Adam Jones is a Grammy Award-winning musician, guitarist and visual artist, best known for his work with the band Tool. Jones was rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine and placed 9th in Guitar World's Top 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists. He's also responsible for most of Tool's music videos.

Let's see what Tool's Adam Jones Guitar Gear rig and Equipment looks like.

Adam playing his Silverburst Les Paul

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Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Silverburst Custom Guitars (this is Adam's main guitar)

Checkout the Epiphone version if you need to save money: 

- SH-4 JB model or a Seymore Duncan Trembucker pickups in his Gibson

- Gibson Les Paul natural finish

- Gibson SG (used for some recording)

- Guild acoustic guitar (can't find exact model)

  

Amps and Cabinets
Notes: Adam Jones uses multiple amplifiers at one time. We'll list some of the supposed amps he's used live and in the studio here.
- 1976 Marshall Super Bass amp
- Diezel VH4 "blueface" amp
- Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier amp
- Sunn Beta Lead (for some recording)
- Bogner Uberschall
- Rivera Knucklehead Reverb amp
- Peavey amp
- Mesa/Boogie 4x12 cabinets
- Marshall 4x12 cabinet

Effects
- Ibanez Flanger

- Ibanez Digital Delay

- Line 6 delay

- MXR Micro Amp

- Gig-FX Chopper Effects Pedal

- Ernie Ball Standard Volume Pedal

- Foxx Tone Machine Reissue

- Dunlop Heil talk box

- Dunlop CryBaby BB-535 (aka 535Q) Wah

- Access Virus B pedal

- Moog Taurus

- 2 Boss PSM-5

- Boss syb-5 bass synthesizer

- DOD fx40b EQ pedal
- Boss GE-7 Equalizer

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Anonymous   |2008-05-11 15:14:59 good but u forgot the 2 boss psm-5 that r in the rig they are discontinued like the bb-535 Reply 1   0

aaron Modzelewski  - pedals missing and replaced   |2008-07-01 14:17:51 why is there two delay pedals and i thought he had 2 boss psm-5's and a dod fx40b eq pedal (not the boss ge-7 eq) and a boss syb-5 bass synthesizer? Reply 0   0

UberPro   |2008-07-01 14:24:34 Thanks guys. I just added that info to the list. As far as the Boss ge-7 goes, sources say that he uses both the boss and the DOD... Reply 0   0

aaron Modzelewski  - stirngs missing   |2008-07-01 14:35:14 sorry forgot in my last comment i think he uses Ernie ball heavy bottom slinky tops i saw this on a website somewhere but i don't know how accurate it is Reply 0   0

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