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Mastodon - Brent Hinds Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Wednesday, 13 February 2008 05:11

Brent Hinds is a guitarist and singer for the Atlanta, Georgia metal band Mastodon, in which he shares guitar duties with Bill Kelliher and vocal duties with Troy Sanders.

Brent is also lead guitarist/singer for the Surfabilly Band Fiend Without A Face.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Mastodon's Brent Hind's Guitar Rig. Brent's guitar rig is pretty minimal. He doesn't use too many effects, which then flow to a Marshall head.

Brent Hinds playing guitar

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


Guitars

- Gibson custom Silver burst Flying V

Gibson 84 Flying V Reissue Electric Guitar Silver Burst*

- Gibson SG (heritage cherry with Maestro)

Gibson Custom Shop SG Standard with Maestro VOS Electric Guitar Faded Cherry Sunburst

- Gibson Les Paul

Gibson Les Paul Standard  60s Neck Electric Guitar Desert Burst Nickel Hardware

- Gibson Explorer

Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar Black

- Brent also has a signature model by First Act. (Custom 12)

- Martin D-15 acoustic (used for writing)

Martin D-15 Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar


- Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar (Oblivion video)

Dan Armstrong Dan Armstrong Plexi Guitar See-Through

- Custom Gibson Les Paul 30th Anniversary (with Bigsby)

- Custom Electric Guitar Company Brent Hinds Lucite V (with Maestro Vibrato)

- 1977 Fender Strat

- 1962 Gretsch Tennessean

 

 

Amps and Cabinets

- Orange amplifiers  Rockerverb 100 and Thunderverb 50

Orange Amplifiers Thunderverb 50 Series TH50HTC 50W Tube Guitar Amp Head Orange

- Orange PPC412C cab

Orange Amplifiers PPC Series PPC412-C 240W 4x12 Guitar Speaker Cabinet Orange Straight

- Marshall JCM 800 2204 amplifier head (2203)

Marshall JCM800 2203 Vintage Series 100W Tube Head


- Marshall 4x12 Straight front cab with 75 watt Celestions

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

- Fender 1972 silverface Twin amp with 2 200 watt 12 inch bass Celestion speakers

Fender Twin Amp 100-Watt All-Tube Guitar Amp

- 2 300 watt 15 inch Celestion speakers in Fender silverface cab

- Marshall 1976 JMP MKII Lead 100 watt head

Marshall 1959SLPX Vintage Series 100W Tube Head

- Diezel VH4 100-watt head and Diezel 4x12 straight cab with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers

- 1964 Ampeg Reverbrocket

 

Effects and more
- Planet Waves Cables

Planet Waves Circuit Breaker 1/4

- Monster Effects Mastortion pedal
- Boss EQ pedal

Boss GE-7 Equalizer Pedal

- Boss Delay Pedal (DD-6)

Boss DD-6 Digital Delay Guitar Effects Pedal

- Boss TU-2 tuner

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Pedal Tuner

- Boss compressor/sustainer CS-3

Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer Pedal

- Ibanez TubeScreamer TS808HW

Ibanez TS808HW Tube Screamer Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal

- Monster Effects Swamp Thang pedal? (see pic of his pedalboard)
- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power

Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ Power Supply

- Ebow

EBow PlusEbow Electronic Bow for Guitar

- Planet Waves tuner

Planet Waves PW-CT-04 Chromatic Pedal Stage Tuner

- Whirlwind A/B selector boxes (x2)

Whirlwind Selector A/B Box

- Enema FX Mingebox

- Shure UR4D Wireless

- SKB Stagefive Professional Pedal Board

SKB SKB-PS-55 Stagefive Professional Pedalboard

- Morpheus Droptune

Morpheus DropTune Octave Guitar Effects Pedal

- Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Boss RE-20 Space Echo Delay / Reverb Pedal

- Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler

Line 6 DL4 Delay Guitar Effects Pedal

 

 

Strings and Picks
- D'Addario EXL145 Heavy Strings gauges 12-54 and 11-52 gauges

D'Addario EXL145 Strings

- Thomastik Power Bright 11-51 gauge (previously used)

- Dunlop Yellow .73mm Tortex Picks

Dunlop Tortex Standard Guitar Picks .73MM 1 Dozen

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 13:56
 

Comments 

 
+1 #16 RE: Mastodon - Brent Hinds Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentAndrew 2011-06-30 14:52
A few more things... the custom audio electronics box in the pic of his board is actually their boost/overdrive. Also mastodon's new song Deathbound features an odd effect in the chorus that could either be the swamp thing tremendous or bill's rotary chorus ensemble.
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+1 #15 RE: Mastodon - Brent Hinds Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentAndrew 2011-06-16 13:01
The bright green pedal next to the mastortion is indeed and early version of the swamp thang trem, but I doubt he uses it with mastodon. U can hear it all over the new Fiend Without a Face cd tho... The enema fx mingebox can be heard on the "pretty" part of march of the fire ants. Its a copy of the foxx fuzz tone (octavia/EPIC fuzz).
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0 #14 RE: Mastodon - Brent Hinds Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentPhilip 2010-11-10 19:07 Quote
 
 
0 #13 pickup?stevo 2010-08-31 13:50
does anyone know what kind of double blade pickup he uses on the bridge? New orange ad shows a gibson v with said pickup installed.
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+3 #12 scott 2010-03-28 21:00
Recently signed to orange using the rockerverb 100 and thunderverb 50.
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+4 #11 alex 2010-01-29 14:11 Quote
 
 
+1 #10 uberpro 2010-01-20 03:50
"I used my two different Marshall heads through 4x12 stacks with Celestion speakers (
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0 #9 New stuffgrardnr 2010-01-19 23:37
In a recent interview he mentioned using a Boss RE-20 Space Echo. Also, i know he uses his Fender amp for cleans, but how does he use his two Marshall heads? Are they running a crunch channel simultaneously, or is one a backup, or what?
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0 #8 Flying Vdaveyp1 2009-11-23 13:33
The Lucite Flying V is from Electrical Guitar Company. They built that guitar for him with their signature aluminum neck.
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0 #7 Brent\'s First Act GuitarsGordon Ryan 2009-11-15 14:09
Brent also plays custom made First Act guitars. You can se them here. Also see the cover of the August 2009 issue of Guitar Player.

He also recently started playing a customer double neck guitar from First Act, too.There's a photo on Facebook, but I'm not sure where else you can see it yet. He played it recently at the House of Blues show in Boston.
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0 #6 brent hinds amprich b 2009-11-08 22:15
also the night i saw mastodon he was playing on a kerry king jcm 800
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0 #5 brents vrich b 2009-11-07 21:43
seen mastodon play last night and the the clear v has the old ibanez headstock. and its clear like the dan armstrong, plus they were playing with custom made first act guitars. he has a blue doubleneck 12 and 6 string. and another first act that kinda looks like a les paul...
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0 #4 Jaisen 2009-11-06 18:29
Thanks man have u seen that Les Paul 295 he's been playing lately. It's a beautiful instrument, its a Gibson guitar of the week from last year. I remember when it came out.
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0 #3 grardnr 2009-11-06 17:30
It looks like a Travis Bean Flying V, you can tell from the headstock and the aluminium neck. I guess it's so he can pull off the intro with that really metallic tone.
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0 #2 FlyingVJai 2009-11-03 16:11
On Jimmy Fallon he had a clear Flying V similar to his Dan Armstrong guitar
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0 #1 dan armstrong guitarittoa666 2009-08-09 03:02
He also has an ampeg dan armstrong lucite guitar. It has the dual blade humbucker in it. The guitar can be seen in the oblivion video and the may 2009 guitar world interview.
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