Nuno Bettencourt has been one of my favorite guitar players since I discovered the band Extreme back in the 80's. His Washburn N4 guitar has always been an instrument I want to buy, and the relic version looks awesome. I did a lot of research as to what guitar gear Nuno uses and has used in the past and I will tell you that info is sparse, but I think I got some great info for you to check out. Enough talk, let's check out Nuno's gear!

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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) - N4ESA

- 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
- 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

- 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-2 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!