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Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Friday, 26 June 2009 03:55

Jason White is a U.S. guitarist who has played in many punk rock bands. He is most notable for being a touring guitar player in the band Green Day and guitarist for Californian punk quartet Pinhead Gunpowder. Jason also is in the band Foxboro Hot Tubs along with the other GreenDay members, and has played in many other bands.

Let's take a look at some of the gear and equipment that Jason has been seen using in his guitar rig.

Jason playing guitar

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Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Special Double Cutaway (red)

Gibson 1960 Les Paul Special Double Cutaway VOS Electric Guitar TV Yellow


- Fender butterscotch telecaster w/ white pickguard, rosewood neck, and one pickup (bridge) - seen playing with Foxboro Hot Tubs
- Gibson ES-335 guitars (red and black)

Gibson ES-335 Dot Plain-top Electric Guitar with Gloss Finish Ebony


- Gibson Les Paul standard

Gibson Custom 1958 Les Paul Standard Plain Top VOS Electric Guitar Washed Cherry


- Gibson R8 Historic Les Paul
- Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Custom (3-tone sunburst)

Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Custom Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst Rosewood Fretboard





Amps
- Custom Audio Electronics CAE 3+ Tube Preamp
- Marshall Plexi amplifier heads [appear to be 1959SLPX] (modded with Dookie Mod and SE Lead mod)

Marshall 1959SLPX Vintage Series 100W Tube Head






Effects
- Custom Audio Electronics RS-5 Midi Foot Controller
- Dunlop Rack Wah and controller pedal

Dunlop Crybaby Rack Wah


- Ernie Ball Volume pedal

Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal


- Line 6 Echo Pro
- Furman Power conditioner

Furman PL-Pro C Power Conditioner


- CAE MXR Boost/Overdrive pedal

MXR Custom Audio Electronics MC-402 Boost/Overdrive Pedal


- XOTIC RC Booster Overdrive pedal
- RJM RG-16 Guitar Amp Channel Switcher
- Boss DD-3 delay pedal

Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal


- Boss TU-2

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Pedal Tuner


- Line 6 DL4

Line 6 DL4 Delay Guitar Effects Pedal


- Ebow

EBow PlusEbow Electronic Bow for Guitar


- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power

Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ Power Supply


- Fulltone Full-Drive 2

Fulltone Fulldrive2 MOSFET Overdrive/Clean Boost Guitar Effects Pedal Blue

- ISP Decimator pedal

ISP Technologies Decimator Noise Reduction Pedal

 

Jason pedals

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 November 2011 11:02
 

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-1 #18 RE: Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and EquipmentGDBMT 2011-12-09 15:10
Sorry if i don't agree, but there's a second guitarist in the background called Jeff Matika, so they need no playback! And Billie don't needs any playback for himself cause, Mike and Jason are singing too!
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-1 #17 RE: Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and Equipmentnick 2011-10-07 20:12
jason uses a sunburst 335 (as seen in "Awesome as F**k") and a black les paul standard that is tuned 1/2 step down
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-1 #16 RE: Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and Equipmentmatt_T 2011-10-03 12:07
SH-4 JB Jeff Beck
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-1 #15 pedalboardJailon 2011-08-05 13:32
what pedalboard he uses ?
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-1 #14 RE: Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and Equipmentjj 2011-04-20 04:35
Quoting robertperrybyrd72:
what cables does he use.

On his guitars shure wireless on his rig mogami head over hear for more info on jasons rig
hugeracksinc.com/.../...
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-1 #13 RE: Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and Equipmentjj 2011-01-20 16:02
Quoting Mr tech:
DOES (ANYONE) KNOW WHAT KInD OF SEYMOUR DUNCANS BILLIE JOE (from GREEN DAY) USES IN HIS STRAT CALLED"BLUE"? AND BESIDES THE
P-90 WHAT KIND DOES HE USE FOR THE REST OF HIS GUITARS

all guitars have sh-4's [blue]
les paul jrs have p-90s
signutare has h-90's
[stacked p-90s]
and hollowbodies are stock
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0 #12 RE: Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and EquipmentMr tech 2011-01-19 22:21
DOES (ANYONE) KNOW WHAT KInD OF SEYMOUR DUNCANS BILLIE JOE (from GREEN DAY) USES IN HIS STRAT CALLED"BLUE"? AND BESIDES THE
P-90 WHAT KIND DOES HE USE FOR THE REST OF HIS GUITARS
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-2 #11 RE: Green Day - Jason White Guitar Rig Gear and EquipmentPedal? 2011-01-13 17:10
Anyone know What pedal use billie in nobody likes you part, in homecoming ?
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-2 #10 Gibson Es-335Sam 2010-12-14 04:22
Anyone know what model or even better yet what pickups he uses in the Es-335s?
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-2 #9 fulltone fulldrivezaid 2010-11-21 11:30
in my opinion the distortion from the amp sounds just like the fulltone full drive so I don't understand why he still uses the fulltone fulldrive.
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-1 #8 Jackjack 2010-08-06 07:06
true, I guess,
but I think boulevard of broken dreams is played acoustic nowadays, or the intro part at least.

Yet: I'm not sure.

Cheerio
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+2 #7 tremolo. not live.zürichproductionmgr 2010-07-19 05:40
there is a LOT of backline on the post-2004 green day touring stage. however, the aforementioned tremolo is not coming from it.

the tremolo part is on track... "boulevard of broken dreams" has at least two tracks of hard drive playback (if i remember correctly - there might only be one, but i think there are billie's own vocal harmonies on the second track, to harmonize with himself during the choruses - the first is the tremolo guitar) in addition to a click track.

trust me, you wouldn't want to see that song performed with someone trying to play a monotonous tremolo guitar part live - it would be boring, and billie wouldn't be able to be the showman that he is - face it, billie's ability to entertain (along with his raw talent for songwriting and singing/musicianship) is the reason for green day's longevity - he was a rock star before green day were big - and not in that "rock star" ego way - a "rock star" in that he could command an audience of 1,000 or 100,000 the same way.

jason plays almost all of the guitar live on that song - and you are correct in that it IS billie playing the tremolo part, just not live. billie plays guitar during the choruses and bridge only, if i remember correctly. on the bright side, green day are a good enough band that they don't use much on track at all... and even at that, they use prerecorded bits of music on very few songs - it is virtually impossible to play along to prerecorded music without a click track, and since green day were a wedge-only (well, wedges and sidefills) band in the monitor department band until relatively recently, "american idiot" and "21st century breakdown" are the only albums with material where it would have even been possible to perform live along with prerecorded track... the band didn't use in-ear monitors until the "american idiot" tour. that's not to say that green day couldn't do it - they COULD have another guitarist sitting there playing the same thing over and over again through a tremolo pedal, but you should try tour accounting on a tour with hired musicians sometime before you suggest that as an option - i'm saying this preemptively because people have suggested that it's not "real" if you use track: prerecorded music doesn't need insurance, it doesn't need a seat on a plane, it doesn't need a bunk on a bus, a hotel room, a guitar tech, a salary or per diem (for both the musician AND the tech), an extra security guy (and more insurance for that person), and it doesn't have an ego. that's why we in the touring world prefer track to hired musicians.

besides, green day's use of prerecorded music is minimal, as opposed to, say, blink 182 - who have a pro tools engineer (who is fantastic at what he does) offstage running a significant amount of prerecorded music... or u2 - who have someone playing keyboards offstage variously AND a lot on track... or just about any artist on a big tour today. it's just not worth it to hire that many people. at least green day hired enough people to play the vast majority of their music live.

fyi.
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-2 #6 Sam 2010-07-11 02:14
Ah always wondered why I could hear, but not see an acoustic guitar in Bullet for a Bible
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-2 #5 Rafael 2010-06-25 04:39
Jason´a Gibson Es 335, has a power fishbridge, thats why "Boulevard of Broken dreams" sound very acostic
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-1 #4 josh 2010-05-22 03:01
no because billie joe plays the tremolo part
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-2 #3 cables green dayrobertperrybyrd72 2010-04-23 12:33
what cables does he use.
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0 #2 EQ QuestionThano 2009-07-28 18:37
Hi there,
i was wondering what Jason White uses live for the eq /AM radio effect he uses in American Idiot and a bunch of other tunes from the American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown albums?

Thanks,
Thano
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-2 #1 TremoloAndré 2009-07-25 11:18
He also uses a tremolo pedal of some kind on "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
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