Brad Paisley is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. Brad has a very cool guitar rig that has many boutique equipment and gear in it. He is a big user of Dr. z amps, Crook guitars, and a whole host of other guitar gear.
Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Brad Paisley's guitar rig.
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Brad Paisley's Guitars
- Fender Brad Paisley Signature Road Worn Telecaster Electric Guitar
- Crook telecasters (they have a whole line of custom Paisley guitars)
- Gibson Brad Paisley Signature J-45 Acoustic-Electric Guitar
- 1968 Fender 'Ole' Pink paisley telecaster (Lindy Fralin pickups)
- 1952 Fender butterscotch blonde Telecaster (stock pickups)
Notes: His guitars have McVay "G" Stringbenders on them
- Fender strats - his site shows he has a variety of strats -red strat, red burst, sunburst, blue.... Rosewood fretboard.
- Crook Firebird guitar
- Pre-War 1938 Martin D-28 acoustic guitar
- Copley Acoustic guitar
- Music Man Super Sport
- Gretsch hollowbody (appears to be a G6122-1962 Chet Atkins Country Gentleman Electric Guitar in Walnut Stain)
- Yamaha Classical guitar (Nylon string)
- Music Man Albert Lee guitar (red)
- Epiphone Les Paul Junior (with 2007 tour graphic)
Notes: Brad has a whole bunch more guitars. There was some great in depth pictures of Brad's guitar on his website.
Brad Paisley's Guitar Amp
- Vox 62 AC30 head and multiple Vox combo amps
- Dr. Z Z Wreck (Cross between a Trainwreck and a Z)
- Dr. Z Stang Ray
- Dr. Z Z-Verb amp head
- Dr. Z 2x12 cabinets
- Victoria 80212 Twin
- Bruno Underground 30 head
- "Hattie Mae", a hand built Trainwreck Liverpool 30 watt head
- Fender 3x10 Vibro King
- Dr. Z Carmen Ghia with a vox blue speaker
- Fender Deluxe Reverb combo amp
- Fender Champ 12
Variety of other Bruno and Dr. Z amps
Brad Paisley's Pickups
Seymour Duncan Brad Paisley signature La Brea Tele pickup Set
Note:Brad uses a variety of other guitar pickups. See the brands below.
- Lindy Fralin
- Alan Hamel
- Florance
- Kinman
- Voodoo
Brad Paisley's Guitar Effects Pedals and more Gear
- Wampler the Paisley Drive signature effects pedal
- Wampler Paisley Deluxe Overdrive Brad Paisley signature Effects Pedal
Brad's rig changes often. Here are some of the many pedals he has been pictured using.
- Axess BS2 Guitar Audio Buffer/Splitter
- Boss DD-2 and DD-3
- Boss TR-2 (Keeley)
- Diamond compressor
- Diamond Memory Lane 2
- Dunlop Wahs - Slash wah, etc...
- Ebtech Hum eliminator (rackmount)
- Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
- Empress Superdelay pedal
- Furman AR-1215 AC Line Regulator
- Framptone Amp Switcher
- Hermida Zendrive Distortion
- Keeley Compressor
- Keeley modded Ibanez TS808
- Keeley Nova Wah
- Line 6 M13 Stompbox Modeler
- Line 6 Echo Pro, Filter Pro, Mod Pro effects
- Maxon AD-999 Analog Delay
- MXR Carbon Copy
- Shure Wireless
- TC Electronic Stereo Chorus/Flanger Pedal
- Voodoo Labs Pedal Power
- Voodoo Labs Ground Control
- Voodoo Lab GCX Audio Switchers
- Visual Sound Route 808
- Xotic effects AC Booster pedal
- Xotic Effects RC booster pedal
- Way Huge Aqua Puss analog delay
- Wampler Pedals Underdog Overdrive
- Wampler Skyline pedal
- Wampler Plextortion
- Wampler Wheelhouse
- Wampler Velvet Fuzz prototype
- Wampler Pedals AnalogEcho
- Wampler Pedals Ego Compressor
Brad Paisley's Strings and Picks
- Ernie Ball nickel strings gauged .10-.46
- Ernie Ball medium flat picks
Go to the next page for awesome pictures of Brad Paisley's guitar setup.
As always our viewers are in for a real treat here. Eldon Philman hooked us up with some awesome pictures of Brad Paisley's guitar rig. The pictures are from October 2008. You can get a great view of Brad's rack and pedals along with his different guitars. A big thanks goes out to Eldon for the pictures!
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