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Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
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Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
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Joshua Homme is an American Rock musician and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member of the desert rock band Kyuss, and also as the founding and only continuous member of the hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age ( QOTSA ), in which he sings and plays guitar and sometimes bass. Homme co-founded and occasionally performs with Eagles of Death Metal as its drummer, and continues to produce and release a musical improv series with other musicians, mostly from the Palm Desert Scene, known as The Desert Sessions. Josh also plays in the super group Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and other musical greats.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme Guitar Rig.

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Guitars

- MotorAve BelAire guitar

- 1984 Ovation Ultra GP guitars

- Fender Telecaster

- Gibson Les Paul

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

- Gibson SG

Gibson SG Standard Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry

- Gibson Marauder Custom
- Maton MS503
- Maton MS524
- Epiphone Dot

Epiphone Dot Electric Guitar Cherry

- Maton BB1200 "Betty Blue" in Black, Blue, Red Wine and a Tobacco with Scroll Tailpiece
- Motor Ave Bel Aire - Black with Silver scratchplate
- Maton MS526 with Bigsby
- Maton MS500 12 String Homme Signature (Josh Homme's signature guitar)
- Gibson Barney Kessel Signature
- Yamaha SA503 TVL in Black (Troy Van Leeuwen's signature guitar)
- Teisco '68 V-2
- Ampeg Dan Armstrong plexiglass guitar

Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexi Guitar See-Through

- Gibson 1956 ES-225

- Gibson ES-125 (3/4 scale)

- Gretsch archtop electric

- Lotus guitar (built by Andy Manson)

- Seymour Duncan Pickups: SH-1, SHR-1b (as listed on the Seymour Duncan site)
Seymour Duncan SH-1 '59 Model Electric Guitar Pickup Black Bridge Seymour Duncan SHR-1 Hot Rail Stacked Single Coil Pickup Black Bridge

 

 

Amps and Cabinets
- Ampeg Vt-22 combos and Ampeg VT-40's with 2x12 cabs
- Ampeg V-4
- Vox AC30

Vox Custom Classic AC30CC2 30w 2x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp

- Fender Black Face Bassman amplifier

Fender 59 Bassman

- Matchless Hotbox

- Sunn Model T

 

Josh has been seen using these amps and cabs with Them Crooked Vultures:

- Supro Sportsman head
- 1939 Gibson EH-150 (built in 12" and also run into 2x12 cab)
- ported Klear Sound plexiglass 4x12 cab w/Celestions

- 1938 Gibson EH-185 amp

- Gorilla Combo amps

 

Effects and more
- Boss tuner

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Pedal Tuner

- Electro Harmonix Bass Micro-synth

Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer

- Ernie Ball volume JR pedal

Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal

- Boss SD-1

Boss SUPER OverDrive SD-1 Pedal

- Way Huge Aqua Puss (400ms analog delay - rare and expensive)

- Whirlwind Selector pedal

Whirlwind Selector A/B Box

- Fulltone Clyde Wah

Fulltone CSW Guitar Effect Clyde Std


- Boss GE-7 EQ

Boss GE-7 Equalizer Pedal

- SIB! Echodrive

- Fulltone Ultimate Octave

Fulltone UO Guitar Effect Ultimate Octave


- Maestro Stage Phaser
- Lovetone Meatball
- Dunlop Crybaby Q-Zone (from our research, this pedal is basically like a stationary crybaby pedal, so you can set it on one frequency and turn it on or off)
- Smart Peoples Factory Red Threat Distortion/Fuzz box
- Smart Peoples Factory Green Line Overdrive Pedal
- Electro Harmonix Small Stone

Electro-Harmonix USA Small Stone Phase Shifter Pedal

- Electro-Harmonix POG Polyphonic Octave Generator Pedal

Electro-Harmonix POG Polyphonic Octave Generator Pedal


- MXR Phase 90

MXR M-101 Phase 90 Pedal

- Dunlop Crybaby Classic Wah

Dunlop Original Crybaby Wah Pedal

- Herco flex 75 guitar picks

- Maestro Parametric Filter MPF-1 (said to have replaced with a Stone Deaf FX PDF-1)

- Roland RE-20 Space Echo

- Moogerfooger Ring Modulator

Moog MF-102 Moogerfooger Ring Modulator

- Moogerfooger low-pass Filter

Moog Moogerfooger Low Pass Filter

- Little Labs IBP Analog Phase Alignment Tool

- Electro Harmonix Octave Multiplexer

Electro-Harmonix XO Octave Multiplexer Guitar Effects Pedal

- Black Arts Pharoah Fuzz

- Fulltone FatBoost

Fulltone FatBoost 3 FB-3 Guitar Effects Pedal Silver

 

 

Go to the next page for pictures of Josh Homme's Rig

 

 



Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:39
 

Comments 

 
-1 #20 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentSci-Flyer 2011-12-28 16:32
Actually, most of his tone is his cranked Ampeg VT-40 amp. My friend's got one and when I play QOTSA songs through it, it sounds spot on. I just got a Catalinbread SFT pedal that's modeled after an "old Ampeg" that does the QOTSA tone as well as the amp. When I slam it with my Stone Deaf PDF-1 it's magic.

Those Maton guitars he uses are actually very bland.
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-1 #19 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentZeke 2011-10-06 16:59
Quoting stoner_muff:
who knows witch pedals he use for eagles of death metal?



He doesn't. He plays drums in that band, Jesse Hughes plays guitar in that band
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-1 #18 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentJon 2011-07-28 11:14
The Maestro is a parametric filter. Not a fuzz, its more like an overdrive and EQ filter. It has since been retired for the new Stone Deaf FX PDF1. His fuzzes nowdays consist of a Black Arts Pharoah Fuzz and a Fulltone Ultimate Octave. His overdrive comes from the PDF1 and FatBoosts, paired with a Boss EQ boosting the mids.
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+1 #17 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentcollisionofworlds 2011-07-28 04:21
His fuzz pedal that he's been using forever is an old 60s maestro fuzz
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-2 #16 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentstoner_muff 2011-06-18 10:31
who knows witch pedals he use for eagles of death metal?
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0 #15 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentstoner_muff 2011-06-18 10:25
Quoting sean:
who knows how to get the tone for the little sister post chorus,whoever does thxs


you have to tune your guitar to c#-ab-db-gb-bb-eb for this track
use a bass amp and a fuzz (i use the big muff) and it sound very close
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0 #14 SD/MPF-1 Settings?Von Sexron 2011-05-18 12:48
Anyone seen pix or know what setting he is using on the Stone Deaf pedal or the MPF-1?
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0 #13 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentJon 2011-04-03 09:46
He uses a new XO series EHX Octave Multiplexer. Carried it over from his TCV board along with the Space Echo, Morley Wah, Moog Analog Delay.
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0 #12 le questionPaul Haze 2011-04-01 09:52
He played a lp in the kyuss days...

And a question to jon: do you know which ochtave multiplexer he uses?
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0 #11 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentJon 2011-03-25 09:48
We say him Sunday, great show. He has switched from the Ernie Ball Volume pedal to the new Dunlop ones (THEY ARE HUGE!!). Also, the RotoVibe is back (it is a ST re-issue tour). And Model Ts are gone (small venue, Ryman/Nashville). He is also played a vintage tele for "Fun Machine", which appeared to be an original 72' Thinline (Black with white pearl pickguard).

Guitars:
Signature Maton
Motor Ave Bel Air
72 Tele Thinline

Pedals (Best Guess From Visuals/Hearing):
Moog Analog Delay
SIB Echodrive
Boss RE-20
Dunlop Volume Pedal
Boss GE-7
Fulltone Ultimate Octave
Octave Multiplexer
StoneDeaf Parametric Filter
Morley Fuzz Wah
Rotovibe
Korg Rack Tuner (on top amp)

..some of these I can confirm through photos, some I actually heard during the concert (multiplexer).

Amps:
Ampeg VT-40 w/ 2x12 Cab
Another Ampeg VT-40 on floor.

Was a killer show. I would love to see a pedalboard shot if someone could snag one of this tour. I knwo that probably won't happen though lol.
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0 #10 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentnnh 2011-03-18 06:07
I think he doesnt own any LP....
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+1 #9 RE: Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentJon 2010-09-24 06:45
It is actually a Model T, the original. But the videos that I have seen, he is using them with an Ampeg vt-40. I always figured the early non-fuzz tones were a boosted vt-40, then for fuzzier tones he switched to a clean-headroom amp and used the superfuzz or Ultimate Octave (Era Vulagris, Lullabies, etc.). He has also retired his Maestro MPF-1 for the new Stone Deaf FX clone of it. It is used with the Sunn model T/Fuzzes to bring the mids back into the equation. Very good eye though man!

This is just from being a fanboy. Was excited to be watching new videos and finding out what he was using, yet again!
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+1 #8 SunnAnonymous 2010-09-07 20:00
It looks like Queens have been doing shows again, as of August 2010 (select dates in LA, festivals in Europe, etc...) And it looks like Josh has abandoned his typical Ampeg rig for a Sunn Model T, or
similar high gain Sunn tube head. I can't tell if it is an original Model T or a 90's Fender-era re-issue... but if you look up footage of the 2010 Lowlands festival on YouTube- you'll see it.
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+1 #7 Guest 2010-08-22 01:52
half-cocked wah pedal (in Josh's case - the Dunlop Q-zone) into an octavia style, octave up fuzz. The Q-zone is on all throughout "Little Sister:
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+2 #6 SOLO!!!!sean 2010-05-19 14:02
I MEANT SOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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0 #5 little sister post-chorus tonesean 2010-05-12 12:34
who knows how to get the tone for the little sister post chorus,whoever does thxs
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0 #4 Epiphone Dot editJimmi 2010-03-19 07:55
He added a Manson MBK 2 Bridge Single Pickup to his Dot, just letting you know :-)
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0 #3 Oscar Dodd 2009-10-16 17:40
Didn't he play an Ibanez Destroyer and/or AR series for a while? :evil:
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+1 #2 Where is it?Sherman 2009-05-28 12:36
I think that you 've forgot:

-maestro mpf-1 !!!
-Guyatone tremolo (the orange pedal on the picture.
-Bassman amp (making of Lullabies to Paralyze)
-Tube Works amps
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-1 #1 huh?Marian 2008-09-29 08:33
is the epiphone dot he's pictured with the chinese one???elitist,vintage, mod??? :confused:
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