Gear Talk – Taylor Johnson
*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 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 typically plays a Tele, Les Paul or a Gretsch through an AC30 or Divided by 13.
Instead of talking about what each effect does, if you have questions, feel free to leave it in a comment…
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I live in Atlanta and I’m a full-time student at Atlanta Christian College studying Biblical Studies with a minor in Student Ministry. I like music a lot. I play guitar at different churches, shows and events as a contract musician and play with a few bands (see my Links page).
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Hey… Any ideas what pickups Taylor has on his Les Paul? I would assume the Gibson Burstbuckers, but not sure. Love the tone he gets from his stuff.
I’m not exactly sure, but I’m pretty sure it’s the Burstbuckers. I’ll try to see if I can find out…
I saw Taylor play March 28 with the RSB. He was playing a gretsch hollowbody. Do you know which gretsch it is?
if it’s the same one he had, i do believe it’s a chet atkins country gentlemen (G6122-1962 or G6122II)
I played with him recently and he had an old country gent jr.
the les paul is a 60s vos les paul, so whatever pickups are in that. the gretsch is actually a country classic jr. they are a rare breed, but youll see many a ‘christian rock’ guys playing them. taylor is one of the best guitar players in the christian guitar world, and definitely knows his gear. been friends with him for a while. i fi could label him, id say a tone freak. he got a jrt9/15 %13 a few months back, and runs it and his ac30 stereo. thats a huge part of his sound these days.
He’s got really good taste in pedal’s, My favorite board out of the three is the last one, He must not be playing stuff where he needs the Rat anymore. Its good to see someone modernizing and getting a DD-7 instead of a DD-5. lol
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