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Kings of Leon - Matthew Followill Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Wednesday, 07 January 2009 11:11

Matthew Followill is the lead guitar player in the band Kings Of Leon. The band is comprised of 3 brothers and one cousin (all named Followill of course).

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Matthew's Kings Of Leon guitar rig. Please post a comment if you have any guitar, amp, or effect additions to make to the article.

Matthew Followill live on guitar

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Guitars
- Gibson Heritage Cherry ES-137

Gibson Custom ES-137 Classic Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry Sunburst Chrome Hardware


- Epiphone Sheraton II

Epiphone Sheraton II Electric Guitar Vintage Sunburst


- Gibson Les Paul Custom

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Black






Amps and Cabinets
- Ampeg Reverberocket R-212R




Effects

Matthew has some pedals on the ground in front of him and many pedals in a rack that is controlled by a Ground Control.

- Voodoo Lab GCX Switcher and Ground Control (GCX is in the rack)
Voodoo Lab GCX Guitar Audio Switcher Digital Music Ground Control Pro MIDI Foot Controller

- Line 6 Verbzilla (in the rack drawers)

Line 6 ToneCore Verbzilla Guitar Effects Pedal


- Dunlop crybaby(on the floor)

Dunlop Original Crybaby Wah Pedal


- BOSS ME-50 (in the rack drawers)

Boss ME-50 Guitar Multi Effects Pedal


- Line 6 DL4 (in the rack drawers)

Line 6 DL4 Delay Guitar Effects Pedal


- Electro Harmonix POG (in the rack drawers)

Electro-Harmonix Classics POG Polyphonic Octave Generator Guitar Effects Pedal


- Digitech Whammy (in the rack drawers AND on the floor)

DigiTech Whammy Pedal with MIDI Control


- Ernie Ball Volume Pedal (on the floor)

Ernie Ball 6166 Mono Volume Pedal


- MXR M-133 Micro Amp  (in the rack drawers)

MXR M-133 Micro Amp Pedal


- Visual Sound Route 66  Overdrive Guitar Pedal (on the floor AND in the rack)

Visual Sound V2 Series V2RT66 Route 66 Overdrive and Compression Guitar Multi Effects Pedal

- Boss Super Shifter (in the rack drawers)

Boss PS-5 SUPER Shifter Pedal

- Boss TU-2 (on the floor)

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Pedal Tuner

- DigiTech DigiVerb

DigiTech DigiVerb Digital Reverb Pedal

- Eventide Harmonizer pedal (used on Come Around Sundown album)

Eventide PitchFactor Harmonizer Guitar Multi Effects Pedal

 

 

 

Strings and Picks
- D’Addario guitar strings 11's

D'Addario EXL115 Nickel Blues/Jazz Electric Guitar Strings Single


- Dunlop Tortex .60mm guitar picks

Dunlop Tortex Standard Guitar Picks .60MM 1 Dozen

Last Updated on Monday, 21 March 2011 09:18
 

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0 #15 RE: Kings of Leon - Matthew Followill Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment — itsjamessss 2012-04-04 16:31
what effects does matt use whilst 'screaming' into the pick ups? Also i have a vox valveronix amp a gibson es137 a digitech whammy and a boss distorion/overdrive pedal, what settings would i use on my amp to get matts sound thanks!! Please help!
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0 #14 RE: Kings of Leon - Matthew Followill Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment — thesexiestofall 2012-03-02 22:43
Quoting script:
Does anybody know how to get that screeching guitar sound at the start of The End?

Pog+Lots of Reverb.....
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0 #13 RE: Kings of Leon - Matthew Followill Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment — script 2012-02-26 23:51
Does anybody know how to get that screeching guitar sound at the start of The End?
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0 #12 RE: Kings of Leon - Matthew Followill Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment — Matt K 2011-11-15 08:39
Quoting Michael Kruse:
Does anyone know if Matt only uses his Line 6 delay in songs like Arizona, Knocked Up and Charmer or does he use his reverb pedals too on these specific songs?
I planning to buy a digiverb, but I would only use it for these songs, so if anyone knows if he uses his reverb pedals in these songs please let me know as quick as possible thanx '


For Arizona he uses the DL4 and verbzilla set to octo, and for Knocked Up and Charmer as others have said its the route 66, Whammy and boss RV5.

Hope that helps
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0 #11 Effect Loop — dani3l 2011-11-10 08:08
Did he use his effect loop on his amp? I saw the Video where Nacho show the complete Equipment and it seems that everything was build up but his Effect Loop( send and Return) was not in Use. Cant believe when i see all his effects.
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0 #10 jmo — jmo 2011-08-12 02:22
You would simply ring your 12th fret high e string harmonic and 7th fret hi e string and then bstring. 7th fret harmonics w the pitch bend on the 2 octave up position pedal up. Add reverb and bam!
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0 #9 jmo — jmo 2011-08-12 02:15
Yes the whammy will give u that sound. It has an effect that brings ur note up 2octaves and anywhere in between w the expression pedal. Can also be used as a pitch bender etc. Of course it does all kinds of other things too.. I have the original..
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+2 #8 Delay on KoL songs — Michael Kruse 2010-01-03 11:05
Does anyone know if Matt only uses his Line 6 delay in songs like Arizona, Knocked Up and Charmer or does he use his reverb pedals too on these specific songs?
I planning to buy a digiverb, but I would only use it for these songs, so if anyone knows if he uses his reverb pedals in these songs please let me know as quick as possible thanx '
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+2 #7 Marl — Marl 2009-12-01 06:47
I know he has 2 route 66 pedals, one in the rack, does anyone know how mush he uses them? His tech says he says he has his reverberocket set 'crunchy' but is that always topped up with the pedal or just occassionally? His tone sounds pretty overdriven most of the time to me when i listen to live footage
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+3 #6 ST — joeboxer 2009-08-25 18:32
the best pedal is his route 66
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-1 #5 Sean 2009-07-26 23:56
Some of these pedals are wrong; he doesnt have a Russian Big Muff, but here's a site that shows his pedal rack (all the pedals he uses). And it shows Caleb's gear as well.

musicradar.com/.../...
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+1 #4 Oliver 2009-05-10 02:57
Matt uses a Voodoo Lab Ground Control as his pedal swichter and the pedals themselves are in the rack unit. The switcher is a Voodoo Lab GCX Audio Switcher.
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-1 #3 BTomMo 2009-04-11 13:19
After experimenting a lot with my line6 pod 2.0, I found that a lot of the lead guitar parts on "Aha Shake Heartbreak" are played through a vox AC30, not a great deal of gain, just above half way. Anyone with a Gibson Les Paul or obviously an Epiphone Sheraton should be able to get almost an exact tonal match to Matthew's guitar sound on that album, the best example I could give would be "King of the Rodeo"

cheers.
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0 #2 SY 2009-02-25 11:57
yea he uses harmonics and sets his digitech whammy up. watch him play live, he picks the harmonics and then bypasses his digitech when he goes back into his distorted tone.
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0 #1 JoBonanas 2009-02-21 18:03
Does anyone know what Kings of Leon uses on their song "knocked up (25 seconds in) to create that high pitched ringing sound?

I've heard people say "play harmonics" but there has got to be an effect pedal out there that can create that high pitched noise!!! I have a multi effects pedal I can do it with (set on a whammy setting), but it takes up a lot of room on my pedalboard, so eventually i'd like to get rid of it. Would a whammy pedal (the red digitech whammy pedal) create that sound??? Know of any others that would?
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