Guthrie Govan

GUTHRIE GOVAN

GUITARS: Charvel USA Guthrie Govan Signature Model, Vigier Surfreter fretless guitar

AMP: Victory Amplification V50 The Earl 50w all-tube (EL34) head and V30 Countess 30w all-tube (6L6) head

CABINET: Victory Amplification 4×12 or 2×12 with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers

EFFECTS:

Free The Tone Red Jasper overdrive…

The product website insists that Guthrie Govan uses the Euphoria pedal.

And 'When We All Come Together' features a veritable catalog of weird instruments - I used a BilT Corvaire, a Duesenberg baritone and mandola, a no-name 'junk shop' archtop acoustic, a Deering banjo... and probably some other things, too!

Govan mentions the guitar in [2019 Guitar World interview]:

The real secret weapon in that song was a bizarre instrument that I found lying around in the studio - I believe it was called a BilT Corvaire. To me, this guitar looked like a thoroughly eccentric mashup of elements from various unrelated classic designs: a Jazzmaster vibrato unit, f-holes that ran through the entire thickness of the body, and so on. But it sounded just perfect for that track.

"Well, whenever I use a chorus pedal in a gig situation, I always find myself wanting that pedal to do more than one thing. Most of the time, I'm looking for one of the following three sounds: - An all-purpose "pretty" chorus, to make chords sound just a little more spacious, - A high-speed pseudo-Leslie effect for those Hammond-style comping moments, and - That Scofield-esque lead sound where the depth is almost on the verge of sounding out of tune. I like the idea that, using mystical TonePrint cyber-voodoo, I could set the range of each knob in such a way that each of those three sounds would be easy to access in real time, by turning each knob to an obvious setting like "12 o'clock" or to "all the way up". This way, you get a decent variety of tones at your disposal, all from a single pedal - and you can switch from one tone to another in a matter of moments, without messing around with MIDI presets."

"And by request a messy pedal board…"

The Aristocrats site states that instead of hair bands Guthrie uses the FretWrap.

Guthrie Govan can be seen using the Kemper Power head in this video. He also uses it on tour with Hans Zimmer.

In the YouTube video titled "Guthrie Govan acoustic solo," Guthrie Govan performs the song "Taken Dreams (Live)" using a vintage Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar.

At 1:42 of this video you can see the Eventide Time Factor Delay on Guthrie Govan's pedalboard.

At 4:54 in this Premier Guitar interview, Guthrie Govan shows his pedal-board, which includes a Providence Anadime Analog Chorus. The pedal was also mentioned in 2019 Guitar World interview.

At 7:30 in this Premier Guitar interview Guthrie Govan discusses his TC Electronic Hall Of Fame Reverb TonePrint Series guitar effects pedal.

Guthrie's Dunlop JC95 can be seen at 5:25 in this pedal rundown video. He says, "When you pile on the overdrive it's reassuringly meaty and thick sounding."

In this photo of Guthrie's pedalboard, from this Premier Guitar article, a TC Electronic Shaker Vibrato can be seen.

You can clearly see the Non-Fine Tuner tremolo on his Charvel signature guitar.

"My typical, everyday touring board has a volume pedal, Xotic Wah…" The pedal was also mentioned in 2019 Guitar World interview.

Written by Govan for Music Sales America.

In this Premier Guitar interview, Guthrie Govan shows his pedal-board, which includes a TC Electronic PolyTune Polyphonic tuner pedal shown at 6:19.

Guthrie talks about his TC HOF Mini at 8:46 in this video. He says, "Despite the fact that there's only one knob, it actually does pretty much what it's told."

A Providence Heat Blaster Distortion can be seen on Guthrie's pedalboard, in this photo, from this Premier Guitar article.

"On this album some of the more memorable sounds came from an MXR Phase 99, which I borrowed from the good people at that company. It’s like two Phase 90s in one box. That’s all over “Pressure Relief” and “ZZ Top.” I don’t know if there was a subliminal Van Halen influence going on because we recorded in Sunset Sound where Fair Warning and Van Halen were recorded. Maybe some subliminal echo of Van Halen was there when we were recording. I felt the need to phase certain things."

Guthrie Govan uses the Boss FV-30H Compact Foot Volume Pedal, as seen in a photo posted by BOSS on Facebook.

Guthrie Govan demos his TonePrint for Helix Phaser

"This is very much the prototype, hence the dubious pirate lettering..."

Seen at 8:07

The Aristocrats website lists the Flashback X4 Digital Delay among the pedals Guthrie Govan uses in the effects loop.

"EFFECTS:

Free The Tone Red Jasper overdrive TC Electronic Polytune Guyatone WR-3 Autowah Xotic EP Booster Providence Anadime Analog Chorus Dunlop Jerry Cantrell Signature Wah Dunlop Volume Pedal TC Electronic Ditto Looper, Flashback x4 Digital Delay and HOF Reverb (FX Loop)"

It says so on the Aristocrats website

In 2019's Premier Guitar interview, it is mentioned that Govan's Victory cabinets are loadeed with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers.

The caption to this Instagram photo, by T-Rex Effects, reads, "Guthrie Govan using the T-Rex ToneTrunk 55!"

In this video, Guthrie plays through his Aristocrats pedalboard - a pedalboard which is planned to fit in a travel suitcase for fly gigs and to travel lightly. It's a small board and, therefore, features a Polytune MINI, not a regular one (for space reasons). At :06s Guthrie says "the first thing that happens to my virginal, lovely, pure guitar signal is it goes into a polytune (...) a polytune mini."

The pedalboard in this photo is described in this article: "Due to the amount of tones Govan needs to cover in Steven Wilson's band, he had to create an entirely new pedalboard. Designed by Daniel Steinhardt from TheGigRig.com, the system is based around their MIDI-14 switching system…"

Guthrie Govan is seen using the TC Electronic PolyTune 2 Mini pedal tuner, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Imgur.