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Zach Blair is the guitarist for Chicago-based hardcore punk band Rise Against. Blair was also a member of hardcore punk group Only Crime, in addition to Hagfish, and The Loved Ones. An interesting fact is that Zach played as Flattus Maximus in the band Gwar for a period of time.
Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Zach's Rise Against guitar rig.
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Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Classic (black)
- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Reissue (Chambered Body)
 
- Gibson Les Paul Standard (black) (custom pictured below)
 
- Gibson SG guitars (including a silver glitter one when he was younger)
- listed on Seymour Duncan site as having used: ST59-1, SH-4, STHR-1
- Gibson made him a custom Les Paul with one humbucker and one knob
Amps and Cabinets
- Marshall JCM900 4100 100watt Hi Gain Dual Reverb amp head (with 5881 Tubes)
- Rivera K120TRE Knuckledhead Tre amp
 
- Mesa Boogie 4x12 Recto Cab with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers
- Rivera 4x12 cab with EV75 speakers
Effects and More
- Boss TU-2 pedal
 
- Lehle P-Split A/B/Y splitter
- Boss NS-2 pedal (switched by his tech live)
- Line 6 Echo Park pedal (switched by his tech live)
- Rivera Channel Switcher
- Furman Power Conditioner
- Shure ULX Wireless Receivers
- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus
- Dunlop Crybaby 95Q wah (according to Dunlop site)
- Seymour Duncan pickup booster (for leads)
- MXR Phase 90 pedal (in an Ultimate Guitar interview, he said he used one that Eddie Van Halen used to use)
Strings and Picks
- Ernie Ball Coated Slinky guitar strings (10-46 gauged)
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Comments
altho the delay idea is pretty interesting im almost positive it's a tremolo pedal, where did you see that they used a boss tremolo pedal, do you have a source??
isn't that just his delay pedal?
Yeah, he's got a taylor acoustic, but I think that's some guitars the band own, not him, I know his own acoustic guitar is a gibson j-160. It's the one John Lennon used.
he probably uses it more live for when he has a lead or something it can sound more full
I had Gibson make me a custom Les Paul with one humbucker and one knob. It just has a volume knob and one humbucker in the bridge position. I kept the toggle switch and the killswitch. It’s my dream guitar. Gibson had approached me and asked, “If you could have one guitar made, what would you want?” This was the one I have thought about since I was a kid. So I had them make me a black Les Paul custom with one humbucker. It’s been amazing.
See ...
He has one with JB's on both and one with Distortion pickups on both and and then on the third he just got distortion on the bridge. He rarely uses his neck pickup
Red: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSD_dedNYJg
Black: www.youtube.com/.../
Here's a video with zach and his guitar tech (Alex Rivera) about the gear he uses. Alex states that the strings are earnie ball regular slinky gauge 10s. The rest is in the video, enjoy.
Zach Playing A SG