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Relient K - Matt Hoopes Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment

Matt Hoopes is the lead guitarist (and backing vocals) of Relient K, a Christian rock band that was formed in 1998. Besides playing for Relient K, Hoopes has also done backup vocals for certain Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes songs, and has been a guest guitarist at concerts for the band My Red Hot Nightmare.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Matt's Relient K guitar rig.

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Guitars
- Fender Telecaster, White with maple neck

Fender Classic Series '50s Telecaster Electric Guitar Blonde Maple Fretboard

- Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster Special

- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P90 pickups

Gibson Custom 1956 Les Paul Goldtop Reissue Electric Guitar Antique Gold

- Gibson Les Paul (black)

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Black

- Fender Special Edition Jaguar HH (black and chrome)

Fender Classic Player Jaguar Special HH Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst

- Gibson Les Paul Custom, wine red (his has mini humbuckers)

- Fender Tele, black with maple fretboard

- 70s Fender Telecaster Deluxe

Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar Black

Amps and Cabinets
- TopHat Amplifiers (head, Vanderbilt)

- Marshall JMP amplifier head

Can you identify Matts amps on the right

Effects and More
- Zvex Fuzz Factory pedal

Z.Vex Effects Vexter Fuzz Factory Guitar Effects Pedal

- MXR PHase 90 pedal

- Fulltone Full-Drive 2

- Boss TU-2 pedal

- Ernie Ball Volume VP Junior

Ernie Ball VP Junior 25K Active Volume Pedal

- Line 6 Echo park pedal

Line 6 ToneCore Echo Park Delay Guitar Effects Pedal

- Cusack Tap-A-Whirl pedal
- pedaltrain board (PT-2)

Pedaltrain PT-2 Pedalboard with Softshell Gig Bag

- Cusack Screamer Fuzz
- Fulltone OCD pedal

Fulltone OCD Overdrive Obsessive Compulsive Drive

- Keeley Compressor (4 knob version)

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Matthew Kennedy - Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster Special Electric

|2010-02-19 20:04:21

Matt Hoopes is Awesome! but he doesnt have the Special Edition Jaguar HH-he has a Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster Special

Nathan - Close, but missing a few things.

|2010-01-05 03:03:58

As said before, he also has a wine red Gibson LP Custom. However, its a 70s Custom with mini-humbuckers instead of the standard full-size ones we see on all LPs today that don't have P-90s.

The
white Tele isn't his only one either. He has a black Tele with maple fretboard that has either a Seymour-Duncan Mini-Jazzbucker or Mini-'59 installed in the bridge position. This was primarily used
before MMHMM, but he and Schneck still use it live occationally.

He also has a mid/late 70s Fender Telecaster Deluxe. You know, the Teles with dual humbuckers and a Les Paul-style control layout.
As far as I know he just recently started playing this, probably not too long before they recorded "Forget and Not Slow Down."

As for the sunburst LP mentioned before, I'm not sure if that
guitar is his or Schneck's. They seem to trade/borrow each others guitars quite frequently, both live and in videos, because Jon uses the same LP in the Be My Escape video.

Trea	\|2009-07-02 15:40:24

He uses Top Hat amps... I'm not familiar enough with the company to know the model there, but that is for sure a Top Hat amplifier... :\

Anonymous - AWESOME!!!!!

|2009-06-02 18:57:44

Matt is one of my fav guitarist's. I have seen some of thier music vids and this is right on and some of their live vids. Accept for two things he also has a Red Gibson LP. If you look at Be
My Escape or Must Have Done Something Right, and he also has a Sunburst Gibson LP if you look at Who I Am Hates Who Ive Been its the same thing lol. But every thing else is 100% correct.

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