Alexi Laiho
Alexi Laiho's Gear
In a YouTube video by TotalGuitar titled "Me And My Guitar: Alexi Laiho's (Children Of Bodom) ESP Alexi Blacky," Alexi Laiho showcases his custom ESP Alexi Blacky guitar. This solid body electric guitar features a matte black finish with gloss black pinstripes, black pearl sawtooth inlays, scalloped frets from 20 to 24, and black nickel hardware, along with a larger cutaway for enhanced playability.
According to Premier Guitar's interview, Laiho uses Marshall 1960B cabinets.
In both the description to the video and at 0:00-0:05, Alexi Says he is using his signature EMG pickup set, the EMG ALX-HZ.
After Alexis death some of his amps were sold at an auction. From teh listing: "Alexi used this amp mostly for training and in the studio."
Jackson Custom Shop RR24 with green pinstripes used by Alexi Laiho Body: Alder Neck: Maple Neck type: Neck Thru Fingerboard: Ebony Inlays: Mother of Pearl Shark Fin Frets: 24 Scale: 648 mm (25.5") Bridge pickup: Jackson J-50BC Tremolo: Original Floyd Rose Controls: Single Volume Hardware: Black
Source photo from a Facebook by Jackson Randy Rhoads Guitars on 2019 June 18th: https://www.facebook.com/155711184455483/posts/hi-everybody-interesting-story-one-of-the-most-famous-finnish-guitars-jackson-rr/2908433745849866/
Alexi Laiho (given to him by Roope Latvala) is now with guitarist Daniel Freyberg (ex-Naildown, ex-Norther, ex-Children of Bodom, ex-Bodom After Midnight), who bought it from Alexi Laiho.
Jackson Custom Shop RR24 with green pinstripes used for the first song "Sixpounder" during Tuska 2003 show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3OSRnTx7ik
In comments from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ONV8SRooHs you can read someone telling the story of Alexi selling this guitar to Daniel Freyberg:
Alexi sold it to daniel freyberg (ex-northern) in 2003 when he got his deal with esp guitars, you can see some videos from 2003 (alexi interview in 1999, tuska 2003, sinergy live 2002 moscow, portugal 2003) you can see it in northern's last concert in 2012 played by daniel itself.
A picture from this live showing Alexi Laiho playing Jackson Custom Shop RR24 with green pinstripes in very good quality: https://turkrock.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi47.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff200%2FTyrantWerwolf%2FAlexi%2520Laiho%2520-%2520Jacksons%2Fjackson3xl3qm.jpg&hash=356478cde010fe895c49d0e5608fe5ca
In this demonstration at Guitar Clinic in Lahti on March 2001Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom is playing the Jackson RR "Stone" (black with white pinstripes, 24 frets): https://youtu.be/z_nFVnDuQJ8
Also used on tour: Live in Lepakko on October 1999, Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTlxPYyNHrE Live in Milwakee 2000-07-29, Video: https://youtu.be/a4lIB2ZpWZI
Someone else said that he used an ibanez rg220b, I play an rg220b and I already know that the guitar in this video is not an rg220b. it looks like an ibanez rg550 black with A maple fretboard. first of all the tone and volume knobs are different than the rg220b but match the rg550 and second of all the rg220 has no middle pickup but the rg550 does. and third of all the fretboard is maple and the rg220b did not have a maple fretboard.
Alexi Laiho used the Tech 21 SansAmp PSA1 as a backup preamp during live performances in the 2000s, as shown in the user-uploaded photo.
According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Alexi used RSP 2400 back in 2006.
According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Alexi used Two/Fifty/Two back in 2006.
According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Alexi used DTR-1 back in 2006.
In this YouTube video at 06:24 Alexi use his ESP Eclipse (But not White)
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