Ray Toro's Gear
Usage
In this image of a "My Chemical Romance" concert, Ray Toro is using a Gibson Les Paul Standard.
My main guitar right now is a Gibson Les Paul Standard that I think is either from ’91 or ’93 which I picked up while on tour. I have Seymour Duncan Phat Cat (SPH90-1) P90-style pickups in it which are the size of a humbucker. They’re amazing. I’m really psyched about them. I have another Les Paul Standard which is probably from ’93 and it has a Seymour Duncan JB (SH-4) in the bridge position and the neck pickup is whatever came on the guitar. My brother was the person who had turned me onto the JB. It was the first after market pickup I bought because he said that I had to get a Seymour Duncan JB!
http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/backstage-pass/ray-toro-of-my-chemical-romance
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In this photo, Ray Toro is visible with Gerard Way. He is playing some kind of reddish Stratocaster.
The CBS-era look-a-like Stratocaster was given to him by "Michael", who suppposedly works at Fender. This guitar also converts notes into MIDI, as said by Toro. But that's whole lotta different guitar.
A Strat can also be seen in this photo which as posted to Ray Toro's Twitter.
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In the photo, which shows Ray Toro's pedalboard, next to ZVex Super Duper pedal, there is Ibanez TS9.
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In this video you can see Ray playing the Epiphone Wilshire Phant-o-matic Frank Iero Signature
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Ray is using a red Fender Telecaster HH in this photo, taken when he and Mikey played with Fall Out Boy at Warped Tour 2005. The neck pickup appears to have been removed.
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"...and Electro-Harmonix POG Polyphonic Octave Generator, which you can set up to play one octave below, an octave above, or two octaves above." - Ray Toro
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In this video of Teenagers live you can see Ray playing the Les Paul Junior by Gibson
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This is one of the videos in which you can see Ray Toro playing his "Black Royale" Epiphone Wildkat
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Before the recording of The Black Parade, Ray’s Marshall JCM 2000 broke down during preproduction, and ended up using producer Rob Cavallo’s Marshall JCM 800 head, and it became the main head used for The Black Parade.
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Ray Toro, lead guitarist of My Chemical Romance, is seen using a 1958 Yellow Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar in a fan-uploaded photo on Fanpop.
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Ray uses a Gession Les Paul knock-off guitar in this video. He used this guitar during Bullets era. The headstock of the guitar can be seen easily at 2:30 into this video.
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Toro previews a track he's working on while showing the Green Rhino.
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At 2:09 in this video we can see Ray playing a Epiphone Les Paul Standard as we see the classic Epi style headstock. Toro is noted to play this model from at least 2004, as he says in this interview.
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In this photo, Toro's guitars are shown, with one being the black Epiphone Sheraton II.
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Ray Toro most notably used the Boss BF-2 Flanger in the Intro and Verse parts for "The Ghost of You". Ray Toro can be seen using this pedal live on the "The Ghost of You" AOL Sessions video as well. Additonally, the BF-2 can also be heard in songs throughout the album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge -- such as the chorus/verse link in "Helena", the intro verse in "The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You", before the second chorus of "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish", and the pre-chorus & clean bridge of "I Never Told You What I Do for a Living".
The BF-2 can also be heard on a recorded live cover of Morrisey's "Jack the Ripper" -- which is featured on the My Chemical Romance EP, Like Phantoms Forever.
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"As far as strings, I use .011-.052 S.I.T. strings." - Ray Toro.
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Played during the Revenge Era. Guitar is identified in an ad for Epiphone: "Ray Toro of My Chemical Romance and his Elitist Les Paul Standard"
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In a user-uploaded photo from Hellfest 2003, Ray Toro is seen playing a Gibson SG Standard.
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In this tweet, Ray Toro says he like's the Death By Audio Fuzz War.
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In the music video for "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" by My Chemical Romance, Ray Toro is seen using the Crate BV300HB Blue Voodoo Guitar Amp Head.
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In this video of my chemical romance playing in 2003 at iMusicast you can see ray playing a black epiphone sg-400 pro.
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Ray is using a red Gibson SG Junior in this photo.
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Ray uses an epiphone emperor regent in this video. It can be seen best at 0:9 in.
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In this music video for "The Kids From Yesterday", at the 2:04 mark, you can see Ray playing a Gibson Firebird. I apologize, for I do not know the exact model
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In this user-uploaded photo from Whicdn, Ray Toro is seen playing a Harmony Bobkat guitar. The guitar's design is reminiscent of Ibanez Talman and Fender Jazzmaster models.
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In this photo posted by Toro, the MXR EVH90 is visible on the shelf.
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Here you can see Ray Toro playing on Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Standard. Revolution, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 10/10/05
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Ray played Epiphone Les Paul Standard in "I'm Not Okay" music video. Face it, he really can make it nice
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