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
3 rigs, filtered to Fuzz and drive, 2000s.
- Jack WhiteThe White Stripes · 2001 to 2007
A board chosen for constraint. Cheap guitar, one huge fuzz, and an octave-down pedal doing the job a bass player would otherwise do, which is how two people made records that sound like four.
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
4 pedals · 2 records · 4 tracks
- Matt BellamyMuse · 2001 onward
The Fuzz Factory is mounted inside the guitar body, which turns an unstable, barely controllable fuzz into a playable instrument: the knobs are under his hand while he is still holding a chord.
Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
4 pedals · 3 records · 7 tracks
- Josh HommeQueens of the Stone Age · 2000 onward
A midrange-forward board that ignores the usual advice to scoop the mids out of a heavy tone. Boosting a narrow band instead of cutting one is what gives those riffs their honk, and it is why they cut through on a small speaker.
Maestro Parametric Filter
4 pedals · 2 records · 5 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.