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Ray Toro is the American lead guitarist and one of two backup vocalists for My Chemical Romance. He has been known to play Gibson Les Paul guitars with Seymour Duncan pickups through Marshall amplifiers.
Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in My Chemical Romance's Ray Toro's Guitar Rig.
 Click the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's Friend
Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Standard (Seymour Duncan Phat Cat SPH90-1 P90-style pickups in it)
 
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus
- Gibson Les Paul Standard with Seymour Duncan JB SH-4 in the bridge position and the neck pickup is stock
   
- Gibson Les Paul Junior (see the Dead! Live in Mexico video)
 
- Toro has said in interviews that he is considering adding Fender Tele/Strat to his rig
- Epiphone Sheraton II (black. seen in live video)
- Gibson or Epiphone Explorer - it appears to be the Epiphone, with changed pickups (Korina)
- Gibson Les Paul Custom
- Epiphone Wilshire (white. Seen in Every Snowflake video)
- Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Ruby Burst 1976
- Gession Les Paul Knock-Off
Amps and Cabinets
- 2 Dave Friedman amps (Ray said in 2011 interview they are similar to JCM800's)
- Marshall modded JCM800
- Metropoulos Plexi replica
- Marshall Vintage Modern
- Marshall JCM 2000 DSL100 amplifier heads
- Marshall 1960A and 1960AX checkered cabinets 4x12"
- Randall RM100 (used in the past)
- Crate BV300H and Randall Cyclone seen in videos
- Hiwatt amplifier head
Effects and More
- Dunlop Rotovibe (according to Dunlop site)
- MXR EVH Phase 90 (according to Dunlop site)
- Dunlop Crybaby wah
- Boss GE-7 EQ pedal
- Boss Pitch Shifter (Ray says this is to do harmonies)
- Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
- Electro-Harmonix POG Polyphonic Octave Generator (Toro called this one of his favorite pedals, in a 2011 Guitar World interview)
- Furman Power Conditioner
- Fulltone Clyde wah (2011 pic)
- Ernie Ball Volume pedal (2011 pic)
- Voodoo Lab Ground Control (2011 pic)
- Boss Phaser
- Boss Chromatic Tuner
- EHX Big Muff
- MXR Carbon Copy pedal
- Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer pedal
- Budda Wah pedal (likely the first version)
- Custom Built Pedal Board and rack by Dave Friedman & Rack Systems
- MXR Smart Gate Pedal
- Tone Freak Naked Over Drive Pedal
- TC Electronic Harmonizer Pedal
- ZVex Super Duper Overdrive Pedal
Strings and Picks
- Dunlop Nickel Plated Steel Electric Guitar Strings - Medium Heavy
- .011-.052 S.I.T. strings (10's are pictured below)
- Dunlop Tortex yellow picks (appears to be the sharp ones. Custom printed. Seen in 2011)
- Dunlop black nylon 1 mm picks
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Comments
He use to use a BD-2 in Danger Days and for a few months but he using more Disortion/Overdrive Pedals for that lovely tone :)
He doesn't use 1 main pedal, he uses 3 (Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer, ZVex Super Duper Overdrive, Tone Freak Naked Over Drive). He uses all of them and probably some amp overdrive to come up with his perfect dirty tone. Frank Iero uses the Blues Driver with a swollen pickle once in a while through an orange thunderverb set to dirty.
Let me ask one Q.
"Does Ray use BD-2?"
If it is "doesn't.
Tell me he's main Distortion Pedal
merr fair enough point is it sounds killer ;D
Thats what I thought at first, but he only used the Big Muff on the black parade for like 1-2 songs (read that in an interview). And he changes wah pedals all the time, because hes been using one since revenge, also, the only reason the blues driver got brought up was because some one thought they saw it, so thats just the conclusion I've made.
he's probobly saved some of the pedals on the voodoo lab or something or other e.i blues driver, budda wah, dunlop wah, big muff pi etc
ahhhh franks got about 3 sg's an epipone in vintage sunburts, a gibson sg in red and a gibson sg herritage modle in brown
Yer it's definitely a black epi. You can see the headstock in the Honey This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For the Two Of Us video and also in a poster I've got of them. I think the red Gibson ur talking about is Frank's coz I know he has a red Gibson SG. Maybe in the video you saw he was using Frank's. You can see Frank's Gibson clearly in a live in Mexico video of Welcome to the Black Parade and the Vampires music video
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson Les Paul Junior
Dunlop Nickel Plated Steel Electric Guitar Strings - Medium Heavy
Marshall 1960AX Cabinet
Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah Pedal
Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer Pedal
MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay Pedal
Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Ruby Burst 1976
Gession Les Paul Knock-Off
Gibson Les Paul Junior - Vintage Burst
Gibson Les Paul Junior - Heritage Burst
Epiphone 335 Sheridan
Metropoulos 100w Amp
Friedman 100w Amp
Celeston Greenback Speakers
Celeston Vintage 30 Speaker
Boss TU-3 Pedal Tuner
Ernie Ball 25K Volume Pedal
Voo Doo Lab GC Pro Controllers
Custom Built Pedal Board by Dave Friedman & Rack Systems
Custom Designed Effects Rack by Dave Friedman & Rack Systems
BOSS Chorus Pedal
MXR Smart Gate Pedal
BOSS Equalizer Pedals
Naked Over Drive Pedal
Micro POG Pedal
TC Electronic Harmonizer Pedal
Super Duper Overdrive Pedal
are you sure its epiphone it lookis like a gibson sg in red?? :)
The guitar he uses is a Les Paul Custom copy from a company called Session. He occasionally uses it live and it's the guitar he uses in the Planetary Go video. I'm not sure if he has a Gibson Custom he could do but he talks about the Session guitar in a recent interview with Guitar Center. Hope I could help
Also his guitar fitted with Phat cats isn't fitted with Phat cats live if you look at performances in early era of the black parade tour you will see there humbucker's not p90's so it should be added "in recording" what he used live is questionable i will assume gibson 57 pick up's most likely reason to change is probably the phat cats give him a meduim gain ok for recording but for live use he need's more.
Also SG used in early performances
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It's an epiphone.
Also watch live on the murder scene you can see a epiphone korin explorer used.
Also another video i saw him use a fender jaguar 2 humbuckers howvever i cannot find the said video it was marked as ray and frank fight during the 3 cheers era and another notable events is them welcoming MSI out on stage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXDpuv6xkfI
On the Seymour Duncan Interview he said in black parade he used a HIWATT head
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And he's stated in Danger Days he used a Boss Blues Driver and a Budda Wah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXDpuv6xkfI
Yerp go on youtube then go to My Chemical Romance channel and look for the House Of Blues Gig and look for I'm Not Okay live then at the end of the 2nd verse you can see Rays pedal board although its hard to make out you can see its a blues driver :)
Any proof of the blues driver? Musician's Friend just interviewed them and profiled their gear and only Frank is listed as using the Blues Driver...
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He also used a Randall Cyclone inthe video for "Helena".
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Its hard to see, but it has 2 rows of controls and has a black control panel.
2 Epiphone Les Paul Standard
3 Gibson Les Paul Standdard Black
4 Gibson Les Paul Junoir
5 Gibson Les Paul Custom
6 Epiphone sheraton
7 Gretsch guitar
8 Fender Telecaster
9 Fender Stratocaster
10 Epiphone Korina Explorer
11 Gibson or Epiphone SG
12 Epiphone Emperor Regent Natural
13 Taylor Acoustic
14 Acoutsic Guitar
15 Gibson Firebird
16 Gibson ES
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLEMXLDIEvM
(watch at 2:30) ;)
Confirmation: www.seymourduncan.com/.../ray_toro_of_my
A lot of people like them. He may be using something different now though.
He used a DSL100 live before The Black Parade.
Not very specific, I know. Sorry.
www.seymourduncan.com/.../ray_toro_of_my
If you go to about 1:03 in that video you can see it's a Gibson.
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Theres the link, it's in that.