Ty Segall – Manipulator album cover

Ty Segall – Manipulator

Album 2014

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2014 album Manipulator.

Music from Manipulator

Gear Used On Manipulator

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Ty Segall – Manipulator (2014). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Guitars used by Ty Segall on Manipulator

Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars

Gibson ES-335

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Segall wrote and recorded much of Manipulator using a 1977 Gibson ES-335, a guitar he bought specifically for the project. "I'm kind of superstitious," he says, "In that I like to get a new guitar to write a new record. If there is a specific sound to it that you're not used to, it definitely affects your brain and your creativity, and makes you have a more open mind when writing new songs. This guitar has a coil-tap switch on it, which means you can switch the humbuckers to single coils, so there's like four different sounds you can get out of it."