Dan Auerbach

Dan's Radial Engineering BigShot PB1 Class-A Power Booster can be seen at 9:08 into this video.

Dan's Q-Tron can be seen at 10:29 into this video.

In a live performance photo, Dan Auerbach is seen playing a Teisco SS-4L electric guitar.

Dan Auerbach used a Danelectro Reel Echo until 2010.

When touring Attack & Release in 2008 and 2009, Dan Auerbach used a Analogman Peppermint Fuzz Pedal.

In this photo, Auerbach can be seen playing a Gibson Hummingbird.

In may 2017 Auerbach can be seen using a Gibson J-180 on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Auerbach also used J-180 Everly on "Waiting on a Song", live at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 2017, as well as2018 NPR perfromance.

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Dan Johnson shows us Auerbach's Fulltone Custom Shop Tape Echo at 3:00. In the accompanying article "Premier" writes that this is a "Fulltone Custom Shop Tape Echo (with a Strymon El Capistan standing by as a backup) going through it for a continuous tight slapback effect."

He played through this amp for American Pickers.

In an episode of "American Pickers" (Season 13, Episode 8), Dan Auerbach is seen checking out a Gretsch G6120TM Chet Atkins Signature Hollowbody guitar. In 2019 Music Radar interview, Auerbach mentions a Gretsch Chet Atkins guitar (that he calls "Rudy") being used while recording 2019 album, "Let's Rock".

Then I also played a Gretsch Chet Atkins a bunch, with the humbuckers in it. I’d never played Gretsch humbuckers and I’d never played Gretsches, so I didn’t realise that it’s the sound of that big, AC/DC-type rock ’n’ roll chord. It had never really dawned on me. So I got into that one on this record and I use that guitar all the time - it’s just a real player. That guitar’s name is Rudy. It’s a one-owner guitar. I bought it from the family of the original owner and he played the shit out of it, so it’s got a real soul to it.

Here, Dan is holding what is a Framus 5/296 Texan 12 string guitar with some psychedelic artwork on the body of the guitar.

Dan in this photo, is seen playing a Harmony Rocket.

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)

ARTIST DAN AUERBACH (THE BLACK KEYS, THE ARCS) PRODUCT LINE USED Power Wound Nickel Electric S1052

Custom Gauges: 11-14-18P-30PW-40-50

"So the only long cable is the one on his guitar. That made a complicated situation for the volume. So I was looking for a MIDI volume control device. I found the the Sound Sculpture Volcano. That's up in the rack. It's a little box," says Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Sound Scultpture Volcano MIDI and Pedal Controlled Volume Effect.

In this Q&A at the Reverend website, Auerbach states that he has been playing a Club King RT.

In this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown with Dan Auerbach, at 3:43 the back plate of the Commando is shown clearly.

Dan uses this emerald green beauty for El Camino and Turn blue, and can be seen playing it during the 2015 Concert for Valor. Auerbach uses this guitar mainly for "Fever", as seen in this Glastonbury 2014, and Governor's Ball, 2015.

Dan Auerbach plays a 1965 Tesico Del Rey ET 300 on his solo album "Keep It Hid," as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Amazon. In 2012 Guitar World interview, Auerbach mentions a blue Teisco Del Rey as one of his first guitars.

In this picture taken from Dad Country Leather's Tumblr Auerbach can be seen with a custom guitar strap made by DCL's Jonny Fritz.

In a Guitarworld interview, Dan Auerbach discusses his use of the Kent Americana guitar.

In this photo we can see Dan recording with a Gibson j-45 acoustic.

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

Everything goes through that, except for the wah. It’s essentially a patchbay for my pedals and it’s easy for me to understand and work around. It’s made working in the studio with guitar pedals a lot of fun. The best tools just get out of the way and let you do your thing.

In a 2003 photo from Degeneratepress, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys is seen using the Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz pedal during the "Big Come Up" era.

In this performance of "Going Down South" on BBC Music, Dan Auerbach uses a Shure SM7B microphone for vocals.

In this video of a 2021 live performance by The Black Keys, Dan is singing into a Se electronics V7.

We have many close-up shots of the mic throughout the video, like at 1:41.

"This pedal I used to use as my splitter. It's a great pedal. It does a lot of things. But I used to use it as a splitter when we had only two amps. It has such a warm boost that I have in there now just for the boost so that when we use that, which is something we kick on very often, it's not like a lot of other boost pedals that add a lot of top end to them. This keeps kind of a transparent sound," explains Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Tonebone Switchbone JX-2 Pro.

We spotted a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner in Dan Auderbach's simple pedalboard during this rig rundown video.

"This is a Mission Expression Pedal, the EP-1. The volume is one thing that is fairly complicated. We didn't get to see it, but he 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. So I was looking for a MIDI volume control device. I found the the Sound Sculpture Volcano. That's up in the rack. It's a little box. This MIssion Expression Pedal actuates the volume via MIDI thorugh the RJM-Gizmo MIDI signal path," explains Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Mission Engineering EP-1 Expression Pedal.

sennheiserusa posted this quote by the Black Keys' FoH engineer (Oct 2014 via Instagram):

“I went for a combo of e 906 and MD 421for Auerbach’s main guitar rig, with the 906 placed near the centre of the cone to get all the mid/hi-mid details plus the crunch and fuzz that comes from the Marshall amp and Fender guitar, and the 421 placed midway or nearer to the outer edge of the cone to get the low-mid warmth" - Jason M. Tarulli, FoH Engineer for The Black Keys #Sennheiser #MD421 #e906