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What guitar does Mogwai play?

Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite has said he played a 1967 Fender Coronado and an early 1980s Telecaster through Fender Super and Twin Reverbs and an Orange, with Boss and Electro-Harmonix pedals. Dominic Aitchison has played a Travis Bean bass into an Ampeg SVT Classic,.

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What guitar does Stuart Braithwaite play?

He told Premier Guitar he mostly used a '67 Fender Coronado and his main early-'80s Telecaster with an added Seymour Duncan mini-humbucker and a kill switch on Rave Tapes.

What amps does Mogwai use?

Braithwaite has named silverface Fender Super Reverb and Twin Reverb amps and an Orange Crush CR120H. John Cummings played a 1970s Marshall Super Bass he bought as a teenager, and Barry Burns has run a Matamp stack.

What pedals does Stuart Braithwaite use?

His Rave Tapes list named a Boss DD-20, RC-20XL, RV-5, SL-20, RE-20 and TR-2, a Danelectro Fab Tone, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff and V256 Vocoder, a Pro Co Rat2, MXR Carbon Copy and Micro Flanger, and a Sonuus Wahoo.

What bass does Dominic Aitchison play?

Sound On Sound reported he played a Travis Bean bass through an Ampeg SVT Classic, also running a Mesa Boogie 400 Plus, with an Electro-Harmonix Bass Microsynth on The Hawk Is Howling.

What DAW does Mogwai use?

Band demos have been made in GarageBand, Ableton Live or Pro Tools, and As The Love Continues was recorded into Pro Tools with Audiomovers for remote sessions.

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Mogwai are the Glasgow post-rock band formed by Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison in 1995. This guide covers each member's guitars, amps, pedals and keyboards as named in Premier Guitar and Sound On Sound interviews.

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