Dean Ween

“I can’t really even describe to you the moment I found that guitar,” he told Fender.com. “You are really lucky if you can find one or two in your entire life – even if you are somebody like me who has bought and sold literally hundreds of Strats. That guitar – I was leaving with that guitar. Whether it cost $50,000, it was going out the door with me. I knew that I had found the instrument that I had been looking for my entire life. It was really magical.”

"I love tape echoes. I have an old Echoplex and a Roland Space Echo. But onstage I use the Boss RE-20 Space Echo pedal, which has a tap function."

In this photo of Dean you can see him plugged into a Musicman 212-HD 130 amplifier.

At around 28:44 in this 1997 Wah² Exclusive visit to Ween's home base in New Hope, Pensylvania, Gene and Dean show the audience a myriad of cassettes of mostly unpublished songs which they've made throughout the years. Dean also shows "one of many 4-tracks" they have used to record these songs with. It looks to be an old Tascam 424 Portastudio.

"What are some of your favorite vintage pedals? The Mu-Tron stuff, for sure. Mu-Tron phasers and the envelope filter."

Edit: If you look around online you'll find he actually uses the Lace Sensor pickups for neck and middle and the Seymour Duncan Hot Rails for the bridge, which is not what he says in the following quote.

"I actually am using Fender Lace Sensors in my neck and bridge position, and then I use the Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the lead position on all of them. Fender built me an exact replica of my ‘61, exactly the same with the wear marks on the guitar and they put in the same pickups for me. It was awesome.

But the Seymour Duncan Hot Rails is the loudest pickup made known to man, and that’s why I like it. It just really, really, really cranks – it gives you a lot more overdrive then a regular stock Fender pickup.

As far as the Lace Sensors — they’re quiet. A Strat is a notorious buzzing guitar – makes that telltale buzz on stage. They are noisy pickups because they are single coil pickups and they pickup AM radio and God knows what else, but the Lace Sensors are dead quiet. It takes that vintage sound of a Strat and just improves upon it."

“I have a huge vintage guitar pedal collection. If I hear a Fuzz Face, I grab my Fuzz Face, you know?”

Mickey Melchiondo ( Ween and The Dean Ween Group) received his custom Further guitar. He was playing a stock Stage Further for a few months before he ordered this instrument.

" I have an old ’65 Twin and a bunch of Teles"

He plays it on the Live in Chicago DVD

"The Lace Sensors are pretty quiet. A Strat is a notorious buzzing guitar–makes that telltale buzz on stage. They are noisy pickups because they are single coil pickups and they pickup AM radio and God knows what else, but the Lace Sensors are dead quiet. It takes that vintage sound of a Strat and just improves upon it."

Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo has been noted for using a 1959 Fender Musicmaster, as seen in a YouTube video by americanshaft where he plays "Superstar" on this guitar.

In episode 6 of Noisy.com's Guitar Moves, Matt Sweeney visits Dean Ween at his shack in New Hope Pensylvania where they talk and jam. At 0:42 into the video, they brandish a shot of Nickel Wound EXL110 d'Adario strings stacked on top of each other.

" I have an old ’65 Twin and a bunch of Teles"

"What are some of your favorite vintage pedals? The Mu-Tron stuff, for sure. Mu-Tron phasers and the envelope filter. And I have an original spaghetti-logo Cry Baby. It’s Italian, from the late ’60s. And for some reason I’ve never been able to get another wah-wah to sound that good."

In this YouTube video, Dean Ween demonstrates the Dunlop CBM95 Cry Baby Mini Wah pedal as part of his rig.

Dean Ween, also known as Mickey Melchiondo, uses the DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal, as shown in an image of his pedalboard on Imgur. The pedal is positioned between a BOSS tuner and an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synth.

You can see this pedal in the first few seconds and throughout the video.

Dean’s 2000 Gibson Les Paul Standard sports Lindy Fralin pickups. Fralin also modded the electronics so that both pickups are controlled by just one volume knob.

“I can’t really even describe to you the moment I found that guitar.” “I was leaving with that guitar. Whether it cost $50,000, it was going out the door with me. I knew that I had found the instrument that I had been looking for my entire life. It was really magical.”

0:54 in he says he is using his 1966 Fender Jazzmaster

Pedal 95 in Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists, as can be seen in the quick browse video at 0:39.

"What are some of your favorite vintage pedals? The Mu-Tron stuff, for sure. Mu-Tron phasers and the envelope filter."

You can see this pedal within the first few seconds and througout the video.

In the article from Consequence of Sound, the second image shows Dean Ween using the Roland RE-201 Space Echo, highlighting its role in his studio setup.

In the Consequence of Sound article by Drew Fortune, Dean Ween is seen using the Roland RS-5 synthesizer in his music video for "Exercise Man."

Throughout 1993 Deaner used a Yamaha BB350 bass for some songs (Push th little daises, stallion pt.3 and others.) He can be seen playing one in the MTV Spring Break video. He also played the bass on Ween first four album (Godweensatan, The Pod, Pure Guava, And Chocolate and Cheese)

"I have an old Echoplex and a Roland Space Echo. But onstage I use the Boss RE-20 Space Echo pedal, which has a tap function. I don’t use a distortion pedal. I never have in my life. I use the amp’s natural gain. And I use my guitar’s volume knob as my gain channel. When it’s on 10, that means I’m ripping!"

The image from Boognish Rising shows an Alesis HR-16 drum machine on the floor of Dean Ween's recording space in 1991, used during the album's production.

In this photo, some of Dean Ween's musical equipment is showcased. In the center of the picture, you can see a Danelectro Convertible, evidently cosmetically modified to include many guitar picks and bright colors. This photo was seen in this article: https://stompboxbook.com/visiting-dean-ween-the-making-of-stompbox-book/