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Guitars:
His main guitars are a Fender Stratocaster and a custom
First Act Delia , a pretty cool semi-acoustic.
Amps:
Nick uses a Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212 (a favorite amongst several new indie bands, such as The Strokes, Bloc Party, Babyshambles and others) but also a small Vox Pathfinder 15 for his drum-machine (a Zoom RT-123, discontinued. Easy to find on ebay. There’s a new model, the Zoom RT-223). Nick said of this setup: “Lots of Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs feature a keyboard sound from this, like “Rich” and “Maps.” I like running the RT-123 through either a distortion pedal or a cheap amp…you can program loops into it. I have that through a foot pedal so I can turn it on and off with my foot while we’re playing”
FX Pedals:
According to a 2003 article, he used to have two Boss delays: the vintage DM-3 and the new Boss DD6. Nowadays, however, it seems Nick Zinner uses even more delay pedals! According to eyewitnesses, he has two Boss DD-6 onstage, as well as the Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler, a Boss RC-20 Loop Station and 3 (!!!) Digitech Jamman pedals.
This is probably accurate…he seems to use lots of delay and loops to beef up the YYYs sound…on this photograph, you can see, on the left, a Digitech Jamman, and, on the right, the Line 6 DL4.
For Distortion, Nick used to have the classic Pro Co Turbo Rat (used by everyone from Radiohead to Sonic Youth) and now uses the Deucetone Rat. Apparently he also uses a Homebrew Power Screamer. He used to have a Octave Up Fuzz pedal as well, made for him by a Japanese company. We have no info whether he still uses it.
Other pedals he uses is an Electro Harmonix POG, and a DigiTech Hyper Phase.
There are reports that his ever-growing pedalboard now also includes a Line 6 MM4 (Modulation Modeler), a Digitech Whammy, an Electro Harmonix HOG and an EHX 2880 as well.
Finally, in a video for the “Down Boy” song, he can be seen playing a MicroKorg.
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