Visit our Who Plays What section to see hundreds of famous musician's guitar, bass, and drum rigs or search the site:

Our buddy Miles has major G.A.S. over the Wampler Tumnus overdrive pedal. Could it be the best Klon-style OD pedal for the price? Check this pedal out!

UberProAudio is reader supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. We appreciate your support!

Adam Jones is a Grammy Award-winning musician, guitarist and visual artist, best known for his work with the band Tool. Jones was rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine and placed 9th in Guitar World's Top 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists. He's also responsible for most of Tool's music videos.

Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Tool's Adam Jones Guitar Rig.

Adam playing his Silverburst Les Paul

CoolClick the gear images for more info and specs at Guitar Center and AmazonCool

 

Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Silverburst Custom Guitars (this is Adam's main guitar)

Gibson Custom Limited-Edition Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Silverburst

- SH-4 JB model or a Seymour Duncan Trembucker pickups in his Gibson

Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB Humbucker Pickup

- Gibson Les Paul Custom natural finish

- Gibson SG (used for some recording)

Gibson Sg Standard Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry

- Guild acoustic guitar (can't find exact model)





Amps and Cabinets
Notes: Adam Jones uses multiple amplifiers at one time. We'll list some of the supposed amps he's used live and in the studio here.
- 1976 Marshall Super Bass amp

- Diezel VH4 "blueface" amp (he has 2 Diezels in his 2010 rig)

Diezel Vh4 100W Tube Guitar Amp Head

- Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier amp

- Sunn Beta Lead (for some recording)

- Bogner Uberschall

- Rivera Knucklehead Reverb amp

Rivera K120TRE Knucklehead Tre 120W Tube Guitar Amp Head with Reverb

- Peavey amp

- Mesa/Boogie 4x12 cabinet and Mesa 2x15 bass cabinet

- Marshall 4x12 cabinet

Marshall 1960A or 1960B 300W 4x12 Guitar Extension Cabinet

 

 

Effects

The following gear was seen in his 2010 guitar rig:

- Heil Talk Box w/ Heil mic through small Roland combo amp

- MXR DynaComp for the talkbox

- MXR Micro Amp pedal

- Dunlop CryBaby BB-535 (aka 535Q) Wah

- Peterson Strobostomp Tuner

- Boss BF-2 Flanger pedal

- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

- DOD fx40b EQ pedal

- Boss PSM-5 Power Supply pedals

- Access Virus B Advanced Simulated Analog Synthesizer

- Moog Taurus pedals

Moog Taurus Bass Pedal Synthesizer Version 3

- Virus Indigo synthesizer

- Roland VK-8M

- Korg Rack tuner

- Optical Volume pedal

- Dunlop slide

 

 

 

The following gear has also been seen in Adam's rig over the years:

- Ibanez Flanger

- Ibanez Digital Delay

- Line 6 delay

- Gig-FX Chopper Effects Pedal

- Ernie Ball Standard Volume Pedal

Ernie Ball 6166 Mono Volume Pedal

- Foxx Tone Machine Reissue

- Boss SYB-5 bass synthesizer

- Boss GE-7 Equalizer



Strings

- Ernie Ball skinny top/heavy bottom strings (10-52 gauge)