Andrew VanWyngarden

Saint Blue Guitar Workshop made a custom guitar for Andrew and can seen not their site listed under Custom & Signature.

Andrew VanWyngarden can be found many times performing live using this guitar. It has been subject of confusion and requests for the identity of the model.

Andrew uses what appears to be the Gibson Aaron Lewis Southern Jumbo. You can tell it apart from the Traditional or the Sheryl Crow Southern Jumbo by the inlays.The Aaron Lewis Southern Jumbo Standard’s fingerboard is inlaid with vintage-style pearloid parallelograms. On the hand-aged model, even the parallelograms have been distressed to reflect years of use.

Upon a simple search, you can see that Andrew performs live using a Les Paul in Heritage Cherry Sunburst quite often.

Andrew can be seen playing a Magnatone Tornado in this video.

In this photo, VanWyngarden is visible playing the white Fender Stratocaster.

In this photo, VanWyngarden is visible with the typical green Airline Bighorn.

This Guitar can be seen throughout the whole Memphis 2017 concert video. Good View of the guitar at 49:53 The version Andrew is using is a black top and back wth a white body. His one also has a black painted headstock

(The guitar is actually a Jerry Jones 3-pickup Shorthorn, early '90s. I know, because I am the person who sold him the guitar. -BG)

In this article it says Andrew VanWyngarden and MGMT used this digital guitar when recording their album Congratulations

You can see Andrew playing Marshall 1959 head in this video.

At the 1:50 minute mark of this video the Palmer DREI Triple Single Ended Amp head is shown behind Andrew

MGMT used this amp when recording their album Congratulations as stated in this article published by Sound on Sound. "James bought that late in the process,” says VanWyngarden. "We were playing it through a [Fender] Super Reverb amp, and it's a unique sound that people haven't really used that much. We used the 'Clav' sound and it was really thick through a guitar amp. It's pretty responsive. The strings are plastic and pretty loose. It's kind of hard to figure out how to play but it's pretty cool.”

In this photo, which partially shows VanWyngarden's pedalboard, the Boss GE-7 equalizer is visible by its knobs.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the MXR Zakk Wylde overdrive pedal is visible.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Analogman modded Ibanez Tube Screamer can be seen.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Boss DC-2 Dimension C can be seen.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Boss TU-2 tuner can be seen.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Ernie Ball Wah Pedal is visible.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Boss RV-5 reverb pedal is visible.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Empress Tap Tremolo pedal is visible.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the EHX Holy Grail Nano reverb pedal is visible.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Ibanez TS9 tube screamer is visible.

In this 2008 pedalboard photo (which is his pedalboard because it looks almost identical to his 2010 one), the Malekko Chicklet reverb is visible.

In this article by Sound on Sound it says MGMT used this mic when recording their album Congratulations - "The whole signal chain was nice — an old Neumann U47 microphone going into nice preamps — so everything we did there, we could take with us somewhere else,”

In this article by Sound on Sound it says MGMT used an SM57 saying : "We had to mic the drums with this Radio Shack mic on the kick and an SM57 on the snare. Then, in the end, on parts of 'Weekend Wars' and 'The Youth' on the record, some of the drum tracks were actually just that, run through preamps.”

Directly at the beginning of this live performance of "Electric Feel" by MGMT, VanWyngarden can be seen playing a Fender Pawn Shop Bass VI.

Simply, at the bottom of this crazy cool article is a list of gear the used on their self titled album, and the Machindrum is right down in there.