Adam Levine
Maroon 5’s lead vocalist
Adam Levine's Guitars
Adam has a few Custom Shop Stratocasters he uses, they usually have floyds and a humbucker on them. A close look at the guitar can be had at 4:08 into this video.
On the First Act product page for Adam Levine's custom designed guitars, shows a First Act Custom Gold Top.
Adam Levine used an Ernie Ball Music Man Axis guitar during Maroon 5's performance on "The Ellen Show," as featured on Ernie Ball's official Instagram.
Adam Levine discusses his Fender Eddie Van Halen Stratocaster beginning at 4:28 in this video.
When you're a ten year-old, eleven year-old kid and you're learning how to play guitar, Eddie Van Halen, it's just like, c'mon you know. And he passed recently, tragically and I wanted to try and find an old 5150 like completely jerry-rigged bad, not original, not fancy or... I wanted to have one because the way he did it was so cool and so I just wanted to mess around on one and see what Ain't Talkin' bout Love sounded like.
In a live performance of Maroon 5's "Sugar" on The Voice 2015, Adam Levine is seen using the Ibanez Steve Vai JEM/UV Signature Guitar during the intro.
This guitar was used by Adam during his performance of Maroon 5's Sugar on The Voice.
Adam Levine is seen here playing a Gibson ES-335 with Maroon 5 at the Grammy Salute to The Beatles
Used for "Makes Me Wonder", as stated by mix engineer Mark Endert in this September 2007 Sound on Sound interview.
"I realised that there was one guitar part that worked particularly well with the bass and drums. It was played by Adam and had a clean Telecaster sound, and so I looped that through the track." (...) “Upon determining that Adam’s clean Tele part worked the best with the drums and bass, it was looped so that it did the same thing throughout the whole track. It sounded great being mixed loudly. When I have a loop like that without change, they way I can achieve contour is by changing the amounts of effects. So at the beginning of the song there are minimal effects on the guitar loop, then when it hits the first verse there are more delays, when it hits the chorus there is chorusing and delay and reverb on it — these are all outboard effects: PCM42s, AMS 1580S, and Eventide Orville. All the delays from the Lexicon PCM42 were timed, everything from eighth to dotted eighth to 16th notes. I love delays far more than reverb and I have eight discrete delays — five PCM42s and three Roland SDE3000s — and they are in use on every mix. In the verses it’s more like a 16th slap feel, and when it gets to the choruses, I harmonised with an AMS 1580S, pitch–changing and fattening the guitars. You can get a lot of contour out of a track that lacks dynamics just by changing the acoustic space around it."
Adam Levine and Matt McAndrew performs "Lost Stars" at The Voice. And Adam sings on the stage with Taylor 714ce Rosewood/Spruce Grand Auditorium Acoustice-Electric Guitar.
In this Instagram posted by Adam Levine, he can be seen playing an Ernie Ball Music Man EVH electric guitar live.
Adam Levine's Fender Stratocaster is visible at 4:25 in this video tour of his home.
Starting at 3:53 in this Architectural Digest video, Adam Levine's Gibson SJ-200 is visible in the corner of the room.
In the video for "Harder to Breathe", Levine uses an SG Standard with a full-face pickguard. It can be seen around 2:24.
In 2008, First Act unveiled the 222 Adam Levine Electric Guitar in collaboration with Adam Levine, as reported by guitardude745 on YouTube. This guitar is part of the 222 by First Act line, a comprehensive collection of musical products created in partnership with Levine.
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