How To Sound Like Keith Richards

Keith Richards of Rolling Stones
Gain - 4.5
Treble - 4.5
Mid - 6.5
Bass - 5.5
Reverb - 1.5

Guitars

- Fender '52 Telecaster - Butterscotch Blonde (this is like Keith's main axe)

 

Notes: Micawber is the name of Keith's butterscotch Fender Telecaster. It's an early 50's (probably a '52) butterscotch blonde color model with a black pickguard & a stock 3 way switch. Removed 6th string, open G (G,D,G,B,D) tuning. Gauges .011,.015,.018,.030,.042. It has replacement tuners and brass bridge and nut is altered for 5 strings. Gibson PAF humbucker in neck position, original Tele pickup in bridge. Used on tracks including "Before They Make Me Run", "Brown Sugar", "Mixed Emotions", and "Honky Tonk Women".

- Natural finish 50's Fender Telecaster

 

Notes: Keith's second Tele is also from the 1950's. It has a black pickguard, five strings, natural finish. Similar specs/mods to Micawber. Shubb Capo at 4th fret. Tuned in B: B, F#,B, D#,F#. Used live for Tumbling Dice, Happy, Jumping jack Flash.

- Fender telelcaster sunburst
 
Notes: This guitar is also a 5 string. Sunburst color, with a maple neck, & low frets. PAF's cover is removed.  Capoed at first fret. Used live for You Can't Always Get What You Want.


- Music Man Silhouette guitar
 
Notes: Keith Richard's uses the Music Man guitars for standard tuning songs and has one in black and one in white one. Both are non-tremolo with through-body stringing, the white one has Schaller pickups, the black one DiMarzios, both in humbucker/single coil arrangement. Used in past live on songs like Bitch, Sad Sad Sad, Sympathy, Satisfaction, and more.

- Fender Stratocaster
 
Notes: Keith's main Strat is a '58 known as the Mary Kay. Previously owned by Ron Wood. It has an all maple neck & fingerboard with a one piece ash body, see through blond finish & all gold hardware. Stock pickups, 5-way selector.

- Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar

 

- Gibson ES-355 Guitar

 

- Gibson Les Paul Custom (he used these a lot in the 60's and 70's)
 

- Gibson Les Paul TV

 

- Gibson acoustic guitars

 

- Gibson Les Paul Standard

 

- Ampeg Dan Armstrong
 

- Tom Anderson Trans Black, Cobra

- 1949 Martin D-18 and 1954 Martin D-18

 

Amplifiers

- Fender Twin amplifier

 

Notes: This amp is a 1957 model originally tweed, but recovered in early 60's style brown Tolex. It has 4 6L6 tubes.

- Marshall head

 

- Fender Bassman 4x10

 

- Mesa Boogie 4x 12" cabinets

- Mesa Boogie Mark I amp (on album Some Girls)

-Fun fact: Keith Richards almost always plays through two amps at once.

Strings and Effects
- Ernie Ball regular Slinkys .010 gauge

 

- Zinky Master Blaster clean boost pedal
- Ibanez UE-400 multi-effects
- Fulltone Tube Tape Echo

 

- MXR  Phase 100
 

- MXR Phase 90 "Script" version

- MXR Analog Delay

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Amp Settings

Bass: 10
Middle: 6.5
Treble: 10
Gain: 1.5

or

Gain-2-3
Treble- 7-8
Mids- 9-10
Bass- 5-6
Reverb- 60-70%

Guitars
- Black Fender Stratocaster with black pickguard and white pickup covers and knobs, currently with a 1957 vintage re-issue maple neck. Check out the Fender Custom David Gilmour Signature Strat below.

 

- Red '57 Fender Stratocaster reissue with a set of EMG active pickups

 

EMG EMG-DG20 David Gilmour Pre-Wired Pickguard and Pickup Set:

 

- Cream coloured Fender Stratocaster '57 reissue

 

- Fender Stratocaster '57 Lake Placid Blue

 

- Double-neck Fender Stratocaster
- Blonde Fender Telecaster, sunburst tele, brown, blonde ash, and others

 

- Fender Esquire

 

- Fender VI Baritone guitar
- Fender Precision bass guitar

 

- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (P-90 pickups, Bigsby vibrato bridge)

 

- Gibson EH150 Lap Steel guitar
- Gibson "Chet Atkins" classical guitar
- Gretsch Duo-Jet

 

- Gibson, Ovation, Takamine, Taylor and Martin Acoustics

 
Martin D-28 (reportedly David Gilmour's favorite acoustic guitar)
 

Amplifiers
- Hiwatt (main) David Gilmour DR-103 and DR-504 heads into WEM 4x12 cabinets loaded w/ Fane Crescendo speakers

   

- Fender ‘56 Tweed Twin amp (used for smaller concerts)

 

- Mesa Boogie Mark II C+
- Alembic F2-B bass preamp
- Custom-built 'Doppola' rotating speakers (driven by the Hiwatt heads)
- Gallien/Krueger 250ML combo amp
- Marshall Cabinets (Division Bell)

 

Effect pedals
- Electro-Harmonix / Sovtek Big Muff

 

- Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress

 

- MXR Dyna-Comp (pre-Dunlop 'Script' logo)

 

- MXR Phase 90 (Used with Dynacomp for the famous "four note" Syd riff on Shine On Pts. I-V)

 

- Colorsound Power Boost
- Demeter Compulator
- Chandler Tube Driver
- BK Butler Tube Driver
- Boss CS-2 Compression Sustainer

 

- Boss GE-7 EQ Pedal

 

- Boss MZ-2 Digital Metalizer
- Pro Co RAT Distortion

 

- Heil Talk box

 

- Arbiter Fuzz Face

 

- Ibanez CP9 Compression Sustainer
- Uni-Vox Univibe

 

- Vox Wah-Wah pedal

 

- Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-wah pedal

 

- Binson Echorec II
- Binson Echorec PE
- Electro-Harmonix Small Stone

 

- Digitech IPS 33B (Used for Whammy effects)

 

- Ibanez Tube Screamer

 

- Ernie Ball Volume Pedal

 

- Pete Cornish all tube Pedal Boards and Custom effects
- Pete Cornish Soft Sustain
- Pete Cornish P-1
- Pete Cornish P-2
- Pete Cornish G-2
- Pete Cornish SS-3
- Pete Cornish ST-2
- Pete Cornish Line Driver
- Pete Cornish Linear Boost
- Pete Cornish Tape Echo Simulator (T.E.S)

Notes: On the Pete Cornish website there is a cool page that shows David Gilmour's pedalboard being custom built
- Boss CE-2 Chorus

 

- The EBow
 

Miscellaneous
- EMS Hi-Fli Prototype
- EMS Synthi-AKS
- EMS VCS3
- GHS David Gilmour Signature guitar strings

 

- Herco Flex 75 plectrums (picks)
- D'Andrea 354 HV SHL CX (Heavy .96mm, Tortoise Shell, Celluloid) Picks

 

- Cross-stitched leather guitar strap used by Jimi Hendrix and bought for David by Polly Samson as a 60th birthday present
- Evidence Audio Cables

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