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Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament Bass Gear Rig and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Sunday, 06 January 2008 07:26

Jeff Ament is an American rock bassist and, along with Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. Jeff is a renowned bassist, and is particularly notable for his work with the fretless bass, upright bass and twelve-string bass guitar.

Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament Bass Rig.

Jeff Ament on bass 

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Basses
- vintage Fender Precisions (including a sunburst ’59 once owned by Canned Heat’s Larry Taylor)

Fender '59 Precision Bass Relic Vintage Blonde Rosewood Fretboard

- Multiple ’90s Modulus custom Jazz-style basses (iron color, purple, etc...)
- 2000 Modulus custom Silvertone replica
- ’90s fretless Wal Basses - Woodgrain
- ’70s Ovation Magnum
- Azola Acoustic Baby Bass electric upright
- 1966 Gibson ES-330 guitar
- 1990 "Fingerpaint" custom Hamer 8-String bass
- 12 string Hamer natural Acoustic custom Bass (a different Hamer 12 string is pictured below)

Hamer CH-12 Chaparral 12-String Bass Black

- Carruther's Sub-1 upright electric bass brown color
- 1959 Sunburst Fender Jazz Bass


Amps and Cabinets
- 1973 Ampeg SVT I head

Ampeg SVT-VR Vintage Reissue 300 Watt SVT Amp Head

- SWR custom 6x10s without horns

SWR Goliath Senior Speaker Cabinet

- Ampeg SVT-2 PRO head

Ampeg SVT-2 Pro Series Amp Head

- Ashdown ABM 500 EVO head

Ashdown ABM 500 EVO II Mono Bass Amp Head

- 1968 Ampeg B-18
- 1970 Acoustic 360 pre-amp
- '96 Ampeg SVP Pro pre-amp
- reissue Ampeg B-15R
- SWR 2x10" cabs (off stage monitor for techs)
SWR WorkingPro 2x10 Bass Speaker Cabinet

 

Effects and More
- Sony WRR840 wireless receiver
- MXR M-108 10-band EQs

MXR M-108 Ten Band Graphic EQ

- Fulltone ’70 pedal

Fulltone '70 Fuzz Guitar Effects Pedal Dark Blue


- Fulltone Bass-Drive pedals

Fulltone Bass Drive MOSFET Overdrive


- Boss reverb/delay
- Furman VU-40 meter
- Brooke Siren AR116 D.I.
- TCM Design '24cx-4' active crossover
- Jester Enterprises Hydra tube splitter
- Avalon DI

Avalon Ultra Five Direct Box   Instrument Preamplifier

- Digitech Bass Whammy pedal
- MXR 117 Flanger

MXR M-117R Flanger Effects Pedal Metallic Grey

- Sansamp Classic Distortion
- Uptown Flash footcontroller
- Sal Trentino custom 4ch load-box
- DBX 166 compressor
dbx 166XL Dual Compressor Limiter

 

Strings and picks
- Dean Markley SR2000 medium bass strings

Dean Markley 2691 SR2000 Medium Bass Strings

- Dean Markley SR2000 medium-light bass strings (fretless only)

Dean Markley 2689 SR2000 Medium Light Bass Strings

- Thomastik "Spirocore" upright bass strings

Thomastik Spirocore Double Bass Strings 4/4 Set

- Dunlop Tortex 1.0mm picks

Dunlop Tortex Standard Guitar Picks 1.0MM 1 Dozen
Last Updated on Monday, 17 May 2010 05:31
 

Comments 

 
0 #7 RE: Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament Bass Gear Rig and EquipmentJoan 2011-11-16 06:47
I saw them 2 days ago, he was using 2 Marshalls, well, one at least, the other one seemed like a plexi but with a lot of knobs and no marshall logo
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0 #6 6x10 cabsuberproaud 2010-09-27 08:56
Quoting Aaron:
If you watch "The Fixer" music vid it looks like he is using two Orange 810's with out the grills.

Except......if you look closely, those cabs only have 6 10's in them.
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0 #5 RE: Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament Bass Gear Rig and EquipmentAaron 2010-09-24 16:53
If you watch "The Fixer" music vid it looks like he is using two Orange 810's with out the grills.
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0 #4 Will 2010-02-18 05:44
Scott - - 2000 Modulus custom Silvertone replica is prob what you have seen.
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0 #3 Guest 2010-01-31 03:17
Also in touring band 2000 it looks hes using some sort of sunburst non reverse thunderbird during Corduroy.
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0 #2 Mike Lull?Jordan 2009-12-12 13:54
I know he used to be the guitar tech for Pearl Jam. He makes a mean Thunderbird replica, maybe that's it?
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0 #1 Scott 2009-12-01 22:04
When i saw PJ he was using custom Thunderbirds. Does anyone know anything about this?
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