Jack White

Alongside the 60s, 70s and Re-Iusse Twins, he uses a 50s Twin too.

The Electro-Harmonix Nano Bassballs is used in Jack White's Raconteur and the Dead Weather pedalboards. This envelope filter effect is prominent in the Raconteurs song "Salute Your Solution".

Jack White can be seen playing guitar through a Union Tube & Transistor Black Bumble Buzz pedal in this video.

The pedal was designed and hand-made specifically for Jack White by Chris Young of Union Tube & Transistor, whose pedals Jack has also used on songs like "Sixteen Saltines" and "I'm Shakin'".

The pedal was mentioned in the 2019 Premier Guitar interview.

Jack White is seen using a custom Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster in The Raconteurs' "Help Me Stranger" official music video. This unique model features a black finish with an orange top, a custom pickguard, and a design resembling three arrows. In an interview with Premier Guitar, White mentioned that Chip Ellis, a master builder at the EVH Custom Shop, provided him with the first Acoustasonic Telecaster from the Custom Shop. White values its versatility onstage, allowing seamless transitions between acoustic and electric sounds during performances.

From an interview with GuitarPlayer (Sept 2010):

GP: What acoustics do you prefer?

JW: Gretsch Ranchers. They are great for live use, because they produce more bass than anything else, and I like a lot of bass in an acoustic guitar.

GP: How do you amplify them?

JW: Playing an acoustic live is very difficult— especially when everyone else in the band is playing electric. It’s very frustrating. I don’t have any advice, other than it’s tough, and the best thing to do is stand really still and put a microphone in front of the soundhole.

GP: Who are the women portrayed on the backs of the Ranchers?

JW: Claudette Colbert is on the orange one I used in the Raconteurs and White Stripes. Rita Hayworth is on the white one you see me carrying around in the Great Northern Lights DVD. The white and gold one I use in the Dead Weather has Veronica Lake on the back. So I’ve got a brunette, a redhead, and a blonde—one for each band. An incredible tattoo artist in Cincinnati, Ohio, named Kore Flatmo did the work for me. I saw the portraits he had done tattooing, and I bought him a really nice wood-burning tool to burn those images into the backs of my guitars.

The full interview can be found here.

Thar's the photo of Jack's pedalboard during Raconteurs tour. Plasma coil can be seen next to the Whammy.

Used on "Icky Thump", as stated by mix engineer Joe Chiccarelli to Sound on Sound and Mix Online (both October 2007). After years of the particular model being unspecified, the synth was featured in this April 15, 2019 Instagram post by The Raconteurs, which revealed that White purchased the instrument at Bungalow Bill's Music Store.

Sound on Sound October 2007

“The synthesizer was an old 1959 Univox that he found in New Zealand. It’s a suitcase synth with a speaker built into it, no DI. It’s very reedy, very mid-rangy, and it sounded so good in the room that the ambience you hear on it is just the room ambience."

Mix Online October 1, 2007

While the Stripes sound has its foundation in a guitar and drum combination, there were a handful of songs on Icky Thump that included some new instrument choices. For instance, the title track features a vintage Univox synthesizer that Jack White purchased in New Zealand. The keyboard doesn’t have a direct out like most keyboards; it has a built in speaker, so Chiccarelli put an 87 about five feet away from it. “It had so much personality that you didn’t want to put a mic inches away from it — you really wanted to capture how it sounded in the room.”

@theraconteurs Instagram, April 15, 2019

Jack reunites with the man who sold him the Univox Synthesizer that Jack used with The White Stripes on the song Icky Thump. #theraconteurs #jackwhite #univoxsynth #bungalowbillsmusicstore

At 5:00 in the video, we can see Jack White and Ben Blackwell talking about the DOD FX80 Compressor and how Jack used it on De Stijl album.

As you can see Jack is using a pair of 1485 silvertone amps and a fender twin reverb.What you might not see hiding in the background is what appears to be a fender bassman to the right of the silvertone pair. Time stamp : 34:06 / 34:07. It is only shown for about 1 second so you may need to replay a few times. near the dapper roadie.

In the Music-Video for Over and Over and Over - Jack White at around 0:16 you can see a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShCRN3tFy80

It’s sort of these new Telecasters and these golden Gibsons. The Gibsons were given to me as a present by Gibson. There was some Grammy event that was sponsored by them, and they said, “Pick out any guitar you want!” I said well, I usually only play Gibson acoustic guitars. I didn’t really know what to pick. I saw this Fort Knox gold Les Paul in their catalog, and I thought that’s crazy, it’s so gold! I wonder if they’d make me one of those with a maple neck. I didn’t know if they’d do that or not. They were nice enough to do that. They gave me the Flying V with the maple neck as, like, a second guitar, as a present. That was really kind of them. I like the number three, so I said, I wonder if you could make me another one: the Firebird Gold with the Fort Knox maple neck? So I had those three guitars.

Jack White is seen using a Crestwood Astral II guitar during The White Stripes' performance of "I Fought Piranhas" in the video "Under Nova Scotian Lights," uploaded by PeppermintCandy on YouTube.

At 0:11 in this music video, one of the RCA Clubmaster amps that Jack White is using can be seen.

Jack White plays the Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, as highlighted in the Gibson article "You Don’t Know Jack: 10 Essential Performances from Jack White."

"I also got a Gretsch Bo Diddley factory model, and painted it white so that Alicia Keys and I could be like Bo Diddley and the Duchess— his female stage partner. We would both use those guitars on tour to support the James Bond theme. But when I got hurt and I couldn’t do the dates, Alison [Mosshart] ended up taking on that idea. She plays the rectangular Bo Diddley model, and I play the Jupiter Thunderbird—which is also called the “Billy Bo” because Billy Gibbons brought that idea back to Gretsch."

This image which was taken backstage at a white stripes show. As you can see it is jack whites pedal board from any time after 2005 (big muff with tone wicker). You can also see the Fender Vibroverb underneath the pedalboard.

Premier Guitar:

Yeah. I really, really love 15" speakers. That’s the speaker for guitar playing for me. I have loved it for years. In the White Stripes, I had an 18" speaker. I learned later on that a lot of guitar players I love or who I think have good tone also use 15" speakers, like Duane Eddy and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and I think Link Wray might’ve also. I’m not sure. But there’s something I read about; it’s a thing. There’s a club of us guys, I guess, that love the 15". The 15" Fender Vibroverb is, I think, the best amp Fender ever made. It’s just perfect.

"I started with a Gretsch Anniversary Jr., which was the only small hollowbody guitar I could find. I made it a double cutaway instead of a single. I had a Bigsby installed, and I put in an old mute, too. When you pull a lever, the mute comes up and dampens the strings. I also had a light-activated Theremin installed that I could control with my wrist while I was playing. When I lifted my wrist, the Theremin would be added to the sound."

In this source picture, Jack White is photgraphed with the Minifooger MF Drive by Moog on the left of his pedalboard.

From the "Big Muff Users and Their Pedalboards" section of Kit Rae's Big Muff Page:

"Shown above: Jack White's large 2007 European tour pedal board. AnalogMan tuner switch box, Boss TU-2 Tuner, unknown 4 knob Boss pedal used for a short time (white knobs indicate this is possibly a CE-3 compressor or LM-2 Limiter), MXR Micro Amp, Digitech Whammy WH-4, Big Muff (reboxed), and the Electro-Harmonix POG with with board fitted on top to keep the slider settings in place."

"Yeah, I played a Gibson L1 [on The White Stripes’ album Icky Thump]. That’s the Robert Johnson model. I have one from 1915. There are clips of me using that one all over the place on the last tour. We just put a surface-mounted pickup on it, one of those you tape on, like they use on a violin. It was hard to pull off live. But we do have songs where Meg wouldn’t play so loud and it would be okay. I love that guitar a lot. It’s probably my favorite."

A bronze-plated Demeter TRM-1 Tremulator Tremolo Pedal is used in Jack White's 'bronze' pedalboard for the Raconteurs. The pedal was mentioned in the 2019 Premier Guitar interview.

Jack White can be seen in this video from a live performance using a white Danelectro double-necked guitar that has both a standard scaled neck and a baritone neck.

He teaches how to play "Seven Nation Army" to Jimmy Page and Edge with this guitar. You can see in this video..

http://youtu.be/PUwhutKZAEk

In this facebook post, Jack holds the guitar. You can tell the model by the killswitch near the neck-pickup and the chrome whammy bar. These are the only noticeable differences to the "normal" EVH Stealth guitar

Union Tube and Transistors Instagram page shows a look at Jack Whites current board for The Raconteurs tour 2019.

Almost all of them are painted copper, one of these pedal I believe to be the Keeley Electronics Caverns v2.

One of the pedals on this board includes 8 knobs, two foot switches and two toggle switches, which happens to be the exact layout for the delay+reverb pedal. It also look to be similar in size and the in/out jacks look to be in the same place as the caverns v2 pedal. The pedal was mentioned in the 2019 Premier Guitar interview.

From the Parsons Guitars website, "Built for Jack White's 2012 Blunderbuss tour. Named "Blue Randy" by Mr. White the instrument is based on White's Triple Jet design. The back, sides and neck are constructed from the American Holly tree. Known as the "whitest" wood on earth, it was also George Washington's favorite tree."

Jack White plays his Daddy Mojo Stove Pipe Cigar Box Guitar during a The Dead Weather live performance.

Here you can spot Jack holding a Gibson Firebird Skunk Baxter Signature guitar.

Jack White used multiple colour variations EVH Wolfgang USA Custom guitar during whole "Over and Over and Over" Music Video from his album 3rd "Boarding House Reach". The blue one became his main live guitar for that era.

And then I had these two Fenders. I was given a Fender B-Bender for Christmas. I played that on this song on the album called “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying).” It was the first time I ever played a B-Bender on a recording, and I really loved it. I have another 1982 Telecaster that I equipped with a Hipshot B-Bender, and this other one.

(Under the rig list, the guitar is listed as a 1982 Fender Telecaster.)