Deryck whibley

Fender Thinline Telecaster Deluxe

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Both of my guitars are new-ish semi-hollow bodies and very lightweight, which is great for my back. Along with everything else, I had a really bad back injury too; using guitars like this helps. It weighs nothing but sounds pretty heavy. I had it modified with this push/pull pot that flicks to single-coil for the cleaner stuff. I have no need for a neck pickup – I’m straight rhythm and not trying to be Slash or anything. The maple fingerboard gives a little bit of a brighter attack. At the moment, it’s the stock humbucker in there – which sounds good – but I will be getting it changed to a Seymour Duncan JB. That’s what I normally use, and the only reason I haven’t yet is that this pickguard is bigger so they have to make a custom set which I’m waiting for.”

Fender Custom Shop Thinline Telecaster

2 “This other one Fender Custom Shop made for me. It’s another Thinline tele, but it’s got a 60s single-coil pickup in there, plus a piezo bridge, which goes out to two jacks so I can toggle between them. I’ll grab this for Pieces and the piezo is used on the song With Me, so I’ll use this guitar less. Now we have three guitar players – Dave has the PRS sound, Tom’s got the Les Paul sound, so I wanted a different kinda vibe to separate my tone. I’m a loyal person in general and Fender have been so cool to me, I have no reason to try anything else out.”

Kemper Profiler

3 “All the amps we use are my own ones profiled at home… none of us use the Kemper shit. I see a lot of guys using these but I haven’t seen anyone profiling their own sounds. I don’t fuck with the factory sounds at all, I wipe them clean and put my own shit in there because my amps are amazing! My bandmates play my gear, and they’re better players, but I own it – ha ha! The problem is I can’t bring it on the road; a lot of the amps are old. So I’m mainly using my old Jubilee and Superbass combo profiled as one sound, which I often do. There’s a Vox AC30 and Bogner Ecstasy on there, or a Diezel Herbert blended with a JCM800. I also have a VHT Pitbull doubled with one of those Marshall Valvestate amps that weren’t tube… they sound great in conjunction. When I brought that modded ’69 Superbass out with me, my tech had to rebuild it every day; finding all the parts was a bitch. My clean sound is a ’79 JMP with the gain set around three, so it’s semi-overdriven. Then my ‘War’ sound is a ’62 Vox AC30 – which the other guys use too.”