Andy Bell

“I do play a 335 as well, which is this black one, like an early ’70’s one, which is a little bit rawer and a little bit more leery [than the Trini Lopez]." – Andy Bell on his Gibson ES-335

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Bell uses 1960s Gibson Les Paul Custom.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Bell uses Gibson J-160E.

"This is my main guitar, a 1967 Trini Lopez with a Bigsby fitted. I have two and they are very similar. I bought the first one in LA while I was in Oasis. Noel borrowed it and used it onstage for one of our tours. When it got shipped home to me in Sweden after a year of touring around the world with no problems, it arrived at my front door in two pieces! Baggage handlers had dropped it from some crazy height on it’s journey home. The happy ending to the story is that I had it repaired by my friend, the guitar builder Phillipe Dubreuille, and it now stays in tune for longer and sounds better than it ever did. And you can’t see the repair at all. back in Ride I used to use a Les Paul whenever I wasn’t playing a 12 string. This guitar will be used for all those songs."

Andy used an Epiphone Hummingbird in this radio perfomance

"I played the donated Hohner for quite a while, then got a Satellite, which was a nice 335 copy. I used that for the early Ride stuff, and when we got signed I bought two Rickenbacker 12-strings—a 330 and a 360—and a Gretsch Tennessean, all in one shopping trip on Denmark Street in London."

"I played the donated Hohner for quite a while, then got a Satellite, which was a nice 335 copy. I used that for the early Ride stuff, and when we got signed I bought two Rickenbacker 12-strings—a 330 and a 360—and a Gretsch Tennessean, all in one shopping trip on Denmark Street in London."

"I played the donated Hohner for quite a while, then got a Satellite, which was a nice 335 copy. I used that for the early Ride stuff, and when we got signed I bought two Rickenbacker 12-strings—a 330 and a 360—and a Gretsch Tennessean, all in one shopping trip on Denmark Street in London. Mark [Gardener, Ride’s other singer and guitarist] bought a Fender Jaguar and a Rickenbacker as well. He got the smaller John Lennon-sized one and I got the larger ones like George Harrison and Roger McGuinn used."

Included in list of Andy Bell's gear

This processor was used in studio only, according to Guitar Geek's rig diagram.

Included in list of Andy Bell's gear

Included in list of Andy Bell's gear

Sitting Andy's Pedalboard in the September 2015 issue of Total Guitar Magazine.

"60’s Trem. Simple and great."

"Not an effects pedal, this is a footswitch I hold down when I’m singing into the microphone, to switch it on. The rest of the time the mic is off. It’s useful when there’s loads of noise on stage."

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Boss DS-1 is one of the pedals he uses.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, this is one of the pedals he used in 1996.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Bell uses this pedal.

"Ibanez CP-9 Compressor. This is the only pedal that stays on throughout the gig. it’s the first thing my guitar goes into and I think this is an 80’s unit. It’s an eBay job, they don’t make them anymore. I think I got one because my friend Andy Hackett (who is in the Rockingbirds and also runs Angel Music on Denmark Street, the best guitar shop in London) has one on his pedal board. Gem also swears by these."

"Another compressor. This is my “one louder” pedal. There are certain times in a gig when you need to turn up when everything is already ridiculously loud. This does that. I only use it a couple of times a gig."

"MXR Micro Amp. This is the next level of volume up from the Red Compressor. It’s on for most of the gig but it’s not too lairy (because I don’t have it turned up too much, as you can see)."

"Boss Digital Delay. Solid (solid… solid…)"

"Holy Grail Reverb. On Hall setting. I have this on quite a lot, I don’t like my guitar to sound too dry onstage and this helps. probably use it too much actually." - Andy Bell about this pedal.

"Strymon El Capistan – Digital Tape Echo. It’s delay with loads of extra’s that make it sound and feel like a real old Tape echo unit (except that real tape echo units are always breaking). By the way, now we’ve crossed over to the second pedal board, the Mike Hill one where everything is affecting the sound separately."

"Eventide Time Factor. Another posh delay unit. I use this one purely for its backwards setting. It takes some getting used to but when it’s set up as above, you play in a few seconds of guitar (which you don’t hear) and then it feeds it back to you reversed. With a bit of practise you can appear to play backwards in real time. (Gem used to do this with an earlier pedal made by Line 6 in the Oasis era)."

"Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer. The King of pedals. This is a reissue. I have a couple of old ones. I’ve compared them and I can’t tell the difference. I can’t recommend this highly enough."

"Fulltone Octo-Fuzz. I was recommended this one by Gem, it’s a VERY Gem Archer sound. Also very Neil Young. If you want to know how it sounds, play “Sons of the Stage” by Beady Eye, all the lead playing is going through this. It kind of ‘overwhelms’ the guitar sound and makes it sound like a herd of rampaging buffalo. maybe that’s why it reminds me of Neil Young."