Pino Palladino

Pino Palladino playing the Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay Fretless Bass for a performance with PSP in this YouTube video.

As can be seen in the video source, Palladino used his signature bass for a performance with John Mayer at Eric Clapton's 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival.

In this article we can see the Alien bass station in Pino's pedalboard.

While performing alongside John Mayer at Eric Clapton's 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Palladino used the Ampeg SVT-VR.

In this photo of Pino on studio with John Mayer Trio, seen on Facebook, we can see his pedalboard and the Emma Discombobulator on it.

shown in the video at 5:10

In a discussion on TalkBass.com, a user mentioned seeing Pino Palladino play an Epiphone Jack Casady Signature bass during his recent performance with John Mayer.

Pino Palladino, an Ernie Ball artist, uses Ernie Ball Super Slinky Cobalt Flatwound Bass Strings (45-100), as highlighted in Ernie Ball's Instagram birthday post.

Pino Palladino played a Moon JJ-4 300B bass, recognizable by its completely white finish, during the Voodoo tour with D'Angelo from March to October 2000. A photo from Soulfest Brisbane 2014, available on Beaveronthebeats, shows Pino using this distinctive bass. Notably, he tuned his Moon basses down one whole step (D-G-C-F), a technique shared by the legendary Larry Graham, also a known Moon bass player.

In this photo we can see Pino with his Freedom bass.

This image shows Pino playing a Fender JAB J-Craft Jaguar Bass (Deluxe Jaguar Bass).

The image provided is from a 2021 Fender article on the Jaguar bass. It had the caption, "(In 2012) Pino Palladino rocks a Jag Bass while performing with the Who, including on the group’s recent Quadrophenia and More tour." As per Fender, the bass is featured on The Who's 2013 album, 'Live in London.'

https://web.archive.org/web/20211016235509/https://www.fender.com/en/electric-basses/jaguar-bass-feature/

A Mixdown Magazine article claimed that his Jag bass was equipped with Thunderbird pickups. There are pictures online to support his use of the pickups on a precision bass, but not on the Jaguar.

strings shown at 5:04

Pino is featured in Bass Player magazine where the Boss OC-2 is listed as one of his standard session tools.

In this video we can see Pino using his Lakland p bass.

Pino Palladino uses a Fender Precision Bass, equipped with two Thunderbird pickups, while touring with The Who. This information is supported by a photo on Talkbass.

"We managed to sneak on to the Pyramid stage to meet Michael Kaye, Pino Palladino’s bass-tech… Pino went on to play a storming set with the Who. It’s certainly nice to know that the Cali76 was doing its thing in the midst of this legendary gig! In fact, it’s fairly mind blowing!"

Used on John Mayer's Continuum, as stated by recording engineer Chad Franscoviak in this October 1, 2006 Mix Online interview.

To capture Palladino's bass, his instrument typically went into either an Ampeg SVT or B-15 into an Avalon U5 mono instrument preamp and DI. “I took the throughput into his amplifier and usually put a FET 47 close up, and on occasion an RE20. Then I almost always put an NS-10 on his bass cabinet to get the ultralow stuff,” Franscoviak explains. “I would compress the DI and the FET 47 lightly, not in any way that would effect the dynamics of his performance, only for tonal reasons. I would never put a compressor on the NS-10.”

shown in the video at 5:10

Photo of Pino Palladino’s pedal board just before the Who took the stage for “THE WHO at the DESERT TRIP” Festival at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California – October 16th, 2016.

In this photo we can see pino with a vintage Fender P bass, while touring with The Who.

Used on John Mayer's Continuum, as stated by recording engineer Chad Franscoviak in this October 1, 2006 Mix Online interview.

To capture Palladino's bass, his instrument typically went into either an Ampeg SVT or B-15 into an Avalon U5 mono instrument preamp and DI. “I took the throughput into his amplifier and usually put a FET 47 close up, and on occasion an RE20. Then I almost always put an NS-10 on his bass cabinet to get the ultralow stuff,” Franscoviak explains. “I would compress the DI and the FET 47 lightly, not in any way that would effect the dynamics of his performance, only for tonal reasons. I would never put a compressor on the NS-10.”

at 1:29 you can get a very good view of the body. You can clearly see from the bridge that it is a 5 string lakland bass.

here is also a picture of Carl Pidego working on pinos bass https://www.dlakinbasses.com/wp-content/uploads/Carl-working-on-a-34_-scale-single-pickup-5-string-for-Pino-Palladino.jpg

In this photo we can see Pino's Harmony H22 bass behind John Mayer and beside Pino, during the 2010 Crossroads guitar festival.

Listed on Pino's official Ashdown artist page.

In this picture Pino is seen playing a 8T/16B cabinet (straight version) made by Phil Jones. He uses it with the matching M-500 amp also made by Phil Jones.

In this photo we can see Pino with a Lakland J bass

Scott mentions the Warwick thumb around 4:30

In this John Mayer's performance you can see Pino using a Fender Super Bassman 300 Head, especially from minute 2.00 to 2.06.

While performing alongside John Mayer at Eric Clapton's 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Palladino used the Ampeg SVT 810 cabinets.

The video mentions both the 4 string as well as the 5 string Musicman (around 4m)