David Ellefson

Megadeth's David Ellefson talks about his signature Jackson Kelly Bird V Bass in this video.

"You should have one. I got one. Let's go make some music."

David Ellefson talks about his Jackson X Series Signature basses in this video.

You can also read more about the X series from Jackson's official website.

David Ellefson talks about his Jackson X Series Signature basses in this video.

In this video, David Ellefson shows his signature Jackson bass. He says, "We should each have one of these because they're awesome."

Before being endorsed by Larry Hartke's namesake, Megadeth bassist David Ellefson used Peavey basses, amps, and heads. This video shows him sporting his old, All Peavey rig.

In this photo, David Ellefson can be seen playing a BC Rich Mockingbird bass.

At 3:10 in this video, we can see David playing this bass

New dystopia signature bass

At 0:14 and at 0:25 in this video, we can see this bass been played by David

you can see a clear shot of David using the marcus miller jazz bass at 1:06

In this D'Addario magazine, Dave and David recommend D'Addario strings.

This has been his main amp since he changed from using the LH1000s, as show in this Hartke artist feature.

In this video from Sweetwater Sound "David Ellefson (Megadeth) and Frank Bello (Anthrax) explain why they choose Hartke bass amps and cabinets for their bass rigs."

The video is set to show Megadeth's bassist David Ellefson's old rig consisting of a Peavey MAX 700 Bass Head. He later switch to Larry Hartke products and now uses the 1000 watt Hartke LH1000.

This video from Image Marketing shows Megadeth's bassist David Ellefson with the first rig sent to him from Larry Hartke. The first head he received was the Hartke LH1000 1000 watt hybrid head.

The video is set to show Megadeth bassist David Ellefson's old rig behind him. A Peavey MAX 700 and this Pro 810. This video is from the youtube series "David Ellefson's Rock Shop".

This video from Ted Brown Music shows Megadeth Bassist David Ellefson speaking at a bass clinic. In the right of the video, he has his Hartke LH1000 sitting on top of his Hartke 810 Cabinet.

Geargods.net Interview

"When did you switch to those? Didn’t you use [Ampeg] SVTs?

I started with Hartke very early on. I actually started using Hartke cabinets on the Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? tour. They did not have heads at that time, so I used another manufacturer’s head, but I used their aluminum cone 4X10 speaker cabinets on about midway through the Peace Sells… tour. I then recorded So Far, So Good…So What!, Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction using all Hartke cabinets. That really helped me define my tone with the Jackson basses into the Hartke systems. There were a couple of years where I used some other stuff, but returning back to when we did the Megadeth 20th anniversary Rust in Peace tour in 2010 was when I came back to Hartke. We wanted to recreate the look, the sound and feel of that Rust in Peace era. Hartke has now improved their products and, as time will do, innovations and technologies improve which help improve the end product. So the Hartke stuff just sits right in the mix with Megadeth. I really feel that the new Hartke stuff that I’m sitting right inside Shawn’s kick drum."

The interviewer here asks Dave if he remembers what amp he used before Hartke came out with the amp heads which he currently uses to which Ellefson responds, "Yeah, I used the GK 800RB..." going on to talk about the bass and cabinets which he used in conjunction with this amp.

Dave routinely mentions that he played a Peavey Kilobass in the 1990s.

Along with his partner in crime Robert Trujillo, David also uses a MXR M80 Bass DI+. Source.

Both David Ellefson & Robert Trujillo use an MXR M134 Stereo Chorus according to Dunlop's official site.

The video is of many in the "David Ellefson's Rock Shop" video collection. The Megadeth bassist mentions and shows the camera that he uses the Peterson StroboStomp2 Pedal Virtual Strobe Tuner.

As seen on his Samsontech/Hartke artist page. Megadeth's bass guitarist, David Ellefson is sited using this pedal from the producers of the product.

In this YouTube video for EMG TV, David Ellefson can be seen using a "TC Electronic Polytune 2 Pedal Tuner" in his pedalboard at 1:28.

https://www.khdkelectronics.com/artists/detail/david-ellefson/

David Ellefson use the ZOOM B3 Bass Effects & Amp Simulator pedal to play at Home or on tour bus during 2012, also he created many of the D patches, one of the them is the D0 patch called Crunch Fuz. Recently, with Metal Allegiance you can see a David´s pic playing with the ZOOM B3 while he plays with Mike Portnoy and Alex Skolnick.

This YouTube video is one of many from a series created and produced by one of Megadeth's founders and bass guitarist David Ellefson called "David Ellefson's Rock Shop" which featured advice and lessons from Ellefson himself. The series was set in David Ellefson's home studio, the heart of which was the Soundtracs JADE 48 Console.