Marcus King

At 1:18, Marcus says "I always play through a Super Reverb - that's what my granddad always played through."

In this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown interview, Marcus King talks about his ES-345.

Yeah, this is kind of a reissue model. It’s a 345 that Gibson was kind enough to send to me. And I was playing my grandfather’s for a while and it just got, I got scared of taking it on the road.

At 1:32 of the Guitar Centre/Crossroads video, Marcus says, "I've also got an Orange head that I'm using. It's a 50 watt head with 6L6 tubes in it. And I believe I've got a 2x12" cabinet out there with it." At :15 of this Guitar Player Magazine video, you can see that Marcus has the black variant of the Rockerverb head.

In this Echo Sessions video, you can see the baby blue Mini Deja Vibe 3 pedal starting at :37

In this Premier Guitar video, we see Marcus King explaining his use of the TS9 with his '65 Fender Super Reverb.

I cut out the pedalboard a long time ago, and the Tube Screamer stuck around as a power attenuator. … So I keep the volume on this tube screamer at about 7 o’clock and put the drive up here at about 2 o’clock just to give it a little bit of edge, you know? A little bit of drive.

In this article talking about the gear King uses on his "El Dorado album, under the "Marcus King's Gear" side panel, a Jazz III picks are listed.

Throughout this video, you catch glimpses of Marcus' pedals, of which an MXR Phase 90 is one. You can tell by the vibrant orange colour and single black knob.

When talking about the gear he used on his "El Dorado" album, King states "Man, I got locked in on this Tele that belongs to Dan [Auerbach] and I ended up using it on a great deal of the record. Even on the slide solo to “Turn It Up,” and I’ve never gotten a good slide tone with single-coils. That guitar … there’s something about it. It’s a ’62, nothing particularly crazy about it, but I really love that Tele."

In this interview with Music Radar, Marcus says of the Beano Boost,

This was actually a gift to me from my buddy [Black Keys singer/guitarist] Dan Auerbach. I use it very sparingly because it really does its job and gates the hell out of everything. It’s kinda like my self-destruct button, when I want s*** to really go off the wall and start controlling feedback, though I’ll usually use it on Welcome Around Here.

In this article talking about the gear King uses on his "El Dorado album, under the "Marcus King's Gear" side panel, a Super Fuzz is listed as one of his effects pedals.

In this interview with Music Radar, Marcus says of the Mini DejáVibe, “I honestly don’t know what it is about this pedal… I have just always really liked the sound of it. I always said to myself that I’d never have a proper pedalboard, but I was heading out on tour with Chris Robinson in our band, As The Crow Flies [playing Black Crowes songs], which needed a few different sounds and was why I built it. I had something like this in mind for The Black Crowes’ song Halfway To Everywhere - that needed a really good-vibe sound. So I got this one and ended up using it on my next record. Actually, I think I might kick it in at sporadic moments throughout the set.”

According to this post from the manufacturer, this pedal has replaced the Ibanez TS9 on Marcus’s Pedalboard.

When asked what gauge of string he is using on his Gibson ES-345, Marcus King responds,

I'm using Elixir .11s.

In this interview with Music Radar, Marcus says “I rang my friend who works at Fender in Nashville just to stop by and see the showroom. They had all these pedals there, they’d only just been designed so they weren’t available yet, and he ended up giving me one of each." The Mirror Image delay was one of those pedals.

“I actually picked up this 1965 original maple-cap on this tour. ... This guitar really spoke to me, it’s the kind of Tele I’ve had my eye on since I was a kid, that blonde Tele from the mid-60s."

Featured in this March 2, 2020 Tru-Fi blog post.

Tru-Fi Pedals - Marcus King who is on tour right now in Europe show here in a great photo by Dave Vann. The red circle you can see Tru-Fi Colordriver in use, he also mentions his love of it in Vintage Guitar this month. I don't know what to say I just am beyond words seeing Tru-Fi in action with such a great guitar player and artist. - The Fuzz Life - WWW.TRU-FI.COM #marcuskingband #guitarplayer #newmusic #gibson #gibson335 #guitargear #pedalboard #pedalboardoftheday #fuzzbox #colordriver #tru_fi_pedals #guitarist #gearnerd #knowyourtone #geareybusey #pedalporn

At 6:50 in this Rig Rundown video from Primier Guitar, Marcus King says:

Everybody needs a good Strat in their arsenal. This one, courtesy of the kind folks at Carter Vintage for all your vintage guitar needs, Carter Vintage Guitars. So this one I found it over there. It's a '62 and the neck on it is just sweet as pie. It was orange, someone had refinished it like a burnt orange color, which I wasn't really feeling. My dad has got a '64 Strat that yellowed and smoky and just all the good stuff. So I sent it down to my good friend Matt Hughes at Banker Guitars and asked him if he could finish it. I sent him my dad's Strat and this one and he just made it look identical. Just a really good paint job. Great Strat.

Marcus can be seen here using an EXL-1 Throwback – distinguishable from the EXL-1 Standard by it's headstock – performing "Wildflowers & Wine" for Rolling Stone Magazine.

Starting at 2:45, Marcus shows off Les Paul Goldtop, stating "I played his [Duane Allman's] Goldtop a few times down in Macon, and I just really fell in love with the look and just, you know, being a Duane Allman fan for such a long time and always wanting a Goldtop; they [Gibson] were kind enough to send me one."

In this interview with Music Radar, Marcus says "I don’t really use a volume pedal for anything other than a channel muter. It’s either all the way on or all the way off. Occasionally, I might use it for what it was intended, which is to have the full gain of the guitar but slightly backed off. To be honest, while I do have this volume pedal out in front of me, I mainly use my volume knob… that’s the best way to clean up the tone.”

In this video, Marcus King can be seen using a Gibson Hummingbird.

Marcus can be seen here playing a vintage burst EXL-1 Standard while performing "Wildflowers & Wine" for World Cafe.

In this interview with Music Radar, Marcus says “I like things you can find in a pinch, so the original Cry Baby works great. I loved how Johnny Winter used it. Also there’s Frank Zappa, who is like the forefather of the wah-wah. And obviously Jimi Hendrix and Clapton, too… you can’t beat those guys."

So our brothers at Rockbridge Guitar out of Charlottesville, Virgina made this one and brought it to the show. They brought a few of them and this one really struck my fancy. It’s the Smeck model. Real short neck, but it just really projects and puts out a lot of sound. I just fell in love with the guitar as soon as I played it.

At 5:38 of his Premier Guitar Rig Rundown, Marcus mentions that he has a "'61 0-18" that he keeps at home.

At 8:35 of this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown, you can see Marcus' Boss TU-3 tuner stompbox.

Video of Marcus King playing the amp as well as giving some backstory on it's creation.

Seen playing a 1960 Standard in this video.

At 0:13 in this video, Marcus King says:

So I got a MXR Boost right here... which we just put back on the board. It's really great if you just need that little extra leap to get you where you're going. Basically a clean boost, it just boosts the signal entirely.

At 1:45 in this pedalboard rundown, Marcus King says:

So I got my Echoplex. My actual Echoplex is somewhere in Nashville, but I don't know where I left that. I need to find that. I think it's in a storage locker somewhere, but it was getting repaired last I heard, but I get this little Echoplex, and it's great. When we do songs like Beautiful Stranger. I keep it a little slappy.