Mike Kerr

During Royal Blood's 2017 Tour, Mike changed from his gretsch electromatic basses and fender starcaster basses to new customised jaguar basses, witch include a starcaster wide range humbucker. This jaguar has four versions so far: one with a black sparkle finish and a pearloid pickguard, one with a red finish and black pickguard, one with a white finish and a gold pickguard and one with a fiesta red finish, a black pickguard and a mini humbucker (Similar to the ones in his gretsch basses) near to the bridge. One of the versions of this bass can be seen in the music video for "I Only Lie When I Love You".

The bass was created by Kyle Hodder (https://twitter.com/Fender_RND and https://www.instagram.com/fender_rnd/) along side Mike.

In this photo, Mike Kerr is playing a Gretsch G2220 Electromatic Junior Jet II bass, which he confirms in this interview.

He also uses an all black version for live performances as well as seen here. In an 2020 Guitar World interview, Kerr mentions that this was also his first bass that he bought.

At 8:24 in this video, is a shot of Mike Kerr's pedal board, containing a Boss PS-6 Harmonist Pitch Shifter Guitar Effects Pedal.

At 3:01 in this video Mike says "I kinda fell in love with the Harmonist pedal. The thing that really turned me on actually were all the kind of dive bomb settings it had, because I had loads of amps running at the same time; I worked out I could start divemombing one amp against another so I ended up buyng three. So I've got three on the board.

In an interview with Ultimate Guitar, Mike explains how he will be using a "white stratocaster" to play the song "Boilermaker" when performing live. [https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/royal_blood_frontman_explains_mistake_people_make_when_trying_to_play_bands_famous_song_says_he_probably_cant_play_muse_classic_now.html]

As of 21/07/2021, a Fender Blacktop Stratocaster HHH is being used for the song Boilermaker as seen in these Instagram posts. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CRm7QjyBALd/?utm_medium=copy_link] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CRpU8Wvhlou/] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmt3PDM0Ds/?utm_medium=copy_link]

It is also now known that only the E,A,D and G strings are on the guitar, to match his basses, as seen in this photo. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Royal_Blood/comments/or1h46/a_great_shot_of_mike_from_tramlines_the_new/]

At 8:24 in this video, is a shot of Mike Kerr's pedal board, containing a Strymon Flint Tremolo & Reverb Pedal.

"Royal Blood bassist and vocalist Mike Kerr owns a Manson Custom bass made to his specific requirements. Look out for it on the 2015 tour!" - Manson Guitars.

In this live performance image, Mike is seen playing a black Fender Starcaster Bass, he also owns a white Starcaster Bass, which he uses in the music video for Ten Tonne Skeleton. He started using Starcaster basses around 2013, during Royal Blood's time in the studio, according to 2020 Guitar World interview.

"I've recently started using a Fender Starcaster, a new bass that's come out. It's a hollow-body, short-scale bass with humbuckers that sound huge. I'm a big fan of that one, so I'm going to start using it a lot more. I'm sure the collection is going to increase and increase as time goes on." - via MusicRadar

This photo from a Royal Blood live performance shows Mike Kerr using an Electro-Harmonix POG2 Polyphonic Octave Generator guitar effects pedal.

Guitar World, 2020

“Well, I know you use an Electro-Harmonix POG2 and a Z.Vex Mastotron Fuzz,” I venture, to which Kerr counters, “There you go then. So you know all you need to know.” I bring up the matter of Kerr’s “mystery pedal,” the identity of which he swears he’ll never disclose.

At 8:24 in this video, is a shot of Mike Kerr's pedal board, containing a ZVex Vextron Series Mastotron Fuzz Guitar Effects Pedal.

Guitar World, 2020

“Well, I know you use an Electro-Harmonix POG2 and a Z.Vex Mastotron Fuzz,” I venture, to which Kerr counters, “There you go then. So you know all you need to know.” I bring up the matter of Kerr’s “mystery pedal,” the identity of which he swears he’ll never disclose.

At 42:38 and 42:45 in this video, we can see Mike uses a Pitch Fork for Ten Tonne Skeleton

At 0:04, we can see an EHX Bass Micro Synth during the recording of their cover of Sad But True

We can clearly see a boss GE-7 (yeah, the guitar version) with all the sliders rolled back, probably for cutting the signal. Verification of this being Mike's board can be seen in this image.

"Sorry, man. The amps I use are all Ampegs. I use an SVT bass amp and two GVT guitar amps. I just found that they aren't making the GVTs anymore, so if you know anyone who's got some, let me know – I need some spares."

This was taken from an interview with Mike Kerr by Music Radar. Also, in the image below, two GVT amplifiers are seen connected to Mike's bass.

In a photo shared on Instagram by Royal Blood, Mike Kerr is seen using the Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight pedal, highlighting its role in shaping his distinctive sound.

In a user-uploaded photo from Total Guitar issue No. 346, Mike Kerr is shown using the Tech 21 Red Ripper bass effects pedal.

Mike Kerr has said on the D'addario website "We love D'Addario - they really helped us out from day 1", and if you look closely at his Gretsch or Fender bass on there Reading live 2015 concert, if you look closely at the bridge, the ball end of his strings are clearly D'addario strings.

On right hand side of mike's pedalboard you can see this pedal

At 0:04 and 1:09, we can see an EHX Ravish Sitar during the recording of their cover of Sad But True

The Fender Supersonic 22 Combo is shown on Fender's official artist page for Royal Blood, Mike Kerr's band.

Cog Effects build this pedal for Mike Kerr of Royal Blood, probably a Fuzz, we can also see this pedal on this video at 0:27 on Mike's pedalboard : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aoa7xjk3DY

In this livestream he said it was a Christmas present from Jack White. He said that what he uses for his fuzz.

At 8:24 in this video, is a shot of Mike Kerr's pedal board, containing a Boss LS-2 Line Selector/Power Supply.

At 8:24 in this video, is a shot of Mike Kerr's pedal board, containing a Palmer Triage Amplifier Selector.

You can see the Bass driver on top left of those Fender SuperBassman at min 10:14

Dawsons, a music store from the UK, posts an article on the Equipment of Royal Blood. They write "Speaking of amps, Mike feeds his bass into a number of guitar amps, namely a Fender Supersonic and a Bassman. The Supersonic is an interesting amp, with enough gain available on tap to serve up the thick, goopy levels of grit and dirtiness, yet can also deliver Fender’s traditional sparkling cleans if required."

The Sansamp is being used to shape one of the fake guitars signals as seen being adjusted just before the band play 'Better Strangers'.

Mike responds to a question asked by a listener on BBC Radio 1 about his guitar rig. He goes on to explain that he is using a boss autowah for their new single "Lights Out"

We can see a Whammy 5 in this picture

In an Instagram post by Royal Blood, Mike Kerr is shown using the JHS Colour Box, a versatile overdrive effects pedal, as part of his setup.

In this picture we can see a Boss CE-3