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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Nick Zinner Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 05:26

Nick Zinner is the guitarist for the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Nick has a good sized rig, known to use three amps live on stage to help fill out the sound.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Zinner's Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitar rig.

Nick Zinner live on guitar 

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

 

Guitars
- Fender Stratocaster  (Japanese model, circa 1985)

Fender Classic Series '60s Stratocaster Electric Guitar Black Rosewood Fretboard


- First Act custom Delia (Kent Armstrong p-900 single coil pickups and vintage humbucker)
- Dewey Decibel FlipOut guitar
- Washburn acoustic

- Fender Jaguar (used on It's Blitz! album for song "Soft Shock"



Amps
- Fender Hotrod Deville 212 combo amp

Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212 Black


- Fender Twin Reverb reissue

Fender Vintage Reissue '65 Twin Reverb Guitar Amp

- Vox AC30 amplifier

Vox Custom AC30C2 30W 2x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp Black

- Ampeg Portaflex bass amp (replaced the Mesa Boogie)
- Mesa Boogie Mark III combo amp
- Vox Pathfinder 15 amp (for drum machine)
Vox Pathfinder 15R Guitar Combo Amp



Effects
- Boss DD-6 digital delay pedal (2)

Boss DD-7 Digital Delay Guitar Effects Pedal


- Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler

Line 6 DL4 Delay Guitar Effects Pedal


- Line 6 MM4 (Modulation Modeler)

Line 6 MM4 Modulation Guitar Effects Pedal


- ProCo Deucetone Rat
- Homebrew Power Screamer
- Boss RC-20 Loop Station

Boss RC-20XL Loop Station


- Digitech Jamman pedals (3)

DigiTech JamMan Looper Pedal


- Electro Harmonix POG

Electro-Harmonix Classics POG Polyphonic Octave Generator Guitar Effects Pedal


- Electro Harmonix HOG

Electro-Harmonix Classics HOG Synthesizer Guitar Effects Pedal


- EHX 2880

Electro-Harmonix Classics 2880 Super Multi Track Looper Guitar Effects Pedal


- DigiTech Hyper Phase

DigiTech XHP Hyper Phase Stereo Phaser Pedal


- Digitech Whammy

DigiTech Whammy Pedal with MIDI Control


- Roland Space Echo RE-201
- Zoom RhythmTrak RT-123 drum machine
- Korg MicroKorg synth vocoder

Korg MicroKORG Synthesizer / Vocoder


- Boss DM-3 analog delay pedal
- ProCo Turbo Rat distortion pedal

Pro Co TurboRAT Pedal


- Honda sound works octave fuzz pedal
- Electro Harmonix Holiest Grail 

Electro-Harmonix Classics Holiest Grail Reverb Guitar Effects Pedal

- Eventide Timefactor

Eventide TimeFactor Twin Delay Guitar Effects Pedal

- Eventide Modfactor

Eventide ModFactor Modulation Guitar Effects Pedal

 

Thanks to musicislife4567 for help researching Nick's rig.

Last Updated on Monday, 22 February 2010 09:57
 

Comments 

 
+2 #1 Updateerdnuss 2011-04-05 14:30
Gear used on the last tour:
- Boss TU-2
- Line 6 DL-4 x 2
- Line 6 MM-4
- Eventide Pitchfactor, Timefactor and Modfactor
- Boss DD-5 ou 6 x 2
- EHX POG (first version)
- Foxx Tone Machine
- Digitech WH-4
- Digitech JamMan x 2
- EHX Graphic Fuzz xo (with all the sliders up)
+ maybe the HBE Power Screamer and the usual ProCo Deucetone.

That's it! Cheers ;-)
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