The Black Keys – "Let's Rock"

In the video you can see Dan Auerbach using a white Ibanez Custom SG with three humbucker pickups, while his band "The Black Keys" perform "Set You Free". During 2023 and 2024, Auerbach uses white Custom SG mostly for "Gold on the Ceiling", as seen on this 2024 KROQ performance.

In an episode of "American Pickers" (Season 13, Episode 8), Dan Auerbach is seen checking out a Gretsch G6120TM Chet Atkins Signature Hollowbody guitar. In 2019 Music Radar interview, Auerbach mentions a Gretsch Chet Atkins guitar (that he calls "Rudy") being used while recording 2019 album, "Let's Rock".

Then I also played a Gretsch Chet Atkins a bunch, with the humbuckers in it. I’d never played Gretsch humbuckers and I’d never played Gretsches, so I didn’t realise that it’s the sound of that big, AC/DC-type rock ’n’ roll chord. It had never really dawned on me. So I got into that one on this record and I use that guitar all the time - it’s just a real player. That guitar’s name is Rudy. It’s a one-owner guitar. I bought it from the family of the original owner and he played the shit out of it, so it’s got a real soul to it.

Used on 2019 album "Let's Rock", according to 2019 Music Radar interview.

I used a couple of guitars, but one I used a ton was a Guild Starfire III, with the mini-humbuckers. There’s a really specific time period where they were really good. It’s like from ’63 to ’67. I got one of those and I had it set-up at Gruhn’s in Nashville and it is just a horse. It is a motherfucker. It’s so good.

In this article they say Auerbach uses two Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifiers for The Arcs. Auerbach also used a silverface Deluxe Reverb while recording Black Keys' 2019 album, "Let's Rock", according to 2019 Music Radar interview.

Then I used a Deluxe Reverb - a silverface Deluxe Reverb. I prefer the silverface for rock ’n’ roll-type stuff. Blackfaces are really nice and pretty and they’re really versatile, but I don’t need to be versatile. Not all of the time, anyway!