Brad Paisley

In this photo, Brad Paisley can be seen playing live with his signature model Gibson J-45 Acoustic-Electric Guitar. He also lists it on his official website as one of his "Road Guitars".

In this video interview with Parade, Brad Paisley can be seen strumming a Santa Cruz 1934D starting at 0:16.

In this video, Brad Paisley talks about his custom "G-Bender" Fender Telecaster:

“I grew up listening to players that played B-Benders - and a B-Bender guitar, which is what I have here (mine’s got a G) - B-Bender guitars have their own thing and you heard them on everything from the Eagles to Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner and those guys. It was really the most prominent bender. And it’s a higher string, that sort of… [pauses to demonstrate] But the G, I actually had Joe Glaser build me a G-Bender a long time ago, and the first guitar I got a G - it's exactly like a steel guitar mechanism. If you look at a steel guitar it’s a bunch of saddles that look like this and they can hook up - levers and pedals and things to any of them - and it'll move this a whole step, and there's a little lever back here when you pull down, it raises this G string up whole steps. [demonstrates] And it's something you can kinda use when you get stuck. The reason being that Jimmy Olander with Diamond Rio had a double bender - and I liked the sound of the G string - he had both where he could… [pauses to demonstrate] But the idea of that lower string… sounded a little more musical me. A little less twangy and a little more throaty… like a steel guitar maybe. What I find is, and I do a lot of bending without it… it’s got a different pedal steel sound to it… [demonstrates]”

Bill Crook also custom made a Black and White Paisely Telecaster for country music star Brad Paisley. “We had a black one, it was one of the first ones that Bill Crook had made for him and it was ruined so when I called Bill and said, “By the way, you know, I need, like, eight guitars, you know, yesterday,” he said, “I actually just finished one for a customer, called him up and said, ‘Hey, your guitar’s ready, but Brad Paisley lost all of his in the flood,’ and the guy said, ‘Let Brad have mine, build me another one.’” So bless you, sir, I do not know your name, I was never told, but thank you.” (2:25).

A custom guitar made for Brad Paisely, the Crook Water Telecaster was featured on Paisley’s H2O tour. This particular guitar, “it’s kind of what the tour’s based on and it was in the video. The original one was in the video and then Bill Crook had made a mock-up version of it for the video shoot and it got ruined in the pool and then the original one got ruined in the flood, so this is a third one,” Paisley’s tech says at (2:00).

One of Paisley’s guitars is a 1952 Reissue Fender Telecaster. Fortunately, one copy of this guitar survived when Paisley’s equipment was flooded, “but it’s a great guitar, good, this one couldn’t have worked out any better. I honestly thought this would be the hardest one to replace and it was the first one replaced,” Paisley’s tech says at (1:54).

Country superstar Brad Paisley helps Fender celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Telecaster. Watch as he discusses his first guitar, what makes the Telecaster so special and why it's the "perfect thing for what" he does.

This is a picture taken from backstage at the American Music Awards

This photo from Brad Paisley's official site show Paisley's Dr. Z Mini Z Guitar Amplifier. The amp is listed as being used for the songs All I Wanted Was A Car, Better Than This, Ticks, Online, and It Did. The original source can be found here.

This photo, found on the Gear section of Brad Paisley's official website, shows he uses the Dr. Z Prescription Extra Strength "RX ES" Guitar Amp Head. It appears to have a hand-painted, customized graphic on the front of it.

Tony Bruno also makes a custom Underground 45 guitar amp for Brad Paisley. This amp is Tony Bruno’s “version of a Trainwreck Rocket and we use it for some gainier stuff and just crank it up, you know, really good sounding amp.” (03:12)

Paisley also uses Tony Bruno Amplifiers, including the Underground 30. According to Paisley’s guitar tech, the Underground 30 is “is pretty much Tony [Bruno’s] take on an AC30. Most of his stuff is very AC30-esque but he kind of tailors to whatever you want,” (2:20).

Brad Paisely also uses a Dr. Z Z-Verb amplifier, as seen in this Premier Guitar interview (0:17).

In this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video, Brad Paisley’s tech shows us a number of Dr. Z amplifiers, including the Z Wreck. At (1:15) he says, “This is the new version of the Z-Wreck, that was an amp that (00:01:15)for all the Trainwreck fans, Ken Fisher, and Dr. Z were really good buddies and it was probably three or four years ago, Ken and Z had decided to build an amp…they sent this amp back and it was incredible.”

While discussing the song he recorded with Keith Urban "Start a Band," and Keith's gear for the session, Brad goes on to say " I used my ’68 Tele with the ’62 AC30 and Z-Wreck for the first half, and the second half is the Trainwreck and Z-Wreck together, to get a bit grittier. The song starts with my typical clean guitar sound."

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In this video, Brad shows off his latest colaboration with Dr. Z! The DB4! This is the fourth collaboration between The Doc and Brad (hence the name DB4: Doc & Brad’s fourth amp design)

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A photo of his pedalboard on his official site, bradpaisley.com, shows Brad Paisley uses the Aqua-Puss MkII Delay Pedal by Way Huge Electronics.

A photo of his pedalboard on his official site, bradpaisley.com, shows Brad Paisley uses the Boss DD-3 Digital Delay pedal.

The upper right of this photo of Brad Paisley's pedalboard shows he uses the Wampler The Paisley Drive Signature Overdrive Guitar Pedal.

Brad has been a long time user of Wampler pedals. Not having quite settled on a good overdrive tone, this is what he had to say about the requirements:

"It needs to be clean but get crunchy with some "beef" to it. It needs to have a fluid tone when soloing. It needs to add a little hair to the tone but then has to be able to give flat out ball busting gain. Oh but please do not wreck the tonality. It needs to have everything, in a pedal format, but do not make it sound like a pedal!"

Brian at Wampler made some prototypes for Brad. Brad selected one which went straight into the live rack and out on the H20world tour.

This photo likely shows Paisley's prototype, since the commercially available version of the pedal has a different, more polished look.

A photo of his pedalboard on his official site, bradpaisley.com, shows Brad Paisley uses the MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay Pedal.

A photo of his pedalboard on his official site, bradpaisley.com, shows Paisley uses a Maxon AD999 Analog Delay Pedal. It can be seen in the bottom row of the pedalboard, second from the left.