Claudio Sanchez

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Claudio's Gibson E2 Explorer can be see at :24s. Claudio's guitar tech Kevin says "this is probably his main guitar it's a '79, 1980 Gibson E2 Explorer. It's really neat the cool part about it is it's sandwich board, sort of sandwich body it's walnut and maple I think? Don't really see many people using these".

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar", Claudio's other main explorer can be seen at 3:30. In this accompanying article, *Premier writes "His second, most-used Explorer is a 2005 '76 Reissue with a calibrated set of Bare Knuckle Nailbomb pickups..."

"I have Bogner Uberschall, Orange OR50H, and Fender Twin Reverb amps that I switch between."

Claudio uses this Explorer Baritone for Sentry The Defiant as well as Holly Wood the Cracked. It is customized, white inner smoke paint, black around the edges. (Completely stock aside from paint). Tuned B to B

This is Claudio's' custom Minarik Medusa. The Medusa was custom made with special decals in the neck, and the famous Keywork logo can be seen in the headstock of the guitar. from footage of tours and in videos on Minariks' YouTube Chanel we can see Claudio using on the No World for tomorrow tour. In the second interview with Minarik he said that " I am a pretty shy individual and I think she takes the attention off of me."-1:00 into the video

In a live performance of "Gravity's Union" in Atlantic City, Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria can be seen playing an ESP STEF B-8, as featured in a video by Tom Whaley.

"I have Bogner Uberschall, Orange OR50H, and Fender Twin Reverb amps that I switch between."

At 7:28 of this video, claudio can be seen using an Antigua finish telecaster deluxe. He used This guitar along with afew others during the recording of Coheed's album Color Before the Sun

Then I channel switch between that and a Vox AC30 and sometimes a Fender Twin Reverb. Obviously with the Fender Twin and the AC30 I’m going for a more mild tone; the AC30 usually covers, especially if I’m just going for a mild distortion, but if I’m running the Twin Reverb

At 2:11, in a Premier Guitar interview, Claudio uses a Telecaster for "The Afterman"

"I have lots of pedals, all controlled by a Voodoo Lab switching system. A few of my favorites are an old MXR M-118 Analog Delay that sounds beautiful, The Great Destroyer fuzz by Dwarfcraft which sounds like you might expect given its name…"

He talks about this guitar in Guitar World interview.

"I also played a ’77 Fender Tele Deluxe that belonged to [producer] Jay Joyce. I ended up using that on a lot of the songs. I liked it so much that I found one at this place called Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville and I bought it."

So, in fact, he played 2 1977 Fender Telecaster Deluxes.

"I have lots of pedals, all controlled by a Voodoo Lab switching system. A few of my favorites are an old MXR M-118 Analog Delay that sounds beautiful, The Great Destroyer fuzz by Dwarfcraft which sounds like you might expect given its name, and a Death By Audio Interstellar Overdriver Supreme, which I used on “Pearl of the Stars” on the new album."

It this video, Claudio has been spotted using a Olympic White Fender Stratocaster.

From 6:35 in the video, Claudio's tech describes the patch and modeling capabilities of the Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQh4R6E1-EI

@ 3:44 he says these are Brassknuckle but he meant to say BareKnuckle pickups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1uj5N-5oic

@ 0:47 his Guitar Tech says these Pickups are Bare Knuckle Nailbomb Humbucker Pickup

In this post claudio can be seen using a gibson sg live with coheed

I’ll usually put an OCD pedal on it, which I believe is done by Fulltone. You know, just to give it some dirt. Ibanez AD-9If I’m looking for nice clean sound, I’ll probably stick to the Twin Reverb and I’ll push the toggle to the middle position or the neck position. To give it that David Gilmour kind of warmth or Mark Knopfler. It’s more for solos, just to warm

Claudio uses this Taylor GS8 interchangeably on Iron Fist and Wake Up with his Martin HD-28.

at 40 seconds you can see a Peavey 5150 head.

In this video Claudio can be seen using a Gibson flying v for the debut of coheed's song Dark Sentencer

at 8:09, Claudio can be seen playing a G6122 for part of Coheed's 8th studio album "The Color Before the Sun"

Claudio uses DR Strings Drop-Down Tuning .010–.052, and his main guitars go back and forth between standard and dropped-D tuning.

Claudio uses this HD-28 on a song called Iron Fist and another called Wake Up.

That’s pretty much it. I’ll run through an effects pedal board, but I’m not really even using a whole lot there ? just a few delay pedals. There’s an Ibanez analog delay AD9, Line 6 delay modeler and a Bad Horsie Wah, that’s pretty much it. It’s not a massive pedal board. Basically I just rely on the guitar, the tone and the amps.

In this rig rundown by Premier Guitar, the tech for Coheed and Cambria clearly states that they use the Audio Technica 5000 Series wireless system at approximately 06:28.

Claudio is listed as using Mesa's Standard 4x12 cab on their website.

Mission Engineering at 9:54

For this live preformance of dark sentencer, claudio uses a gibson flying v custom.

Claudio uses a Whirlwind switcher and Audio-Technica wireless units into a Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra through a Matrix GT1000FX power amp to a cabinet onstage for monitoring. The house sound goes direct from the Axe-FX.

For patches, Claudio's main distortion tone is based on two Marshall Super Lead types, with a wah and pitch shifter set to expression pedals onstage. Medium gain is based on an old Orange head with various delays and effects, and his clean is modeled after a brownface Fender amp with delay and compressor.

The system is controlled with a Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro with two Mission expression pedals for octave up and wah. He uses a Mission Tap Tempo pedal as well.