Ian D'Sa

Theres nothing in this corresponding interview but but this image looks to me like a Fender Jaguar Special Edition it's definitely a Jaguar of some description but it has a maple neck which makes me a little a uncertain. However looking at all his other guitars they are all customized in some way. Mainly Strats but its hard to tell exactly which model.

"...for all the heavier stuff I played a '58 Gibson Junior," says Ian D'Sa, in this interview.

"And in the studios I play a '52 Telecaster reissue for all the clean stuff," says Ian D'Sa, in this interview.

"I play Stratocasters mainly live, it's a Fat Strat Deluxe with the hum bucker pickup," says Ian D'Sa, in this interview.

Used on Billy Talent III primarily, as well as the Rusted From The Rain film clip. I don't think he used it before III and I haven't seen it since.

"and I use Gibson Les Paul Juniors and Silverbursts for the heavy stuff"

In the start of the video appears Ian playing the intro of Pins and Needles with this guitar in the studio.

At beginning of video Ian shows his main guitar and names it

"This is my main guitar, its a Fender Stratocaster American Deluxe HSS, which i've outfitted with custom staggered pickups for the neck and middle position."

Video: 0:07

At 5:17 he's talking about it.

"this guitar was custom made for me [...] Nik Huber Guitars, very nice guitar. I've been playing it the whole tour."

Ian uses a Gibson ES-335 during some Billy Talent rehersals, and he also used it to record some solos during the tracking of Billy Talent III in 2009.

At 0:53 in the video, the camera pans up on a TV yellow Gibson Les Paul Special.

The body shape (single-cut with no curve), pickups (two P90's) and controls (two volume and two tone) of the guitar are identical to an LP Special and the headstock is definitely Gibson. However, the bridge is a 'Tune-O-Matic' instead of the usual 'wraparound' bridge, so this guitar could be modified or a special-edition.

"'And before you came to Stevenson's amps, what did you run through?''Before that I was using a (Peavey) 5150 head, I think it was a '91. And I really liked those tones, too, like they were really clean. I'm a big fan of the bright guitar amps. I was using a 5150 through a Vox cabinet at the time and it was super bright but at the same time with the 5150 every time you turned the gain up it would just get a little too saturated for me. I couldn't find that clean and heavy balance whereas with the Stevenson I found that balance pretty easy,'" says Ian D'Sa, in this interview.

In 0:20 he explains he uses this Diezel amp, although he does not say the model name, obviously its a VH4.

" I use my Stephenson as the main sound, and then we have a Diesel H4, with a Diesel cab, and a Komit Concorde as well'

I use my Stephenson as the main sound, and then we have a Diesel H4, with a Diesel cab, and a Komit Concorde as well

"and my old 1962 Tremolux, which is kinda like the secret weapon..."

"So for this tour i've gotten these two Silent Sisters, which are great cabs. They're iso cabs, and inside, one V30 speaker, and i've got a 421 (Sennheiser MD 421) and a 57 (Shure SM57) on that."

Video: 1:39

Two of them can be seen very briefly at 1:28.

In this video, Ian D'Sa mentions he uses iso-cab's that are loaded with Vintage 30 speakers.

Ian and Aaron made a garage sale. They sell some old amps, pedals, drums, mics, monitors and other studio gear.

At 36:11 in the concert video from October 2013, you can see that Ian is runnning his Diezel and Stephenson heads into a Bogner 4x12 cabinet.

At 0:36 in this video, Ian D'Sa says, "My favourite pedal I have here is the pedal called "The Wooly Mammoth", which you might hear in songs..." and plays "Devil In A Midnight Mass" a little bit."

"I've been screwing around with this new pedal that Vincent from VL Effects sent me... Beautiful sounding pedal," Ian D'Sa says, at 0:59 in this video.

"New toys...A Bullitt Booster M-Tone & and a Bullitt Overdrive OD-1. Custom hand built by Vincent Loret at VL Effects, Paris. These pedals have monster tone... thanks Vincent!". - Ian D'Sa.

Ian says that it is one of the only pedals he uses live

Ian says that he uses this pedal live for solosh