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Radiohead - Jonny Greenwood Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 07:11

Jonny Greenwood is a BAFTA-nominated musician, best known as a member of English band Radiohead . Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and also serves as Radiohead's lead guitarist. He is the younger brother of fellow Radiohead member Colin Greenwood. In addition to guitar he plays viola, organ, piano, xylophone, glockenspiel, ondes Martenot, banjo and harmonica. He was ranked number 59 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Jonny Greenwood's Guitar Rig.

Jonny Greenwood playing guitar

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Guitars

Electric Guitars
- Fender Telecaster Plus, with a custom cut-off switch and special rewirings made by Greenwood and Plank (Radiohead's Guitar Technician). This guitar is equipped with Lace Sensor pickups.
- Fender Telecaster Standard converted into a Plus which also has a custom cut-off switch and Lace Sensor pickups

Fender American Standard Telecaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst Maple Fretboard

- Fender Starcaster, with Fender Wide Range pickups, can be heard predominantly on Kid A and Amnesiac.
- Gretsch G6119-1962HT Tennessee Rose HT

Gretsch Guitars G6119-1962HT Chet Atkins Tennessee Rose Electric Guitar Burgundy Stain

- Gibson Les Paul HD.6X-Pro Digital
- Gibson ES-335 (used on the acoustic Tour 2003)

Gibson Custom ES-335 Satin Finish Electric Guitar Faded Cherry

- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (used for 'The Headmaster Ritual' on the Thumbs Down Webcast)

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



Acoustic Guitars
- Martin D-35

Martin D-35 Dreadnought Guitar

- Taylor Big Baby (played by both Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke in pictures from Dead Air Space)

Taylor Big Baby Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar Natural




Amplifiers
- Vox AC30, used for clean tones. (all his effects go through this except his ShredMaster)

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

- Fender Eighty Five, solid state amp, used for distorted tones. (Only the ShredMaster, Super Overdrive, Reverb/Delay, Headrush and possibly Whammy go into this)
Notes: In the earlier years he used a Fender Twin Reverb for clean tones and a Fender Deluxe 85 for distorted tones.

Fender 65 Twin Reverb Amp




Effects Pedals
- Pro Co RAT Turbo RAT Distortion (this was used around The Bends Era.)

Pro Co TurboRAT Pedal

- Marshall ShredMaster (which is unmodified, contrary to popular belief)
- Digitech WH-1 Whammy

DigiTech Whammy Pedal with MIDI Control

- Demeter "The Tremulator", older version of the Demeter TRM-1 Tremulator (which was originally thought to be a homemade tremolo pedal)
- DOD 440 Envelope Filter
- Electro-Harmonix Small Stone

Electro-Harmonix USA Small Stone Phase Shifter Pedal

- Electro-Harmonix Poly Chorus

Electro-Harmonix Stereo PolyChorus Effects Pedal

- BOSS SD-1 Super Overdrive

Boss SUPER OverDrive SD-1 Pedal

- BOSS RV3 Digital Reverb/Delay

Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb Effects Pedal

- BOSS FV-300H Volume Pedal, used as a gain controller. (placed before his ShredMaster)

Boss FV-500H Mono Volume Pedal

- BOSS TU-12H Chromatic Tuner

Boss TU-12H High-Range Chromatic Tuner

- BOSS LS-2 Line Selector (used to switch channels) (two are placed on pedalboards, one placed off)

Boss LS-2 Line Selector/Power Supply

- Roland Space Echo RE-201 (Turned on by using a Vox Egg Footswitch)
- Mutronics Mutator (not used live, as he uses his DOD 440)
- Akai Headrush E1, now an E2 is used(used as a loop recorder)

Akai E2 Headrush Delay/Looper Pedal

- Voodoo Labs Pedal Power units powering effects pedals.

Voodoo Lab Pedal Power AC

- BOSS RE-20 Space Echo (now used due to technical issues with RE-201)

Boss RE-20 Space Echo Delay / Reverb Pedal

- Boss OD-3 pedal

Boss OD-3 OverDrive Pedal

 

 

 

Strings and Picks
- Dean Markley Signature Series 10-46 strings

Dean Markley 2503 NickelSteel Regular Electric Guitar Strings

- Dunlop Nylon .60mm and .38 mm guitar picks

Dunlop Nylon Standard Guitar Pick .60MM 1 Dozen

Last Updated on Thursday, 27 October 2011 09:39
 

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0 #3 RE: Radiohead - Jonny Greenwood Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentIan 2012-01-03 21:05
Actually, he does still use an SD-1. If you look at pictures of his TKOL board, it's still there. The image of the Fender '85 on here is actually a Deluxe Reverb. The Fender '85 is a small 1x12 solid state amp with red knobs.
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+2 #2 RE: Radiohead - Jonny Greenwood Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentradioher 2011-10-18 14:11
He doesn't use Boss SD-1 anymore - it is replaced with OD-3!
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+3 #1 We love Johnny.Max Richardson 2011-03-07 08:55
Cheers for the info! - I haven't seen many posts about Johnny's setup...!
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