Nirvana – Live at Reading album cover

Nirvana – Live at Reading

Album 2009

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2009 album Live at Reading.

Music from Live at Reading

Gear Used On Live at Reading

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Nirvana – Live at Reading (2009). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Effects Pedals used by Kurt Cobain on Live at Reading

Distortion Effects Pedals

Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion

Avg price: $94.74

Replaced Kurt's DS-1 around 1992. Kurt still used the same settings like his DS-1 and kept it in Mode 1. Can be seen in the Unplugged show, Live at Reading, and a handful of other shows, usually before his Small Clone.

Guitars used by Kurt Cobain on Live at Reading

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Fender Jaguar

Avg price: $1,302.00

Cobain used a 1966 Jaguar during the Nevermind tour and In Utero tour. He got this guitar with a Dimarzio PAF and a Dimarzio Super Distortion already in the guitar. But later he would put a Tune o' matic Bridge in the guitar, this guitar can be seen throughout the video.

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar

Avg price: $622.79

At 4:42 of this video of Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live at Reading 1992) you can see the Fender sign clearly.

A white Strat also used at the Commodore Ballroom concert, located in Vancouver, Canada. It has 2 characteristics:

  • The bridge humbucker is diagonally like a single coil.
  • And in the lower part of the body of the guitar has a "K" on a shield, which represents K Records, a symbol that also has tattooed on the left arm.

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Fender Japan Standard Stratocaster Left Handed

Avg price: $492.50

kurt cobain used this Fender Japan ST-62 Standard Stratocaster Left Handed - Sunburst at live at reading 1992, and he added (Black) Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup in the bridge position

Other Gear used by Krist Novoselic on Live at Reading

Guitar Bridges and Tailpieces

Leo Quan Badass II Bass Bridge

Avg price: $86.34

Used on his Ibanez Black Eagle basses from both the Bleach and the In Utero tours