Geddy Lee from the band Rush, is arguably one of the best known progressive rock gods.  ÜberProAudio knows that you have been asking yourself all this time "What does Geddy Lee's music equipment look like" - and if you haven't been asking that, you're going to find out anyway. Read below to find out what Geddy Lee's bass gear has looked like over the yeas.

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Bass Guitars

- In the early 1970's Geddy used a Fender Precision Bass

- Rickenbacker 4001 bass
- Fender Jazz Bass (his main bass is a 72 he got for $200)

- Steinberger bass (in 1984)

- Wal basses (used from 1985 to 1992)
- Fender Jaco Pastorius fretless replica bass (for Malignant Narcissism on Snakes and Arrows)


Strings

-Rotosound Funkmaster round-wound strings

Amplifiers

- Sunn
- Ampeg

- Ashly preamps and BGW power amps (were run in stereo with his 4001 bass)
- Gallien-Krueger amps (1991-1992)

- Trace Elliot amps

Beginning in 2002, Lee dispensed with traditional bass amplifiers in favor of DI units (also known as direct boxes), which allow the bass guitar to be connected directly to the audio engineer's main mixer. At the same time, Lee began using in-ear monitors.

DI's
-Tech 21 SansAmp RBI (live and recording)

-Avalon U5 preamp/DI (recording)

Keyboards and Synthesizers

- Oberheim (Eight-voice, OB-1, OB-X, OB-Xa)
- PPG (Wave 2.2 and 2.3)
- Roland (Jupiter 8, D-50, XV-5080)
- Moog (Minimoog, Taurus bass pedals, Moog Little Phatty)

- Yamaha DX7
- Roland XV-5080  (2002 and 2004)
- Yamaha KX76
- Korg MPK-130
- Roland PK-5

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