Jim Root

Slipknot and Stone Sour guitarist Jim Root plays a Fender Jim Root Signature Telecaster.

"My signature models are basically a Telecaster, mahogany body, string-through, hard tails, EMG 81, EMG 60 in the neck, three-way selector, one volume knob... They're essentially modeled after the custom shop model which used to be called the Flathead, which they discontinued. I love that guitar so much, we just kind of went with those sort of specs"

-Gear talk with Jim Root".

According to the Fender website, the signature model has an ebony fretboard, or a choice of maple on the black model, a 12" fretboard radius, medium jumbo frets, and locking tuners.

"Yeah Dunlop's done me up, with my own gauge of custom wound for Jim Root drop B tuning C# tuning dropped to a B, gauges are 11, 15, 20(plain), 36, 42. 56"

In the "Before I Forget" video, Jim Root is shown playing the Charvel Custom Shop San Dimas in Black with Maple Fingerboard and Gold Hardwares.

Jim Root used to play through a PRS Private Stock (seen in the photo) during the Iowa days of Slipknot before he got signed to Fender

In this video, Jim Root of Slipknot discusses the various guitars that he owns. At 1:25, he identifies a Billy Corgan Strat that he said he used in the music video for the song "Sulfur". However, it was modified with a different pickguard and a double-humbucker design to emulate a Jim Root signature stratocaster.

On Jim Root's artist page for JimDunlop.com, Dunlop shows that he uses Nickel Wound strings. On the FRET12 interview, Jim back this up, as he uses these strings for Stone Sour.

"Yeah Dunlop's done me up, with my own gauge of custom wound for Jim Root drop B tuning C# tuning dropped to a B, gauges are 11, 15, 20(plain), 36, 42. 56"

• DunlopTV Interview

He says further down that he uses this gauge

Jim Root uses an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser to "add a little bit of color to octave parts...or harmonies," he said in this interview at (2:00).

Jim Root uses the Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator pedal "for the middle of Dead Memories," he says in this interview at (1:45).

The second pedal from the left on Jim Root's pedalboard is the Maxon AF-9 Auto Filter. This photo was taken on August 12, 2008.

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root uses an MXR GT-OD in his signal chain. "Sometimes I click that on for a little lead boost, or a little bit of lead color," he says at (2:20).

Jim Root also talks about the two wah pedals, the Dunlop Crybaby with rack mount as well as a Jimi Hendrix signature wah pedal, both used because of the different sound effects.

Slipknot and Stone Sour guitarist Jim Root uses Orange Rockerverb 100 heads for his live rig, as seen in this video at (0:50). It's basically "straight into the heads," Root says. "I'm not using any external distortion, just using the preamps from the heads for all the gain," he said.

Jim Root is playing a Black Gibson Explorer in this video.

"That was what I played with the whole time. I think Corey bought me a Jackson SL2 or something like that so I could have a back up. It was kind of just necessity, I didn’t pick what I played, I played what I had.”

There are additional information about the SL-2 from this thread: http://www.jemsite.com/forums/f19/mij-grover-jackson-soloist-40974.html

Fender's YouTube channel profiles and interviews Jim Root and his signature Stratocaster in black. The Jim Root Stratocaster features a compound radius neck (12"-16") without fingerboard dot markers, active EMG pickups, black hardware, jumbo frets and satin lacquer finish.

On Jim Root's backstage pedalboard, there are to Maxon pedals. The orange Maxon is a phaser.

At 22:06 in the video, Jim breaks down a likely one off model Jazzmaster (with the same specs as his others) equipped with a floyd rose bridge. He says this was built for if ever they add the song "Spiders" to the set since he uses the whammy in his solo.

Jim Root's pedalboard also sports a Boss NS-2 noise suppressor pedal. "In my opinion," he says at (2:50), "one of the best Noise Suppressors ever made."

According to Maxon's website, Root uses the Maxon OD-9 Overdrive pedal.

At the 0:30 mark you can see Jim playing through an RG-8 in the song "Got Money"

In the article, Jim stated that he owned a Charvel Model 1, his first "real" guitar, at the age of 15

In the video, "Jim Root: The Sound and the Story", Jim talks about his Warrior guitar that he was sent and used on the Iowa tour.

At 1:00, a clear shot can be seen of the headstock, showing the "Grover Jackson" inlay.

This was Jim Root's main guitar in Slipknot from 1999 - 2001. It has been modified with a single EMG 81 bridge pickup and a single volume knob.

In the pic you can see Jim using a Fender Flathead Telecaster which was one of his guitars of choice before he got his endoresment with Fender.

At 16:20 in the video. You can see Jim with a flat black Fender Flathead showmaster which was used on the Vol 3 tour in Drop B. This guitar was the basis for his signature strat models.

In this photo you can see Jim with his Black Gibson Flying V Guitar . It was used during the summer 2009 tour.

"I'm using an Uberschall that Reinhold modded for me…"

In this interview, Jim Root calls the MXR Carbon Copy Delay, "one of the best delay pedals, ever." (2:20).

In this picture of Jim's practice rig, he is using an EVH 15 watt amplifier head with a matching 2x12 EVH cabinet. Jim states that he is still with orange, however he needed a amp to use for practicing on tour. He states he was able to get hold of, and use the evh because evh is owned by fender who he is endorsed by