Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage album cover

Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage

Album 2016

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2016 album The Stage.

Music from The Stage

Gear Used On The Stage

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage (2016). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Amplifiers used by Synyster Gates on The Stage

Guitar Amplifier Heads

Mesa/Boogie JP-2C John Petrucci Signature 60/100-Watt Limited Edition Tube Head

Avg price: $3,451.33

It can be seen 20 seconds into the video next to the marshall JVM and on top of the Jet City amp, the amplifier is cetainly the Mesa Boogie JP-2C but in black not as it is shown on equipboard in leather colour.

Guitar Amplifier Heads

Wizard Vintage Modern 100W

the amplifier can be seen but in the white colour variration 20 seconds into the video.

Guitars used by Synyster Gates on The Stage

Acoustic-Electric Guitars

Godin ACS-SA Slim Nylon String Acoustic-Electric

Avg price: $1,945.59

On the stage world tour Syn can be seen using this guitar in the end parts of The Stage.

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Schecter Synyster Gates Custom-S

Avg price: $1,493.56

Synyster Gates started using this guitar when "The Stage" was released. He is using this as his primary guitar instead of his Black w/ Silver Pinstripes.

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Schecter Synyster Gates “Paradigm” Guitar

We do not know a lot about this guitar, other than the fact of Syn using this to record the song Paradigm, therefore this guitar earning the nickname “paradigm guitar”. You can a better shot of the guitar here [https://youtu.be/xBmuBQB5fs4] at 1:19

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Nash T63

Avg price: $2,149.00

At 9:45, Syn tells that he used this guitar for cleans for “The Stage”.

Guitars used by M. Shadows on The Stage

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Schecter Synyster Gates Custom-S

Avg price: $1,475.99

In this video, Shads is playing Synyster Gates’ Guitar. He is playing a riff from the song “Sunny Disposition” from their album The Stage. It is best seen at 1:05.

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Forest Young Les Paul Guitar (copy)

In 2016, during production of The Stage, Sanders encountered Forest Young, a guitar maker who had studied with Tim Meir and Matt Bradford and a graduate of MI GCA, M Shadows purchased the guitar due to its playability and tonal qualities. It was used during the writing of The Stage and continues in use. The guitar was built in a backyard over weekends Forest was allowed to leave the midnight mission on skid row he was left living in after a fire destroyed his apartment and all of his belongings except 1 guitar which is not publicly shown. While attending MI Forest says he had to hide his tools so he could continue going to class because they were considered contraband. the article says:

In fact, Shadows says, he wound up writing much of Avenged Sevenfold’s latest album, the just-released The Stage, using Young’s guitar. “It has a great, nice, warm tone that I found pretty comforting, I guess, when I was writing.”

Guitars used by Zacky Vengeance on The Stage

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Schecter ZV 6661

In this photo, Zacky Vengeance is seen using this guitar. It is not in production and it has been used by Zacky during concerts in "The Stage" era