Dan Donegan

The first guitar that Dan Donegan's guitar tech shows in this rig rundown video is Dan's signature Schecter guitar. At 0:33 his tech says, "He just switched over to this company and he's been very happy with them. I think in general the body shape of this guitar matches him a bit better cause he's a big guy." At 1:55, the guitar tech says, "He plays the same guitar—when I first got on this tour with Dan, he was playing all the exact same guitars in different colors...He is extremely about having things be as regimented as possible."

He is also featured on the Schecter's website as the user of the Dan Donegan Ultra model. The backstory behind the collaboration of Donegan and Schechter was told by Donegan in the Music Radar gear rundown.

“When I started working with Schecter they wanted to build a model, and I was looking at body styles that they had in mind and came across the Ultra. I just fell in love with how it felt with me and how it looked. With this Schecter guitar I wanted something that was a little beefier, too, and to have a little bit of weight behind it.

In the same interview, he talks about various finishes of the guitar.

There are different paint jobs on them but they are basically set up the same; the same hardware, the same pickups, just in different tunings. One of my go-tos is my signature model that has the number 96 on it - that was the year Disturbed was formed. That’s usually the one I open up the show with and I play it a couple of times a night. On the paint jobs there’s nothing really too bright; on The Game, the one I use is more a transparent blue. Some, like the 96 guitar, I had them put stripes on there because I wanted it to almost look like a vintage Shelby Cobra. I’m six-foot-one, six-two; I’ve always liked a heavier guitar, a bigger body. When I was younger I had some Les Pauls and I played some PRS guitars, too. I liked the single-cuts. I liked some of the Les Paul body styles. With this Schecter guitar I wanted something that was a little beefier, too, and to have a little bit of weight behind it, maybe get a little bit more sustain out of it. Even though Schecter is my number one endorser I play what I am comfortable with onstage or in the studio. But I really like this model. They all sound good. They play well. They’re consistent. And I’ve got pretty big hands, too, and I like the feel of it. On this recent album, Evolution, all the rhythms were with the Schecter guitar, with the exception of a few of the overdub tracks that might have been something else in the studio that I just grabbed in the moment. It depends on the song. I like layering things, even if it’s just ear candy and it’s very subtle in the mix, it gives it life.”

Back when Dan was endorsed by Washburn, Dan co-created this uniquely shaped guitar named Maya (which was named after his daughter).

Dan Donegan used a grey PRS Singlecut with .010-.045 gauge strings during the "Believe" era, as shown in the 2003 photo from Guitar.

At 1:00 minute mark of the "Building the Asylum" webisode, Donegan can be seen with the Schecter Ultra Classic.

In this performance of Disturbed's "A Reason To Fight", Donegan can be seen playing the Taylor Big Baby acoustic.

In the video titled "DISTURBED before David - CONFUSION by Brawl," an old photograph shows Dan Donegan with a Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar.

In a YouTube video titled "Disturbed 'The Animal' Guitar Lesson," Dan Donegan uses the Schecter Solo-6 Limited Edition guitar to demonstrate how to play Disturbed songs.

Dan Donegan uses a Washburn WI-63SF, which closely resembles the WI-320 PRO model. The guitar features a black finish with gray flames, as seen in the autographed "Disturbed" signature edition.

“I’m playing Taylor acoustics. My favourite one right now is a 914CE. It’s just a great-sounding guitar. Very expensive guitar! [Laughs] The acoustic costs a lot more than the electric guitars. But I mean, you get what you pay for, and they are just such great-sounding guitars. I’ve got a few different ones. The acoustic costs a lot more than the electric guitars! I also have Jeremy, my guitar tech, sitting in on a couple of songs because some of the layering I did in the studio I wanted to reproduce it live, and he is a great player, a great singer as well, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to incorporate him with mostly the acoustic stuff we are doing. I’ll get him up onstage and he will play on The Sound Of Silence, A Reason To Fight, Hold On To Memories, and then there are couple more in our arsenal that, if we dig them out, we’ll give him a chance to play. It frees me up, too, because I wrote those parts in the studio, developing these songs, and there is this cool layering, and it’s a little different. With the acoustic, I definitely want to hear those parts because they are very complementary with what they are doing. A song like Hold On To Memories, I have an acoustic guitar solo in there. I put some harmonies within that solo and I don’t want them to be missing live. It was good to have Jeremy at our disposal to use him for that part of the performance. He’s got his hands full! I’m throwing a lot on his plate but he loves it.”

In this news article, Dan Donegan can be seen using a Black Gibson Les Paul for Disturbed's performance at Ozzfest on August 26, 2000. He used Les Pauls and Gibson SG's on The Sickness.