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Owl City - Adam Young Guitar and Keyboard Rig Gear
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Tuesday, 31 May 2011 07:19

Adam Young is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer and the founder of the synthpop project Owl City. Adam has also fronted a large variety of other musical projects, including Sky Sailing and Port Blue. Adam also has his own studio called Sky Harbor Studios.

Let's take a look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Adam's live and studio guitar rigs.

Adam Young playing guitar at a concert

 

 

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Guitars
- Fender American Precision Bass

Fender American Standard Precision Bass Black Maple Fretboard


- Fender American Telecaster (black, maple neck)

Fender American Standard Telecaster Electric Guitar Black Maple Fretboard


- Fender American Stratocaster

Fender American Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst Maple Fretboard


- Fender '69 American Telecaster Thinline (sunburst)

Fender Classic Series '69 Telecaster Thinline Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst


- Fender American Telecaster Deluxe

Fender American Deluxe Telecaster Electric Guitar Tungsten Rosewood


- Fender Custom Shop Telecaster La Cabronita (blue)

Fender Custom Shop La Cabronita Especial Relic Single Pickup Electric Guitar Lake Placid Blue


- Fender American Telecaster Vintage

- Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar

Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar Gold Top


- Gibson ES-335 Dot Plaintop semi-hollow guitar

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


- Taylor 314CE Acoustic guitar

Taylor 314ce Grand Auditorium Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural


- Taylor 816CE Acoustic guitar

Taylor 800 Series 816ce Grand Symphony Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

- Fender '72 Telecaster Deluxe (Olympic white. Appears to be the road worn model) (black classic pic below)

Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar Black






Amps
- Orange AD30 Twin Channel amplfiier

Orange Amplifiers AD Series AD30HTC 30W Tube Guitar Amp Head Orange


- Marshall JVM 410H amplifier

Marshall JVM Series JVM410H Tube Amp Head


- Marshall G80R amp





Effects and More
- Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Boss RE-20 Space Echo Delay / Reverb Pedal


- Boss DD-3 delay pedal

Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal


- Line 6 FBV SHORTBOARD MkII

Line 6 FBV Shortboard MKII Guitar Footswitch Black


- Line 6 POD XT Pro (X3 pic below)

Line 6 POD X3 Pro Guitar Multi Effects Processor


- Mac laptop



Synths
- Access Virus TI2

Access Virus TI v2 Keyboard Total Integration Synthesizer and Keyboard Controller


- Korg MicroKorg

Korg MicroKORG Synthesizer/Vocoder


- Korg Radias

- Moog Voyager

Moog Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue Analog Synthesizer


- Nord Electro 3

Nord Electro 3 Sixtyone Stage Piano/Organ


- Nord Wave

Nord Wave Wavetable Synthesizer


- Roland Juno-G

- Roland Fantom G8

Roland FANTOM-G8 Workstation


- Roland Gaia

Roland Gaia SH-01 Synthesizer


- Roland VP-770
Roland VP-770 Vocal & Ensemble Keyboard



Thanks to Matt Kennedy for additional research.

Last Updated on Friday, 09 September 2011 12:58
 

Comments 

 
+1 #3 RE: Owl City - Adam Young Guitar and Keyboard Rig GearChuck 2011-12-01 22:52
Apparently, he recently picked up a korg SV-1. Also not listed are some of the softsynths he uses here's the list from his website:
"Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Spectrasonics Trilian
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX
Korg Mono/Poly
Korg MS-20
Korg Polysix
Korg LegacyCell
Vienna Instruments
Digidesign Velvet
Synthogy Ivory
Drumagog
Native Instruments Kontact
Native Instruments Battery
Native Instruments Reaktor
Native Instruments Absynth
Native Instruments FM8
Native Instruments Massive
Native Instruments Guitar Rig
Native Instruments Alicia's Keys"
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0 #2 Fender 72 Telecaster Deluxeuberproaud 2011-09-09 12:58
Quoting Adrian:
Can you tell me which model of telecaster is he using in this video? I think it's not on the list and I can't find it anywhere. Thanks!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQ744Ci5V8

Just updated our list. It's a Fender '72 Telecaster Deluxe - appears to be the road worn model in olympic white
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0 #1 RE: Owl City - Adam Young Guitar and Keyboard Rig GearAdrian 2011-09-09 12:29
Can you tell me which model of telecaster is he using in this video? I think it's not on the list and I can't find it anywhere. Thanks!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQ744Ci5V8
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