch.
it has been speculated that the shredmaster was modified before the recording of the bends
the best radiohead gear site I've seen: (most accurate)
http://www.sigur-ros.it/franz/RHG/
Greg Brown, Cake (Fashion Nugget + motorcade)
Silvertone 1484 Twin Twelve
Guild Starfire III (1960s)
Proco Rat
he runs the amp clean and gets the overdrive from the Rat.
any good OD pedal will do (my Reverend Drivetrain II gets close)
He plays in the bridge position almost exclusively
a hollowbody guitar is an essential ingredient to achieve this tone
I suspect he uses flatwound strings by listening to his tone.
(get the Bill Deville from www.nelsonic.com)
Jack White, White Stripes (first 3 albums)
Silvertone 1485 6x10 and silveface fender twin reverb for albums 1-3
Selmer Zodiac 30 for Elephant
Jack Plays a Valco Airline JB Hutto Jetsons Res-o-glass resoglass guitar
which only the bridge pickup of works. also a kay hollowbody for slide.
also uses a big muff for distortion and an MXR micro amp
and a digitech whammy for craziness (pitch shifting, up for solos, down for 7nat.army)
has been reported to use a Boss CS-3 compression sustainer (maybe! I'm not 100% positive!)
he uses some boss pedal, which appears to be white, could be
a noise supressor or a tuner, or likely, a line selector to go to both amps
1964 JB Hutto Model Montgomery Airline
Late 1950's Kay Hollow body (tuned to an Open A)
1960's "Domino Dawson" actually a "No Name Japanese Acoustic"
(it looks like no domino dawson that I've ever seen)
http://home.mcihispeed.net/~efa/20040729.html (cool interview)
http://www.musicplayer.com/lounge/setups/white.htm (an even cooler interview: elephant recording)
sometimes jack appears in footage only using the twin with no silvertone amp
so he does get crunch from the twin
who knows which amps he has recorded on each track!
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www.myrareguitars.com sells replicas of the Jetsons guitar!!!
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godspeed you black emperor
Ampeg V-4s, Ibanez talman, Kramer aluminum neck guitar.
see my main page for more info (HOME at the bottom of this page)
Trail of Dead
Marshall Plexis thru 4x12 celestion greenback cabs
also various fenders, voxes, other vintage amps in the studio
various humbucker guitars (some mini, some filtertron)
see my main page for more thorough ToD gear info (HOME at the bottom)
The Walkmen
hamilton: all black white pickup Jazzmaster
thru blackface Vibrolux or Vibroverb amp
paul: black '56 gretsch Streamliner 1 pickup (neck, Dynasonic single coil) hollowbody
thru blackface '65 fender pro reverb amp. FLATWOUND STRINGS.
Modest Mouse
Isaac Brock: some PRS looking SSH guitar with a whammy
silverface fender Twin and Super Six (6x10", 100 watts)
uses both at the same time, according to the guitar tech
I think he uses them miked out of phase on albums for that sound
boss BD-2 blues driver for slight drive,
Z Vex super duper 2-in-1 "for the really loud stuff"
he really wrangles/strangles that guitar in concert!!
i took a picture at a 2004 pre-good news gig: his setup in order:
boss PS-5 super shifter then BD-2 blues driver, 3 boss digital delays,
Z-Vex super duper 2-in-1, Morley A/B/Y selector into:
fender silverface twin and super six reverb
Dan Gallucci: fat telecaster (neck humbucker) thru a fender head and 4x12 cab
I think it's a retolexed blonde fender...it has white knobs. is either a bassman, bandmaster, or tremolux
my guess is a bassman because of the power requirements of being in a rock band
and competing with two 100+ watt amps from isaac. DG's guitar was a lot quieter than mr. brock's at the gig...
hard to hear actually
Billy Corgan
Marshall JMP-1 pre-amp + rack compressor + Mesa strategy 500 power amp (Mellon Collie)
70s Big Muff Pi + Marshall JCM-800 (80s, modified to use KT-88 power tubes) for Siamese Dream
gish: ADA MP-1 preamp
Fender strat with Lace Sensor (blue/silver/red) pickups.
also a Fender Twin and Matchless preamp for cleans at times.
used a Vox V810 Valvetone and SIB varidrive and Marshall Valvestate amps in the Machina Era
used a Diezel VH-4 in Zwan. strats, reverend slingshot for soft songs.
more info at www.spfc.org
Pink Floyd (Piper at the Gates of Dawn) (Syd Barrett)
Selmer amps (stereomaster, treble n bass)
Watkins Dominator in the studio according to some sources
Fender Esquire (mid-60s)
also a strat and danelectro at times, and a telecaster later on
he did use the strat on Piper, maybe not the whole thing:
you can hear the telltale 2/4 position quack toward the end of track 6
The Strokes (all albums)
Fender Hot Rod Deville 2x12 + Visual Sound Jeckyll & Hyde Ultimate Overdrive
MXR Micro Amp for solo boosts
Nick plays an Epiphone Riviera with Gibson P-94 pickups.
Albert plays a 1985 Japanese strat
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Hot Rod Deluxe 1x12
The Sames (also Carr slant V6) www.thesames.com (MP3s available)
marc plays an SG and a strat, zeno plays a strat and a tele
The Rosebuds (Ivan plays Danelectro guitars)
also Interpol plays thru various Fender amps.
Paul plays a Les Paul Custom and according to interpolny.com, 2x fender pro reverb amps
I've seen him play with a hot rod deville at least once
Daniel plays a Rickenbacker 330 and Epiphone Casino, thru 2x fender twin reverbs
Interpol's Pedals: (this information from concert photos)
Paul: Tube Works Real Tube overdrive AND/OR Proco Rat 2,
followed by boss GE-7 EQ, MXR micro amp (in some pics and not others),
Boss CS-3 compression sustainer, Boss DD-5 digital delay,
and finally a Boss TU-2 chromatic tuner
Daniel's pedals in another photo I've seen firsthand:
micro amp > DD-5 > tech 21 comptortion > vox V810 valvetone > DD-5 > boss TR-2 tremolo > TU-2 (the second DD-5 is labeled "EVIL", presumably used on that song)
Jimmy Page's gear
http://www.mikesguitarsite.co.uk/gear/led_zeppelin/
also I've heard JP used Gibson T-Top pickups starting at Physical Graffiti
(I think because at least one of his pickups died)
Captain Beefheart (trout mask)
Zoot Horn Rollo (bill harkleroad) played a modified tele thru a cranked Fender Dual Showman
apparently it sounded bad using only the aftermarket pickup so he played in the middle position
www.zoothornrollo.com buy his new solo album!
he might tell you more about beefheart gear if you ask...I'll ask him someday
Marc Bolan (T-Rex)
Marc has a total of nine guitars laying around in his room of music.
He has two Fender Stratocasters, one Fender Telecaster with a Gibson pick up,
one 1952 Les Paul, one S. G. Special (Les Paul), one Gibson Flying Arrow,
one Gibson acoustic and one Epiphone acoustic.
NOTABLE GEAR. Guitars: sunburst '59 Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG,
late-'60s Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha acoustic.
Amps: H&H combo, Marshall half-stack, Orange stack.
Signal processors: Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face, Electro-Harmonix Screaming Tree, MXR Blue Box, Vox wah.
I've also been told he used a Jennings Vamp amp (JV-100 or something?)...
this is supposedly the amp pictured on the album cover of electric warrior
another blurb I found in a google search: Equipment: PA: 3 Vampower 100 watt imp, 3 Vamp cabinets, 2 Vox Supreme amps, 1 Vox Supreme cabinet, 1 Vox AC30 amp, 1 WEM echo unit, 1 fuzz box, 1 treble booster, 1 wah-wah pedal, 8 100 watt stereo quad amps, 5 RCA cabinets Ñ custom-built by Kelsey and Morris, 5 monitor speakersÑ custom-built by Kelsey and Morris, 1 studio mixer deckÑ custom-built by Kelsey and Morris, 5 hornsÑcustom-built by Kelsey and Morris, 1 trans-former Ñ custom-built by Kelsey and Morris. MICROPHONES: 9 Shure microphones. MARC BOLAN: 1 Fender Telecaster guitar, 2 Fender Stratocaster guitars, 1 1947 Les Paul guitar, 1 Custom Les Paul guitar, 1 Epiphone acoustic guitar 1 Woolworths organ, Picato st;ings. MICKIE FINN: 1 Mexican conga, 4 African talking drums, 2 sets bongos, 1 Chinese gong, set of Mexican claves, various marraccas, various tambourines. STEVE CURRIE: 1 Fender Precision bass guitar, 1 Fender six-string guitar, Rotosound strings. BILL LEGEND: 1 Hayman Professional drum kit, Zyn cymbals, 1 ride crash Hi-Hat, Ringo Starr drum sticks.
STROKES GEAR
Here's what we know the band uses both in recordings and onstage (for Is This It and Room on Fire). We don't have any information on specific settings, but I hope this is helpful:
Guitars
Early ‘90’s Epiphone
Riviera fitted with Gibson
P-94 pickups. - Nick
1985 Japanese reissue of
a 1972 Fender Stratocaster.
- Albert
2001 Custom Shop reissue
of a 1952 Gibson Les Paul
Special. - Nick
1999 Fender American
Jazz Bass. - Nikolai
Amplifiers
2x12” Fender Hot Rod DeVille
Speaker Cabinet:
8x10” Ampeg
Bass Head Unit:
Ampeg SVT
MK-II
Pedals
1. Jekyll & Hyde Ultimate Overdrive (used by
Albert and Nick.)
2. MXR Micro Amp (used by Albert and Nick.)
3. Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner (used by Albert,
Nick and Nikolai.)
Strings
All guitar and bass strings made by Thomastik-Infeld. Guitar strings are George Benson nickel round wound, and bass strings are Jazz Bass nickel wound steel long scale, 34 inches.
Best,
Maia
Wiz Kid Management
also, I know that they use sennheiser MD-421 mics on their amps.
a lot of their sound comes from recording methods and "studio trickery"
if you want to dig deeper:
http://www.eqmag.com/story.asp?sectioncode=36&storycode=4705
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr02/articles/gordonraphael.asp
http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?b=multimedia&id=13832
http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2003/20030808_strokes.html
just do a google for "strokes gordon raphael"
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