Prince, who has been known as a symbol and The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (TAFKAP), was much more than a singer and excellent songwriter. He also played a mean guitar, bass, drums and more! Guitar is the instrument he most often played live, but he also played a lot of piano throughout his career.
Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Prince's Guitar Rig.
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Prince's Guitars
- Vox HDC-77 semi-hollow guitar (custom paint)
- Multiple custom made Cloud guitars
- Multiple Love Symbol shaped guitars
- Hohner TE
- Fake Hohner which squirts water
- Gibson Les Paul JR covered with fake fur
- Fender Lake Placid Blue Blue Stratocaster
- Fender Dark Blue Tele with flowers painted on it
- Black and white Auerswald Model C guitars with sustain bow
- Gibson Gold top Les Paul Junior in the "Dinner with Delores"video
- custom Schecter nicknamed 'Habibi'
- Warwick Thumb bass (white with eye graphic)
- Ibanez George Benson
Notes: At least some of the solidbody guitars are equipped with EMG active pickups (EMG SA and EMG 81's)
Prince's Amps and Cabinets
- Mesa/Boogie Heartbreaker Guitar Amps with Mesa Recto 4x12 and 2x12 Cabinets
- Mesa/Boogie Strategy 500
- Mesa/Boogie Lonestar 2 x 12 combo amps
- Soldano SLO 100
- straight-front Peavey 5150 4 x 12s loaded with EV speakers
- Marshall 4 x 12 slant cabinets loaded with Celestion vintage 30s
- ORANGE AD140HTC guitar amps and ORANGE PPC412 cabinets (Good Morning America performance)
Prince's Effects
- Colorsound Wah
- Boss BF-2 Flanger
- Boss BD-2 Blues Driver
- Boss OD-2 Overdrive
- Boss MT-2 Metal Zone
- Digitech Whammy
- Roland FC-100
- Boss DS-2 Turbo Overdrive
- Boss VB-2 Vibrato
- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
- Boss FL-2 Flanger
- Boss OC-2 Octave
- Dunlop CryBaby Wah
- Roland EV-5 (controls GP-16 whammy)
- Dunlop Rotovibe
- Sampson UR 5Ds
- Uptown Technologies Flash switcher (used to select between the wireless units)
- Digital Music Corp MX-8 is used for MIDI switching
- Roland GP-16 is for whammy effects
- Zoom 9030
- Uptown Great Divide
- Behringer Denoiser
- Soldano/caswell preamp
- Avalon Direct Box
- DiMideo mic preamp
- tube Urei LA2A compressor
- RanE ME30
- Furman PL-8
- Furman PL-Pro
- Furman AR-117
- It looked like Prince MAY have had a Line 6 MM4 on his board during Jay Leno performance 3/26/2009
Prince's Strings and other guitar things
- DR HR Highbeam strings .009 - .042 guage
- Finger Ease string lubricant
- Monster Cable
