*UPDATE: Taylor’s gear tends to change a decent amount…I’ll post updates as much as often as I get info.

Quick Disclaimer: After telling some guys my idea for gear talk, we started discussing how unimportant gear is if you’re not practicing scales and getting better at guitar without all the awesome gear, then none of this matters. Great tone is a big part of becoming a better player, but none of that matters if you can’t play a G chord.

Anyone who has heard or seen Phil Wickham, Brandon Heath, Shane & Shane, Robbie Seay Band and many other bands (including David Crowder Band) has seen Taylor Johnson play. Here is Taylor’s old board, newer board (Crowder and Shane & Shane tour spring 08) and I’ll tell you what he’s playing through now.

Here are the pedals on the first board:

• Volume Pedal
• Budda Budwah
• Boss TU-2 Tuner
• Keeley Time Machine Boost
• Fulltone Fulldrive 2
• Boss DD-5 (with Tap)
• Line 6 MM-4
• Line 6 DL-4
• Electro Harmonix POG

Pedals on the second board:

• Ernie Ball Jr. Volume Pedal (with Tuner out to TU-2)
• Fulltone Fulldrive 2 (Ferrari Yellow Special Edition)
• Way Huge Green Rhino
• Xotic Effects RC Booster
• Pro-Co RAT
• Digitech WH-1 Whammy (with Keeley true bypass switch)
• Boss DD-20 Giga Delay
• Line 6 MM-4
• Line 6 DL-4
• Boss RV-5 Reverb

Taylor’s third board:

• Fulltone Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah
• Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr (under the wah pedal in the pic)
• Fulldrive 2 (Mosfet)
• RC Booster
• Boss DD-7 Delay
• Line 6 MM-4
• Line 6 DL-4
• Zvex Fuzz Factory (Which he told me he replaced a few months later with the Boss Reverb)
• Electro Harmonix Micro POG

Taylor’s fourth board (Phil Wickham tour) (picture from this guy here)

• Fulltone Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah
• Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr
• Barber Tone Press Compressor
• Fulldrive 2 (Mosfet)
• Keeley RAT
• RC Booster
• Digitech Whammy IV (with Little Lehle as true bypass looper)
• Boss DD20 Giga Delay (with the little black external tap)
• Line 6 MM-4
• Line 6 DL-4
• Boss RV-5 Reverb

Taylor’s fifth board (still with Wickham)

• Digitech Whammy IV (off board)
• Analogman King of Tone
• Keeley RAT
• RC Booster
• Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr
• Keeley Boss TR-2
• EHX Micro POG
• Boss DD-5
• Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
• Boss RV-5
• Line 6 Echo Pro (in rack – controlled by Midi Mouse and Line 6 Expression Pedal)

New board with a Looper (picture from Cody Perrin):

• Ernie Ball Volume Jr (Tuner out and then into the true-bypass looper made by Loopmaster)
• Diamond Compressor (which he apparently leaves on all the time)
• Zvex Box of Rock
• Analogman King of Tone
• RC Booster
• Micro POG
• DD-20
• JHS modded MM4
• JHS modded DL4
• RV-5 (not in the looper)

This update is again from Cody and is Taylor’s board with his new band, Dallas.

• Ernieball VP with Tuner out
• Full Drive 2
• Zvex Box of Rock
• RC Booster
• Micro POG
• Boss DD20 (with external Tap)
• Boss Vibrato
• Diamond Tremolo
• Strymon El Capistan
• RV-5

Taylor typically plays a Tele, Les Paul or a Gretsch Country Gentleman Jr. through an AC30, Matchless or Divided by 13. He told me in September 2011 he was currently playing a Matchless SC-30.

Instead of talking about what each effect does, if you have questions, feel free to leave it in a comment…