Ben Howard

This Martin D-28 is Ben's main stage guitar which he uses for all songs in his C G combo tuning. The Martin is seen throughout the live performance.

Ben is featured on Freshman Guitar's site where they say that while each guitar is unique, the SONGDLH is the closest to Ben's actual guitar. They also share this video of him playing the Freshman FA300D which is discontinued. However the models closest to this are the Songwriter series which feature all solid wood and are of the same construction that being solid spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides. The current FA400D features a body made of solid rosewood and sounds different.

Ben is seen in this live performance playing a Fender American Standard Telecaster Left Handed model. The American Standard is clearly seen at around 0:13.

Ben Howard is seen here playing a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Electric Guitar.

Ben can be seen playing an HD-28 in this image. The herringbone trim on the side of the guitar is what can verify this as the HD-28.

Ben Howard uses this nylon stringed version of the 812 ce to play "Keep Your Head Up". You can see him playing it on Pure FM, although it is the left handed version.

At 1:24, one can clearly see the herringbone rosette and Eric Clapton's signature on the fretboard of Ben Howard's Martin OOO-28EC guitar.

At 24:50, one can see Ben Howard using a left-handed Jazzmaster while playing his song, "The Wolves", at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015 on the 23rd of May 2015

In this video, at 0:17, Ben Howard can be seen playing the song 'Rivers In Your Mouth', off the album 'I Forget Where We Were', on a black Gibson Les Paul Custom

During the whole video, you can see that he is using a Gibson ES-345TD, Which seems quite alike to ES-335, but the 'Baritone Switch' is its special feature.

It also seems quite alike to standard Les Paul from Gibson, Those Mini Size Hum Buckers signs that it is a Les Paul Deluxe Model. Which has quite distinguish sounds to Standard Les Paul. It's bright and gently clean sound is its specialty.

I have seen Ben Howard live 3 times, each and every time he plays 'The Fear' he uses this Stratocaster, possibly a left handed, due to the way he plays.

Ben is Ambassador for Martin Guitars. He is using his 000-28VS for a solo session. You can spot that this instrument is a 000-28VS from the slotted headstock, the ivoroid binding and the unique body shape. Minute 2:20

In this picture, you can see Ben Howard play with his Silvertone Bobkat (a back one). It's a vintage electric guitar from USA. The Harmony-built 'Bobkat'-based had quite a run in the mid-60s.

You can see Ben play with this guitar in this video : https://www.facebook.com/benhowardmusic/ You can see the same peg head of the Silverstone Bobkat.

Around 21:37 Ben using Gibson LP Standard for Time is Dancing song

He uses this guitar for this cover. I cant tell what exact type of jazzmaster it is but it does have binding on the neck and it looks and sounds really great. I think he has used several times when performing.

He started using this guitar on the ND tour.

In this live performance from Lollapalooza 2013, Ben can be seen adjusting the reverb on a Fender Vintage Reissue '65 Deluxe Reverb Guitar Combo Amp at around 6:44.

“I won’t use any amp apart from the VC30. I’ve tried a lot of other amps over the years but nothing else gives me the tone I’m looking for.”

Amp seen at 4:16 into video.

I've seen Ben playing it live when I was on A blaze of feather's show.

Dunlop features Ben Howard and their products that he uses, including the MXR MC402 Boost/Overdrive.

Dunlop features Ben Howard and their products that he uses, including the MXR M-109 6-Band Graphic EQ.

Ben Howard can be seen using a Strymon Timeline on his pedal board for Radio 1's Big Weekend from 25.45 time mark.

Ben Howard can be seen using a Strymon Big Sky on his pedal board for Radio 1's big weekend from 25.45 minute mark.

This wrong, it is two strymon blue skies (for simplicity im guessing when playing live). A strymon big sky has knobs on the right hand side and one on the left where as at 25:45, it appears have them on both sides. This is more than likely two strymon blue skies because the knobs are in the right place, the 9v input is in the same place and the Colour is the same.

"Then I just run through the Strymon Brigadier - that’s the delay pedal I use - and the Strymon reverb [Big Sky]..."

"...then it’s the Way Huge Green Rhino overdrive. I’ve just got that to try and replicate it live, because basically we had amps that, live, were just going to blow up."