Andy Timmons' Gear
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In this video, at 2:20, Andy plays his guitar, and then says, "That's the Lone Start lead channel with a Tube Screamer… That's what I love about the Lone Star, it handles pedals so well. You can really tailor your tone."
Andy uses Dunlop Tortex Pitch Black Jazz III picks, according to Dunlop's website.
He briefly explained his story with Dunlop Jazz III picks in a 2022 guitarguitar interview:.
Oh yeah, so this is interesting because this is the most consistent part of my signal chain. It’s a Dunlop Jazz III Tortex 1.14mm. Small stiffy, so to speak! (laughs) It’s weird, it was a guy at the music store I was teaching at when I was in Miami, he just said ‘try this pick!’ I immediately recognised the level of detail I was able to get. It’s got a really fine point at the end, the size didn’t bother me. I greatly prefer the tone of nylon though. For a while there, they made an XL nylon Jazz III for buckethead; he requested them, so that was a thing around 1999 or 2000. I was using that pick a lot. I even love the tone of a Fender Heavy, but so much of my technique has been developed over the years around this pick that I can’t get the detail and articulation with any other pick. I’m kind of in a way married to this pick. It is shocking though: if you have not done this when you’re tone questing, just get a jar full of picks. There are massive differences in tone and feel with all of these.
"I've got the Strymon Timeline in the loop for everything, it's basiclly always on. And I've got it set up to sound like my two vintage Deluxe Memory Man pedals," Andy Timmons' mentions, at 1:48 in this video about his pedalboard.
Andy Timmons' guitar tech points out his Boss BD-2 at 10:23 in this video.
https://www.guitar.com/articles/andy-timmons-x-static
Quote:
Guitar.com: What is your main guitar these days?
Timmons: My main guitar since '94 has been a custom Ibanez, which eventually was released as a signature model in Japan and Europe. It's a Maple neck; Alder body; one humbucker, two single-coil guitar. We're working on a new guitar right now, and I'm about to open the case I received in the mail right before you called. They've got a new tremolo system that I'm trying out. I've been using the Wilkinson system, but Ibanez is coming out with something that I think I like even better. It seems to feel good, so I'm anxious to check this out. But this guitar is made out of mahogany. That's the guitar I used on a track called 'Super '70s' and 'Beautiful, Strange.' That's the new signature model that we're working on. We're going to try to get it released later this year.
Rig-wise, it changes every gig, it seems. I've been using a VHT Pitbull amp for a lot of stuff, A/B'ing to a pair of Mesa/Boogie Maverick 30 watt amps for the clean side. I've still got the Laney VH 100 that I used on a couple tracks on the new record, and live sometimes. I'm always kind of still looking, still trying to find the right thing.
When asked what amps he used in the studio: "A ‘68 Marshall Plexi Super Lead panned on one side of the stereo field and a Marshall JMP panned on the other side. Believe it or not, this was the first time I had ever played through a Marshall amp. I played both of them simultaneously through a Framptone Amp switcher with my signature Ibanez AT300 and AT100 guitars, which enabled me to play both amps with one guitar loud and clean using a tape echo and tube driver in front. For the album’s title track, I re-amped the Marshall through a Leslie 122 cabinet to get that swirling, Hendrix-y sound."
At 0:10 in this video, Andy Timmons mentions his BK Butler Tube Driver. He says, "One of my main lead sounds for the Resolutions CD, the Tube Driver."
At 10:01 in this video, Daniel points out Andy Timmons' GNI Octa Fuzz and later says "Great sounding octave fuzz, it's really coo.l"
At 9:56, Daniel, the one building Andy Timmons' board, says, "The pedals that we have on the bottom row are: The EP booster [...]".
"Well, those guitars, those amps… and THESE awesome pedals :))) Gigrig 2, AT (@) JHS sig pedal, Carl Martin sig Double Comp, GNI Dual Analog Chorus, TS808 Tube Screamer, Keeley modded Blues Driver…"
In a JHS Pedals demo video, Andy Timmons uses the M-Audio EX-P Expression Pedal while showcasing the AT Channel Drive pedal.
AT10P original neck with Premium Fret Edge Treatment. The AT-1™ bridge pickup was specially designed and wound by DiMarzio® for Andy Timmons. Andy Timmons' Signature AT10P boasts a Wilkinson®-WV6-SB bridge.
At 10:48, Daniel points out Andy Timmons' Angry Charlie pedal. At 11:06 Andy says that this is "The first gain pedal that i found that i can really rely on for my entire gain [...]".
Timmons runs two Mesa/Boogie Lone Star heads (one is custom-fitted into a flight case). For a bit of tonal variation, one amp is equipped with EL34s and the other has 6L6s. The amps run into two Mesa/Boogie Rectifier 2x12 cabs with Celestion Vintage 30s for a stereo image.
At :25s, Andy plays us his AT100 which he claims is his main guitar. His main guitar is a prototype AT100, which was built in 1994. Used on the album "Electric Truth". Source:
Yeah, the centrepiece of almost everything I do is the old Ibanez AT100. This is the prototype from 1994 that I’m still playing. This was particularly on solos like on Shuggy or Apocryphal, or the entire track of Take Me With You. [...] Well, prior to Ibanez, I was a Kramer endorsee. It was when I was with Danger Danger, and at that point, we were getting a lot of MTV video play so we were getting a pretty high profile. We were in all the teen glam metal magazines and all that. Strangely, in 1991, Kramer went out of business, after being on top of the heap with Eddie VanHalen and all of these great players. So, I was in a spot where I needed a company to work with and I was in a good position with a high profile band getting lots of exposure, so most companies at that point wanna work with you, regardless of your band or how you play, it’s about that exposure! For me, I knew I was headed towards where Vai and Satriani were. Ibanez was a likely choice, just because so many of my heroes and eventual friends were already there. The Ibanez A&R guy said, ‘We love you but we don’t like your band. Our program’s kinda full but I’ll see what I can do’. He came back and said they’d like to have me on, so that began a process. This was the first time in my life that somebody said to me, ‘We want to build you your ultimate guitar. What is it?’ And I went, ‘Six strings….I dunno! (laughs) I was always fortunate to have a guitar, and that’s not hyperbole. But to have a company ask that, I was like, I dunno, because I really didn’t know what that is. I’d owned so few guitars and really hadn’t experimented much, so they really went through the process with me, sending me all of their higher end guitars, like the US Custom line, which were really beautiful guitars with 24 frets and Floyds. Those were cool, and we did a Custom RG, a Black guitar with purple pickups, but I remembered a Strat copy that Kramer had put together for me. That was my favourite neck, so I sent that to them and said ‘make it look like Eric Johnson’s ‘54 ‘Virginia’ Strat, I thought that was the most beautiful classic look. Some might think it’s boring because it’s not hot pink or cracked mirror or whatever! Those are all cool guitars but I’m very fond of vintage and classic like that. So that neck and the RG was essentially what it was all about, It was the feel. We kept it with little to no finish on the neck, so it already felt like a guitar you’d played for years. Everything was kinda based on that.
In this instagram post, you can see Andy is using this in his rig for a live stream.
Andy is pictured here with a Mesa Boogie Stiletto Deuce Stage II. The text quotes him saying, "With my Stiletto Deuce II, every nuance and subtle dynamic comes out easily and clearly with amazing rich harmonic content...completely responsive!"
At 11:16, one can clearly see Andy Timmons' Mircro POG on his pedalboard.
In the video "Andy Timmons - Live Setup" on GuitarSpotGr's YouTube channel, Andy Timmons uses the Xotic Effects SP Compressor as part of his guitar rig.
Because Timmons travels so much, it’s important to have a durable pedalboard that covers all his tones but weighs less than 50 pounds—case included. Timmons is a total cable guy and his signal flow starts with a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah before heading into the centerpiece of his board, a GigRig G2 switching system. Included in the loops of the G2 are a Sonic Research Turbo Tuner ST-200, Dunlop Volume X, Strymon TimeLine, Carl Martin Andy Timmons Compressor Limiter, GNI Analog Stereo Dual Chorus, a beat-up Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer, MXR Phase 90, and a JHS AT (Andy Timmons) Signature Channel Drive. Tucked underneath the top row of pedals are a Wampler Velvet Fuzz, GNI Octa Fuzz, an Electro-Harmonix POG, a Keeley-modified Boss Blues Driver, and finally a modded JHS Angry Charlie.
In this of Andy Timmons' pedal board, posted on Andy Timmons' official Facebook page, his BB Preamp Andy Timmons Signature pedal can be seen in the upper left corner.
Andy played his Ibanez Signature AT guitar with DiMarzio pickups through the C+ mode of Ch. 2 into a 2x12 Rectifier Cabinet loaded with Celestion Vintage 30s…
At 11:40, one can see an Xotic Effects XW1 Wah Wah Pedal on Andy Timmons' pedalboard.
Spotted on Andy's board in Bournemouth, UK, on October 27, 2015
Andy Timmons - Live Setup || Guitarspot.Gr
During the Danger Danger era, Andy Timmons' flight case featured a Peavey Ultraverb Digital Stereo Multi-Effects Processor, positioned as the second rack unit below the Peavey Rock Master preamp, as seen in a Peavey advertisement on Pinterest.
Andy uses a Dunlop Joe Bonamassa Fuzz Face, according to Dunlop's website.
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