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Phoebe Bridgers has said she plays a Danelectro '56 Baritone, and in the studio a Gibson J-45 that once belonged to Glen Campbell. She has named a Catalinbread Echorec, an Electro-Harmonix MEL9 and a Klon Centaur among her pedals, and she has been seen with a B.C. Rich Warlock and a Waterloo WL-14.
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“Tony Berg was the first one who put me on to baritones because I was tuning the bottom string of my guitars down to C open”
“Collings makes them and I feel like Collings are my favorite new guitars, by far.”
“In the studio I play this J-45 that used to be Glen Campbell's.”
“I used to play this Epiphone Frontier from like 1968, with the lassoes on it, but it snapped, like in-half, on tour.”
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“Tony Berg was the first one who put me on to baritones because I was tuning the bottom string of my guitars down to C open”
“Collings makes them and I feel like Collings are my favorite new guitars, by far.”
“In the studio I play this J-45 that used to be Glen Campbell's.”
“I used to play this Epiphone Frontier from like 1968, with the lassoes on it, but it snapped, like in-half, on tour.”
“I use my Echorec [echo] indiscriminately and I think it gets on people’s nerves.”
“I have one of those Mellotron pedals that’s supposed to sound like a choir and an orchestra”
“And then a bunch of different distortion pedals, I used the [Klon] Centaur quite a bit.”
“footage from an Arte TRACKS interview shows a Fulltone OCD and a TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2 reverb on her board.”
“I’ve been recording through the Izotope Spire. It’s so sick.”
“recently I’ve been using this AKG C414 B-ULS”
“Mitski makes very very weird choices, or choices that wouldn’t be second nature to a lot of people, but so confidently.”
“My favorite album of the 2010s was: Conor Oberst’s Ruminations, but I never want to listen to it again.”
“Even though it was posthumously released, I just love that record.”
“I’ve read everything he’s ever published, but this one is still my favorite.”
“The kind of book you finish and walk around in a weird fog for a couple days.”
“Still, I love this book.”
“I can’t believe I made it this far without it.”
“Not a deep cut, I know, but this book deeply affected me last year.”
She told Guitar World a Danelectro '56 Baritone is perfect for her, and that in the studio she plays a Gibson J-45 that used to be Glen Campbell's. She has been seen with a B.C. Rich Bronze Series Warlock and a Waterloo WL-14, a birthday gift from Conor Oberst.
She has said she runs a Catalinbread Echorec indiscriminately, and has named an Electro-Harmonix MEL9 and a Klon Centaur. Mixdown reports a Fulltone OCD and a TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2 on her board.
She told Guitar World in 2020 that she records through an iZotope Spire Studio, with an AKG C414 B-ULS plugged into it.
She named Conor Oberst's Ruminations her favorite album of the 2010s, picked Mitski's Be the Cowboy as her album of 2018, and has called Elliott Smith's New Moon a record she loves. Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning shaped Graceland Too.
Her One Grand Books list includes David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed in Flames, George Saunders' Tenth of December, Michelle Tea's Modern Tarot and Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score.
Phoebe Bridgers is the Los Angeles songwriter behind Stranger in the Alps and Punisher, and one third of boygenius. This guide covers the guitars, pedals and home recording gear from her Guitar World interviews and Mixdown's rundown, plus the records and books she has named.
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