Blake Mills

'For onstage vocals, Mills uses the M81 dynamic. “It is so sturdy, has minimal feedback and it’s easy to hear your own pitch. You can crank that with a wedge and it’s more directional, and I’m just learning how to work best with that mic.”'

'For my guitar, I like the M81-SH in front of the amp, with an M82 on the back of the amp.”'

'For my guitar, I like the M81-SH in front of the amp, with an M82 on the back of the amp.”'

'“I’ve put it in front of acoustic guitars a lot and I’ve been really happy. It’s also a great mic for my voice, which is a little irregular and inconsistent, and I like it as a drum overhead, as well.”'

Used to record Mills' guitar on Benmont Tench's You Should Be So Lucky, as seen in this Twitter post by Tench.

"I spent an hour and a half just playing it...I said 'what is the deal with this guitar'...it had this amazing sort of conversation quality...It's one of those guitars that talks back to you when you're playing it," says Blake Mills, about his Barney Kessel Custom, at around 30 minutes into this video.

In an interview with the Fretboard Journal magazine, starting around the 33 minute mark, Mills says that Mike Cornwall, an LA-based guitar repairman and tech, built Mill's Coodercaster.

Cornwall was Mills' guitar tech when Mills was playing with Lucinda Williams, and the two built the guitar which Blake says is "obviously heavily inspired by the Coodercaster, (but) the neck pickup is different. The neck pickup was something that was in a guitar that Val McCallum had lent to me."

Mills describes the pickup being kind of mysterious; it took a lot of research to find where it came from. Mills goes on to say in the interview that the pickup "was on a single model of hollow body Guyatone guitars. The guitars themselves are not great instruments usually, so I don't have a lot of guilt about pulling the pickups out of them." Blake does not reveal the exact model Guyatone... Aside from the neck pickup, Mills said the guitar was "made from parts Mike found while we were on the road." The guitar has a telecaster neck, and the bridge pickup is "from a Valco" lapsteel inside the housing of a Lollar copy.

Blake is seen talking about the amp he used while playing with Cass McCombs around the :25 mark of this video.

"He's got a silverface Princeton Reverb that somebody has deconstructed and put into a head and cabinet configuration."

This article states that Blake Mills played a Goya Rangemaster on his song "Just Out of View."

In this video you can see Blake Mills playing the Dano.

In this videoBlake Mills sits down for a One On One Session at City Winery New York on July 31st, 2015. He plays a Harmony Stratotone H44 guitar with a copper finish, it's probably from the 50s.

In an interview with PremierGuitar Blake talks about the telecaster you can see in the Guitar Moves video. This is what he says: "I’m a massive Telecaster fan because it’s the most straightforward and versatile guitar I’ve ever known. The ’52 blackguard Tele that I’ve been borrowing from Jackson Browne for a few years now has an interesting history. It was on a ton of his early records, and Waddy Wachtel and David Lindley and all these guys have played it." link to article here: http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21461-blake-mills-emotional-rescue?page=2

Here we see Blake using the GS-500 for the whole vid.

We see blake using/talking about his custom Mike Cornwall coodercaster in this video. It has a tele neck, a valco lapsteel pickup, and a guyatone gold foil humbucker in the neck with a custom 3-way harness.

In this picture, Blake says the guitar is made by Bill Asher. He tends to use it quite a lot nowadays (along with his other mike cornwall one)

Blake can be seen playing his Gibson ES-330 in this video at the Fretboard Summit with Bill Frisell. The guitar can also be seen in pictures in his Instagram account such as this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/TkGNh2AQLn/?taken-by=breakmirrors

At 0:51 you can see Blake Mills using a Fender Deluxe Reverb blackface.

Blake can be seen setting and playing this amp on this video

Blake Mills says in an interview for Guitar Player, that he uses an Austen Hooks - modified Bell & Howell film projector amplifier. He has a couple, but he is commonly seen with just one live

The amp can be seen behin Blake Mills. It is plugged in, and mic'd up

According to this picture the Maxon AD-999 can be found on Blake Mills' pedalboard.

According to this picture Blake Mills sports two Radial Tonebones on his pedalboard. Blake Mills also tweeted: "Radial tone bone great for polarity and ground flip"

On this photo you can see something that looks like a ZVEX box of rock pedal on Blake's pedalboard.

On twitter, Blakes states that this is his setup. It consists of the Harakiri Fuzz

Union Tube & Transistor posted picture on their Facebook of Blake Mills' pedalboard for Perfume Genius' performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Blake can be seen playing this amp on this video