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Albert Hammond Jr is a musician and guitar player in the garage rock band The Strokes. Albert is also a solo artist. He released his debut album Yours To Keep in 2006 and followed up with ¿Cómo Te Llama? in 2008.
Let's take a look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Albert's guitar rig.
 Click the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's Friend
Guitars
- Fender '85 Strat - Olympic white (Japan reissue of the '72 model)
 
- Gibson Les Paul Junior (a backup guitar)
 
- Guild Acoustic (vintage sunburst)
- Martin acoustic
- Rickenbacker 3 pickup guitar (black)
Amps
- Fender Hot Rod Deville 2x12" amplifier
- Fender Twin Reverb
- Hiwatt Custom 50 Head and 2 4x12 Hiwatt cabinets
- small Peavey amp (studio)
Effects
- Boss TU-2
 
- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay pedal
- MXR Micro amp
- Visual Sound V2 Jekyll & Hyde Ultimate Overdrive (uses two Visual Sound pedals)
Picks
- Dunlop Tortex .88mm guitar picks
- Thomastik-Infeld George Benson strings, gauge 12 (used on first album)
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Comments
In Bonnaroo Albert is using thwo Hiwatt Custom 50 Head and 2 4x12 hiwatt cabinets too
Albert Hammond Jr uses .88 mm green tortex picks according to a recent Dunlop ad. Don't know what Nick uses
jimdunlop.com/.../...
Also, for at least the first album, both Albert and Nick used 12 gauge Thomastik-Infeld George Benson strings
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80532751.html
What thickness, some places say 2.0 mm (a thick a$s pick) but I cant find any red tortex picks (just green and other colors)
So, according to this, it goes Boss TU-2 - VS Jekyll & Hyde x 2 - Menatone Shut Up & Drive (??) - Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay - MXR Micro Amp.
BTW, he and Nick uses Tortex picks (the red ones).
The same reason why you see everyone have 3-4 overdrive/fuzz pedals on a pedal board. He likes the sounds he gets out of them, and I assume it would be a pain in the as$ to tweak the knobs all the time on stage.
yfrog.com/h37b0qcj
albert tweeted these images of his "domain"