Lenny Kravitz is a multi-talented, multi-instrument playing musician.
Let's take a look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Lenny's guitar rig.
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Guitars
Lenny has been said to have over 300 guitars in his collection!!
- late 50's Gibson Les Paul Standard (used much in the studio)
- Gibson Les Paul Custom (3 pickup)
- Fender Telecaster
- Fender Stratocaster
- Gibson Les Paul (Iced Tea finish, made for him in 2010)
- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop
- vintage Gibson L5 guitar
- Gibson SG (vintage)
- Gibson Flying V Kravitz signature model guitar
- Gibson vintage flame top Les Pauls ('58, '59 and '60s models)
- Epiphone guitars
- Fender Jazzmaster (his first guitar)
- Gibson Everly Brothers acoustic
- Gibson SJ-200 acoustic (or something very similar)
- Gibson semi-hollow guitars
Amps
- Fender Twin Reverb amplifier head (Lenny called this one of his favorite amps in a Total Guitar interview)
- Fender Tweed Deluxe amp (Lenny's distortion sound)
- Fender Pro Reverb
- Marshall amp heads
- Park head
- Divided By 13 amps (a listed user)
- Celestion speakers (listed on Celestion as a user of Gold and Heritage Series G12-65)
- Acoustic 360 bass amp head (bass in the studio)
Note: Lenny uses 8 different amps live
Effects
- Bradshaw switching system (guitar tech runs this)
- Furman Power Conditioner
- MXR EVH Flanger pedal
- MXR EVH Phase pedal
- Fulltone Tube Tape Echo
- MXR Dyna Comp pedal
- Fulltone Fulldrive II pedal
- Analogman Mini Chorus
- black pedal (appears to be a Boss RV-5)
- Boss Octave pedal
- Sweet Sound Mojo Vibe pedal
- purple pedal (appears to be Guyatone WR3 Wah Rocker)
- Boss Metal Zone pedal
Strings
- D'Addario EXL140 Nickel Wound, Light Top/Heavy Bottom, 10-52 strings
- D'Addario EXP17 Coated Phosphor, Medium, 13-56 acoustic guitar strings
- D'Addario EXL115 Nickel Wound, Medium/Blues-Jazz Rock, 11-49 strings
Lenny's personal studio gear
Here are some of the goodies in the Gregory Town Sound studio (on island of Eleuthera)
- restored British made Helios console
- EMI designed REDD 37 desk
- multiple analog tape machines (Studer and 3M)
- Pro Tools HD3
- Variety of outbioard gear from API, DBXm Teletronix, EMI, Urei, Farichild, Helios, RCA, EMT and more
- Variety of mics from AKG, Electro-Voice, Neumann, RCA, Sennheiser, Shure, Scheops, Sony and Telefunken
- Vocal path: Neumann U47, Helios mic pre, Sphere graphic EQ, Fairchild 660 and LA2A
