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Placebo - Brian Molko Guitar Rig Gear and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 03:51

Brian Molko is a songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Placebo. Molko has also performed on many collaborations.

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

Brian on guitar 

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

 

Guitars
- Gretsch Duo Jets

Gretsch Guitars G6128TDS Duo Jet Electric Guitar With Bigsby Black


- Gibson SG guitars (standards and reissues and SG-X)

Gibson SG Standard Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry


- Fender Jaguar guitars (he has multiple jags, all named by him)

Fender '62 Jaguar Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst Brown Shell Pickguard


- Fender Jazzmaster

Fender '62 Jazzmaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst Brown Shell Pickguard


- Fender Thinline Telecaster

Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Thinline Electric Guitar Natural


- Fender Bass VI

Fender Custom Shop Custom Shop Bass VI N.O.S 3-Tone Sunburst


- Gibson Chet Atkins SST
- Steinberg headless guitar (hss configuration) for performing the cover of 'Wouldn't it be good'.
- faded white Fender cyclone (modified to include a humbucker-sized p90 pickup at the bridge)
- Fender Toronado

 

 

Amps and Cabinets
- Fender Twin Reverb

Fender Vintage Reissue '65 Twin Reverb Guitar Amp


- Marshall 60th anniversary 6100LM + Cabinet Marshall 4*12
- Mesa Boogie Mark III
- Marshall JCM900 with 5881 power tubes




Effects
- Boss TU2 and  Tu-12 Tuner pedals

Boss TU-2 Chromatic Stompbox Tuner


- Boss LS-2 Line Selector

Boss LS-2 Line Selector/Power Supply


- Boss DD-3 and DD-5 delay pedals

Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal


- Boss MT-2

Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Effects Pedal


- Boss BF-2

Boss BF-3 Flanger


- Boss OS-2

Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal


- Boss PSM5
- Dunlop DC Brick

Dunlop DC-Brick Multi-Power Supply


- Electro-Harmonix #1 Echo pedal

Electro-Harmonix XO #1 Echo Digital Delay Guitar Effects Pedal


- Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
- Electro-Harmonix English Muff'n

Electro-Harmonix Classics English Muff'n Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal


- Electro Harmonix Sovtek Big Muff

Electro-Harmonix Classics USSR Big Muff PI Distortion / Sustainer Guitar Effects Pedal


- Electro Harmonix Micro Synthesizer
- Electro Harmonix Holy Grail

Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Reverb Guitar Effects Pedal


- MXR Distortion Plus +

MXR M-104 DISTORTION + Guitar Pedal


- MXR Phase 90

MXR M-101 Phase 90 Pedal


- Radial pedal (appears to be Tonebone LoopBone)

Radial Loopbone Dual Effects Loop


- Rooger Mayer Voodoo 1

- MXR Blue Box Octave Fuzz

Last Updated on Monday, 15 March 2010 05:32
 

Comments 

 
+2 #9 RE: Placebo - Brian Molko Guitar Rig Gear and EquipmentNathan LaMontagne 2010-09-07 19:46
I'm also wondering what distortion is used on "Days before you came"
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0 #8 MXR Blue BoxRobert 2010-04-22 06:35
Hi Evan!
yeah you´re right, but its actually Stefan Olsdal who has it on his pedalboard...
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0 #7 OctaveEvan 2010-03-15 05:30
I noticed that brian uses an MXR blue box octave on one of their videos on youtube its the only one thats sort of obvious
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+1 #6 Days before you camePeter 2010-02-16 08:25
Hi! I'd like to know the guitar pedal effects (which distortion) that placebo use on "Days before you came"..
So if anyone knows please drop me a message, thanks in advance!
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+1 #5 big muffNick 2010-01-16 16:18
During what time period/albums was he using the Russian Big Muff?
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+8 #4 Meds and Battle for the Sun PedalsRobert 2009-08-21 01:30
These are the correct Pedals he used on the Meds and the recent Battle for the Sun tour

Meds Tour:

# Boss TU-2 Tuner
# MXR Phase 90
# MXR Distortion +
# Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
# Electro-Harmonix English Muff'n
# Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
# Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb

Battle for the Sun Tour:

The center is his Tonebone Loop Station, there are 2 Effect Loops

Loop 1:
# Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
# Boss TU-2 Tuner
# Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
# MXR Phase 90
# Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

Loop 2:
# Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
# MXR Distortion +
# MG Mono Vibe
# Electro-Harmonix #1 Echo

And I forgot to mention the cream Gibson Les Paul custom...
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+1 #3 AdditionJon 2009-08-18 07:25
Recent tours has seen Molko use a Steinberg headless guitar (hss configuration) for performing the cover of 'Wouldn't it be good'.
In addition to Robert's comment, Moloko's faded white cyclone has been modified to include a humbucker-sized p90 pickup at the bridge. Its covered in girly stickers too.
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+1 #2 another correctionRobert 2009-08-09 07:29
Well, I don´t know where you got your information from but I guess you confound 2 pedals:
Brian never used an EHX Germanium overdrive...instead he has a EHX #1 Echo Pedal on his pedalboard! They´re looking quite similar from far away :-)
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+4 #1 correctionRobert 2009-08-06 04:08
he´s NOT using flanger, metalzone, big muff, line selector and os-2 anymore...

Recently he got some new guitars for the 2009 tour:
Fender Toronado
Fender Cyclone
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