Carlos Santana's Gear

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The Budda Bud-WAH appears on this picture of Carlos Santana’s pedalboard.

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This John Suhr amp selector is custom made for Carlos Santana as his guitar tech Ed Adair recalls.

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At the minute 22.33 of the "Premier Guitar"'s Video "Rig Rundown - Carlos Santana", Santana's Guitar tech shows that Santana uses 2 Dumble Overdrive Reverb Heads, one is there as spare head.

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Carlos Santana uses and endorses the V-Picks Freakishly Large Round Pearly Gate, as detailed in Ryan Carraher's article on Uberchord.

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Carlos Santana is seen playing the custom made Alembic guitar with Eric Clapton on August 15, 1975. More details on the Club Alembic forum: https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=25529.0 - https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8400.0

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Carlos Santana's tech recalls that Santana is using a Pete Cornish ABC Box.

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This TC Electronic D2 Delay is used by Carlos Santana as his guitar tech recalls in the source.

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Carlos Santana is featured playing a PRS Santana MD-10 in several music videos.

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This Gibson Les Paul Standard was most notably used during the early 70's. Santana performed on 1971 Montreux Festival with this guitar.

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Peterson AutoStrobe 490 tuner is shown in Carlos Santana's rack by his guitar tech Ed Adair in youtube link above (visible throughout, it is confirmed at 1 min 5 secs into the video). Video was uploaded in September 2016

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Carlos Santana uses two 4x12 PRS cabinets as pointed out by his tech Ed Adair.

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Carlos Santana uses the PRS Santana 25th Anniversary guitar, as evidenced by a user-uploaded photo on Musicradar.

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This custom green PRS signature guitar of Carlos Santana is also used for live work.

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Carlos Santana is listed as an artist associated with the Matchless HC-30 Guitar Amp Head on the Matchless Amplifiers website.

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In the official music video for "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas, Carlos Santana can be seen using a Dumble Steel String Singer guitar amplifier head.

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Carlos Santana collaborated with MasterClass to create the course "Carlos Santana Teaches the Art and Soul of Guitar," as shown in the official trailer on YouTube.

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In the official music video for "Maria Maria" by Santana, Carlos Santana is seen playing the Giannini CDR-PRO Violao Electro-Acustico Nylon guitar.

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Among owners of SS-3 is Santana

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I saw Santana live @ House of Blues in Las Vegas on January 25, 2023 and that Twin Reverb sounded amazing

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As stated on page 87 of the March 1980 issue of International Musician and Recording World, Ronnie Montrose sold the Esquire he used on Open Fire to Santana in early 1980.

"On my solo LP I just used a little amp and a fuzz (tone). The main instrument I used was a Fender Esquire that I just sold to Carlos Santana." Montrose shrugs his shoulders. "I'm not into flash," he emphasizes.

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In a YouTube video titled "Santana - The Healer/Saja Live In Berlin 1987" by EpicConcerts, Carlos Santana is seen playing the Roland G-707 synth guitar at 1:55 during a performance of The Healer. This concert took place on April 6, 1987, at the Palast der Republik in East Berlin, and was broadcast by DDR2.

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Around 11:25 Neal says him and Santana both used Fender Twins turned up.

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Carlos Santana uses the PRS Santana Signature Retro 10-Top guitar, as evident in the official music video for "The Game Of Love" featuring Michelle Branch, available on the SantanaVEVO YouTube channel.

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In the music video for "Just Feel Better" from the "All That I Am" album, Carlos Santana is seen using a PRS Santana Retro guitar, as evidenced by the image available on Equipboard.

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This has been Santana’s main acoustic guitar for the past several years.

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In an interview with Kevin Madigan, the Front of House (FOH) engineer for Carlos Santana, it is confirmed that Santana uses the OC818 Large-diaphragm Condenser Microphone with Multiple Polar Patterns on his cabinets. This information is provided by Austrian Audio.

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In an interview with Austrian Audio, Kevin Madigan, the Front of House engineer for Carlos Santana, confirmed that Carlos Santana uses the Austrian Audio OC707 True Condenser Vocal Handheld Microphone for his vocals.

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According to his artist page on the official MESA/Boogie® website, guitarist Carlos Santana uses the Mesa/Boogie Rectifier 4x12 Traditional Straight cabinet.

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