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John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment - John Mayer Guitar Rig Pictures and Comments
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Saturday, 15 September 2007 06:26
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John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
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Here are some good pictures of John mayer's 2007 guitar rig, taken by j4mie and licensed under Creative Commons.

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-3 #79 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Spud 2011-09-22 05:52
For being a blues guy he sure uses a whole bunch of effects to try and get the sound the old blues guys use to get with a fraction of this gear.
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0 #78 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — strat man 2011-09-12 16:56
John has added a tweed to his collection of amps. it can be seen in this video right behind him. www.youtube.com/.../

any idea what it is?
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0 #77 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Outlaw Guitars 2011-09-02 23:39
He also uses a 66-69 black face fender bassman head. watch his live videos
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0 #76 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Saad Memon 2011-06-29 06:51
Check out john live rig
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6POSqjjrIA
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+1 #75 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Johnnydavid 2011-05-12 14:17
He has a Paul Cornish Fuzz. Very sexy pedal :)
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0 #74 PRS — Nick 2011-02-17 06:51
He play's PRS now and again, here's him with a PRS Hollowbody:

farm4.static.flickr.com/.../...
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+5 #73 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — John rig rundown 2011-01-18 09:16
For delay and modulation he mainly uses his eventides, also he uses a keeley compressor.
Check out 'john mayer rig rundown' on youtube.... its on the premier guitar channel, shows exactly what he's been using live :-)
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0 #72 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Nick 2011-01-14 05:11
Hey I don't think he's using the same acoustic strings anymore, if you watch the "Half of my heart" video you can see they don't have bronze in them.
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-5 #71 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmen — Joe 2010-12-06 20:31
He uses an amp overdriven with an overdrive pedal on top of that and a cocked wah pedal. you can add reverb or delay if you want. he might possibly also use an octave effect.
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0 #70 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — gearguy123 2010-12-02 20:54
hey on the where the light is album, how does john mayer get that sound during the second solo after david ryan does his little thing. its driving me crazy
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0 #69 Duesenberg — Chad 2010-11-21 07:50
www.duesenberg.de/.../en_video.php?id=40

John's using a Duesenberg here, he also used one when he played with Keith Urban.
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+1 #68 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Joe 2010-10-24 18:02
John also uses a Fender Vibrolux as said in Guitar World
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+1 #67 RE: John Mayer's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — fndrplyr 2010-10-09 20:09
His boss bd-2 blues driver has the keely phat switch mod. (According to robert keely's website.)
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0 #66 avalon u5 — maurizio 2010-08-14 06:12
he uses the avalon u5 for the guiter or for voice?
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+1 #65 james 2010-03-23 05:54
Just a bit more about the black relic strat in the photo on this page....in April 2010 Guitarist issue he says he went to fenders custom shop and did a lot of the work on the guitar himself, as he wanted to help make his own guitar. It was then reliced by john cruz and sent to john mayer
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+2 #64 Missing Gear — Jonathan 2010-03-21 03:53
In John Mayer's where the light is concert, he was shown using a Line 6 DL4.
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0 #63 John\'s Tube Sceamer — Jonathan 2010-03-21 03:51
I read April 2010's Guitarist Magazine which had a interview with John Mayer. In the interview, John mentioned he uses a regular unmodded TS10 tube screamer.
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+4 #62 EVH Frankenstrat — Nick 2010-03-16 10:25
In the Guitar World with him on the cover, I remember seeing a picture of him with an EVH Frankenstrat, can anyone confirm this?
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0 #61 Mayer gear pics — uberpro 2010-03-16 07:05
Checkout these awesome pics of John's gear from 2010! jacksonampworks.com/.../...
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0 #60 Gibson SG — E 2010-02-19 12:14
I saw John play a John Mayer Trio show 12/31/2009, and he played several songs on a white Gibson SG. I don't remember exactly how many but I was very surprised at the number of times that guitar saw the stage.
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+2 #59 Charley Wirz — E 2010-02-17 08:19
Yes, John does own one of those. In 2003, Rene Martinez (SRV's tech)worked with Charley's to reproduce 23 of these guitars. Not coincidentally, Rene is also John's tech and he ended up with one. Santana and Kenny Wayne Sheopard also reportedly own one.
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+2 #58 james 2010-02-10 02:07
ive seen pics of john with what looks like a replica of SRV's white charley wirz strat with lipstick pickups, anyone confirm?
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+5 #57 Lucas 2010-01-30 16:48
What are the Strats that John uses 010 and 011 strings?
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-1 #56 simon 2010-01-27 03:36
clay is using an ebow...like a thing you use on the strings sounds like a violin
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0 #55 Tone baby — William A. 2009-10-13 03:08
You can also get that tone from Belief if you switch the pickups to the 2,3, & 4 positions (more-so on a strat) and turn the tone nob down...the middle position seems to work good for H-H configuration.
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0 #54 cabs — Matthew 2009-09-10 18:33
I cant swear that they're not customized like his two-rock sign. head...but I believe he generally plays thru two-rock sign. SD 2x12 cabinets sporting their 12-65B speakers. Hope that helps a bit.
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+1 #53 Matthew 2009-09-02 08:52
right on!!...at times, mayer can have one of the most (tastefully) "worked" tones with several effects but the thing to keep in mind for 'his' tone is--> pickups on his signature and/or relic strat(lower output/mid-scoop), keeley blues driver, keeley katana clean boost, ts808/ts9, and CERTAINLY his custom two-rock rig(substantial mid boost)
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0 #52 blonde beauty — Matthew 2009-09-02 08:29
thanks to everyone who contributed and continues to do so for this site...just thought it might be time to include the simply priceless blonde Gibson L5 featured throughout "Where The Light Is" :D

www.guitarcenter.com/.../
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+5 #51 JM\'s speakers — Bluesderek 2009-08-11 06:35
Does anybody know John's speaker in his Two Rock Cabinets?
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0 #50 JM\'s tuning — Bluesderek 2009-08-09 06:57
Most of his live DVD is in standard tuning. For a couple of songs with the trio he uses a sunburst hardtail strat with a large CBS style headstock that is tuned down a halfstep to Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, and Eb. He might use a dropped D tuning (standard, but low E tuned down a whole step to D) every once in a while, but I'm not quite sure
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-7 #49 mark 2009-08-08 21:23
does anyone know johns tuning?
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+4 #48 nicolas Günthardt 2009-06-26 05:56
Mayer has used a fender bassman amp for smaller venues as well as a hot rod deluxe
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+2 #47 Kbryant 2009-06-12 05:39
Although Mayer does own and use the "Steel String Singer" he is also an avid user of the Overdrive Special. He bought the S.S.S within the past couple years. If you know anything about Dumble amps, the S.S.S. is VERY rare (Dumble only built that amp for players he highly liked)
Until he could get his hands on a S.S.S. he used a ODS. WHich is a great amp!!! Santana loves them.
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0 #46 peavey vyper MOG — sammy 2009-06-08 14:11
On the peavey vyper the MOG sttands for multi octave generator.
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0 #45 steve 2009-06-04 11:09
not a bluesbreaker 2 in a blog he said they sucked tis a 90's bluesbreaker 1.also he doesnt use any tubescreamers apart from that original ts-808. also that black one (as he calls it) was ,like uberpro said, a masterbuilt which hes now making some replicas of.
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0 #44 I dont trust myself effect — chris 2009-05-23 11:05
he uses one of the effects off the adrenalinn pedal for that sweet buttery wah sound in this song. you can mimick the effect using a wah wah pedal but it wont exactly be the same. For added info as most already know, john uses the adrenalinn pedal for Bigger than my body also. except he uses the random arpeggiator effect available in the adrenallin pedal
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+1 #43 John Mayer Belief high pitch sound — chris 2009-05-23 11:02
your post is old on here so you probably figured it out by now, however i figured i would shoot you an e mail anyway answering your question. The effect used is an octave up pedal. they come in forms such as Fender Blender pedal, Catalinbread ottava magus (prob not correct spelling. there are tons of other popular brand name pedals that do this effect. but yes it is an octave up pedal. not to be confused with a standard octave pedal.
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+3 #42 Anon 2009-05-04 00:08
His tubescreamer is also a Keeley. And he switched out the T-Rex comp and is now using the Keeley Compressor for compression.
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+4 #41 Anon 2009-05-04 00:07
Actually he uses a filter setting on the Linn pedal on I Don't Trust Myself with Loving You. Its labeled on the his switcher. He also uses it on Bigger Than my Body.
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+3 #40 James - wah 2009-04-24 01:45
Ive heard he uses a geoff teese real mccoy wah...ive seen the pics on this site of a cry baby but i think he's recently gone over to the real mccoy. The wah tone on where the light is definitely ain't crybaby sounding.
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+6 #39 who did you think i was tone? — jake Goodman 2009-04-01 17:00
i love the distortion on who did you think i was and i was wondering who knows what pedal that is and what settings.
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+5 #38 James 2009-02-22 17:57
What Are john'S eq settings?? anyone know??
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+1 #37 csills 2009-01-07 11:30
you forgot that he will often play an ES-335. also ive seen him with a tele one time. as well as many many different strats.
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0 #36 irfan 2008-12-31 21:07
thnx for posting john complete guitar rig...

I think JM still sound so good wothout all the pedal and amps above... because his soul is the real pedal,amps,and effect to his guitar sounds... :-)

bravo john! keep the music alive!
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+3 #35 Belief solo tone — ryaan 2008-12-27 19:33
Ok so I always wondered how he got that high pitch tone at the end of belief.

I thought it was a wah pedal all the way back with distortion but a friend of mine came over with this peavey vyper amp and it has this one effect called mog... I've been playing guitar 16 years and play prof so I can play. I play the solo exactly the way he did in where the light is and got the chills. It's the exact same sound he uses to the T. I'm still trying to find out what mog is supposed to be. Sounds like a synth effect. If anyone know what the effect stands for please share.
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-2 #34 Guest 2008-12-22 20:35
he doesnt use a Dumble ODS... he uses a Dumble Steel String Singer
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-2 #33 dan hammond 2008-12-18 07:44
turn the tone right down, compress the wah, use your fingers, sexy sexy sound
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0 #32 Riz 2008-12-12 04:36
I caught one of his at this past years summer tour and it's a Dunlop Tortex .60mm
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-5 #31 jimi 2008-11-26 05:00
hes just using a wahwah for the intro
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-1 #30 Tube Tape Echo — Daniel 2008-11-06 19:43
According to fulltone's website John Mayer has a tube tape echo on his rig. Is there any truth to this statement?
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+12 #29 What size of strings does john use — Hector 2008-11-03 06:42
Anybody know what size of string gauges john uses?

Thank you
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-4 #28 Pedal Effect — Shuffles 2008-10-21 05:33
Does anyone know what JM used to get the sound effects in "I can't help myself with loving you"?
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0 #27 High pitched tone....Harmonics??? — Zach 2008-10-05 10:31
No Erik, the high pitch tone is from an octavia pedal. Used by Jimi Hendrix in most of his solos like the one in Machine gun where he also used a uni-vibe pedal. John mayer is very good, but no one plays a full harmonic solo, that would sound horrible.
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-7 #26 High Pitched Tone — erik 2008-09-19 08:31
Someone earlier asked how John got that high pitched tone on the solo in Belief over the DRH section. I'm quite positive its not an effect. They are all pinch harmonics. He just has such control over his guitar that he can play a full solo, every note of which is a pinch harmonic. He's a better player than even the people who like him give him credit for.
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0 #25 monitors — uberpro 2008-09-06 06:46
We sure do. Mix mag said that they were using Sennheiser G2 units along with Sensaphonics ProPhonic 2X-S ear molds. :-)
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-1 #24 Pedal in \"3x5\" — GERRY SYANDRA 2008-09-06 06:40
Hi evrybody!! in "3x5" intro (any given thursday live).. what pedal him second guitarist use in that intro?? whats that technic??thx brow!
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-1 #23 Guest 2008-09-06 06:23
Just wondering about Johns wireless in ear monitor system, any clues?
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+4 #22 Hendrix134 2008-08-27 14:49
He doesn't use a BOSS blues driver, his is the Keeley Mod!!
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0 #21 black strat — mayer 2008-08-15 08:05
its not a vintage guitar, it was built by masterbuilder john cruz especially for jm. its a replica of srv's number one but in black compared to the 3tone sunburst original
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-3 #20 Aaron 2008-08-04 03:35
I've heard from other sites (and I think) that it's the Fender Blender. He uses it sometimes in the long intros and solos for "Vultures."
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0 #19 SY 2008-08-03 14:29
which pedal does he use for his main overdrive tone. BD, TS, or Marshall BB?
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-1 #18 Tampa Bryan 2008-07-29 12:57
i think quite a bit of the compression is coming straight out of two-rock. I've heard samples of them and the seem to have a very fluffy sounding tone, which coupled with a TS-808 would prolly come across as sounding extremely compressed. just my guess so dont quote me on that.
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-1 #17 R 2008-07-25 07:39
I have seen him playing some songs (eg. vultures, i think it was AOL sessions) on youtube with a plec before, and tbh he sounded less john-mayerey than the same songs with fingers.

Most of the time he plays fingerstyle on electric.
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-2 #16 bluesderek 2008-07-17 10:14
I think it is some kind of octaver, maybe the Fulltone Octafuzz or the Voodoo Lab Proctavia, but I wouldn't know for sure. Unfortunately he keeps his stomp boxes in a drawer of his rack :sad:

Also, I was surprised not to find any kind of compressor in this list of gear as all of his sounds seem to be heavily compressed (sometimes too much so, for my taste)
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-4 #15 Jordan 2008-07-14 19:41
John gets like a high pitched tone out of one of his effects and im interested in finding it. On the Where the Light is DVD, he uses it in I don't need no doctor and the outro solo over DRH on Belief. I heard him use it when i saw him live too. almost like an octavia? help!!

thanks=]
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-3 #14 Fender relic — leecs 2008-07-02 03:49
Its basically a SRV relic No.1 in black.
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-1 #13 travis 2008-06-28 03:36
I had wondered about this myself; after watching some live videos and listening to a few solo tracks I'd say he actually goes fingerstyle or pick/finger hybrid most of the time, which is [one of the ways, anyway] how he gets that big, warm sound out of a Strat on Gravity, I Don't Trust Myself, etc.
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0 #12 fender relic — uberpro 2008-05-15 03:58
I had read that it is a Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt relic.
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-1 #11 Vintage Strat — Dakota 2008-05-15 03:14
What kind of strat is he playing in that picture at the top? I know it's not one of his signature strats. It looks vintage, like a '60s model.
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+3 #10 Overdrive — Matty 2008-04-27 01:10
He also uses a G2D Cream Tone pedal, from the beautiful country of New Zealand.
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-2 #9 Legend Picks — UberProAudio 2008-04-25 01:35
The only thing I've found so far is that the company Legend Picks has John Mayer listed as one of their Endorsements/Clients. So perhaps John only uses these custom printed picks?
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-4 #8 picks — Hoss 2008-04-24 18:16
What size and type of pick does John Use?
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0 #7 Gerg 2008-03-22 08:31
If you watch the Crossroads DVD, the black strat has a Custom Shop logo on the back of the headstock. I'm thinking it's just a CS relic model, made just for him.
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-5 #6 UberProAudio 2008-03-19 01:16
Hi Joel, If you follow the links for the strings listed, you will find out their sizes.
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+7 #5 Strings — Joel 2008-03-18 15:14
What size strings does he use?
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-2 #4 John Mayer\'s black relic stra — Justin Cournoyer 2008-02-24 13:07
Any body have an idea what year his black strat is?The relic. :huh:
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0 #3 cntrag 2008-02-23 12:40
cool just what i was lookin for :D
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+1 #2 Daza 2008-02-08 13:06
well, JM said sometime that he hated the Marshall bluesbraker II, but he prefered the Marshall bluesbraker, The original one, released at the 90's...
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+4 #1 gearslut 2007-12-25 01:09
from what i see, you guys left out the boss blues driver and the keely katana clean boost, two very essential componets in john's tone.
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