Adrian Belew

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including a Pigtronix Envelope Phaser.

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including an EQD Dispatch Master.

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including a Fender Pelt fuzz.

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including a Fender Pugilist Distortion.

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including a Fender Engager Boost.

Used for the bass on "A Car I Can Talk To", as specified in this May 19, 2020 Facebook post by Belew.

we did a powerful day’s worth of recording yesterday on a new song called “A Car I Can Talk To.” here’s a picture of me recording a fender jazz bass through a keeley compressor and a roland jazz chorus 40 amp, which sounded fabulous.

Adrian uses a Boss FV 300H volume pedal, according to Guitar Geek's rig diagram.

Adrian uses a Gig-Fx Chopper pedal, according to this Guitar Geek's rig diagram.

As seen on Guitar Geek, Adrian uses a Johnson J-12 foot controller.

Adrian uses a Boomerang Phrase Sampler, according to Guitar Geek.

According to Guitar Geek, Adrian uses a Roland EV-5 Expression Pedal.

Adrian uses a Samson 16-Channel mixer, according to Guitar Geek's rig diagram.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Adrian uses a ProCo Rack D.I.

Adrian uses Celestial Vintage 30 speakers in his cabinets, according to this Guitar Geek rig diagram.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Adrian uses a Johnson 2x12 Cabinet.

Adrian Below uses a Pigtronix Tremvelope, according to Pigtronix's website.

Around the time of the Power Trio, the ever-changing, always exploring Belew was experimenting with an Electro-Harmonix Flanger Hoax, a Locomofon Fuz-Fabrik, a Roland VG-99, a Boomerang looper, and an Eventide H8000 Ultra-Harmonizer.

Guitar Player interview, 2014.

A 13-pin jack connects his guitar to a Roland VG-99 V-Guitar System. From there, the signal is split, with one side hitting a MOTU UltraLite Mk3 Hybrid audio interface that feeds the front-of-house mix, Belew’s in-ear monitors, and the Bose L1.

Seen on this photo.

This is a screenshot from this video: https://youtu.be/vy7fjfmsV9o

You can clearly see the Jerry Jones Sitar next to Adrian Belew's audio engineer, in the left side of the picture. Looking at the headstock, you can tell that it's not a Danelectro Reissue, but the original Jerry Jones sitar. Check the video for more details: https://youtu.be/vy7fjfmsV9o

You can clearly see the QuNeo behind Adrian Belew's audio engineer, in the right side of the picture, next to the iPad. Check the video for more details: https://youtu.be/vy7fjfmsV9o

Seen in this video at 8:12: https://youtu.be/sv3BGqKURZ4

Seen in this video at 8:32: https://youtu.be/sv3BGqKURZ4

Visible among Belew's effects rack in Adrian Belew: Electronic Guitar (1984) at 2:41.

Visible among Belew's effects rack in Adrian Belew: Electronic Guitar (1984) at 2:41. He also lists it in the December 1986 Downbeat interview "Adrian Belew: Twang Bar King" by Gene Santoro:

ADRIAN BELEW'S EQUIPMENT

Adrian Belew says, "I'm using four guitars now. First are the two Twang-Bar Wonderbeast guitars with artwork by Mike Goetz. Each has a different tuning — one is normal, the other has the G tuned up to A so I can get different voicings and avoid pentatonic scales. Starting off at the headstock, they have bow-and-tuning heads, thereby eliminating the need for retaining bars which stop you from being able to play in the back of the head or bend strings at the nut. They have Seymour Duncan pickups, Kahler tremolo arms, and all the guts from the Roland synthesizer. The same is true of the third guitar I use, except that the artwork is by Laurie Anderson, and that it's tuned to the same tuning as my dobro, E-B-E-E-B-E, with heavier gauge strings, the low E being a .052 and the high E being a .012. Usually I use medium-light Gibson strings, with the high E being a .010 and the low E a .042 I use Fender medium picks. The fourth guitar is my battered 1967 Stratocaster from the David Bowie period, with a broken bass pickup [laughs] and it feeds back better than any other guitar I have.

"My two amps are Roland JC-120s — I've used one on everything from 1977 on. Right now, my floor situation looks something like this — I have the GR-700, the Roland SDE-3000 delay, an Ibanez harmonizer, a Big Muff fuzztone, a Foxtone fuzztone, the Electro-Harmonix echo-flanger — which makes the wonderful metallic insect sounds on Desire — the new Roland compressor — I always use lots of compression — a Roland pitch-shifter, and the Electro-Harmonix 16-second delay, which I've had converted to do backwards tape loops."

In the magazine International Musician And Recording World from June 1990 we can read :

"Belew's rack is a serious affair - and there are two of them in case one goes down: "There's the GP8 and GS6 ganged together, the GP8 is very noisy and the GS6 has the ability to quiet that down. The G96 also has stereo delays and choruses, and has several guitar sounds that I like that I developed - they sort of sound like Vox amplifiers. There's a Roland pitch shifter, which is a mini rack device. The only thing I use that for is backwards guitar. The two A3s have a variety of sounds that I like, they're very warm sounding units and have modulated delays that actually sound like a double guitar."

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including an EQD The Depths.

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including an EQD Hummingbird.

In this video posted to Adrian’s Facebook page, he shows off some of the pedals in his home studio, including an EQD Disaster Transport.