Josh Farro is the guitar player and backup vocalist for the punk band Paramore. Josh is one of the founding members of Paramore.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Josh's Paramore guitar rig.

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Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Classic

- Fender Telecaster 72 Deluxe

- Taylor Acoustic Guitar

- Epiphone Les Paul Goldtop

- Fender Tele Thinline Custom (gold sparkle finish and P-90 pickups - his version is custom)

- Fender '52 American Vintage Series Tele

- Burns London Double Six 12-string guitar (studio - bridge of "Brick by Boring Brick")

Amps and Cabinets
- Marshall JCM2000 Dual Super Lead
- Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier
- Mesa Boogie custom made Cabinets
- Marshall 1960A Angled 4x12 Cab

- Marshall JTM 45 (studio - bridge of "Brick by Boring Brick")

- Marshall JCM800 amps, including Slash model and the 800 used on Green Day Dookie album (used on Brand New Eyes album)

Effects and More
- Mogami Cables

- Boss TU-2

- Boss DD-20 Giga Delay

- Digitech Whammy Pedal

- Ernie Ball Volume Pedal JR.

- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power

- George L cables for pedalboard

- Keeley Katana Bosst pedal (used on "Turn it Off")

- Line 6 Verbzilla (borrowed and used on "The Only Exception" along with his DD20)

- Sennheiser ew372 G2 wireless

Strings

- D'Addario EXL110 Regular Light 10-46 gauge guitar strings (listed on D'Addario as being a user, beginning in 2009)

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Daniel  - Wireless   |2010-03-14 21:54:51 Just thought I'd point out that the wireless he uses is a Sennheiser ew372 G2. http://www.sennheiserusa.com/sound_artist-detail&Paramore Reply 0   0

nick Fender  - Josh´s thinline custom   |2010-03-07 15:23:23 Hey i know josh principal guitar on brand new eyes is the tele thinline, however i haven´t seeen it on the market. Its kind of a 72 deluxe thinline with the stratocaster neck ? Can anybody tell me the story of the guitar and where to find it Reply 0   0

Manel  - Custom made   |2010-03-11 04:25:39 His tele is a custom made, not on the markey Reply 0   0

NAD  - where to buy the guitar   |2010-03-18 23:00:38 if you click on the picture it takes u to a website that you can buy it on. Reply 0   0

ish   |2010-02-20 09:16:31 can someone put Taylor's rig here on uberproaudio? oh please! Reply 1   0

robert perry byrd 72  - taylor's rig josh's custom guitar   |2010-03-05 14:41:21 if you've seen the final riot dvd in 40 days riot when their practicing they show his pedal board but people mistake it for joshs they have the same amp heads. pedal;digitech whammy, boss dd 20 giga delay, marshall foot switch, boss tu2, digi tech doctor q a zvex distortion,he may also use a line 6 vibzilla but it may be a digitech digital reverb ,I don't know the rest i can't tell. guitars;fender 72 telecaster thin line, fender jaguar hh special and regular ps josh custom guitar is a telecaster deluxe with gold top paint it has the same pickups it just has a les paul pickup on it he uses the tele deluxe pickup as a bridge pickup he put a f hole in it ps again it's not one of the thin lines Reply 0   0

Kenny  - Taylor York   |2010-02-17 23:10:24 ok... I have looked and searched forever!!! I've fallen in love with the guitar York used mostly on the final riot tour and I neeeed to know what in the world it is!!! please help me, I don't know much about guitars yet other than knowing how to play them. here are some pictures of it... it's easy to find them if you add final riot tour to his name- he mostly plays this during those shows. thank you!!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/29814574@N05/2791123879 http://www.flickr.com/photos/30991355@N04/2911099326 Reply 0   0

Andrew C   |2010-02-18 09:34:57 That is a Classic Series '72 Telecaster Thinline. I have one like it but with a sunburst. http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0137402321 Reply 0   0

ish   |2010-01-09 04:03:11 Can anyone tell me what his effects are beside the digitech whammy? (excluding his Marshall footswitch and the boss tu-2) Reply 0   0

mikyj139  - taylor york of paramore   |2009-12-30 21:26:10 Thanks Uberproaudio.com for awesome job with this website, it has helped me tremendously to learn about tone and what is best. I was wondering if you know the guitar taylor york uses, it looks very similar to the Squier Jagmaster, but its not, i been trying to find this model before noticing york has it, can you please help me, i think its rare and im not sure if is fender, i've heard its mexican mader, which i seeing in two mexican bands, please help me thanks for everything for this website, keep it up Reply 0   0

doug s  - that guitar   |2009-12-31 02:14:24 okay from what ive seen the guitar he uses is a jagmaster, probably with different pickups, ive never seen any other guitar thats like that with the fixed bridge, are you sure its not? Reply 0   0

Alan   |2010-01-05 07:14:52 It is definitely a Fender, based on the fact that the squier Jagmaster has it's pickup selector at the bottom of the guitar, and the fender (the one york plays) is located at the top. I was actually looking into getting a guitar like that, but I couldn't find it anywhere. He has one with standard pickups, but then he also has one with soap boxes. I'm not sure if it's custom made or if they made one like that, but I believe he used it first when "Brand New Eyes" Came out. He has also been playing with a fender telecaster deluxe thinline guitar, which is the same as the deluxe josh plays, except it has an f-hole. And then he also plays a les paul. I got this from another forum, which was posted in march of '09: Boss Tu-2 tuner, Electro Harmonics - doctor q, Boss Gigadelay, Digitech whammy, His amps are still either Marshall jcm 2000 (I think he prefers this one) or a Mesa Boogie dual rectifier. and a picture http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m294/j_m_s/TaylorYorkBoardLP.jpg Reply 0   0

Andrew C   |2010-01-10 00:27:57 Here are some pics of that guitar. Looks like a Fender headstock, the squier version looks a bit different. I'd say a custom from Fender. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hum_hallelujah27/3574192084/ http://www.contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/main/taylor_york_of_paramore_2419592 Reply 0   0

Erik  - Question about Jimmy Kimmel performance   |2009-12-26 23:17:19 I saw a youtube video of paramore on Jimmy Kimmel doing Decode and notice not amps were on stage, anyone know if they've gone ampless or did they have the cabs off stage? e Reply 1   0

David Lennon   |2009-12-26 06:43:18 Ok few questions if anyone could help it would be appreciated. In his black tele deluxe is it standard pickups? How does he change delay times for different songs? are they stored on the dd-20? Reply 0   0

EDuu   |2009-12-24 19:13:14 and.. the distortion? Reply 0   0

dem466   |2009-11-29 13:57:46 anyone know which amp he used for the final riot tour? Reply 0   0

Rodrigo  - .   |2009-11-18 13:23:10 A Marshall DSL 100. That epiphone GoldTop is a Epiphone Elitist.Its a High End guitar, same quality as a gibson. Reply 0   0

dem466   |2009-11-19 02:19:06 oh okay. for ignorance or the final riot tour? do you actually know it for a fact or is that just your assumption? Reply 0   0

dem466   |2009-11-17 06:13:35 does anyone know which amp head he uses for 'ignorance'? its such a punchy sound.. and does anyone know which amp head he used for their 'Final RIOT!' live dvd? Reply 0   0

Alan   |2009-11-02 16:45:44 Does anyone know what strings he uses? Reply 0   0

uberpro  - Ernie Ball   |2009-11-02 16:48:21 Paramore is listed as an Ernie Ball using band: http://www.ernieball.com/artist/659-Paramore Reply 0   0

Alan   |2010-01-19 06:45:10 I just checked the D'Addario website, and I guess Josh just started using D'Addario strings in 2009...according to the site. He uses 10-46 Gauge http://www.daddario.com/DaddarioArtistDetails.Page?ActiveID=2049&ArtistId=40634 Reply 0   0

Rico   |2009-10-28 23:23:17 His custom guitar does not have two humbucker sized p90s. The bridge pickup is a full on humbucker and I imagine the neck one is a Phat Cat or equivalent. He's also done this to either his old 72 Tele reissue or a new one (humbucker and p90 combo). That guitar also now has a regular fender neck instead of the big strat headstock. You can see it in live videos for Brick by Boring Brick. I'm afraid there's no pics i can find of this so to see it you'll just have to watch videos and be very observent. Reply 0   0

E Achmad  - Josh Farro Sg.Series???   |2009-09-25 04:32:53 hi uberproaudio!!!! do u know what guitar that he use in the "ignorance" video???looks like tele deluxe but with rosewood fingerboard???is it his signature series guitar??? rock on paramore,rock on uberproaudio Reply 1   0

dem466   |2009-09-26 15:43:27 it was custom made by fender for him. its basically a tele thinline, with P-90 pickups and only partially hollowed out, with a sparkly gold-top finish. Reply 0   0

Roy   |2009-09-25 03:37:56 Is this all the pedals he have? Cos I heard chorus in some of their songs... Like decode and when it rains... Please correct me if I am wrong... Reply 0   0

Rico   |2009-12-30 21:55:27 I can't remember where I saw it but there is a picture of his pedal board that has an Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Reverb on it, which has a Flerb switch on it. Its a combination of Flanger and Reverb and it sounds kind of like chorus but, its not. If someone knows the picture I'm talking about maybe they'll put it up. Reply 0   0

dem466   |2009-09-21 12:58:53 look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODbvy4uBUA is he using a squire or what? im pretty sure thats his 72' telecaster, but i think he swapped necks with his new thinline. Reply 0   0

Alan   |2009-11-27 01:27:36 It is definitely a fender guitar, just with a different, fender neck. I saw them live, and that was the first thing I looked at, was the guitars they were using. Definitely a Fender neck. Also, in TWYG video, it seems to be a fender, because on the squier (which I have), the pickup selector knob is black, where as on the fenders it's white. You can also see in the video the neck says fender, and not squier. Reply 0   0

ish   |2009-09-11 05:52:17 Here's a video of Josh talking about his guitar equipment. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWXiXGGUcSI Reply 1   1

dan  - what about the distortion???   |2009-09-09 22:46:10 he uses the amp head marshall ditortion or he uses another pedal?? Reply 0   0

ish   |2009-09-20 21:31:07 he uses his amp head for distortion Reply 0   0

Clayton   |2009-09-03 11:31:36 It's not a Custom actually. It's a deluxe. So don't criticise someone if you're clearly wrong yourself. Reply 1   0

Anonymous   |2009-08-24 21:30:51 He used Marshall JCM 2000 INSTEAD OF THE JTM 45 Reply 1   0

Anonymous   |2009-07-27 08:57:51 He did not use a squier i was a Fender '72 Telecaster custom, see properly. Reply 1   0

devin  - a few things...   |2009-07-16 13:04:51 The Les Paul Gold Top you were referring to is actually an Epiphone not a Gibson, http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=11730869&albumID=1830812&imageID=5380259#a=1830812&i=5380343 As Far as Gibsons, He uses a Les Paul Custom also. The effects he uses in the studio weren't actually on his board but now there are five other effects added. In the image, his volume pedal is off to the side. http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m294/j_m_s/JoshFarroPedalboard.png?t=1247760505 The teles! Ah, where to begin?!? The "gold top" one is a Fender Tele Thinline Custom with a gold sparkle finish and P-90 pickups. The telecaster in the new song video, is a '52 American Vintage Series Tele. I think it's pretty cool that someone stated that Josh used a '62 Ice Blue Metallic Fender Jaguar on the "crushcrushcrush" video, just to throw this out there he used a Squier Tele Custom in the "That's What You Get" vid. I've covered guitars and effects so far and the last topic i have to hit before ending this is amps. He still uses the JCM2000 and the Dual Rectifier amp heads. He uses Mesa/Boogie Custom-made Cabs, BUT! he also uses a Marshall 1960A Angled Cab. Alright, that pretty much covers it! Reply 1   0

Alan   |2009-07-16 23:10:37 Wow, you're pretty much amazing! Thanks for all the information. Now, I was about to question the validity of your statement in regards to Josh using the Squire Tele Deluxe in the "That's What You Get" video, but then I looked at it, and the headstock on the guitar in that video is definitely the smaller one of the Squire model. And don't forget about his old Fender Telecaster (the Standard model, with a sunburst color). I believe in the song "Where the Lines Overlap", the "new" guitarist, Taylor, uses it live. Reply 0   0

rockdude  - DD-20 Delay   |2009-07-07 17:22:23 does anyone knows what settings josh farro has in his DD-20 delay pedal for the song decode? i mean, delay time Or what tempo, his pedal settings basically. yeah thats too hard i know Reply 0   0

jackdt  - marshall cab   |2009-06-10 18:18:19 i'm sure he used a marshall cabinets for gigs and stuff any one think the same? Reply 0   0

Alan   |2009-05-29 15:06:43 Josh has a new Tele. It looks like a standard fender tele, but I could be wrong. Here is a video of him playing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC3aJ7QpXZ0 Reply 0   0

candra   |2009-05-28 01:08:01 rock on josh great plying n that's so cool smile Reply 0   0

Anonymous   |2009-02-13 23:53:16 This site is pretty awesome. Does anyone know what effects Josh uses on the intros to the songs "For a Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic" and "That's What You Get"? To me, it sounds like an overdrive pedal or specialty wah pedal chained with a his delay pedal. Reply 0   0

Kingers   |2009-02-14 17:30:30 Pretty sure it's a pitch shifter of some sort, the distortion most probably comes directly from his Mesa Dual Rectifier. Delay is obviously from DD-20. Reply 0   1

Tony   |2009-02-25 02:20:10 He uses the whammy pedal for his solos. its just octaves. that's what you're hearing Reply 0   0

Ash  - Josh Farro Gear   |2009-01-26 06:41:11 Hi ive also saw him use a Brown Gibson SG i saw him use it on a live show Rock On Paramore ! Reply 0   0

kevin  - josh farro gear   |2010-01-03 04:56:49 thats hunters sg her old 2nd guitarist Reply 0   0

NIck   |2009-01-24 21:32:19 I'm pretty sure Josh recently got a new Fender tele. Looks something similar to Taylor York's '72 thinline but not quite the same. Anyone know the exact model? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GlvREw84Mws Reply 0   0

Stef   |2009-02-10 17:15:03 He had his new tele made custom by fender. Its basically a Tele Deluxe RI like his other guitar, but chambered like a thinline with an f-hole, and painted in the same colours as a les paul goldtop Reply 1   0

Nick   |2009-03-19 20:08:35 What pickups has it got in it? They're different than the Tele Deluxe Reissue's widerange humbuckers.. I'm pretty sure, anyway. Reply 0   0

Will   |2009-04-17 12:53:55 I think he uses Seymour SPH90-1 Phat Cat Nickels for the neck pick-ups and not sure for the bottom ones they could be Seymour Duncan SH-12 George Lynch Screamin Deamon Nickels for the bridge Hope it helped Reply 0   0

Vinz Epino   |2009-01-04 05:47:34 this is great. can you guys please update his gear if there's anything new about josh's gear please? thanks and more power Reply 0   0

Katie May   |2008-12-15 14:10:26 This is an awesome site! and its cool how you can discover what your idols/favourite band members usae for gear! GO PARAMORE!!!! Reply 1   0

Mitchell   |2008-11-29 21:24:07 Josh also plays some sort of Gibson Les Paul Gold Top. Reply 1   0

R Levesley   |2008-08-14 12:00:09 In the video to crushcrushcrush, josh uses a blue fender jaguar Reply 3   5

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