Billy Gibbons

Billy Gibbons talks about the Maestro Fuzz-Tone as one his first pedals, citing it as a pivotal starting point, in this video starting at 5:00.

Mentioned by Elwood Francis (Gibbons' guitar tech) in Fuzz: The Sound That Revolutionized the World at 1:19:59.

The last time we moved on to the Foxx Tone Machines. He got into those heavy, you know, with his tone dog and lap dog and distortion. It went from the Expandoras, the six Expandoras to three Tone Machines.

In this interview with, Billy Gibbons talks about his use of the Bixonic Expandora:

"Guitar World: You use six Bixonic Expandora pedals for distortion, which would seem to create a muddy mess. Do you set the levels differently on each one to create the desired sustain while maintaining a cleaner distortion sound?

"You are correct. Combinations of multiple effects are manageable when using a slight edge from each, which avoids the unwanted collision of tones. However, at this point, sometimes the grind of excessive noise becomes its own thing! Experiment...just not with your medication."

"Great fuzz box. We're just going to try that out," says Billy Gibbons's guitar tech about the Gnomeratron VTF Guitar Effects Pedal.

Billy uses the Siete Santos, according to his official artist page on Dunlop's website.

A custom, higher gain version is featured in Fuzz: The Sound That Revolutionized the World at 13:26.

[Gibbons] Here's one, Analog Man. He's making the Sun Face, an excellent sounding pedal and he also makes one called the Sun Lion.

[Mike Piera, Analog Man founder] I think we've made seven or nine Sun Faces for Billy Gibbons, I kinda lost count. And we made some with higher gain NKTs and we put little pictures of a chili pepper on the side so we knew which ones were hot and he liked the hot ones. He does like his spicy food, that's for sure! [laughs] So I put, like, "caliente" on the side and a little chili pepper and so [switches focus to Sun Lion] I think these were built also with the higher gain NKTs in the Sun Face side. Yeah, they are so this one's not gonna clean up quite as much if you roll your guitar and your volume down, it's not gonna get sparkly clean, but when you crank it up you're gonna get a nice, big amount of fuzz, especially for a germanium. This gonna give you a nice amount of fuzz, which is what Billy likes.

Featured on Gibbons' Rainger FX artist page.

A custom, higher gain version is featured in Fuzz: The Sound That Revolutionized the World at 13:26.

[Gibbons] Here's one, Analog Man. He's making the Sun Face, an excellent sounding pedal and he also makes one called the Sun Lion.

[Mike Piera, Analog Man founder] I think we've made seven or nine Sun Faces for Billy Gibbons, I kinda lost count. And we made some with higher gain NKTs and we put little pictures of a chili pepper on the side so we knew which ones were hot and he liked the hot ones. He does like his spicy food, that's for sure! [laughs] So I put, like, "caliente" on the side and a little chili pepper and so [switches focus to Sun Lion] I think these were built also with the higher gain NKTs in the Sun Face side. Yeah, they are so this one's not gonna clean up quite as much if you roll your guitar and your volume down, it's not gonna get sparkly clean, but when you crank it up you're gonna get a nice, big amount of fuzz, especially for a germanium. This gonna give you a nice amount of fuzz, which is what Billy likes.

Billy uses an Octavio Pedal as seen in this rig rundown article.

Billy uses a Jimi Hendrix Octavio as seen in this rig rundown article.

At 22.00 Billy tech talks about his rack effects.