Adam Hann

" There’s a funny story behind the guitar used for that song. When I was 17 or 18, my grandmother passed away, and my parents bought me a Music Man John Petrucci Signature Series guitar with her inheritance. This is when I was going through a phase of being obsessed with Dream Theater and John Petrucci and G3 and Steve Vai and all these virtuoso shredding guitar players.

We recorded the album in L.A. and when we were getting ready to leave, my manager rang and asked, “Are you taking that guitar?” I was like, “No, I’m not taking it. We won’t use it.” And he said, “No, you should take it because you never know. It’s the first expensive guitar you’ve ever owned. Take it.” Funnily enough, we ended up using that guitar on quite a lot of the album—and just for one specific sound. It has a really great out-of-phase sound. It’s got these two humbuckers in it, but the out-of-phase position has both coils split, so you get like a single-coil out-of-phase on it. That’s what got used for the main chord part on “Love Me,” for the solo in “Love Me,” and for the rhythm guitar part in “She’s American.” The reason it took us by surprise is that this album has a specific sound that we had in our heads, which is this ’80s active Strat sound—like you hear on a Madonna record. That Music Man had that kind of vibe, but a really well-balanced even sound to it. I would never have picked that guitar up and chosen it to do that, so it was a bit of a stroke of luck that we had it with us.

It’s this horrible maroon color and when it came to doing it live, the color was so bad that we ended up getting this white vinyl that we cut out and painstakingly stuck over the entire guitar. We then covered up the hardware with tape and threw a load of multicolored paint over it. Now it’s got this weird Jackson Pollock-esque look to it. "

This Jaguar was used live for the songs "Robbers", "Heart Out", "Pressure, You", "Milk", "m.o.n.e.y" as well as "Amongst Others". (This is the official Instagram Post of the guitar he uses).

On May 15 2020, Adam Hann posted a photo of his Korg Miku Stop during a The 1975 listening party on Twitter. He was commenting that he has used this on said album. The May 15 listening party was The 1975's 3rd album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. There are several tweets announcing this on the official The 1975 twitter page.

Hann uses this pedal for "Sex and Milk" and pictured it as well as many other effects on his list on Instagram.

Adam is seen in the video using the Akai keyboard in a live studio 93.3 garage performance of 'Somebody Else' along with Matty Healy from the 1975. It can be seen throughout the video, clearly at 0:10 with the markings visible on the back.

In this interview Adam says that he use the Ernie Ball Power Slinkys (.011–.048)

In this Instagram photo the MXR M134 Stereo Chorus can be found besides the ProCo Rat 2 and it can be heard on "Girls", "Settle Down", "Heart Out" and "Pressure".

In this source YouTube video he uses the Fano JM6 for "Chocolate", "Sex" and "Settle Down".

This stratocaster was build by Fender Custom Shop builder Todd Krause, in a limited run of 50's relic stratocasters with Fat 50's pickups and gold hardware. Adam has used this since the start of the "I Like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it" era and continues to use it on the "A brief Enquiry into Online Relationships" tour. More detail on the model can be seen on their guitar tech, Mike Adams' instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ6-uPuB87D/

From an interview Adam gave to Tzvi Gluckin of Premier Guitar in 2016 "That and a Roland JC-120 or a Fender Twin was sort of the go-to" quote from Adam Hann on what gear used to for the clean sounds on The 1975's second album. Furthermore, a caption on a photo on the same page states it accompanies two Hiwatt Custom 50s and the Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus.

"Above all, we wanted it to sound not like a traditional guitar solo; it just needed to sound interesting. It then goes from that into a Klon—with no drive on it really, just to beef up the mids—and then through a Roland CE-1 chorus."

In this instagram post Adam shows a Red Dirt Overdrive & Compressor sent to him by Robert Keeley.

"I have a Klon in there—more or less most of the clean stuff will have a Klon on it just to prop it up, to make it sound a bit nicer. I know a lot of people are skeptical about Klons, but personally I think you struggle to find an overdrive that sounds that nice, especially in the low mids. Maybe I’ve got swept up in the hype, but I think it’s worth the money I paid for it"

As seen in the Instagram pedalboard shot, the Boss CS-3 is part of Adam Hann's pedalboard.

The Ibanez TS-9 can be seen besides the ProCo Rat 2 and the Boss Effects of the Instagram pedal shot.

Adam Hann frequently uses the Strymon TimeLine pedal, especially for creating swells and the lead riff in "Robbers." It also features prominently in performances of "You," "Settle Down," "HNSCC," "An Encounter," and "Sex." This usage is highlighted in a post on his Instagram account.

Adam Hann can be seen using a black Stratocaster at 0:23 in the music video for The 1975's "Ghost."

Hann pictured his pedalboard on Instagram where the Electro Harmonix Hog Guitar Synthesizer can be seen. Hann also has the HOG footswitch accessory on his board. The HOG is prominent in Hann's parts in "M.O.N.E.Y."

In this Instagram photo, you can see the Boss DD-7 on the pedalboard.

Adam Hann mentions the King of Tone in this Instagram photo of his pedalboard with the caption "+ a king of tone. Gunna need a bigger board...."

Adam posts this image from their show in Italy and the amp shown on the right is a Hiwatt Custom 50W.

"I've made some patches inspired by sounds we use on the album and live." This item can be seen throughout the whole video starting at 0:20.

"New amps sounding amazing @fender", at Red Hat Amphitheater. If you search on YouTube, "the 1975 live Red Hat", you'll find Adam playing with Fender Vibrolux, instead of his Hiwatt.

We can see it at 1:40 of this video

The Holy Grail can be seen on this Instagram photo of Hann's board in 2012, as well as on other photos on his Instagram.

In this Instagram photo, you can see the Boss NS-2 on the pedalboard.

The ZVex Fuzz Factory was pictured in the pedalboard Instagram shot on stage.

In this live acoustic session Adam Hann of The 1975 is seen using a Fano Alt de Falco Gf6 semi-hollow.

At 3:01 and 3:31, you can see Hann using a Nord Stage EX keyboard.

In this video Hann uses what appears to be a Rickenbacker 330. Judging from the dot inlays on the fretboard and the details in the body you could infer it's a 330 since Rickenbacker doesn't use these inlays and details for the same guitar in any other model.