Blake Mills

Blake Mills mentions on Twitter that his guitar setup includes the Creepy Fingers Harakiri Fuzz, which is part of his signal chain leading to Amp 2.

Blake Mills says in an interview for Guitar Player, that he uses an Austen Hooks - modified Bell & Howell film projector amplifier. He has a couple, but he is commonly seen with just one live

In an interview with the Fretboard Journal magazine, starting around the 33 minute mark, Mills says that Mike Cornwall, an LA-based guitar repairman and tech, built Mill's Coodercaster.

Cornwall was Mills' guitar tech when Mills was playing with Lucinda Williams, and the two built the guitar which Blake says is "obviously heavily inspired by the Coodercaster, (but) the neck pickup is different. The neck pickup was something that was in a guitar that Val McCallum had lent to me."

Mills describes the pickup being kind of mysterious; it took a lot of research to find where it came from. Mills goes on to say in the interview that the pickup "was on a single model of hollow body Guyatone guitars. The guitars themselves are not great instruments usually, so I don't have a lot of guilt about pulling the pickups out of them." Blake does not reveal the exact model Guyatone... Aside from the neck pickup, Mills said the guitar was "made from parts Mike found while we were on the road." The guitar has a telecaster neck, and the bridge pickup is "from a Valco" lapsteel inside the housing of a Lollar copy.

"I spent an hour and a half just playing it...I said 'what is the deal with this guitar'...it had this amazing sort of conversation quality...It's one of those guitars that talks back to you when you're playing it," says Blake Mills, about his Barney Kessel Custom, at around 30 minutes into this video.

In an interview with PremierGuitar Blake talks about the telecaster you can see in the Guitar Moves video. This is what he says: "I’m a massive Telecaster fan because it’s the most straightforward and versatile guitar I’ve ever known. The ’52 blackguard Tele that I’ve been borrowing from Jackson Browne for a few years now has an interesting history. It was on a ton of his early records, and Waddy Wachtel and David Lindley and all these guys have played it." link to article here: http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21461-blake-mills-emotional-rescue?page=2

Union Tube & Transistor posted picture on their Facebook of Blake Mills' pedalboard for Perfume Genius' performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

In this videoBlake Mills sits down for a One On One Session at City Winery New York on July 31st, 2015. He plays a Harmony Stratotone H44 guitar with a copper finish, it's probably from the 50s.

According to this picture Blake Mills sports two Radial Tonebones on his pedalboard. Blake Mills also tweeted: "Radial tone bone great for polarity and ground flip"

Blake can be seen playing his Gibson ES-330 in this video at the Fretboard Summit with Bill Frisell. The guitar can also be seen in pictures in his Instagram account such as this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/TkGNh2AQLn/?taken-by=breakmirrors

This article states that Blake Mills played a Goya Rangemaster on his song "Just Out of View."

In this picture, Blake says the guitar is made by Bill Asher. He tends to use it quite a lot nowadays (along with his other mike cornwall one)

According to this picture the Maxon AD-999 can be found on Blake Mills' pedalboard.

Blake is seen talking about the amp he used while playing with Cass McCombs around the :25 mark of this video.

"He's got a silverface Princeton Reverb that somebody has deconstructed and put into a head and cabinet configuration."

In this video you can see Blake Mills playing the Dano.

In the video "Blake Mills Performs 'If I'm Unworthy'" by Fender, Blake Mills is shown using the Fender 'wide panel tweed' Deluxe Amp 5D3.

'For onstage vocals, Mills uses the M81 dynamic. “It is so sturdy, has minimal feedback and it’s easy to hear your own pitch. You can crank that with a wedge and it’s more directional, and I’m just learning how to work best with that mic.”'

The amp can be seen behin Blake Mills. It is plugged in, and mic'd up

We see blake using/talking about his custom Mike Cornwall coodercaster in this video. It has a tele neck, a valco lapsteel pickup, and a guyatone gold foil humbucker in the neck with a custom 3-way harness.

Here we see Blake using the GS-500 for the whole vid.

At 0:51 you can see Blake Mills using a Fender Deluxe Reverb blackface.

'For my guitar, I like the M81-SH in front of the amp, with an M82 on the back of the amp.”'

'“I’ve put it in front of acoustic guitars a lot and I’ve been really happy. It’s also a great mic for my voice, which is a little irregular and inconsistent, and I like it as a drum overhead, as well.”'

Used to record Mills' guitar on Benmont Tench's You Should Be So Lucky, as seen in this Twitter post by Tench.

'For my guitar, I like the M81-SH in front of the amp, with an M82 on the back of the amp.”'

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/inside-track-alabama-shakes-sound-color In this article Blake Mills' engineer Shawn Everett talks about using the Korg CR4 to treat sounds when the duo were producing the Grammy Award winning album Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes:

“a lot of sonic experimentation happened out of the box.[...] We also had these old weird 1990s four–track cassette recorders, one of them being a Korg CR4, that has weird effects on it and speakers. I’d run sounds out of Pro Tools through the CR4, record them to its cassette tape, and then apply these weird 1990s chorus and other effects, and play the sound back via its speakers, and I’d put a mic on them. Or I’d apply a weird Portastudio cassette EQ and distort things in that."

In the photo you can see Blake using the Boss GP-10 to duet with Chris Weisman. He also talks about how useful it is towards the begninning of this podcast interview: https://www.fretboardjournal.com/podcasts/podcast-416-blake-mills-and-chris-weisman/

In this video of Blake playing live with Sam Gendel, we can get a pretty good view of Blake's pedalboard. Even though he tapes over the names of the pedals, one can infer by color that at least there is a Boss VB-2 Vibrato and a PS-5 Super Shifter. The Maxon AD-999 is also present, along with a mysterious JHS 3 series pedal.

He plays a modified Telecaster with a gold foil pick up in the neck position and a Duncan Price made fretless sustainer guitar.

In this video of Blake playing live with Sam Gendel, we can get a pretty good view of Blake's pedalboard. Even though he tapes over the names of the pedals, one can infer by color that at least there is a Boss VB-2 Vibrato and a PS-5 Super Shifter. The Maxon AD-999 is also present, along with a mysterious JHS 3 series pedal.

He plays a modified Telecaster with a gold foil pick up in the neck position and a Duncan Price made fretless sustainer guitar.

In this video of Blake Mills performing with Sam Gendel, there's a good view of his pedalboard. He tapes over the names of some pedals, but one can surmise by the enclosures and colors that he has a Boss SG-1 Slow Gear (two-knob black Boss enclosure), a Boss VB-2 (Cerulean blue Boss enclosure), a Boss PS-5 Super Shifter (green-ish blue Boss enclosure), a EHX Mel9 (four black knobs, one white knob white enclosure), a Maxon AD-999 and a Digitech X-Series Bass Synth Wah (dark teal Digitech X-series enclosure).

In this video of Blake Mills performing with Sam Gendel, there's a good view of his pedalboard. He tapes over the names of some pedals, but one can surmise by the enclosures and colors that he has a Boss SG-1 Slow Gear (two-knob black Boss enclosure), a Boss VB-2 (Cerulean blue Boss enclosure), a Boss PS-5 Super Shifter (green-ish blue Boss enclosure), a EHX Mel9 (four black knobs, one white knob white enclosure), a Maxon AD-999 and a Digitech X-Series Bass Synth Wah (dark teal Digitech X-series enclosure).