Colin Hay's Gear

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Colin uses an yearly black Yamaha sc-1500.

EDIT: The website originally linked to appears to be down or non-existent at this point, so a better piece of evidence is this live video of Men at Work performing in 1983. Around the 2:12 mark, we can see Colin's SG when the camera zooms in and pans down for his solo.

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According to Maton's website, Hay also uses the Maton C.S. Grand acoustic guitar.

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In the back of the source photo of men at works snl performance a JC-120 can be seen.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the Klon Centaur overdrive.

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In the photo in this source Colin can be seen playing a sunburst SC-1200.

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According to Maton's website, Hay also uses the Maton W.A. May model, which is actually a tribute model to Maton's founder.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the Line 6 DL4 delay pedal.

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During 2009 concert in Denver, Hay used this guitar. This guitar also has the Bigsby system added to it.

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In this video tutorial, Colin shows off his beautiful Custom Shop Pre-War J-200 Reissue

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During Hay's 2007 performance at The Independent, he briefly used the orange Duesenberg Starplayer TV.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the CAE Boost/Line Driver.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the Mad Professor Little Green Wonder.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the Menatone King of the Britains.

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The second is an acoustic board designed for Colin Hay of Men at Work. Colin wanted a very versatile system that was state of the art. It allows him to blend his dry acoustic sound with stereo effects.

A custom box was built by Martin to allow a DI feed and stereo XLR through the pedals to the house as well as a mono amp send. The box also allows a master mute of all outs to the tuner and a mute of the XLR's and amp send individually. The XLR's are ISO'd with two Jensen Transformers.

The signal chain is as follows: Custom switching box---Demeter Tube DI---EBS Comp----Durham Sexdrive----Fulldrive II----Boss Loop Station---TC Modulator----TC Nova Delay---Swith box.

The Demeter tube DI is an incredibly natural sounding piece. The TC pedals blended in stereo are amazingly spacious.

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The second is an acoustic board designed for Colin Hay of Men at Work. Colin wanted a very versatile system that was state of the art. It allows him to blend his dry acoustic sound with stereo effects.

A custom box was built by Martin to allow a DI feed and stereo XLR through the pedals to the house as well as a mono amp send. The box also allows a master mute of all outs to the tuner and a mute of the XLR's and amp send individually. The XLR's are ISO'd with two Jensen Transformers.

The signal chain is as follows: Custom switching box---Demeter Tube DI---EBS Comp----Durham Sexdrive----Fulldrive II----Boss Loop Station---TC Modulator----TC Nova Delay---Swith box.

The Demeter tube DI is an incredibly natural sounding piece. The TC pedals blended in stereo are amazingly spacious.

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The second is an acoustic board designed for Colin Hay of Men at Work. Colin wanted a very versatile system that was state of the art. It allows him to blend his dry acoustic sound with stereo effects.

A custom box was built by Martin to allow a DI feed and stereo XLR through the pedals to the house as well as a mono amp send. The box also allows a master mute of all outs to the tuner and a mute of the XLR's and amp send individually. The XLR's are ISO'd with two Jensen Transformers.

The signal chain is as follows: Custom switching box---Demeter Tube DI---EBS Comp----Durham Sexdrive----Fulldrive II----Boss Loop Station---TC Modulator----TC Nova Delay---Swith box.

The Demeter tube DI is an incredibly natural sounding piece. The TC pedals blended in stereo are amazingly spacious.

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The second is an acoustic board designed for Colin Hay of Men at Work. Colin wanted a very versatile system that was state of the art. It allows him to blend his dry acoustic sound with stereo effects.

A custom box was built by Martin to allow a DI feed and stereo XLR through the pedals to the house as well as a mono amp send. The box also allows a master mute of all outs to the tuner and a mute of the XLR's and amp send individually. The XLR's are ISO'd with two Jensen Transformers.

The signal chain is as follows: Custom switching box---Demeter Tube DI---EBS Comp----Durham Sexdrive----Fulldrive II----Boss Loop Station---TC Modulator----TC Nova Delay---Swith box.

The Demeter tube DI is an incredibly natural sounding piece. The TC pedals blended in stereo are amazingly spacious.

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In a Facebook post, Colin Hay's pedalboard is shown featuring the TC Electronic Stereo Chorus Flanger.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the TC Electronic Vintage Delay.

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According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the Peterson StroboStomp.

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The second is an acoustic board designed for Colin Hay of Men at Work. Colin wanted a very versatile system that was state of the art. It allows him to blend his dry acoustic sound with stereo effects.

A custom box was built by Martin to allow a DI feed and stereo XLR through the pedals to the house as well as a mono amp send. The box also allows a master mute of all outs to the tuner and a mute of the XLR's and amp send individually. The XLR's are ISO'd with two Jensen Transformers.

The signal chain is as follows: Custom switching box---Demeter Tube DI---EBS Comp----Durham Sexdrive----Fulldrive II----Boss Loop Station---TC Modulator----TC Nova Delay---Swith box.

The Demeter tube DI is an incredibly natural sounding piece. The TC pedals blended in stereo are amazingly spacious.

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The second is an acoustic board designed for Colin Hay of Men at Work. Colin wanted a very versatile system that was state of the art. It allows him to blend his dry acoustic sound with stereo effects.

A custom box was built by Martin to allow a DI feed and stereo XLR through the pedals to the house as well as a mono amp send. The box also allows a master mute of all outs to the tuner and a mute of the XLR's and amp send individually. The XLR's are ISO'd with two Jensen Transformers.

The signal chain is as follows: Custom switching box---Demeter Tube DI---EBS Comp----Durham Sexdrive----Fulldrive II----Boss Loop Station---TC Modulator----TC Nova Delay---Swith box.

The Demeter tube DI is an incredibly natural sounding piece. The TC pedals blended in stereo are amazingly spacious.

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Hay can be seen using a Roland SDE-2000 Digital Delay mounted on a stand in front of him during this performance in Hamburg, Germany in 1982.

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Dynaverb is part of his rig for tour with Man At Work

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EP booster is part of his rig for tour with Man At Work

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Shin Dumbloid is part of his pedalboard for Man At Work .

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In an article by Paul de Benedictis on Mixonline, Colin Hay discusses how he utilized the Lauten Audio Atlantis FC-387 microphone for his solo album "Next Year People."

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