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Adam Jones is a Grammy Award-winning musician, guitarist and visual artist, best known for his work with the band Tool. Jones was rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine and placed 9th in Guitar World's Top 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists. He's also responsible for most of Tool's music videos.
Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Tool's Adam Jones Guitar Rig.
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Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Silverburst Custom Guitars (this is Adam's main guitar)
 
Checkout the Epiphone version if you need to save money:
- SH-4 JB model or a Seymore Duncan Trembucker pickups in his Gibson
  
- Gibson Les Paul natural finish
- Gibson SG (used for some recording)
 
- Guild acoustic guitar (can't find exact model)
 
Amps and Cabinets
Notes: Adam Jones uses multiple amplifiers at one time. We'll list some of the supposed amps he's used live and in the studio here.
- 1976 Marshall Super Bass amp
- Diezel VH4 "blueface" amp (he has 2 Diezels in his 2010 rig)
- Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier amp
- Sunn Beta Lead (for some recording)
- Bogner Uberschall
- Rivera Knucklehead Reverb amp
- Peavey amp
- Mesa/Boogie 4x12 cabinet
- Marshall 4x12 cabinet
- Mesa 2x15 bass cabinet
Effects
The following gear was seen in his 2010 guitar rig:
- Heil Talk Box w/ Heil mic through small Roland combo amp
- MXR Dynacomp for the talkbox
- MXR Micro Amp pedal
- Dunlop CryBaby BB-535 (aka 535Q) Wah
- Peterson Strobostomp Tuner
- Boss BF-2 flanger pedal
- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
- DOD fx40b EQ pedal
- Boss PSM-5 Power Supply pedals
- Access Virus B Advanced Simulated Analog Synthesizer
- Moog Taurus pedals
- Virus Indigo synthesizer
- Roland VK-8M
 
- Korg Rack tuner
- Optical Volume pedal
- Dunlop slide
The following gear has also been seen in Adam's rig over the years:
- Ibanez Flanger
- Ibanez Digital Delay
- Line 6 delay
- Gig-FX Chopper Effects Pedal
- Ernie Ball Standard Volume Pedal
- Foxx Tone Machine Reissue
- Boss syb-5 bass synthesizer
- Boss GE-7 Equalizer
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Comments
No [censored], Sherlock, which is why I said MOST of their songs. Prison Sex is not on Aenima, but is tuned BADGBE and Parabola is BEDGBE. Every other song is drop D.
Actually some songs on both Aenima and Lateralus are tuned in drop B. (prison sex, parabola) And Adam doesn't just use the Blue faced VH4, he also uses the silver faced diezel for higher highs.
DADGBE like most of their songs.
1. Ernie Ball Volume Pedal JR.
2. BOSS PSM-5 Power supply & Master switch
3. MXR Microamp
4. BOSS PSM-5 Power supply & Master switch
5. Dunlop Crybaby 535Q Multi-Wah
6. BOSS DD-6 Digital Delay
7. BOSS BF-2 Flanger
8. Voodoo Lab Tremolo
9. DOD FX40 Guitar EQ
10. Line6 DL4 Digital Delay
11. Snarling Dog Blues Bawls
12. Snarling Dog Mold Spore
13. Colorsound Wah Swell
14. Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
15. Access Virus Classic
16. Pedalboard for Virus
17. Korg DTR-2000 Rackmount Digital Tuner
18. Foxx Tone Machine
19. Dunlop Heil Talk Box
20. Gig Fx Chopper Pedal
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In the normal pedalboard that you can see live he uses:
1.Acces Virus B rack (near the others) with a 2. Pedalboard (Like the Taurus)= that controll the Virus B
3.DOD FX40b Grafic Equalizer
4. Boss BF-2 Flanger
5. Boss DD-6 Delay
6. Line6 DL-4 Dealy
7. Dunlop Crybaby 535Q Multi Wah
8.Custom made Volume Pedal (no Ernie Ball
9. Peterson Strobe Tuner Pedal
10. MXR Microamp
11. Korg DTR-2000 Rackmount Tuner
12/13. 2 Boss PSM-5 Power supply & Master switch
14. Dunlop Heil Talk box (10,000 tour)
15. Foxx Tone machine (10,000 tour)
16. Gig FX Chopper (10,000 days tour)
The two main amplifiers Adam always uses for are his Marshall Super Bass and Diezel VH4.
The Super Bass is a non-master volume version and has had both of the channels combined.
The VH4, is a "Blueface" model from the mid-90's. These models have more low-end than the newer models, and I'm not sure if it's been modified.
When live, Adam only uses Channel 3(mega).
As far as the third amplifer goes, it varies. He was seen with a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier in the late 90's, and may have used a Bogner Uberschall during this time as well. At recent shows, he was seen using an newer VH4 as his third amp. He probably changes from clean to overdrive the third amp, unlike the Blueface VH4.
For cabs, he always uses Mesa Boogie 4x12's, except for the Marshall, which is run through a Marshall 4x12.
Hope you guys found this usefull=]
i think he uses Ernie ball heavy bottom slinky tops
i saw this on a website somewhere but i don't know how accurate it is
why is there two delay pedals and i thought he had 2 boss psm-5's and a dod fx40b eq pedal (not the boss ge-7 eq) and a boss syb-5 bass synthesizer?