What guitar does Wes Hauch play?
Wes Hauch has been seen using Ibanez 7-strings, including an L.A. Custom Shop Iceman and a Prestige RG2027XL, loaded with his signature Seymour Duncan Jupiter Rails and D'Addario NYXL strings. On tour he ran a Kemper Profiler with his Mesa/Boogie and Friedman profiles into EVH 5150IIIS cabinets.
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Guitars
“I look at this like the coolest shape Gibson never thought of.”
“I had to get two!”
Pickups and hardware
Strings and picks
Amps
“a completely different amp”
Pedals
“With the Fortin 33, I believe there's about 20 dB of a clean boost, with an emphasis on the 2.5k region, that puts the Boogie right in check and it makes it sound giant”
Stage
About Wes Hauch's gear.
What guitar does Wes Hauch play?
Ibanez 7-strings: an L.A. Custom Shop Iceman in green, a shorter-scale Iceman with a Sustainiac neck pickup, a Prestige RG2027XL and RGD models. He has also been listed with a PRS Mark Tremonti Signature.
What pickups does Wes Hauch use?
His signature Seymour Duncan Jupiter Rails 7-string humbucker, developed over two years with dual stainless-steel blades and a ceramic magnet.
What amp does Wes Hauch use?
Live, a Kemper Profiler with his own profiles of a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Revision G and a Friedman JJ-100, into EVH 5150IIIS 4x12s. He has also used a modded Mesa/Boogie Triple Crown and a Revision F Dual Rectifier.
What strings does Wes Hauch use?
D'Addario NYXL1052 Light Top/Heavy Bottom sets with a heavier single for the low B, in G# standard tuning on his main Iceman.
What boost pedal does Wes Hauch use?
A Fortin Blade Whitechapel and a Fortin 33 Fredrik Thordendal Signature, which he has said put his Boogie in check.
Wes Hauch is the guitarist and founder of the death metal band Alluvial, formerly of The Faceless and Thy Art Is Murder. This guide covers his Ibanez 7-strings, signature Seymour Duncan Jupiter pickups, Kemper and Mesa/Boogie amps and his boosts.
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