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23 items · Last checked What guitar does Eric Gales play?
Eric Gales has been seen using Magneto Sonnet Raw Dawg signature guitars with Dunlop .010 strings, into his DV Mark Raw Dawg EG signature head and DV Gold 2x12 cabinets. His board carries a Dunlop CAE wah, DigiTech Whammy, his MXR Raw Dawg and E.W.S. Brute Drive, a Mojo Hand Colossus and a Tech 21 Boost D.L.A.
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Mojo Hand FX
Colossus Fuzz“heaviest”
Said in Eric Gales rig tour: Darth Vader sounds and a TC Electronic Ditto, June 2022
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Ditto LooperSaid in Eric Gales rig tour: Darth Vader sounds and a TC Electronic Ditto, June 2022
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Guitars
Magneto
Sonnet RawDawg III signature
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Magneto
Sonnet Raw Dawg II signature
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Sonnet Raw Dawg II signatureSeen in Rig Rundown: Eric Gales [2023], March 2023
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Magneto
Metro-Poles EG1 pickups
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Metro-Poles EG1 pickupsSeen in Rig Rundown: Eric Gales [2023], March 2023
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Lollar
Blackface S-style pickups
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Xotic Effects
XS-1
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Fishman
Fluence Single Width pickups
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Fishman
Fluence Single Width pickupsSeen in Rig Rundown: Eric Gales, March 2017
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Dunlop
Nickel wound strings .010 to .046
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Amps
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Two-Rock
Eric Gales signature 100-watt head
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Pure Sixty-Four
2x12 ported cabinets with Celestion Vintage 30sSeen in Rig Rundown: Eric Gales, March 2017
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Pedalboard
MXR
Eric Gales Raw Dawg overdrive
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Said in Eric Gales rig tour: Darth Vader sounds and a TC Electronic Ditto, June 2022
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E.W.S.
Eric Gales Brute Drive
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Eric Gales Brute DriveSeen in Rig Rundown: Eric Gales [2023], March 2023
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DigiTech
WhammySeen in Rig Rundown: Eric Gales [2023], March 2023
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Mojo Hand FX
Colossus Fuzz“heaviest”
Said in Eric Gales rig tour: Darth Vader sounds and a TC Electronic Ditto, June 2022
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MXR
Jimi Hendrix Octavio Fuzz
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“Darth Vader sound”
Said in Eric Gales rig tour: Darth Vader sounds and a TC Electronic Ditto, June 2022
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Tech 21
Boost D.L.A.
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Tech 21
Boost D.L.A.Said in Eric Gales rig tour: Darth Vader sounds and a TC Electronic Ditto, June 2022
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TC Electronic
Ditto LooperSaid in Eric Gales rig tour: Darth Vader sounds and a TC Electronic Ditto, June 2022
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Questions
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What guitar does Eric Gales play?
His Magneto Sonnet Raw Dawg signature guitars. Premier Guitar's 2023 Rig Rundown showed a Sonnet RawDawg III with Magneto Metro-Poles EG1 pickups and his longtime Sonnet Raw Dawg II with Lollar pickups, both strung with Dunlop .010 to .046 and played left-handed upside down.
What amp does Eric Gales use?
His DV Mark Raw Dawg EG 250-watt signature head, a one-channel design with a tube preamp, into two DV Mark DV Gold 212V cabinets. In 2017 he was running a 100-watt Two-Rock Eric Gales signature head into Pure Sixty-Four 2x12s.
What pedals does Eric Gales use?
His board has been seen with a Dunlop CAE wah, DigiTech Whammy, his E.W.S. Brute Drive and MXR Raw Dawg signature drives, a Mojo Hand FX Colossus fuzz, an MXR Hendrix Octavio, a Tech 21 Boost D.L.A. and a Boss RC-5 looper.
What is the MXR Raw Dawg?
Eric Gales' signature MXR overdrive. He has said it was modeled off a Tube Screamer but has a bit more mid boost and gain, and he pairs it with his E.W.S. Brute Drive.
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