Ben McLeod

"I used my Gibson Les Paul Traditional on just about every track. It isn’t an old guitar or anything fancy. I bought it off the wall at a Guitar Center in 2010, but I absolutely love it. It has a really beefy neck and I put a bone nut and a new set of saddles on it, so it stays in tune really well, and that’s the one for me."

"...then the signal goes into a Boss BD-2 Blues Driver that he uses for speaker-eating distortion."

"The Fulltone died, so I replaced it with a Death By Audio Fuzz War. I’ve been on a really deep Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall kick, and that’s the fuzz those bands use. It’s just so awesome. It cleans up so well. You can leave it on the entire time and roll back the volume knob on your guitar and get the cleanest, most beautiful sound. Most people wouldn’t expect that from it, but it’s the truth."

BM: “I play a Gibson Les Paul, traditional model. It’s a reissue. I like it because it’s got a really beefy neck and I put a bone nut on it and a new saddle and customised it a little bit. I put a DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup on it.

Ben claims to have played through and owned many handfuls of amps, but his pride and joy is still the first one he got in fourth grade—the Fender Twin Reverb. He got this particular model as a Christmas gift because his dad is a huge Grateful Dead fan and knew that Jerry Garcia played the same combo. He claims he didn’t get the volume know much past 4 before he was in high school.

"The next stomp is a Fulltone OCD that he only uses when he runs into venues that have decibel limitations."

"I was using Fuzz Faces, Big Muffs, and like.. whatever overdrive I thought was God’s gift to overdrive and then sold it three days later."

In a live performance video from May 5, 2017, Ben McLeod of All Them Witches plays a Knaggs Sheyenne guitar, which he describes as "the best sounding and feeling guitar" he has ever played, adding that it "looks so badass too."

In the video titled "All Them Witches at Abbey Road Studios" by HiwattOfficial, Ben McLeod mentions using the Hiwatt Custom 100 Amplifier Head during the recording sessions for the latest All Them Witches album.

"The last noisemaker is an Electro-Harmonix Freeze, which before this tour, has never left his bedroom because he generally just messes around with it during morning jams with coffee. ."

"The second guitar McLeod will carry onstage is his 1979 Gretsch “Beast” BST-1000. He bought it at a guitar store in his hometown of St. Augustine, Florida at Grandpa’s Music for $350. He prefers to bring this out on songs like “Call Me a Star” or “Talisman” where it gets tuned to D-A-C-G-A-E and he’ll mix between finger picking and using a slide. This guitar has had the exact same set of DR Pure Blues strings since the beginning of the U.S. tour in October 2015. Alterations to the Beast include a bone nut, a new bridge, the neck has been repaired several times from breaks or splits, and he’s even used Gorilla Glue on one of the tuners".

During the Rockpalast gig in 2016. Ben can be seen playing a Fender Telecaster during the song 'Talisman'

Search WDR Rockpalast on YouTube.

In a YouTube video titled "Stomp Under Foot Alabaster Fuzz," Ben McLeod showcases the Alabaster Fuzz pedal, known for its Russian-style fuzz and versatile clean boost.

"I added the electric guitar part as well as a 12-string acoustic part, and the super fuzzed-out riff that comes through feeding back at the end of the song is me again driving that Fulltone ’69 through a silverface Fender Champ, which turned out to be the perfect sound." (Referencing 'Open Passageways.'

"Our engineer, Mikey Allred, brought in a Gretsch Tennessee Rose hollowbody for the sessions, and that thing was amazing. I used that on “This Is Where It Falls Apart” and “Blood and Sand / Milk and Endless Waters,” and that thing was so beautiful!"

Visible on pedalboard in Instagram photo.

Visible on Ben's pedalboard, taken from their Instagram account.

En el minuto 00:55 Ben aclara el cabezal utilizado en el primer album Our Mother Electricity (2012)

McLeod’s small-but-versatile pedalboard begins at the Vox V847 Wah...

"I added the electric guitar part as well as a 12-string acoustic part, and the super fuzzed-out riff that comes through feeding back at the end of the song is me again driving that Fulltone ’69 through a silverface Fender Champ, which turned out to be the perfect sound."

"On the record I used a Deluxe Memory Man and live I use a Boss DD-5.”

In this page about the Alabaster pedal, the builder of these effects states that Ben used to have a Green Russian effect and want to use something more personalized, before creating the Alabaster.

En el minuto 13:59 indica el uso de vibrato para algunas grabaciones con el Walrus Julia

"...and then a Boss DD-5 Digital Delay, which he prefers because of the crystal-clear repeats."

"For tuning purposes he has a Boss TU-2 Tuner..."

Visible in this Instagram photo.

Visible in top right, in white housing clearly displaying the name.

En este tema se puede visualizar el uso de una Martin, en la descripcion del video Ben hace la aclaracion del modelo utilizado (con los inlays y pickguard tambien se puede decifrar creo)

En el minuto 03:10 aclara que el pedal es muy utilizado para hacer slide's

En el minuto 06:57 aclara el uso de un fuzz Tone Bender de Vox, tanto en las grabaciones de Lightning at the Door (2013) y Our Mother Electricity (2012)