Ed Sheeran

At 3.49 Ed is spotted tuning this guitar.

Chris Marsh, Sheeran's FOH, uses the Avalon 737 for guitar and vocal reverbs

During Ed Sheeran's live performance of Shape of You for the 59th GRAMMYs, his MIDI keyboard controller is the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S49. It can be seen to the right at the 0:17 mark of the video.

At the 0:19 mark he plays notes using the keyboard, which then get looped using his Chewie II looper pedal.

In the Apple Music documentary 'Songwriter,' Ed Sheeran mentions using Avid Pro Tools while discussing the creation of his song 'Don't' in just two hours.

During the U.S leg of Ed's 2014 Multiply tour, front-of-the-house and monitor engineer Chris Marsh decided to swith both Ed's vocal and loop vocal mic for a pair of Sennheiser SKM 9000's. Simultaneously going wireless with his guitars as well using the Sennheiser SK 9000, Chris states: "From an audio point of view, his vocal became a lot more prominent and his guitar sounded more natural. On top of that we’ve been doing stadiums, so having something that has such strong RF capability made a real difference. It meant that Ed could be up to 50m away from the receivers and still have rock-solid reception. It’s made a really big difference to the show and to Ed’s ability to move around the stage.” (taken from interview with Sports Video Group, august 14, 2015)

Ed has been using the Sennheiser Digital 9000 system for both his last legs of the Multiply tour (including gigs at London's Wembley Stadium and Dublin's Croke Park) and will continue to use it for his Divide tour, starting 2017.

Here you can see Ed Sheeran using the Martin GPCPA5 acoustic guitar on a London stage performance with Nina Nesbitt. At the beginning of the video she can be seen giving the guitar to Ed to play.

In this live performance of "Shape of You" from Later... with Jools Holland, Ed is seen using a Levy's M7GP at :23

In a video from Taylor Swift's Instagram, Ed Sheeran can be seen playing a Gibson J-160E.

Ed can be see in this video playing his new signature X guitar with John Mayer. Ed also posted this on Instagram confirming its soon to be release. On Twitter, Ed Sheeran says, "It's exactly the same guitar that I use live and I can safely say it's awesome". Solid Sitka Spruce top, HPL Koa finish back & sides, Stratabond neck.

"The “Chewie Monsta” is the pedal-board controller that Ed uses to control an offstage Roland FC-300, which is the brain behind the looping system currently used (essentially, Mobius 2 VST plug-in hosted by Ableton Live)."

Ed Sheeran uses this muffler on his Custom Little Martin Lx1e when recording in studio for his song Don't to prevent feedback and get a clearer sound.

On May 10, 2012, Ed Sheeran was seen playing a Takamine GD20-NS Acoustic Guitar while interacting with fans after a show, as captured in a YouTube video by Rhay.

In this video you can see Ed Sheeran and Passenger playing Hearts On Fire with Michael Rosenberg's (Passenger's real name) favorite choice of guitar, the Gibson J45.

Ed Sheeran uses Fishman Mini Q pickups in all his guitars to accommodate his "robust" playing style, as detailed in FRONT of HOUSE's coverage of his 'Divide' World Tour.

First seen during this performance at the 2017 live shows of UK's talent show X Factor, this Custom Lowden WL-35 has no pick guard and features the Divide emblem from Ed Sheeran's third album.

Photo from Concert at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on April 14, 2018. This guitar has been a part of Ed's rotation since the beginning of the 2018 leg of the Divide Stadium Tour. It is definitely larger than the Wee Lowden WL model, I believe it is an S body size. Looks like Cedar, or Redwood top? Very cool orange "Divide" album art.

In this picture Ed Sheeran is seen with the multiply plectrums custom made from Dunlop.

Ed Sheeran's new little Martin Divide signature guitar

Ed Sheeran is seen here using the 2015 Gibson Les Paul Supreme.

In this photo on his facebook where you can see Mr. Sheeran writing a song. You can see that he has a Córdoba GK Studio Negra. Which is a nylon string guitar, being different from his usual steel string acoustic. Fun fact, his first ever guitar was a nylon string guitar as seen in this documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWRAD_gyDI (Skip to 11:37).

"We run an A/B system allowing for 100-percent redundancy, with the two sets of outputs from the RME Fireface interfaces controlled by a Radial SW8." - Trevor Dawkins (Ed Sheeran’s Guitar Tech).

The custom build "Chewie II" is a pedal that controls a plug-in hosted in Ableton. The plug-in can recall distortion and reverb (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Noy5aDZbU) but its main function is to loop the things Ed Sheeran wants to be Loop. Thats why I categorized it as "Multi-Effect".

No, this is not the exact same microphone he uses, but it is really close. The reason why it can't be the same is, that he built a custom capsule with his sound engineer. But the body looks identical. At 1:13 you can get a great look of the side where you can see that it is the same. You can buy it here: http://www.thomann.de/de/sennheiser_ew_135_g3_a_band.htm?ref=search_rslt_Sennheiser+EW+135+G3+A-Band_294462_0 Last I've got to mention that it is a 865 condenser microphone capsule, mostly used for studio recording. But you can find variations for it. The reason why I chose this one is, that it was mentioned by Ed Sheeran's sound engineer, that he uses a custom 865 capsule. I don't know if it's a big difference.

Serial No. SZ2201386, green finish with white motifs by artist Teddy M, maple neck with skunk-stripe routing, the back of headstock with printed transfer number SZ2201386, signed and dated 2015 below by the artist in black ink, twenty-two fret fingerboard with dot inlays, three Vintage Noiseless pickups, three rotary controls, selector switch, tremolo/bridge tailblock and white pickguard; in hand painted Fender tweed case, painted Rocker by Teddy M; together with a print of canvas of Ed Sheeran, a recording on DVD both showing the guitar being played at the Central Park, New York shown on Good Morning America, a certificate from Teddy M and a letter from Ed's management.

This guitar was loaned by the rising British artist Teddy M to Ed Sheeran in 2015 where it was used on his X world tour 27th February - 3rd July 2015. Ed used this guitar to play Thinking Out Loud most nights of the tour in approximately 18 countries. This included a live performance in Central Park, New York City which was televised on Good Morning America on 29th May 2015.

Original Bonhams auction page here

Similar to the last custom 00-28V, featuring a shark inlay instead of the lizard, and the "Divide" symbol instead of the Multiply "X." Seen in the acoustic performance of "Castle on the Hill," for BBC Radio 1.

Here you can see Ed using the only Martin LXME he ever owned. He used to play on this guitar for a short while in 2011 before permanently sticking to the Martin LX1E as his go-to guitar.

Ed Sheeran uses the AKG K121 headphones for studio work, as seen in this "I See Fire" studio recording session video.

This picture was posted by Ed Sheeran's guitar tech Trevor Dawkins, showing all four guitars used for the Multiply tour being equipped with Sennheiser SK 9000 transmitters, sending a clean digital guitar signal to the Sennheiser Digital 9000 system.

In an interview with Sports Video Group, front-of-the-house and monitor engineer Chris Marsh says: “Digital 9000 Series has changed our lives. We had been looking at ways of moving Ed’s guitar away from being wired, but we hadn’t found a good enough wireless system for him to lose the cable, which he’d been using since the very beginning. That was until we tried Digital 9000; unlike others we tried, we found it sounded even better than the cable."

Ed Sheeran is seen playing a custom Lowden GL-10 electric guitar during his performance of "Thinking Out Loud" at Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball 2017, as featured in a video by Capital FM on YouTube.

Ed Sheeran utilized the Mobius Looper by Circular Labs within Ableton Live, specifically with his custom setup known as "The Chewie Monsta." However, the level meters on his updated setup, "Chewie II," differ from those shown in the Mobius documentation.