Allan Holdsworth

Also played in the 80s by Allan Holdsworth his signature Charvel model

Yamaha DG80 112 Digital Modeling Amp

Allan Holdsworth has 2 of these 80-Watt digital modeling amps with Celestion Vintage 30s.

One he uses for his clean sound. He takes a crunch preset with very little gain and a lot of master volume.

The other amp he uses for his lead tone. It's the Lead One preset with various degrees of gain. - See more at: http://www.jazzguitar.be/allan_holdsworth_guitar_gear.html#sthash.kOY6nJlK.dpuf

Allan used the Gibson SG Custom (Les Paul) quite extensively in the group Soft Machine back in the early 70s.

Guitarist Allan Holdsworth frequently uses the Hughes and Kettner Switchblade 100 Combo amplifier during live performances to achieve his signature overdriven and distorted tones, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Long & McQuade's website.

"These days, I typically use a Bill DeLap wood-bodied, headless guitar. I’m totally hooked on headless guitars. It’s hard for me to go back to a headstock and big body guitar. They don’t feel comfortable at all anymore. The DeLap is totally custom, but still all-Steinberger based. It has the Steinberger TransTrem and headpiece."

In those photos, which show Holdsworth's rig, Yamaha UD-Stomp is visible.

According to this article Allan uses 5 or 6 Magicstomp pedals live.

The guitar Allan used in the 80's his own signature model from Ibanez

Here Allan demostrates his Signature OD/Boost!

"The Radial Switchbone sounds great! It is the best ABY box that I have used and the transformer isolation makes it easy to combine any two amps without noise." - Holdsworth about Radial Switchbone.

What about the VG-8? You're not using that anymore?

"No. I sold it out of desperation. But I would have liked to have kept it 'cause it was a useful tool. I actually liked it a lot. I thought it was a really great thing."

“As someone who has been using volume pedals for many, many years and always searching for something better, here it is! The Dunlop Volume pedals are exquisite. They are extremely linear, sonically transparent, and tough as nuts. I love and use both versions! The expression version is great in the studio also, because it has a low impedance input perfect for after FX and I can insert it into the FX send and returns on my console, DI box, line amp, mic amp, etc. and it works beautifully. Done deal.”

Here Allan is seen using two Hughes and Kettner Zentera combo amps for live performance.

I have an ancient old Atari 1040 Ste.

And it still works?

No, mine broke. It took me forever to find another one. My friend Eddie searched the internet forever and ever and he found two. I have two now. One is an old STe and the other ones an S...there's one that has an extra letter on it that's got more memory. That's the one I needed. So I do have a new one. Well, a new old one you know, it's a thousand years old. It works good for many because I like the Steinberg software, it was good.

"That would've been the guitar that I played in the Tony Williams days. The weird thing about that...I used to have two SGs, a white one and a black one, which was really rare. One of those SGs I had painted and it didn't come out right, it came out pink. And I was like, 'Oh, I can't play a pink guitar.' So I had the guy paint it blue. I had a number of SGs but the last SG I owned was sold by the woman who tour managed Tony Williams Lifetime...while I was out in the country. He didn't get paid so he took my guitar and sold it, and I couldn't get it back. There was nothing I could do about it. It was sold and was just hanging up there in the shop. And I was like, 'Jeez, I gotta buy my own guitar.' That was a blue SG with two pickups."

Allan Holdsworth used ADA Pitchtraq prominently on the title track of "Metal Fatigue".

Here Allan talks with his relationship with Carvin and his featuring to create this new guitar.

According to the product website Allan Holdsworth uses this H&K equipment.

(Regarding the creation of the album Flat Tire)..

Holdsworth went back to his trusty SynthAxe, an expensive synthesizer controller he and many other guitarists swear by. He didn’t have his Oberheim analog synthesizers for those “fantastic string sounds,” just “a bunch of Yamaha TX7 and TX816 digital synth modules,”

In the video, made by the YouTube Channel of Carvin Guitars, Allan talks about this model he made in collaboration with Carvin!

According to the product website Allan Holdsworth uses these guitars too.

Allan Holdsworth occasionally played a custom-built Bill Delap Allen Holdsworth Double-Neck Headless Guitar, crafted for him in the late 1980s or early 1990s. He is seen performing with it in live stage settings, as depicted in the provided image.

In a YouTube video by magicaldog, Allan Holdsworth is seen playing his SynthAxe, expressing that it was something he had been waiting for all his life.

Allan's first guitar was a Hofner President as stated in this article.

"In 1972, I recorded with a trio called Tempest using an ES-335."

Allan Holdsworth is seen using the Steinberger ZT3 in videos featured on Steinberger's official website.

According to the product website Allan Holdsworth uses these guitars too.

Used in Sam Ash Guitar Clinic video

Allan Holdsworth used the Pearce G1 guitar amplifier head, as evidenced by an advertisement from the late 1980s or early 1990s.

According to this article Allan uses a Rocktron Intellifex.