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. "

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

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).

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

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

in this tumblr picture it shows all hann's guitar this jaguar is in the top right also this guitar was used when they played robbers at glastonbery

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.

Seen in the Music Video for "Girls"

In the music video for "The Sound", Adam can be seen using a 1966 Fender Jaguar.

Adam is using a Ampeg Dan Armstrong Lucite Guitar on the music video of ''Give Yourself A Try''

He used this guitar in ,Love me' and ,She's American'

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.

In this interview with Music Radar, Adam says about the Hiwatt T40 "I use a twin Hiwatt combo. It’s a very flexible, transparent amp. Then my main guitar is a Fano JM6."

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

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.

"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.

This photo shows Adam playing guitar with two fender deville amps behind him.

He has used this amp in the studio. In this interview with PremierGuitar, Hann states about the amps used in the studio for the second album: "That and a Roland JC-120 or a Fender Twin was sort of the go-to. If we were in the studio and needed a clean sound for a part, that’s where we’d start and then we’d go from there."

I think that is the Hot rod deluxe but bigger, maybe the 80 watts? Lollapalooza Brazil 2017

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

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

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

In this Instagram photo shared by Adam Hann of his pedalboard, you can see the Boss GE-7 Equalizer pedal in the top left corner.

"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.

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...."

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