Adam Clayton

Clayton can be seen in this photo playing an Ibanez Musician Bass.

In this source photograph, Adam Clayton is seen on a promotional photograph for the new 2014 Fall playing the sheerwood green metallic signature bass.

In this scan of an article from the January 2006 issue of Bass Player magazine, the "Signal Chain" section lists the Big Muff Pi among Adam's gear.

Adam Clayton can be seen using his precison bass in this video of bad live on the rattle and hum/joshua tree tour at 6:50. He has said that this bass is the first bass he has ever owned

In this photo, Clayton can be seen playing a Gibson RD Standard Bass.

“For this tour Adam [Clayton] has simplified his whole setup,” Eiriksson continues. “We have ditched the bass subs and only have an Ampeg B15 on stage. There are a couple extra DIs and another amp selection running under the stage, but they are only used when needed for different flavors on particular songs.” - See more at: http://www.mixonline.com/news/tours/all-access-u2-innocence-experience-tour-2015/424970#sthash.JZS6LYok.dpuf

According to DR's website, Clayton uses the DR NMR-45 bass strings, gauged from .45 to 105.

Producer Declan Gaffney stated the following about the recording of No Line On The Horizon:

"We wanted to keep the recording setup small, so we just had a few microphones, a Control 24, Pro Tools, and three drives, so we could move easily and quickly between different songs. Other than Pro Tools, the recording setups for most of the sessions were pretty similar. Edge's old Neve desk was pulled apart for on-location recording, and its 1091 and 1093 mic preamps were racked. Everything was going through these mic pres, or a small Neve sidecar, then through any required outboard, and monitoring was via two Mackie 24-channel desks."

Clayton can be seen playing an Epiphone Rivoli bass in this photo.

You can see it in the tray, Adam is using this during the innocence + experience tour.

Clayton can be seen in this photo playing a natural finish Lakland Darryl Jones Signature.

Adam used the Moog Taurus II on the Joshua Tree (Streets, Exit) and earlier tours (Bad). It appears he was the recipient of one of the 1000 limited edition remakes of the Moog Taurus III and will be using them on the upcoming Joshua Tree Tour in 2017.

The link has more notes but he used this bass on the Achtung Baby sessions and live on One on the U2 360 tour.

“We are incredibly excited to have Adam playing through our Tone Hammer ®500 head and SL 112 cabinets,” comments Dale Titus, Aguilar Amplification’s Sales & Marketing Manager.

“To have Adam now playing through our Tone Hammer ® 500 is further validation that even though it only weighs four pounds,” adds Dale Titus, “the Tone Hammer ® 500 provides a massive sonic experience.

Adam Clayton has been using the Boss ODB-3 Bass OverDrive pedal intermittently for years, as discussed in the U2interference forum thread titled "Adam's Bass Effect."

Used this on Elevation and Vertigo Tour.

Lovingly known as the "Banana Bass" Adam had this custom made for the Popmart Tour.

Adam Clayton can be seen in this picture playing a Gibson Thunderbird bass, specifically a 64s classic style bass.

In the "Happy Christmas" article on U2's official website, an Ampeg B15S bass combo amplifier is visible behind the Joshua Christmas tree, indicating its use by Adam Clayton.

According to this transcription of a February 1982 issue of U2 Magazine, "Adam uses two Ibanez Musician basses, one with an active pre-amp built in, the other standard, although he often seems to play the standard instrument throughout. This was fed direct into an Ampeg SVT400 watt 8x10 bass stack with no effects units or other gadgetry at all. This was both DI'ed and miked using a Sennheiser MD421."

Used on Songs of Experience, as stated by engineer Math Bishop.

"On Adam’s bass, we used a combination of a DI and an Electro-Voice RE20 microphone on the amp, which I also ran through the ISA 828."

In this pictures, you can see Adam Clayton playing regular Fender Jazz Bass.

This video from Framus & Warwick shows the new Custom Streamer CV for Adam Clayton.

This article from the Bass Player Magazine website details the specs of Adam's signature design collaboration with Warwick.

In this scan of an article from the January 2006 issue of Bass Player magazine, the "Signal Chain" section lists the DM4 Distortion Modeler among Adam's gear.

Adam is using 2 of these during the innocence + experience tour.

Adam Clayton has been using Fender basses for decades. In partnership with Fender, Adam has co-designed a signature bass that brings his custom specs to the bass-playing public. The Adam Clayton Precision Bass features a custom maple "C" shaped neck profile designed by Clayton for a smooth feel and instant playability. A solid alder body on the Adam Clayton PBass also gives this instrument impeccable tone for live performance, while a single Custom Shop 60's Single-Coil pickup is featured, delivering clean, low, fat tone when amplified.

This is used and seen in the music video for "The Fly" (1991)

This has been used by Adam Clayton during most, if not all live performances of U2's "40," like in Red Rocks. This particular performance is during the Vertigo tour.

Listed under Clayton on the official Lakland artist page.