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Brad Delson Equipment

Equipment

Guitars

Paul Reed Smith Custom 24/Standard 24/CE 24 guitars - Brad's favorite guitar is his custom-made red PRS with the Hybrid Theory soldier on the body.
Ibanez RG470XL guitar
Ibanez RG7620 7 string guitar - Used on "Runaway" and "With You".
Fender Rory Gallagher Tribute Stratocaster
Fender vintage 1950's Stratocaster
Fender Jaguar
Fender Telecaster
Gibson Les Paul

Effects

To avoid problems with pedals being damaged during live performances Delson keeps his effect pedals in a rack along with his amplifiers and controls them through a pedalboard onstage. The board also contains a pedal control which allows him to change the settings for his effect pedals.

Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro floorboard
GCX Audio Switcher
TC Electronics G-Major effects processor
Boss BF-3 Flanger
Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer (x2)
Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
Boss Expression pedal
Ibanez LF-7 Lo-fi pedal

Amplifiers

For the first two albums, he used Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers, but during the recording of Minutes to Midnight Delson decide not to use much of his old equipment to give him a new sound. Several vintage and rare amplifiers such as Soldano SLO's, Marshall JCM 800, Mesa Boogie, a 1972 50 watt Hiwatt Custom and a extremely rare Bo Diddley amplifier with an onboard tape delay that was either made for, or made by Diddley. During live performances Delson relies on several Randall MTS Modules to recreate the sound from these different amplifers.

Randall MTS RM4 pre-amp (x2)
Randall MTS Modules
Randall RT 2/50 power amp
Randall MTS cabinets

Others

Dunlop Picks-Tortex Wedge (0.83mm)
D'Addario strings: EXL115,EXL140,EXL110
DiMarzio pickups - D-Sonic, Tone Zone, and Air Norton
Audio technica wireless transmitters and receivers

Brad Delson Equipment