Pearl Jam – Ten
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1991 album Ten.
Music from Ten
Artists on Ten
Gear Used On Ten
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Pearl Jam – Ten (1991). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Jeff Ament
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Bass Guitars used by Jeff Ament on Ten
Hamer Jeff Ament Signature 12-String Bass
Jeff is known for using this on various songs. It can be heard very famously on 'Jeremy' on the 'Ten' album. It is also noticeable on 'Why Go', also from Ten.
Jeff Ament Custom Warmoth/ESP Fretless
A Warmoth Jazz body, Bartolini pickups, Fender tuners and an ESP neck were all assembled for Jeff by Mike Lull to make the bass that was used on most of the songs on Ten. (Including Even Flow, Alive, Black and several others.)
Amplifiers used by Jeff Ament on Ten
SWR Goliath II 4x10" Bass Cabinet
At 0:29 You can see a stack of SWR cabs behind Jeff during this 1992 live performance of the song "Deep" of the Ten album.
Avg price: $1,200.00
In the video "Pearl Jam - 1991-08-23 Seattle, WA (Full Concert)" by pjvideoguy on YouTube, at 1:11 and throughout, a Mesa/Boogie Bass 400 head can be seen in the backline, confirming its use by bassist Jeff Ament during this performance.
Amplifiers used by Eddie Vedder on Ten
Fender 'Silverface' Super Reverb (1970-1977)
Avg price: $289.54
An excerpt from Pearl Jam's Touring Tech, George Webb in 1995 for Guitar World:
"Amp-wise, Eddie is using a vintage 4x10 Fender Super Reverb, but he may switch to a '72 100 watt Hiwatt. Eddie definitely has a Who/Pete Townshend fascination, hence the Telecaster/Hiwatt combination."
This was Eddie's main amp from 1992 until the Pearl Jam Summer tour in 1995. it's a 70s Fender Super Reverb, Silverface, with a Master Volume control.
I believe this was used in the studio for Ed's guitar parts on Vs., Vitalogy, and Merkin Ball, before he got his Hiwatt dr504 Custom 50 in 1995, which he used almost exclusively up until about 2005-6. (I see mention of a Hiwatt dr103 head, but I don't see any photos/videos showing him using one. All show him using a dr504.)
Mike McCready
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Guitars used by Mike McCready on Ten
Fender Custom Shop Mike McCready 1960 Stratocaster
Avg price: $26,500.00
Mike McCready discusses his collaboration with Fender Custom Shop, who remade his 1960 Stratocaster:
Two huge pivotal moments in my life were associated with Fender Stratocaster. And the cool thing about the Stratocaster is like I knew I could really rip on it. I knew it because it was such a good guitar. My first recordings with the Stratocaster were the Ten record and Temple of the Dog. I'm Mike McCready and I play in a band called Pearl Jam and this is my 1960 Fender Stratocaster that I bought many many years ago around 1992 and I've had it ever since. It's probably is my first favorite guitar. I was really interested when Fender offered to recreate this Stratocaster because it was a huge honor. ... Is this the custom shop one I have in my hand? Again, I literally just forgot that this is not the real one. So yes, this is my, the Mike McCready, 1960 Fender custom shop Stratocaster that I thought was the real thing. That's a good sign, right there. Vincent Van Trigt, who was the master builder did a fantastic job. It plays identical to how my original 1960 plays. All of this scratching and all this stuff, this was years of me strumming like that on the regular one and ripping the finish off by playing live. He did a great job of making it look exactly like my real one. Now these aren't original, even on my own but these look like the ones that aren't original on my own. Even this false serial number that someone else put on the guitar, which is under the real serial number, it's on this one too. He did that much of a thorough job, even down to the this how the chip came out, which I'll never forget. ... And Josefina Campos who wound the pickups to the specific quality of my original 1960. She did a fantastic job. She got the warmth of the pickups. She got the same sound of the out of phase, the same sound as the treble pickup. I don't know how she did it. There's an art to that that I don't understand but she did a phenomenal job and I can tell by hearing it. I know I haven't figured out everything that I can do with this guitar and I never will but I'd like to be able to expand what I've done over the last thousand shows, whatever, you know?
Guitars used by Stone Gossard on Ten
Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar
Avg price: $5,483.90
Stone can be seen playing a cherry sunburst les paul custom at 25:35, this was his main guitar in standard tuning throughout the early days of pearl jam and through the recording and touring of Ten.
