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Matt Hoopes is the lead guitarist (and backing vocals) of Relient K, a Christian rock band that was formed in 1998. Besides playing for Relient K, Hoopes has also done backup vocals for certain Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes songs, and has been a guest guitarist at concerts for the band My Red Hot Nightmare.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Matt's Relient K guitar rig.

Matt on guitar with Relient K

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Guitars
- Fender Telecaster, White with maple neck ('67 Reissue Closet Classic) (67 relic pic below)

Fender Custom Shop 1967 Tele Relic Electric Guitar

- Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster Special

Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster Special Electric Guitar

- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P90 pickups

- Gibson Les Paul (black)

- Fender Special Edition Jaguar HH (black and chrome)

Fender Classic Player Jaguar Special Hh Pau Ferro Fingerboard Olympic White

- Gibson Les Paul Custom, wine red (his has mini humbuckers)

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar - Wine Red

- Fender Tele, black with maple fretboard

- 70s Fender Telecaster Deluxe

Fender Vintera '70S Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar 3-Color Sunburst

- Gibson Hummingbird

Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic-Electric Guitar

- 1962 Silvertone 1420 model (in black)



Amps and Cabinets
- Top Hat Amplifiers (head, Vanderbilt 33) and 2x12 cabinet

- Marshall JMP amplifier head

Matt and his amps


Effects and More

- Earthquaker Devices Ghost Echo Reverb (replaced his Holy Grail Plus)

- Way Huge Swollen Pickle pedal (swapped it out with his Cusack Trap-A-Whirl)

Way Huge Electronics Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz Mkiis Guitar Effects Pedal

- TC Electronics Polytune (replaced his KORG Pitchblack)

Tc Electronic Polytune 3 Pedal Tuner

- Zvex Fuzz Factory pedal

- MXR Phase 90 pedal

- Fulltone Full-Drive 2

- Boss TU-2 pedal

- Ernie Ball Volume VP Junior

- Line 6 Echo Park pedal

- Cusack Tap-A-Whirl pedal

- Pedaltrain board (PT-2)

- Cusack Screamer Fuzz

- Fulltone OCD pedal

- Keeley Compressor (4 knob version)

- Diamond Memory Lane pedal

- Electro Harmonix Micro POG

- Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Plus pedal

- Creation Audio Labs MK 4.23 Boost

- Korg Pitchblack tuner

- E-Bow electronic bow

EBow PlusEBow Electronic Bow for Guitar

 - Sennheiser e609 mic on cab

Sennheiser e 609 SilverDynamic Guitar Microphone

 

Checkout the next page to see awesome pictures of Matt's guitar rig.

 


 

Big thanks goes out to Matt Kennedy for taking some nice pictures of Matt Hoope's guitar rig.

These pictures were taken around December 2012 at Relient K's Canton Ohio show.

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These pictures were taken a while back, Saturday September 4th at Relient K's Akron show.

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