Rolling Gear Used on Recordings Speculation Thread

Oh someone link to that one site that makes graphical representations of various guitarists' effects chains! Even though I suppose those are mostly of people's live setups, not representative of recordings necessarily.

you probably mean this place http://www.guitargeek.com/ but weirdly they have no jimmy page er page.
this might help a bit tho http://www.mikesguitarsite.co.uk/gear/led_zeppelin/

He's using an Octave effect, most likely on a Les Paul, but quite possibly on a Tele.

I found this through a Google search:

Jimmy Page used regular distortion on this song, as well as an obscure effect called a called a blue box, which is a fuzz/octave pedal. This fuzzes (or distorts) the guitar, then drops it down two whole octaves.

There you have it! MXR blue box.

haha

tony iommi in 1971: http://guitargeek.com/rigview/495/

tony iommi in 2001: http://guitargeek.com/rigview/476/

Jimmy did a lot of his leads on his Tele (except for "Kashmir" which I believe was done totally on a Danelectro).

The enduring image of Jimmy Page is of him with a low slung Gibson Les Paul or EDS-1275 Double Neck (see pics top / bottom right) and Marshall amps. But the first Zeppelin album, along with the solo from "Stairway To Heaven", was recorded with a 1958 Fender Telecaster that was a gift from his Yardbirds band mate Jeff Beck and a Supro amp.

At this time he was also using a "Black Beauty" Les Paul with 3 humbuckers and a Bigsby vibrato (which was stolen in 1970) but it wasn't til the recording of their second album (Led Zeppelin II) he moved to the Les Pauls and Marshalls killer combo.

GIBSON LES PAULS -
Jimmy mainly used two Les Pauls -

Number One
a sunburst finished '59 LP Standard. This has been modified with a shaved neck and the addition of push/pull pots to coil split the humbuckers.

Number Two
'58 LP Standard. Bought from Joe Walsh and very similar in appearance to #1 leading to confusion over which was which (This is the current information form Page's guitar tech and Gibson). It was modified as #1 but with the addition of two switches under the pickgaurd, one for series/parallel the other a phase switch.
This is the guitar that Roger Giffin copied when in at Gibson's custom shop that became Jimmy's Signature Les Paul series (pic middle right). On the now discontinued signature guitars the series/parallel and phase switches were moved to push/pull pots and having a compound radius fingerboard.

Page is also closely associated with the Gibson EDS-1275 Double Neck, which was really just a stage instrument not actually being used on the recording of "Stairway To Heaven" and Danelectro using a modified conglomerate of two '59DC models.

Acoustic duties were take care of by Jimmy's 1971 Martin D28.

Album by album list of guitars used is below.

AMPS
Marshall SLP-1959 100-watt amp which was modded with KT-88 tubes, which boosted its output.
He also used Voxs, Hiwatts, Fender Super reverbs and Orange MatAmps with the Theremin.

EFFECTS
Roger Mayer fuzz box
Sola Sound Tonebender
Vox Cry Baby Wah
Maestro Echoplex
MXR Phase 90
MXR Blue Box

MISC
Picks: Herco Flex 75
Strings: Electric - Ernie Ball Super Slinky, Acoustic - Ernie Ball Earthwoods
Violin bow
Theremin

In the '90s Jimmy started to use the self tuning TransPerformance system that can re-tune a guitar at the touch of a button [ click here ].

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Album by album gear
Led Zeppelin I
GUITARS: 1958 Telecaster, 10-string Fender 800 pedal steel, Gibson J200 acoustic
AMPS: Supro

Led Zeppelin II
GUITARS: 1959 Les Paul, Vox 12-string
AMPS: 100-watt Marshall, Vox solid-state

Led Zeppelin III
GUITARS: Harmony Sovereign acoustic, Martin acoustic, '59 Les Paul
AMP: 100-watt Marshall

Led Zeppelin IV
GUITARS: Fender electric 12-string, Les Paul, Telecaster
AMP: 100-watt Marshall, Supro

HOUSES OF THE HOLY
GUITARS: Les Paul, Fender 12-string electric, Stratocaster
AMP: 100-watt Marshall

PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
GUITARS: Les Paul, Danelectro, Stratocaster
AMPS: 100-watt Marshall

PRESENCE
GUITARS: Les Paul, Fender Stratocaster
AMPS: 100-watt Marshall

IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR
GUITARS: Les Paul, Stratocaster, Telecaster, Gibson EDS-1275
AMPS: 100-watt Marshall

Page is and is not the best example. He proved again and again it was all a matter of EQ rather than -what- you used, making small amps like the Supro sound as big as Marshalls and full stacks to sound as small as combos. Or a Tele to sound like a Les Pauls. And maybe you should have a Tonebender fuzz in there for live work.

If the original PODxt lives for anyone, it's Jimmy Page and Mark Knopfler. The two presets for early Zep and Dire Straits cover a great deal of classic rock sound. In my first band, we had an old Supro, and I would have never guessed Page was using one. But it sounded great and in retrospect was everything you needed, with a little cleverness, to make a sound like a wall of rock. Small amps, big amps, it's all the same at the home stereo speaker.

What kind of guitar is Mark Farner playing here (awesome tone!)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetmhNCxB18

A Messenger. Farner was into aluminum guitars, apparently. At one point he played a Veleno, another oddball, too. The Messenger, along with its built-in fuzztone, might explain the unique screechy tone of Terry Knight-era Funk.

http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?storyCode=13931

Thanks. That guitar is cool.