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Incubus - Mike Einziger Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:20

Mike Einziger is the multi-instrumentalist, co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus, in addition to his own side project band, Time Lapse Consortium. Instruments that he has played on Incubus records include guitar, piano, Mellotron, pipa, analog synthesizers, tape samplers, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and more. He's also played a Jerry Jones Guitars Master Sitar on "Nowhere Fast" from the Make Yourself album (live, he just plays the sitar part with his guitar), and a Pipa on "Aqueous Transmission". Mike also plays electric piano on songs like "Here In My Room" and has played piano on live versions of "Drive."

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in the Incubus guitar player's Guitar Rig.

Mike Einziger with Incubus

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


Guitars

- Music Man Albert Lee model guitar (red)

Music Man Albert Lee HH Hardtail Electric Guitar Coral Red

- Variety of Ernie Ball guitars

- Ibanez guitars (in the early days)
- PRS McCarty Archtop guitars

Paul Reed Smith McCarty Electric Guitar Sunburst

- Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 Electric Guitar

Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 Electric Guitar Gray Black

- Fender Jazzmaster electric guitars

Fender 62 Jazzmaster Electric Guitar Olympic White Brown Shell Pickguard

Notes: The Jazzmaster is now his main guitar. It has Seymour Duncan JM-2 pickups
- Gibson SG junior

Gibson SG JR P-90 Electric Guitar Wine Red

- Gibson Les Pauls

Gibson Les Paul Standard  60s Neck Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry Sunburst Nickel Hardware

- Guild D40 Jubilees fitted with Duncan D-TAR pickups

Guild D40 Bluegrass Jubilee Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar With Case Natural

- Jerry Jones Electric Sitars




Amps and Cabinets
- Vox AC30 Reissue

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

Note: eliminated the tube rectifier on the AC30 and re-wired the tube socket to accommodate a solid-state rectifier
- Marshall 1959 SLP 100-watt Plexi Reissue

Marshall 1959SLPX Vintage Series 100W Tube Head

Note: The amp has been modded. The preamp stage was reconfigured to extract additional gain and a master volume knob was installed. The knob is situated where the second speaker jack normally goes into the rear of the amplifier.
- Marshall JCM 800

Marshall JCM800 2203 Vintage Series 100W Tube Head

- Marshall 4x12 slant cabinet outfitted with Celestion vintage 30s on top and Celestion 75s on the bottom

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

- Mesa/Boogie Tremoverb

- Fender G-DEC Junior Carbon 15W 1x8 Guitar Combo (used in hotel room)
Fender G-DEC Junior Carbon 15W 1x8 Guitar Combo Amp Black

 

 

Effects and More
- Boss CS-3 Compressor

Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer Pedal

- Boss GE-7 Equalizer

Boss GE-7 Equalizer Pedal

- Boss OC-2 Octaver

Boss OC-3 SUPER Octave Pedal

- Boss NS-2 noise supressor (when needed)

Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor Pedal

- Boss PH-2 Phasers

Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter Pedal

- Boss RV-3 Reverb Delay

Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb Effects Pedal

- Boss TU-2 Tuner

Boss TU-2 Chromatic Stompbox Tuner

- Danelectro Reel Echo

Danelectro Reel Echo Tape Simulator Pedal

- DigiTech Tone Driver

DigiTech XTD Tone Driver Overdrive Pedal

- DOD 250

DOD Overdrive Preamp/250 Reissue Pedal

- DOD FX-13 Gonkulator
- DOD FX-25 Envelope Filter

DOD FX25 Envelope Filter Pedal

- Dunlop 95Q Cry Baby Wah

Dunlop 95Q Crybaby Wah Pedal

- Ebtech 2 Channel Hum Eliminator

Ebtech 2-Channel Hum Eliminator

- Electrix Filter Factory
- Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man

Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man Pedal

- Electro-Harmonix Micro POG

Electro-Harmonix XO Micro POG Polyphonic Octave Generator Guitar Effects Pedal


- EHX Holy Grail nano Reverb pedal

Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Reverb Guitar Effects Pedal

- Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere

Hughes & Kettner Tube Tools Tube Rotosphere MKII

- Mogami 2425 instrument cables fitted with Switchcraft jacks

Mogami Gold High-Definition Neutrik 1/4

- MXR EVH Phase 90 Phaser

MXR EVH Eddie Van Halen Phase 90

- Korg DTR rack tuner

Korg DTR-1000 Rackmount Digital Tuner

- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power

Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ Power Supply

- Whirlwind A/B Selector box

Whirlwind Selector A/B Box




Strings and Picks

- Ernie Ball RPS 11 (.11-.48 gauge) Strings

Ernie Ball 2242 Power Slinky RPS 11 Electric Guitar Strings

- Dunlop green jazz tortex Picks

Dunlop Tortex Jazz Guitar Pick Medium 3 Dozen

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 September 2011 09:44
 

Comments 

 
0 #9 RE: Incubus - Mike Einziger Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentherp derp 2011-11-24 02:52
what kind of strings does he use on his acoustic guitar?
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0 #8 RE: Incubus - Mike Einziger Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentRyan Sponagle 2011-09-19 12:31
Mike is using an Ernie Ball/Music Man Albert Lee Signature Model with Humbuckers (presumably Duncan Jazz/JB as he's always used those) now. You can see it in the gear tour on Youtube. Also his SG Junior was outfitted with Duncan Jazz/JB pickups.
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0 #7 RE: Incubus - Mike Einziger Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentPT 2011-09-19 00:26
He's using tremoverbs in that video, and its the 2011 tour,
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0 #6 RE: Incubus - Mike Einziger Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentAudioslave 2011-09-18 02:28
www.youtube.com/.../

Gear détailled. New guitar : Music Man.
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+3 #5 Eh, they are still okrowidz 2010-05-13 15:41
In response to Tim. I dunno about incubus being "good" only back then. First they were strictly experimental, then experimental/metal, then nu metal/pop-punk, then experimental pop-rock, then finally just pop-rock. They sure have changed up their sound over the years, but I wouldn't say its gotten any better or worse, just different. Personally, I wouldn't want to hear all the same experimental or metal stuff, over and over again, on every new incubus release. Nobody wants a bands that's stuck in a comfortably boring niche. Nobody wants another Nickelback.
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0 #4 mesapt 2009-11-24 11:47
why did he stop using mesa tremoverbs
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-1 #3 Tim 2009-06-16 21:24
How can you put up mikes gear without mention of the Mesa trem-o-verbs! Thats all he used for quite sometime and I dare say all the time when incubus sounded good before this post punk junk they have with the ne bassist.
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+1 #2 DSDFSDFJKASH 2008-07-13 06:52
:cheer: that's what the gonkulator is.
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0 #1 ozzyfan51_99 2008-06-11 03:26
i know he uses some kind of ring modulatro too...anyone know which kind?
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