Josh Homme

"I've played the same amp since I was like 13 years old. I play an Ampeg VT-40," says Josh Homme about the Ampeg VT-40 Amplifier during an interview with Kyle Gass on 'Guitarings'.

Josh Homme has used three 1984 Ovation Ultra GP guitars throughout his music career. One of the them comes in the sunburst design (as seen in this picture), the other is in black, and the last one is red.

On stage, Josh Homme uses an Ampeg VT-22 amplifier. A pretty rare, yet extremely loud amp, the Ampeg VT-22 has been used by the Rolling Stones in years past.

"Josh Homme is an icon in the making. He and his band, Queens of the Stone Age, are currently on tour. Josh spends a good deal of time on stage with his BelAires. He's made it kind of a thing. Josh owns BelAires 11, 73 & 86."

via MotorAve Guitars

Used live during the Songs for the Deaf and Post Pop Depression tours. The former is documented by www.stonerrock.com's Queens of the Stone Age page and this July 6, 2004 eyewitness account from DIYstompboxes.com user Prive, while the latter is documented by a March 30, 2016 Instagram post by Sarah Lipstate of Homme's board from a show at Keller Auditorium.

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Josh Boss Tuner used in the Kyuss days. I guess he still use that. On the other pic, you can see a boss overdrive really clearly. Don't know the other one. Probably the boss tuner and a volume pedal. Josh was also spotted with an Electro Harmonix Bass Micro-synth. Travis sended that good peice of info too : "I was at the Troubadour show (the one on the SFTD DVD) and was standing right in front of Josh. His pedals for that show were an Ernie Ball volume pedal, on old beat up Boss SD-1, a Way Huge Aqua Puss (400ms analog delay - rare and expensive), and he had a Whirlwind Selector pedal covered in bright green tape with "BONUS" written over the A + B switch. (I think I also saw it on the Letterman performance)"

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He used a SD1 Boss always "on" in the QOTSA Argentinian shows, of course, Ampegs everywhere.

Saludos, Marcelo.

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Ok, you guys freaked me out about posting Josh's pedalboard. But he said it was ok so here it is again: Josh Homme's pedalboard for the post pop depression tour with Iggy Pop!

An article about Boss SD-1 published in January 2023 Guitar World issue also talks about settings Homme used on the pedal. Both level and tone knobs were set to 10, while drive was set to 0.

Kosh has used the SD-1 with a vintage Ampeg amp with a distinctive midrange peak along with a Boss GE-7 graphic EQ to further boost 400Hz. This SD-1 setting adds sizzle and clarity to his thick-as-molasses midrange.

Maton designed the Maton BB1200 JH guitar based on Josh Homme's favorite Maton guitar, the Maton BB1200 guitar. Josh Homme is seen playing the Matton BB1200 JH guitar in this video.

Replaced the Ovation GP as Josh's primary guitar when he started touring for Lullabies to Paralyze in 2005 as new songs written in standard tuning entered the setlist and he started using Matons and MotorAves for C-tuning. Saw continued use through the Era Vulgaris/Self-Titled tour as well

This newer Fulltone FatBoost 3 FB-3 Guitar Effects Pedal is found in Josh Homme's pedalboard #1, a part of his Queens of the Stone Age gear setup.

"I've started getting into Guild's guitars. They make a lot of great stuff. This is the guitar that I always take to my hotel room because it's acoustic but it's very thin and plays like an electric. I've had it for about 15 years. I don't really plug it in, but it can play like an electric," says Josh Homme about the Guild? S4CE-NT Songbird guitar.

In this source Josh Homme can be seen using a Epiphone ES-335 Dot Ebony on stage.

Josh had used a Marshall JCM900 100 watt head dating back to 1992 on Kyuss' classic album "Blues for the Red Sun". It was used in conjunction with a Ampeg 8x10 cabinet or a pair of Ampeg guitar cabinets later on during the recording of "Welcome to Sky Valley" in June of 1993. When Kyuss toured Australia with Metallica in 1993, a pair of JCM 900s can be clearly seen behind Josh, powering a stack of 1960A and B, Marshall 4x12 cabinets, and another Ampeg 8x10.

Josh Homme uses the original Univox Super-Fuzz Pedal in his second pedalboard configuration, an important component that Homme uses in the Queens of the Stone Age.

Josh Homme used both a Peavey Standard, a Musician and various other PA's on Songs for the Deaf and Lullabies to Paralyze. The latter can be seen in this photo from this July 2005 Sound on Sound article, while the former is mentioned by Eric Valentine in this September 14, 2019 "Making Records with Eric Valentine" video at 30:45. The amp is shown in an October 29, 2001 photo at 31:38. Two can be seen in live in this BBC still and in this June 23, 2017 Instagram post.

So then, there's the main guitar and this was sort of an interesting moment in the guitar recording on the project because we had been using a bunch of crazy stuff, you know? Josh was primarily into using bass amps for his guitars and so we used these Ampeg V-4Bs that he brought in. That's what was used when we were tracking the band, tracking the basics with the band. And then we took this trip to Black Market Music and we got a bunch of just crazy, shitty old transistor Peavey amps. So they're like these Peavey Musician amps and stuff like that. I have some pictures that I can show you of the amps that illustrate that. [shows October 29, 2001 photo] So this is one of the miking setups, this was after... There was a moment when we had to leave Barefoot and go to another studio called The Site (...) So, these pictures are from that part of the session. This miking setup was probably used for the overdub guitar that you're gonna hear on this song ["No One Knows"]. But this right here, this is the V-4B. This is another Ampeg amp, this is a VT-40... and you can see it peekin' through, this is one o' these shitty Peavey transistor amps that we bought at Black Market. You can see it better here. Yeah, this is that Peavey. This was sort of our favorite. We bough two or three of these Peavey heads and this one sort of did the best.

It is also said that he used a Standard on Son's Of Kyuss and Wretch.

It's a direct clone of the Maestro MPF-1, the pedal used extensively throughout Rated R. He now has two of these on his live pedalboard.

The Fulltone Ultimate Octave Pedal is part of rock guitarist Josh Homme's pedalboard, the one being used in the Queens of the Stone Age setup.

At 12;46 you can see Josh using one during a video about the recording of 'Lullabies to Paralyze' as he is playing part of 'Everyone Knows You Are Insane'

At the "Post Pop Depression" Tour Homme can be seen playing a Fender Troy Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster.

This Boss GE-7 Equalizer Pedal is used by guitarist Josh Homme for his pedalboard setup in the Queens of the Stone Age.

Dan Druff (Guitar Tech) tells that one of the main pedals Josh used during SftD was the ZVex Super Hard On (00:24)

In 0:35 we can see silver Klon Centaur lying on the floor.

Josh Homme used a Gibson Marauder Custom during the bands Rated R era (2000-2001) to play songs that were in e standard tuning, as in this video of 'Leg of Lamb' from a 2001 concert at the El Ray theater in Los Angeles, Ca.

"I struggled for a long time with Pro Tools, because in a blind test with analogue I could pick it out as worse every time. But now I can’t tell the difference. I still miss some things about analogue, though, most of all the restriction to 24 tracks and the tape saturation. When you hit zero on digital, things will start to crackle, but tape will try to hug you first. I have a bunch of reel-to-reel tape recorders at Pink Duck, and often will rent a Studer half-inch on which I’ll put a four-track head, to record stuff on, typically drums, percussion and bass, and dump that into Pro Tools. We do that a lot with Queens," says Josh Homme about the Pro Tools program.

Josh Homme uses Dunlop Electric Nickel Wound Guitar Strings. Source.

Featured in this excerpt of Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson.

Homme: This, this is the secret weapon that I really shouldn't be...

Ronson: This is like the fucking hard rock equivalent of like, who shot JFK is about to be revealed here.

Homme: This a Peavey Decade.

Ronson: Jesus Christ, I can't believe this is really happening now.

Homme: This thing is incredible. The logo is terrifying as shit.

Ronson: Yeah.

Homme Like, it's all sharp. This is the best bass amp, guitar amp...

Ronson: I mean, this was like every PA at every school dance.

Homme: You know, it just sounds so wiry. Just like, instant Kinks. [plays the riff from "You Really Got Me"]

Josh plays a Mockingbird through this whole 1991 Sons of Kyuss set. The clearest shot can be seen at :33s. He can also be seen playing it on other early Kyuss shows, such as this one in 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx978xayPG0&t=1034s

Josh Homme can be seen playing a Gretsch Corvette in this photo.

This is what Josh Homme used to use before he switched to the Stone Deaf FX PDF-1. From the Stone Deaf site:

The PDF-1 is based on the Maestro Parametric Filter MPF-1 that was designed by Bob Moog back in the 1970's for Gibson Norlin. This original pedal is used by Alex Lifeson of Rush and more notably Joshua Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age (Its all over the rated R album).

Very self explainatory, you can see Josh use a Epi Lucille while playing New Fang with Them Crooked Vultures on the 2009 Reading Festival

In this video Josh Homme can be seen with a Nashguitars T-63.

Used a 91 Gold Top model and a 70's Les Paul Double Cut Junior. The Gold Top was given to Troy Van Leeuwen and the Double Cut Les Paul Junior was borrowed from Dave Catching. Homme nowadays claims he's never played a Les Paul.