Dan Auerbach

In this photo of the inside artwork of The Black Keys album: Rubber Factory, the combo amp sitting on the far left is an Ampeg Gemini I, which coincidentally can also be seen on the inside cover of their debut album: The Big Come Up in the photo where Dan is performing a rather impressive jump.The rich, wet reverb and spiky, gritty drive tones of this amp can be heard on both these albums.

At 2:46 into this video of Black Keys performing "Hard Row" live, Dan Auerbach's Fulltone Soul-Bender Fuzz MKI can be seen on his pedalboard.

In a 2019 interview with MusicRadar, Dan Auerbach discusses using the Xotic Effects RC Booster on his studio board for his album.

Dan's Earthquaker Devices Tone Job can be seen at 10:29 into this rig rundown.

Dan Auerbach is pictured playing a Reverend Flatroc in a user-uploaded photo on Imgur, showcasing his preference for this solid body electric guitar.

In this article they say Auerbach uses two Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifiers for The Arcs. Auerbach also used a silverface Deluxe Reverb while recording Black Keys' 2019 album, "Let's Rock", according to 2019 Music Radar interview.

Then I used a Deluxe Reverb - a silverface Deluxe Reverb. I prefer the silverface for rock ’n’ roll-type stuff. Blackfaces are really nice and pretty and they’re really versatile, but I don’t need to be versatile. Not all of the time, anyway!

Taken from this interview which also discusses the studio pedalboard used by Dan:

The Fulltone is cleaner sounding and less out-of-control. It gives me the cleaner, Octavia-style sound and then the Ibanez gives me that wild, Black Keys sound!

Used on 2019 album "Let's Rock", according to 2019 Music Radar interview.

I used a couple of guitars, but one I used a ton was a Guild Starfire III, with the mini-humbuckers. There’s a really specific time period where they were really good. It’s like from ’63 to ’67. I got one of those and I had it set-up at Gruhn’s in Nashville and it is just a horse. It is a motherfucker. It’s so good.

What we ended up doing was dragging the guitar amps into the vacant room across the hall and recording in there. I was using my [Fender] Super Reverb then and an Ampeg Gemini.

A Hallmark Nu Fuzz pedal can be seen among Dan's pedals at 10:29 in this video.

"I've got one other gadget that I'm super proud of, the Kikusui voltage regulator...It's really cool because these old amps don't like 120V, they like 117V...It's super reliable," says Dan's tech, at 12:15 in this video.

"The 8x10 Marshall cab still has the same Jensen speakers as before," reads this article on Dan Auerbach's gear, by Premier Guitar.

Dan is here playing a Silvertone 1429, with an exception that this model (unlike the Harmony he is often seen using) is a single cutaway, with a tremolo arm and different colored knobs.

Dan Auerbach used a Boss Digital Delay in 2010.

"One unexpected by-product for Auerbach was a venture into the four-string realm. “I played a lot of bass on the record, I feel like I have turned a corner on bass in recent years, started to figure it out more. I use a short-scale Fender 60s Mustang bass through an old Triad.”"

In this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown with Dan Auerbach´s guitar tech, at 5:18 the back plate of the Challenger Series C is shown clearly.

Dan is using two Sears Silvertone 1484 Twin-Twelve amps on stage at the 2004 Bonnaroo Music Festival. Jun 11, 2004 Bonnaroo Music Festival Manchester, TN, USA

Taken from this interview which also discusses the studio pedalboard used by Dan. Although he did not discuss Earthquaker Devices Transport SR, this pedal can be seen at the bottom left end of the pedalboard.

Visible on Auerbach's pedalboard in this MusicRadar interview.

Details start at 16:50 in the video interview. This is a single-owner 1959 Gibson Les Paul that Dan Auerbach bought in 2019. "I had no intention of buying a 'burst'", says Auerbach. "I've never even seen one before I walked into that guitar store and bought it from the owner's sister." According to November 2022 Guitar World interview, Auerbach used the guitar while recording the song "Good Love".

In Episode 4 of "Guitar Moves" on YouTube, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys is seen playing a Martin D-18. Auerbach's 1960 D-18 was later put for sale at Gruhn Guitars, as a part of "Dan Auerbach Collection".

"This guitar is the Howlin' For You guitar. It's basically the same guitar as the Supro, it's just a National instead. It has different inlays. It's the same neck, same non-adjustable neck. I spent a lot of time fixing that one up. Same pickups, same funky bridge pickups. It does have this really cool trim on it though. The stainless steel arm is pretty unique. There's a really interesting spring system under there too. Of course, you can select any of the pickups that you like too here. There's lots of knobs again. Same fiberglass construction. It gives it that sort of hollow guitar sound. Like the Harmony guitar, it's totally hollow and that's a big part of the sound Dan gets when he's playing especially the two-piece stuff. When it's just him and Patrick on stage feedback is a big part of the show because he's playing really loud and he's got the Big Muff on, and it's exploding," says Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the National Westwood 77 Electric Guitar.

Behind Dan Auerbach is a Supro Lexington that is sitting on a guitar stand while Dan is playing a song.

Dan can be seen here holding a mid sixties Gibson J-160E. In 2012 Vintage Guitar interview, Auerbach mentions that he used J-160E on 2011 album "El Camino".

When touring Attack & Release in 2008 and 2009, Dan Auerbach used a Analogman AR20DL Analog Delay.

Taken from this interview which also discusses the studio pedalboard used by Dan:

That’s the UniVibe clone that they make down in Texas with a bunch of new-old- stock parts and it’s just a great, interesting sound. Apparently they bought up from the factory an old stock of circuit boards, switches, housings, pedals... it’s just crazy. So they sound like the originals and there’s nothing else like those. It’s a really amazing invention.

The Black Keys play The Anthem in Washington DC, Oct 12, 2019. The concert was part of the "Let's Rock" 2019 North American tour. (photo by Ari Strauss)

"Dan uses a coiled cable by Divine, Divine Noise Coiled Cable, and it goes behind him right to his amplifiers, not down to the pedalbaord anymore. So because it's coiled and it goes back behind him he doesn't have to grab the cable and move it out of his way anytime or ever anymore. That keeps the signal path really short because, of course, you don't want to have really long cables. We used to have really long cable runs but now we don't. We just have the guitar lead going into the rack and it's parked right behind the amps so it comes right out of the rack and into the amplifiers. So the only long cable is the one on his guitar. That made a complicated situation for the volume," says Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Divine Noise Curly Cable.

Dan can be seen playing a Hofner 176 in this image.

Dan can be seen in this image playing a Rickenbacker 360. According to this article from Drowning In Guitars, Dan sold a Fender Mustang to fund the purchase of this 360.