Dustin Kensrue

Line 6 Helix Floor clearly visible in front of Dustin during sound check.

Speaking on Twitter about this amp's superiority.

In the pursuit of tone video you can spot the headstock of his "JM" style guitar that says Nash.

Dustin: “[The Dear Hunter frontman] Casey Crescenzo built it from us just talking about it – I told him I wanted it to look like a mix between a Jazzmaster and a 50s Blacktop Les Paul with the black and the yellow binding. Something went weird when he was making it, and he ended up doing that split pickguard, and I absolutely loved it. I was like, ‘That’s the best thing about it!’

It’s got the same pickups as the Jags, and it sounds great; it’s semi-hollow, which adds an interesting percussive quality that actually I think helps with the lower tuning. I don’t use the Bigsby a ton, but it’s fun to play with. That one’s tuned B to B, or drop A.”

Dustin with his modded 1966 SG Jr. It only has a bridge pickup and has the tone knob removed. Very barebones.

Dustin doesn't indicate what he is using it for, but this Tweet says: "Just picked up this little beauty from @Fender '68 Vibrolux. So rad. Sounds and looks amazing. Thanks Matt Farrar!"

“It responds really well to pedals; I used to play more where I was pushing the amp a ton with the volume knob on the amp and backing it off with pedals. And a while ago, I just switched to trying to use different overdrives to really push the amp.

“So, it’s sitting at 5, just right where as you’re turning it [while] playing, you hear it kind of jump, and it’s really lively there, but it can go a variety of directions. It’s very dynamic, which I like. There’s a Bassman circuit in the amp, and that’s actually what I’m running through.” - Music Radar

“The AC30’s just because I don’t have my New Vintage DK36 with me, but I played AC30s for a long time, so they’re great workhorse amps. It’s just [paired with the Vibrolux] so it’s not two of the same exact amp. It gives our sound guy a little more to work with.”

Here, Kensrue is wielding an all-black Fender Tele with a P90 in the neck. Not sure what model or years it was used.

Dustin Tweets: "Rook overdrive from @MojoHandFx Thinking this might end up as my pedal for heaviest settings. Very musical/open/clear"

Dustin Tweets: "New goodies from my friends @WalrusAudio ! Yeah!!!" The photo clearly shows the Iron Horse pedal connected within a pedal chain.

In this picture, Dustin is using a sunburst SG.

This is Dustin's signature model through Music Man. He began using it sometime between tours for the albums "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere" and "Palms".

He plays it throughout their show "Live in Hawaii at the Republik" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlGYNLnJlaM

"That's quite an excellent Ernie Ball @music_man guitar that @dustinkensrue of @thrice is playing " - Ernie Ball on Instagram

An apparently custom model Music Man Stingray, with a single coil pickup in the neck, humbucker in the bridge, and a maple fretboard, that Dustin has been seen playing recently.

This thing has been ruling.

Dustin Kensrue: “They’re exactly the same. I put Lollar humbuckers in: the High Wind Imperial humbucker in the bridge and the El Rayo in the neck – that’s their own creation, and it sounds a bit like a mix between a humbucker and a single coil.

I feel like those pickups balance pretty well, tonally and output-wise. And all the other electronics are ripped out; it’s just got a Tele-style three-way switch on it. The Jags are tuned D to D or drop C.”

In an image titled "DustinTele.jpg" on Blogger, Dustin Kensrue is seen with a Nash T-72 Deluxe Guitar, identifiable by its dual humbucking pickups and '72 pickguard.

"Dustin Kensrue from the American rock band Thrice, along with the help from the folks over at Nash Guitars, found a way to install the P-Rails in a Jaguar-style Warmoth body and get all of the features with the stock Jaguar switching system. He calls his creation “The Jagular.”

In this tweet posted by Kensrue, the Strymon BigSky is visible.

Dustin Kensrue (Thrice) pedalboard for "To Be Eveywhere Is To Be Nowhere" (2016)

These @jhspedals are crazy. The SuperBolt especially is blowing my mind

“I have five levels [of gain]: three is the Rook, I can go down two on the input, and then if I want to go up, I add the Harvester in line, and then the next level adds the Iron Horse….”

“That Iron Horse is really cool, and that’s my main bigger rock tone, and it can handle getting a bit jumpy without sounding like a Metal Zone or something – it still sounds really musical and full. And then I’ve got the JHS Muffuletta, where they basically put all of the Muff circuits in one pedal, and I’m using their own custom one – it’s really cool.

The reason I end up [stacking drives] is because I was really trying to keep a consistent tonal palette as it built “That stacks on top of the other ones, so it’s a lot of stacking. The reason I end up doing it is because I was really trying to keep a consistent tonal palette as it built, and I wasn’t liking it going to something completely different.”

“I’ve never used a compressor until really recently. I just didn’t find one that I liked; it felt like it was crushing the tone, and I didn’t feel that way about the Deep Six.”

“One Rook is for when I’m using the bridge pickup, and one is when I’m using the neck pickup, so they’re just EQ’ed slightly differently to get those pickups to sit more in the same space – I really hate the overly muddy sound of a neck pickup when I’ve set it for the bridge pickup.

“One of the Rooks is always on, so it’s my baseline tone, and then I’ll use the Line 6 M5 to notch down one or two steps with the volume pedal on there, so that’s decreasing the input into the Rook.”

No, not selling these. Just sharing the recording process. Horseman number 2 - 2007 Gibson Southern Jumbo TV

On the picture of Dustin's "small board setup" you can see the JHS Panther Club delay.

This tweet shows a custom fuzz pedal designed by John Sherrill, for Dustin Kensrue. It is based on a 90's Russian Big Muff pedal (as the creator himself says in the sub-tweet thread).

Dustin tweets: "New goodies from my friends @WalrusAudio ! Yeah!!!" The Photo shows the Walrus Audio Mayflower Overdrive Pedal in his pedal chain with an Iron Horse distortion pedal.

Dustin Tweets: "Oh snap! Look what just showed up in the mail. @WalrusAudio #janus" The photo is of the Janus pedal he obtained from Walrus Audio.

"Someone might fighting a way onto my pedalboard @WalrusAudio #messner"