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Avenged Sevenfold's guitarists have been seen using Schecter signature guitars, Zacky Vengeance through a Jet City 100HDM and Synyster Gates through a Schecter Hellwin head. Johnny Christ has been seen using his Schecter signature bass into Gallien-Krueger, Brooks Wackerman DW acrylic drums and M. Shadows an Audio-Technica AE6100 wireless.
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“I’m a big fan of both Bogner Uberschall and Mesa/ Boogie Dual Rectifiers, so I switch it up between those, depending on my mood.”
“I run from there into a Boss Compression Sustainer and a Line 6 Constrictor.”
“From there, everything goes into a GCX ground unit. That’s really it. I try to keep it simple.”
“I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups.”
“The first time I hit a set it was inspiring to hear what these puppies can do.”
His Schecter signature model, in several finishes and tunings. Premier Guitar's 2013 rig rundown shows his main guitar loaded with engraved Seymour Duncan JB humbuckers and strung with Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom .010-.052.
Premier Guitar's 2013 rig rundown shows a Jet City 100HDM head. In Guitar World in 2009 he said he switches between a Bogner Uberschall and a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, into a Boss Compression Sustainer and a Line 6 Constrictor.
His Schecter signature bass, with an ash body, bolt-on three-piece maple neck, ebony board and active EMG MMCS and EMG 81 pickups. Premier Guitar showed it running into a Gallien-Krueger 2001RB head and a GK Neo 8x10 cabinet.
On the Life Is But A Dream tour he walked Modern Drummer through his DW acrylic kit. In 2021 he announced he had joined the Istanbul Agop cymbal roster, with Mantra hi-hats, a Xist Brilliant crash and a Joey Waronker Signature ride.
Schecter signature guitars with a Sustainiac in the neck, through a Schecter Hellwin head in Premier Guitar's 2013 rundown. Guitar World reported in 2024 that his Custom-7 TR Headless signature is based on the seven-string he plays onstage.
Mix magazine's 2008 tour report lists an Audio-Technica AE6100 wireless as the main vocal mic, with Shure PSM700 in-ear monitors on stage and Shure Beta 58As for Synyster Gates' and Zacky Vengeance's backing vocals.
Avenged Sevenfold are the Huntington Beach heavy metal band behind City of Evil, Nightmare and Life Is But a Dream. This guide covers the band's documented rig: Zacky Vengeance's and Synyster Gates' guitars and amps, Johnny Christ's bass rig, Brooks Wackerman's drums and cymbals and M. Shadows' vocal mic.
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