Gear history
The boards behindthe records
What was actually on the floor when those records were made, why each pedal was there, and what it costs today. Assembled from interviews, rig rundowns and live photography.
- Rigs
- 23
- Records
- 58
- Tracks
- 128
- Pedals
- 55
2 rigs, filtered to Compression, 1980s.
- Randy RhoadsOzzy Osbourne · 1980 to 1982
Classical phrasing over a cranked Marshall, and a board built for precision rather than texture. The Distortion+ tightens the amp instead of adding gain to it, which is what keeps the fast neoclassical runs articulate.
MXR Distortion+
4 pedals · 2 records · 5 tracks
- SlashGuns N' Roses · 1987 to 1993
A Les Paul into a Marshall with almost nothing in between, which is the point. The wah is the only effect most listeners could name, and it is used as punctuation rather than as a texture.
Dunlop Cry Baby
4 pedals · 2 records · 4 tracks
This is editorial gear history, the same kind every guitar magazine and rig-rundown video publishes. No artist, band or manufacturer listed here is affiliated with Gear Avail, and nothing on these pages is an endorsement. Rigs change between tours and between takes, so each one is scoped to a documented era rather than presented as a career-long setup. Where only the sessions are documented, the record is listed without specific tracks.