Adam Jones

Adam owns three Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverbursts. His main one has a headstock ornament. It appears to be a blue mirror, which covers the usual split diamond inlay Gibson Les Paul Customs are known for.

"He also told Guitar World magazine that he’s used a Gibson SG for some studio chores."

As you can see in this image, Adam Jones had a black Les Paul that was used for Parabol, Parabola and Prison Sex.

In this Picture of Adam in the studio in the early '90s, shows him playing a Black Les Paul Custom, Picture Taken by Sylvia Massy

Adam Jones (right) holding a maple Fender Stratocaster Deluxe with Tom Morello (left).

This YouTube video features DunlopTV and their interview with Adam Jones's guitar tech since 2001, Chris "Frank" Leahey who points to the Diezel (4:18s) and says, "And these Diezels which are insanely loud."

In an interview for Guitar World magazine, Adam said, "Right now, for my live setup I’m using two Diezel heads and an old vintage Marshall bass amp that’s been hot rodded. The good thing about the solid-state stuff is if you know what you like, you can go to any store and buy exactly that. But with the tube stuff, you gotta find the amp and hold onto it. I’ve never heard two Marshalls that sound the same"

In this article from Gibson.com, Ted Drozdowski writes "Live and in the studio, Jones uses a blend of amps. Two favorites are a 1976 Marshall Super Bass and a Diezel VH-4 “blueface”".

In this image of Adam Jones of Tool performing live, two Diezel VH4 100W Tube Guitar Head Amps can be seen.

In this diagram, it shows Adam using a Dual Rec as part of his guitar rig.

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This YouTube video from DunlopTV interviews the guitar tech of none other than TOOL's, Adam Jones. Guitar tech since 2001, Chris "Frank" Leahey guides the interviewer passed the amps and cabinet.

At 4:19 of this video, the interviewer says, "This looks like a bass cabinet!"

Frank states that is IS in fact a Mesa Boogie 2x15 Bass Cabinet. He does not mention the model, but due to the cloth covered over the speakers and the appearance of the side handles, we can conclude that this is the Vintage PowerHouse model.

This article from Gibson's website suggests that Adam Jones experimented with using a vintage Sunn "lead" head in the studio when recording Lateralus

Live and in the studio, Jones uses a blend of amps. Two favorites are a 1976 Marshall Super Bass and a Diezel VH-4 “blueface.” On the latter, he never switches out of the ultra-high-output third channel. During the recording of 2001’s Lateralus, he reportedly experimented with a vintage Sunn lead head, too, and for 2006’s 10,000 Days he blended his Super Bass and Diezel with a Bogner Uberschall and a Riveria Knucklehead. Jones drives all his amps hard to achieve his responsive tone. He also uses Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers and Marshall and Mesa cabs

Live and in the studio, Jones uses a blend of amps. Two favorites are a 1976 Marshall Super Bass and a Diezel VH-4 “blueface.” On the latter, he never switches out of the ultra-high-output third channel. During the recording of 2001’s Lateralus, he reportedly experimented with a vintage Sunn lead head, too, and for 2006’s 10,000 Days he blended his Super Bass and Diezel with a Bogner Uberschall and a Riveria Knucklehead. Jones drives all his amps hard to achieve his responsive tone. He also uses Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers and Marshall and Mesa cabs.

Jones is also a glutten for effects. On the intro to “Reflection” and “The Grudge,” both from Lateralus, he employs a vintage Moog Taurus bass pedal system. But aside from the Heil Talk Box on 10,000 Days, run through a Roland JC-120 and juiced up by a dynamic compressor, Jones’ choices of effects is less esoteric. His wah-wah pedal is a dependable Cry Baby, and his stable of other sound generators includes Boss DD3 and DD5 digital delays, a BF-2 flanger, a Line 6 Delay modeler (which also samples on the fly), a Strobostomp tuner, a tremolo pedal, chorus, and an array of distortion boxes. During experimental phases, Jones has taken the stage with multiple pedal boards at his feet. The irony of this rundown is that Jones has gone on record saying he doesn’t like to use pedals.

In this video Chris Leahey shows the amp in which Adam uses for the Talk-Box, at 1:25

This cab can been seen in multiple photos of live performances with Tool.

Chris "Frank" Leahey (Adam's tech) talks about Adam's Heil Talk Box from 55 seconds into the video. The pedal can also be heard in the solo for the Tool song "Jambi" (around 4:07 onwards).

At 2:19, a closeup of Adam's pedalboard shows a Boss DD3 delay pedal.

2:13 on this YouTube video for DunlopTV, featuring Adam Jones's tech, Chris Leahey showing that part of Adam's distorted tone, seen in the pan of his board comes from one of the pedals that includes the Boss BF-2.

In this video from DunlopTV, Bryan speaks with Chris "Frank" Leahey, Adam's guitar tech. At 1:28 we can see Adam's MXR Dyna Comp which "adds a little more sustain" when used in conjunction with Adam's Talk Box.

At 2:22, there is a close up shot of Adam Jones' DOD FX40B pedal, in this rig rundown video.

Adam Jones' MXR M-133 pedal can be seen at 1:42 in this video.

There is a shot of Adam Jones' pedalboard at 1:37 in this video, and his Peterson StroboStomp tuner can be seen at the top of his pedalboard.

Adam Jones' Boss PSM-5 can be seen at 1:45 in this rig rundown video.

In the following interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEVu7WTeQHw&t=55s) Chris Leahe (Tool's guitar tech, now deceased) seems to affirm that Adam has a Dunlop 535Q Cry Baby Multi-Wah. However, in the following photo (https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/6jbcz3/adam_jones_tool_2017_pedalboard/) it can be seen that Adam's Wah has a Rubber Control Knob Cover on the right side of his Wah. This is a distinctive feature of the Dunlop Crybaby BB-535. If this was a 535Q then you would be able to see a thinner, metal, silver control knob.

In the afformentioned interview Chris also makes a comment saying that '[the wah pedal adam uses] is very difficult to get a hold of these days]' this comment doesn't make sense if he is talking about the 535Q model which is mass produced and readily availiable to this day. The BB-535 model, however, was discontinued and isn't even listed on Wikipedia's Cry Baby model list: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunlop_Cry_Baby#Models). It seems much more likely, therefore, that Adam uses a BB-535 and not a 535Q.

During an interview about the recording process of Tool's album "10,000 Days" in the April 2006 issue of Guitar World Magazine, Adam Jones had this to say about his use of the Gig-FX Chopper pedal: "I had some custom pedals made. Our engineer on this album, Joe Barresi, is a pedal god, and he knows everyone, I used a Gig-FX Chopper pedal, which has a nice tremolo. We had them work on the pedal so I could go from a clean sound to tremolo and control the tremolo speed as well. The pedal lets me slow it down and speed it up, which really lends a lot of power for creating motion when we’re going from one part to another."