Friday, September 30, 2011

How To Sound Like Richie Sambora


Amp Settings
gain10,
bass7,
contour9,
treble10.
Guitars
- The new ESP Richie Sambora SA-2 guitar (Thankfully pointed out by user Thebiz)
- A large variety of Fender stratocasters
- Fender Telecaster doubleneck guitar
- custom "Sambora" guitars built by Richie Sambora's guitar tech Chris "Lumpy" Hofschneider
- Zemaitis Guitars
- Floyd Rose guitars
- vintage and custom shop Gibson guitars
- Gibson Les Paul Standard sunburst
Gibson Les Paul Standard Faded '50s Neck Heritage Cherry Sunburst Nickel Hardware 
- Gibson Les Paul goldtop
Gibson Custom Shop 57 Les Paul Goldtop Reissue Electric Guitar Antique Gold 
- Gibson Flying V (appears to be Korina, in "Everyday" video)
- Gibson ES-335
Gibson Custom ES-335 Satin Finish Electric Guitar Faded Cherry
- '51 Fender Telecaster
Fender American Vintage Series '52 Telecaster Electric Guitar Butterscotch Blonde 
- Fender Custom Shop Eric Clapton Stratocaster
Fender Artist Series Eric Clapton Stratocaster Electric Guitar Black 
- Fender "NoCaster"
Fender 51 Nocaster NOS Electric Guitar Vintage Blonde 
- Fender Telecaster Thinline Custom
Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Thinline Electric Guitar Natural 
- Charvel Stratocaster
- Ovation acoustics (various models, including a double and triple neck)
Ovation 1771 LX Standard Balladeer Acoustic-Electric Guitar Cherry Cherryburst 
- Gretsch guitars
Gretsch Guitars G6120-1959 Chet Atkins Hollow Body Electric Guitar Western Maple Stain 
- Taylor RSSM Sambora model acoustic
- Taylor doubleneck acoustic
- Martin Sambora 6 and 12 strings (click below to checkout the 6 string)
Martin OMC-41 Richie Sambora Acoustic-Electric Guitar Sunburst 

- Martin 000-42
Martin 000-42 Acoustic Guitar 
- Guild F-50 12-string
Guild F512 Vintage Jumbo 12-String Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural
- Gibson SG Junior (white)


Amplifiers and Cabinets
- Marshall JCM2000 DSL series amps
Marshall DSL100MLB and MC412 Full Stack 
- Marshall JCM800 2203 heads
Marshall JCM800 2203 Vintage Series 100W Tube Head 
- Marshall 4x12" speaker cabinets
Marshall 1960A or 1960B 300W 4x12 Guitar Extension Cabinet Angled 
- Fender ToneMaster amps
Fender Mini Tone-Master Amp 
- Fender ToneMaster 4x12" speaker cabinets
- Fender Bassman 4x10" combo
Fender 59 Bassman 
- Fender SuperTwin (pictured below is a regular Twin)
Fender Twin Amp 100-Watt All-Tube Guitar Amp 

- Vox AC30
Vox Custom Classic AC30CC2X 30w 2x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp with Alnico Blues 
- VHT Pitbull
VHT G-100-UL Pittbull Ultra-Lead Head 
- Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier
- Hughes & Kettner amp
Hughes & Kettner Triamp MK II Tube Guitar Amplifier Head 

- Diezel Herbert amps
- Divided by 13 amplification (they make custom amps)
- Matchless amps
- Bogner Ecstasy
- Custom made 4x12 cabinets

Effects and more
- MIDI floor controller
- Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
Boss SUPER OverDrive SD-1 Pedal 
- Talk Box
Dunlop Heil Talk Box 
- Fulltone Choral Flange
- Dunlop Crybaby
Dunlop Original Crybaby Wah Pedal 
- Vox wah pedal
Vox V847 Wah-Wah Pedal 
- A/B switcher (try the ART switcher below for a low-cost switcher)
ART CoolSWITCH A/B-Y Box 
- Dunlop Rack-Wah
Dunlop Crybaby Rack Wah 
- T.C. Electronics 1210 Spatial Expander/Stereo-Chorus Flanger
- Eventide H-3000 Harmonizer
Eventide H7600 Ultra-Harmonizer Effects Processor 
- Shure SM-57 Microphones
Shure SM57 Instrument/Vocal Mic 

MXR Dynacomp (modified?)
MXR M-102 Dyna Comp Compressor Pedal 
- Klon Centaur pedal

In 2010 Richie had a guitar rack made for him. The following gear appeared to be in it.
This rack may be mainly used for studio recording (and another rack for live):

- 2 RJM Effect Gizmo's
- Custom Suhr amp switcher
- BAE mic pre
- VHT Power Amp
- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power AC and 2 Plus
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ Power Supply

- Furman Power Rack unit
- Lexicon PCM42 (x2)
- Eventide Eclipse V4 Rack unit
Eventide Eclipse Multi Effects Processor

- Empirical Labs Distressor
Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Audio Compressor

- A Designs 500HR Rack with two modules
- Tone Freak Effects Abunai 2 pedal
- Tone Freak Effects Naked OD
- Tone Freak Effects Mello Tremo
- BBE Soul Vibe pedal
BBE Soul Vibe Pedal

- Analog Man Octron pedal
- Hermida Zendrive pedal
- Boss OD-1 Overdrive pedal
- Hartman Compressor pedal
- Retro-sonic Vintage Vibes Chorus pedal
- Maxon AF-9 Auto Filter
Maxon AF-9 Auto Filter

- MXR Phase 90 Script logo pedal
MXR CSP-101CL Custom Shop Script Phase 90 with LED Phaser Pedal

- MXR EVH Flanger pedal
MXR EVH-117 Eddie Van Halen Flanger
- Electro-Harmonix Micro POG
Electro-Harmonix XO micro POG Polyphonic Octave Generator Guitar Effects Pedal

- Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man pedal
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man XO Analog Delay Guitar Effects Pedal

- Axess Electronics Midi Controller board
- Ernie Ball pedal
- Moollon Wah pedal (Korean made pedal)
- Boss Chromatic Tuner pedal
Boss TU-3 Chromatic Pedal Tuner





Strings and picks
- D'Addario Strings: EXP15, EXP38, EXL110, EXL115, EPS510, EPS540  (Sambora is listed on their site)
D'Addario EXL110 Nickel Light Electric Guitar Strings Single-Pack
- GHS Strings (Sambora is listed on their site) .009 strings in the studio and gauge .010 strings live
GHS GBXL Boomers Extra Light Electric Guitar Strings
- D'Andrea 351 .71mm Black Celluloid picks
D'Andrea 351 Vintage Celluloid Guitar Picks One Dozen Shell .71MM 


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