Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyze

Replaced the Ovation GP as Josh's primary guitar when he started touring for Lullabies to Paralyze in 2005 as new songs written in standard tuning entered the setlist and he started using Matons and MotorAves for C-tuning. Saw continued use through the Era Vulgaris/Self-Titled tour as well

At 12;46 you can see Josh using one during a video about the recording of 'Lullabies to Paralyze' as he is playing part of 'Everyone Knows You Are Insane'

"on [Lullabies to Paralze, we] used the [Neumann] M49 on a couple of tracks, the [Shure] SM57 on some others, tried the [BLUE] Ball, and used the Shure KSM44, which is really good."

"on [Lullabies to Paralze] we used different mics on different songs. I rented a Brauner VM1, and that worked really well on pristine vocals. It's a beautiful, very clear-sounding mic."

"on [Lullabies to Paralze, we] used the [Neumann] M49 on a couple of tracks, the [Shure] SM57 on some others, tried the [BLUE] Ball, and used the Shure KSM44, which is really good."

Used on Lullabies to Paralyze for guitars. Sound engineer Joe Baressi : "The two microphones I use most for recording electric guitars are the Shure SM57 and the Sennheiser MD421, often both, close up, placed at the edge of the speaker, where the speaker centre meets the cone, or, if I'm looking for a more bright sound, dead centre."

Used on Lullabies to Paralyze for guitars. Sound engineer Joe Baressi : "When I want more low end, I may have an AKG 414 on there, and when I'm after a little more personality, a Neumann 87, backed up a foot, or a ribbon mic — like the Royer 122, or an RCA BK5 or 77. "

Used on Lullabies to Paralyze for guitars. Sound engineer Joe Baressi : "When I want more low end, I may have an AKG 414 on there, and when I'm after a little more personality, a Neumann 87, backed up a foot, or a ribbon mic — like the Royer 122, or an RCA BK5 or 77."

Used on Lullabies to Paralyze by engineer Joe Baressi for Josh's vocals. "I tend to compress when I go to tape. The 1176 is my favourite on vocals, but sometimes the LA2A works really well. If you're looking for more dirt you can turn a tube compressor up a little more. I'm not opposed to dirtying the signal up and blending that in with the original. I'm not a transparent compressor guy. I may send one compressor into the other as well. That works well if you need a very up-front vocal. When I'm mixing I'll compress the vocal further, perhaps using an 1176 again."

Used on Lullabies to Paralyze for Josh's vocals. Sound engineer Joe Baressi : "I tend to compress when I go to tape. The 1176 is my favourite on vocals, but sometimes the LA2A works really well. If you're looking for more dirt you can turn a tube compressor up a little more. I'm not opposed to dirtying the signal up and blending that in with the original. I'm not a transparent compressor guy. I may send one compressor into the other as well. That works well if you need a very up-front vocal. When I'm mixing I'll compress the vocal further, perhaps using an 1176 again."

Used on Lullabies to Paralyze for Josh's vocals. Sound engineer Joe Baressi : "When I'm mixing I'll compress the vocal further, perhaps using an 1176 again or something that's a little cleaner and more accurate, like a Distressor or the SSL console compressor."

Used on Lullabies to Paralyze for guitars. Sound engineer Joe Baressi : "I'll split the guitar signal, using the PCP Instrument Distro or more often my Systematic Systems guitar splitter, which can split the signal to six amps."

Josh Homme used both a Peavey Standard, a Musician and various other PA's on Songs for the Deaf and Lullabies to Paralyze. The latter can be seen in this photo from this July 2005 Sound on Sound article, while the former is mentioned by Eric Valentine in this September 14, 2019 "Making Records with Eric Valentine" video at 30:45. The amp is shown in an October 29, 2001 photo at 31:38. Two can be seen in live in this BBC still and in this June 23, 2017 Instagram post.

So then, there's the main guitar and this was sort of an interesting moment in the guitar recording on the project because we had been using a bunch of crazy stuff, you know? Josh was primarily into using bass amps for his guitars and so we used these Ampeg V-4Bs that he brought in. That's what was used when we were tracking the band, tracking the basics with the band. And then we took this trip to Black Market Music and we got a bunch of just crazy, shitty old transistor Peavey amps. So they're like these Peavey Musician amps and stuff like that. I have some pictures that I can show you of the amps that illustrate that. [shows October 29, 2001 photo] So this is one of the miking setups, this was after... There was a moment when we had to leave Barefoot and go to another studio called The Site (...) So, these pictures are from that part of the session. This miking setup was probably used for the overdub guitar that you're gonna hear on this song ["No One Knows"]. But this right here, this is the V-4B. This is another Ampeg amp, this is a VT-40... and you can see it peekin' through, this is one o' these shitty Peavey transistor amps that we bought at Black Market. You can see it better here. Yeah, this is that Peavey. This was sort of our favorite. We bough two or three of these Peavey heads and this one sort of did the best.

It is also said that he used a Standard on Son's Of Kyuss and Wretch.

Troy Van Leeuwen used a modified red Yamaha AES1500 for songs in C on the Lullabies to Paralyze tour. Seen on the Catacombs Tour in 2025, he has added a Höfner H62/10-N tailpiece.

Here in the recording sessions (at SoundCity Studio) video of the "lullabies to paralyze" album, Troy appears using a Maton Guitar that seem to be a Maton MS2000 DLX, to record "Tangled up in Plaid". Check it out in: 13:47 of "QOTSA - The Way Finds You".

Can be seen playing an Epiphone Rivoli bass here, and likely used it on Lullabies to Paralyze and Era Vulgaris when Troy played bass.

“I used a 26" Paiste 602 which belonged to Mick Fleetwood. (...) I used that on most of the record, to be honest. [Lullabies to Paralyze]"

"On the record [Lullabies to Paralyze], on a couple songs, I used 17" to do some different things -- on ‘Medication’ I was using (...)17" Paiste Traditional crashes.”

“[On Lullabies to Paralyze] We used one of the oldest snares that I have, which is a maple 14" x 6 1/2" DW snare that I got from one of the first kits they gave me years ago, when I was in Sugartooth. It’s the only part of that kit that I still have -- I sold the rest of it to a friend of mine. I use wood hoops on it, so it gets a nice crack, with a really warm sound. We used that thing on every song."

In an Instagram post by Alain Johannes, he is seen using the Peavey Musician Series 400 Amplifier Head during the 2005 Lullabies to Paralyze Tour with Queens of the Stone Age.