Jerry Donahue

I meet Jerry with Peavey at Music Prolite & Sound in Frankfurt 2006. The Nobels ODR1 was his main overdrive pedal. His settings for the pedal you'll find on the picture.

On Mad Professor's website, Donahue was mentioned as user of this compressor pedal.

"Jerry told VOX that the AC30 has always been his first choice in guitar amplifiers. Over the years Jerry’s involvement with several signature guitar projects meant that he wasn’t always able use his chosen amp but now he does have the freedom to choose, he went straight for Vox, choosing the AC15 Hand-Wired."

The new Radial Elevator is a pedal that successfully achieves what others were designed to do but never quite made the grade. This one enhances your overall sound with no discernible change in tone between normal and boosted outputs! After all the years of searching... no need to look further. This is it!

Donahue about Radial Elevator.

On Mad Professor's website, Donahue was listed as user of the Deep Blue Delay Pedal.

On Mad Professor's website, Donahue was mentioned as user of this pedal.

There’s a punch and strength from this pickup that is missing on many 2-pickup guitars of this kind and totally missing in the bridge position on almost ALL 3-pickup designed guitars – at least for me. A pickup that close to the bridge needs special attention in its development to counter the inherent thinness and piercing quality that exists there. The APTL-3JD nails it for me and is the only pickup I found to match a good Strat pickup in the neck position, in terms of output, eq and, most of all a tone that kills!

Jerry Donahue about his signature pickups.

We asked “Bendmaster of the Telecaster” Jerry Donahue to share some of his secrets for setting up a Telecaster-style bridge and keeping it properly intonated. Jerry demonstrates this technique in his clinics, and it certainly applies to his Fret-King Black Label ‘JD’ Jerry Donahue signature guitar with his signature APTL-3DJ pickup. Take it away, Jerry! - *seymourduncan.com *

Jerry Donahue is associated with the Fender Jerry Donahue Signature Telecaster Electric Guitar, as highlighted by Bob Leggitt on Planetbotch. The blog notes that these guitars were first advertised in the UK in April 1992, suggesting their availability in stores around March of that year.

In the source link PDF, on the second page, you can see Jerry Donahue himself holding the Sessionmaster JD10 preamp in his hands. Jerry Donahue collaborated extensively with Stewart Ward (the founder of the company Award-Session) to develop the preamp to his liking and earning it as his signature pedal (JD in the model name stands for Jerry Donahue). Jerry Donahue used it for both studio session playing and recording work and live gigs across the globe, according to the official product manual.

Quoting Jerry Donahue from the official product manual:

"It's my... Guitar Amp Emulator, Humbucker Emulator, Amp Tone Expander, Overdrive, Recording PreAmp, Guitar Speaker Simulator, EQ/Tone Booster, Signal Booster... all in one great pedal!"

In this photo, Jerry Donahue can be seen using his Peavey Omniac JD Signature Electric Guitar.