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Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Sunday, 20 January 2008 10:13

Jimmy Page is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. Jimmy Page began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was later a member of The Yardbirds, from late 1966 to 1968, before founding the English rock band Led Zeppelin. Page has been described as "unquestionably one of the all-time most influential, important, and versatile guitarists and songwriters in rock history." In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Page #9 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, as a member of The Yardbirds and also as a member of Led Zeppelin.

Jimmy has had a long career and played on a ton of gear. Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Led Zepplin's Jimmy Page's Guitar Rig.

Jimmy page with amps and guitar

CoolClick the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's FriendCool

Guitars

Cool Notes: Jimmy Page is reputed to own over 1500 different guitars. Page gave this rough estimate to BBC Radio Two presenter Stuart Maconie in June 2005.

Due to the fact the guitar was too heavy for him, one of Jimmy Page's Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty" is now owned by Dan Hawkins of The Darkness (you can find Dan's rig profile on UberProAudio also). It is not the same Black Beauty that was stolen from him in 1970.

Electric guitars
- 1959 Fender Telecaster (given to Page by Jeff Beck and repainted with a psychedelic Dragon on it by Page. Played with the Yardbirds, on Led Zeppelin I, the early tours (68-69), and on the studio version of Stairway to Heaven.

Fender American Vintage Series '62 Custom Telecaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst

- 1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard (No. 1)

Gibson Custom Shop 1958 Les Paul Standard Vintage Original Spec Series Electric Guitar Washed Cherry

- 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard (No. 2) Given to him by Joe Walsh

Gibson Custom Shop 1959 Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar Washed Cherry

- 1960 Danelectro 3021
- 1967 Vox 12-String
- 1960 Black Gibson Les Paul Custom(with Bigsby Tremolo) - stolen in 1970

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Black

- Rickenbacker 12 String
- 1971 Gibson EDS-1275 (used for playing "Stairway to Heaven", "Celebration Day", "The Rain Song", "The Song Remains the Same" and on some occasions, "Tangerine" live)

Gibson EDS 1275 Double-Neck Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry

- 1973 Gibson Les Paul Standard

- 1964 Lake Placid Blue Fender Stratocaster(Used during recording sessions for In Through The Out Door and 1979 at Knebworth, especially for In The Evening)

Fender Classic Series '60s Stratocaster Electric Guitar Lake Placid Blue Rosewood Fretboard

- 1966 Cream Fender Telecaster (Used on Physical Graffiti)
- 1960's Rosewood Fender Telecaster All rosewood body featuring a Parsons and White B-string bender. Seen primarily during the 1980s The Firm and Outrider era.
- 1965 Fender Electric XII (12-String)

Fender Stratocaster XII 12-String Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst

- 1977 Gibson RD Artist
- Gibson SG (Very seldom used, 80s tour)

Gibson SG Standard Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry

- Another Gibson doubleneck guitar was given to him after he agreed to allow the company to reproduce his original EDS-1275. The guitar was picked by Page out of numerous others after he struck one chord. Page declared "This is it, this is the one!" The guitar was marked (beforehand) #1.
- 2007 Gibson Black Beauty custom (remake of his original stolen in 1970, has modifications concerning pickup configurations which include a 6-way pickup selector, and coil-tap on the bridge pickup)
- Les Paul Goldtop w/ Transperformance tuning device Used on Atlantic 40th reunion, Coverdale/Page recordings, and Page/Plant tours

Gibson Custom Shop 57 Les Paul Goldtop Reissue Electric Guitar Antique Gold

- Mid 80s Black Kramer guitar with a trem Used for Outrider
- Gibson Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul
- Gibson Jimmy Page Signature EDS-1275

Acoustic guitars
- Gibson J-200

Gibson Acoustic Pete Townshend J-200 Acoustic-Electric Guitar Antique Natural

- Martin D-28 Acoustic

Martin D-28 Marquis Acoustic Guitar Natural

- Gibson Everly Brothers Model Acoustic
- Giannini 12-String Acoustic
- Harmony Sovereign Acoustic
- Washburn EA20-12 12 String Acoustic
- Ovation 1994 Double Neck Acoustic

Other instruments
- Gibson Mandolin

Gibson Acoustic A-9 Mandolin Vintage Brown

- Gibson Harp Guitar
- Roland GR-700 Guitar Synthesizer
- Fender 10-String 800 Pedal steel guitar
- Cello Bow

Glasser 4/4 Cello Horsehair Bow

- Theremin

Moog Etherwave Theremin

- Banjo

 

 

Amps and Cabinets
- Fender Super Reverbs

Fender Vintage Reissue '65 Super Reverb Guitar Combo Amp

- Fender Tonemaster Heads (see a mini one pictured below)

Fender Mini Tone-Master Amp

- Fender Tonemaster 4x12 Cabinets
- Hiwatt 50: seen during the 1970 tour.

Hiwatt Hi-Gain 100 Basic 100W Tube Guitar Amp Head Black

- Marshall 1959-SLP: 100 watt head rewired to 200 watt modded with KT-88 tubes

Marshall 1959SLPX Vintage Series 100W Tube Head Groove Tube Gold Series GT-KT88-C2 Matched Power Tubes Medium (4-7 GT Rating) Quartet

- Marshall 4x12 cabinets (straights and angled)

Marshall 1960A or 1960B 300W 4x12 Guitar Extension Cabinet Angled Marshall 1960A or 1960B 300W 4x12 Guitar Extension Cabinet Straight

- Orange: 100 watt amp and cabinets 
- Petersburg JP-100 amplifiers
- Supro (unknown model): 1*12" combo used for recording.
- Vox AC-30: (original T-boost model) used for recording. 2*12" Celestion speakers. 36 watt output.

Vox Custom Classic AC30CC2X 30w 2x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp with Alnico Blues


- Wizard Classic Heads
- Wizard 4x12 Cabinet

 

Effects and More
- Boss CE-2 Chorus

Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble Pedal

- Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive Distortion

Boss SUPER OverDrive SD-1 Pedal

- Digitech WH-1 Whammy Pedal

DigiTech Whammy Pedal with MIDI Control

- Dunlop Crybaby Wah Wah

Dunlop Original Crybaby Wah Pedal

- Eventide H949 Harmonizer (pictured is the most current harmonizer made)

Eventide H7600 Ultra-Harmonizer Effects Processor

- Gizmotron
- Jensen Crybaby Wah
- Maestro Echoplex
- MXR Blue Box

MXR M-103 Blue Box

- MXR Phase 90

MXR M-101 Phase 90 Pedal

- Pete Cornish Custom Switching System
- Pete Cornish Line Drivers
- Pete Cornish Linear Boost
- Roger Mayer fuzz box
- Sola Sound Tonebender
- Vox Cry Baby Wah

Vox V847A Wah Pedal

- Yamaha CH-10 Mark II Chorus

 

Strings and Picks
- Ernie Ball Super Slinky .009-.042 Strings

Ernie Ball 2223 Nickel Super Slinky Pink Electric Guitar Strings

- Ernie Ball Earthwood Acoustic Strings

Ernie Ball 2004 Earthwood 80/20 Bronze Light Acoustic Guitar Strings

- Herco Flex 75 Picks

Last Updated on Monday, 14 February 2011 10:04
 

Comments 

 
0 #22 RE: Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentindiemonk 2012-02-03 15:46
on the live sound especially TSRTS does he use a reverb or is it a very short delay? I swear it seems like a slapback delay with like 1 reapeat. Anyone know? its a big part of the live sound. Almost rockabilly. thanks
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+3 #21 RE: Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentDAL 2011-10-24 09:42
Quoting David Phillips:
Jimmy used a Digitech Whammy on Zeppelin's 77 Tour, and the Page/Plant tours for definite.


The Digitech Whammy was designed in 1989. (I happen to own one.)
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+2 #20 RE: Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentStymie 2011-08-01 12:04
Quoting David Phillips:
Jimmy used a Digitech Whammy on Zeppelin's 77 Tour, and the Page/Plant tours for definite.

Huh? 1977?? The whammy wasn't even imagined, let alone invented, then.
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-1 #19 real wild one-kraze 2011-05-19 11:58
He used a Strtovarious Bow with Whip Cream also.
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-1 #18 RE: Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentguest 2011-04-19 20:53
According to Page, in an interview with Guitar World, the only electrics he used on Physical Graffiti were a strat, a les paul, and a danelectro; not a tele just fyi.
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-8 #17 RE: Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentDavid Phillips 2011-03-15 19:34
Jimmy used a Digitech Whammy on Zeppelin's 77 Tour, and the Page/Plant tours for definite.
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+3 #16 RE: Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmenthiwattish 2010-12-08 12:15
and he also used a colorsound yellow wah-fuzz pedal
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+1 #15 RE: Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmenthiwattish 2010-12-08 12:14
the hiwatt he used was not just just a custom 50 it was a jimmy page model designed for him by dave reeves.
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+1 #14 Jimmy 2010-08-21 16:08
There were black, cream, and zebras all through the late 50's. My information comes from working on the actual instruments---not hearsay from someone's book or the internet.
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+1 #13 ORANGEfanfan 2010-02-20 23:16
:evil: :!: he used orange amps 2 :!:
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-1 #12 Electric Mistressgwugluud barcher 2009-11-12 16:01
You can really hear the EH Electric Mistress flanger on Page's main riff during the song
"Houses Of The Holy". You can freeze the sweep and get this bizarre, robot-y sound that has a "hollowness" to it.
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+1 #11 Jimmys PedalsGordon 2009-11-06 00:50
Originally he used Echoplex (still does), Sola Sound MK11 professional, Jen wah wah and MXR Phase 90 live. He used an original Digitech Whammy (WH-1) on the one off MTV show they did back in the 90s. He used it in kashmir and Black Dog iirc. The Whammy and boss pedals were modded by Pete Cornish.
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0 #10 Gabe 2009-10-09 18:05
His #1 Les Paul is not a '58, it is at least a '59. When the pickup cover was originally removed the pickup was white. There were no white PAFs in '58.
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0 #9 uberpro 2009-06-26 10:35
Fixed. Thanks a ton!
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+1 #8 l-e-d z-e-p-p-E-l-i-nstrungout 2009-06-26 10:29
PLEASE! Led Zeppelin needs its 'e' before the 'l' :Pinch: I was wondering why I couldn't find Page's gear... come on!

Otherwise this site is really cool, I got tons of info! Keep up the good work!
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+1 #7 Again,just the first album...Allen 2009-05-05 05:01
You are correct about the MKII for the First album...the Boss effects were during The Firm,primarily...
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0 #6 Also includes Firm-eraAllen 2009-05-05 04:59
Page did use the Boss effects for The Firm mostly...although you hear the Chorus on "Carouselambra","In The Evening",and other spots on In Through The Out Door...The MXR Blue Box was only used on "Fool In The Rain" and the overdubs on "We're Gonna Groove" from CODA...Some of the other stuff shown here is also from later period material...the Pete Cornish switching came around Page and Plant Unledded era-This is a pretty decent overview of all the effects used throughout Jimmy's career
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+1 #5 Yes he diduberpro 2009-04-24 04:04
Pete Cornish has this info right on his site, and he would know since he built the pedalboard for Jimmy! Here's the link www.petecornish.co.uk/jptt.html By the way, this was his 1993 rig.
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-1 #4 james 2009-04-24 00:58
hmmmm....since when did page use a boss super overdrive????? what you hear on zep records is a sola sound/vox tonebender or natural amp overdrive! Not sure about the ce-5 either and as for the whammy, never heard it on a zeppelin record! think this needs a rethink
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+1 #3 whammy PedalAdam L 2008-12-22 04:31
Can someone please tell me what songs Jimmy Page used a Whammy Pedal on? Also, I know the MXR Blue Box was used for the solo of "Fool in the Rain", but was it used on any other songs?
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+2 #2 Doug S. 2008-09-10 15:25
if you watch the electro harmonix product dvd the owner says that jimmy page bought and electric mistress during the 70s sometime.
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-4 #1 Guest 2008-04-14 22:18
he didn't use distortion/ overdrive pedals ! he used a tone bender MKII Fuzz For Distortion !
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