Nuno Bettencourt has been many people's favorite guitar player since the band Extreme was first big back in the 80's. His Washburn N4 guitar has always been an instrument shredders want to buy, and the relic version looks awesome to the eye. Nuno has played in other bands in addition to Extreme including Mourning Widows, Population 1, DramaGods, and more recently with The Satellite Party. Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that Nuno has been seen using in his guitar rig.

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Guitars
- Homemade guitar with Schecter body and Warmoth neck (used during first Extreme album)
- Takamine acoustic guitar (first Extreme album)
- Washburn N4 electric guitar (A Duncan '59 and a Lawrence L-500 in the bridge)

- Washburn N5 electric guitar
- Washburn N6 electric guitar
- Washburn N8 electric guitar
- Washburn P4 electric guitar
- WASHBURN EA-45 acoustic guitar
- WASHBURN EA20 acoustic guitar

- WASHBURN EA22 acoustic guitar
- Mouradian Custom Guitar

Guitar Amplifiers

- Custom made Nuno Bettencourt Randall amps and cabinets (what he has been using as of 2008 along with Marshalls):

- Randall NBKing100 amp head

- Randall NB412 cabinets

- ADA MP-1 Preamp
- ADA Power amp
- Fender Vibroverb

- Fender Twin Reverb

- Marshall TSL amp heads (3 channel)

- 69' Marshall cabinets

- Hughes and Kettner TriAmp heads

- Marshall JMP head
- Marshall JCM head

Guitar Effects
- Boss ME-5 Multi Effects and more currently, Boss GT-8

- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

- Boss LS-2 Line Selector

- Boss MC-1
- MXR Phase 90

- MXR Phase 100

- Heil Talkbox

- Hughes & Kettner Tubeman

- Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay

- Digitech XP-100

- Boss GE-7 Equalizer

- Boss OC-3 Octave

- Demeter Amplification THE TREMULATOR
- Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere

- Damage Control Womanizer Pure Class A Distortion (he's sponsored)

- Rat pedals

Guitar Strings
- Dean Markley Nuno Bettencourt Signature guitar strings NB-LTHB gauges .010 - .013 - .017 - .028 - .038 - .052
- Dean Markley Nuno Bettencourt Signature guitar strings NB-CL gauges .009 .011 .016 .026 .036 .046

These strings are a pretty close match to the one's he made:

Go to the next page to see some awesome pictures of Nuno's rig!