Brian D'Addario

In a performance at The Current studio, Brian D'Addario is seen using a Fender 6G6A/B Bassman amplifier.

Brian D'Addario used this guitar model (with his band "The Lemon Twigs") during a live studio performance on 89.3 The Current.

In a performance for La Blogothèque's "A Take Away Show," Brian D'Addario of The Lemon Twigs plays an Epiphone Hummingbird Pro.

Brian is clearly seen playing a Mustang in this post. It has also been regularly used on the 2026 tour supporting the alcum "Look For Your Mind!"

The Lemon Twigs and The Symposium at Thalia Hall as photographed by ANCHR magazine.

Jonathan Rado explains recording the Lemon Twigs: "We were all pretty inexperienced. Reverb sounds would have come from a spring reverb in a Shure PA system and we had some Space Echoes and stuff."

Great article about the Lemon Twigs' setup: "The D’Addario brothers’ home studio has a smattering of new gear and a bunch of stuff from their father’s heyday including; a Tascam 80-8 eight-track, which runs 1/2-inch tape at 15ips, Mackie 16-channel 1604-VLZ Pro, Yamaha HS7 monitors, an old Alesis XT reverb, and a dbx 1066 compressor."

From an article about recording with Jonathan Rado: "The D’Addario brothers’ home studio has a smattering of new gear and a bunch of stuff from their father’s heyday including; a Tascam 80-8 eight-track, which runs 1/2-inch tape at 15ips, Mackie 16-channel 1604-VLZ Pro, Yamaha HS7 monitors, an old Alesis XT reverb, and a dbx 1066 compressor."

Brian is selling this guitar. (lol)

He has played with her (Fender Strat 1981) on several shows

In the video, Brian can be seen playing a plexi glass Dan Armstrong.

The pedal can be seen in this video of the recent performance of "Small Victories"

As 2024, Brian still use this pedal live.

Double stacked triton and casio being played by Brian in this photo.

Describing their studio: "It’s pretty much a two-car garage with tons and tons of recording gear, so there isn’t really much room to move around. There’s an upright piano, a drum kit, tons of guitars and several keyboards, like a Wurlitzer, a Minimoog, an ARP Quartet, and a Roland Juno 60."

About their studio: "It’s pretty much a two-car garage with tons and tons of recording gear, so there isn’t really much room to move around. There’s an upright piano, a drum kit, tons of guitars and several keyboards, like a Wurlitzer, a Minimoog, an ARP Quartet, and a Roland Juno 60."

Janothan Rado on what was used in the studio to record "Do Hollywood":

“Dream Star is a tape recorder studio. I have a Tascam MSR-16 16-track, an old Tascam 288 eight-track, and I recently got a Tascam 24-track. The Lemon Twigs record was done on the 16-track, which is a half-inch machine. I also have a 32-channel Yamaha desk, and a 16-channel Tascam M2516 mixer that we used for monitoring. I love Tascam as a brand, because their stuff is so geared towards home studio recording. It’s meant for the average person to buy and be able to use straight away. It is very simple. I didn’t go to recording school or anything, and have never worked in studios, so I taught myself everything, and they are very easy machines to learn on.”

Jonathan Rado on recording "Do Hollywood" with the Lemon twigs: "Do Hollywood sounds remarkably clean and transparent. Despite having two larger mixing consoles, some of the tracks were pre-mixed on a small Allen & Heath ZED mixer. “I recorded the drums on two tracks with the kick and the overhead on one track, and the snare on the other track,” said Rado. “My basic setup was a Shure SM58 on the kick and an Akai dictation mic that came with a reel to reel on the snare. It has this really mid-range response, and I EQ-ed the hell out of it."

In the picture you can see Brian playing a Fender Stratocaster. He uses two different Stratocasters on stage, one blue and one black and can be seen in many pictures recently using one of the two.

The pedal can be seen in this recent performance of "Small Victories".

In this article

"Mix & Match

Guitars-and-amps-wise, the brothers had more options. Brian D’Addario mostly played the ’77 Fender Stratocaster that he uses live,"

This synth can be heard on songs like "Why Do Lovers Own Each Other".

In this video at the timestamp 1:37 (and in most of the live shows after the release of Everything Harmony) Brian D'Addario can be seen using this guitar.

Brian plays an ebony Gibson Firebird Tribute in this vid.

The pedal that Brian uses is a Super Pedals brand, Jangly model, a boutique pedal and can be seen on the manufacturer's website, where there is a photo of Brian with the pedal and in videos of his performances.

Double stacked triton and casio being played by Brian in this photo.

Multiple photos in this blog post show the boys of lemon twigs using the classic 58.

In the "these words" music video, Brian can be seen playing the classic Rhodes Got confirmation from this photo of the twigs performing at austin city limits: https://www.baeblemusic.com/photos/10-9-2017/austin-city-limits/the-lemon-twigs.html#lg=1&slide=2

About their studio: "We put up a dry wall and we soundproofed it. It’s pretty much a two-car garage with tons and tons of recording gear, so there isn’t really much room to move around. There’s an upright piano, a drum kit, tons of guitars and several keyboards, like a Wurlitzer, a Minimoog, an ARP Quartet, and a Roland Juno 60."

Brian talks about mixing their debut album themselves. The article mentions that they started in GarageBand and then moved to Logic: "Brian D’Addario picked up the rest of story. “After we completed the recordings at Rado’s, I overdubbed strings, trumpet and replaced the vocals on These Words and Frank because I had done some very bad vocal takes. By this stage the sessions were in Logic. I then mixed most of the album."

There are images of them using this keyboard during live instances.

Brian D'Addario likely used a Moog Minimoog Model D during the recording of "Songs for the General Public," as suggested by a user-uploaded photo.