James Duke

James shows off an Elliott Halocaster in this picture.

At 19:32 James starts talking about his signature guitar. Here's the official link: http://elliottguitarsnc.com/the-357/

Early 1990's American Strat. James said he paid about $500 for it.

In the video he uses this guitar. Also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOsMkdGqVXA

"This is a great guitar. It’s all over the new JMM record ‘ECONOMY”."

James is shown in this video playing a Gretsch White Penguin. Duke told Gretsch in an article from January of 2019, "I got my first Gretsch, the 6118 Anniversary model in 2004. It is such an amazing sounding instrument that really took my playing in a new direction.” The Gretsch in this video looks to be a G6134T-58 Vintage Select.

In this video, in the back it's possible to see this amp being used by James.

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"This is the amp I use for most everything. I do use different amps in the studio, but this is my favorite."

Backline concert pic from Akron Civic Theater in Akron, OH

James has said that he uses this pedal because of the guitars he uses. He likes to use single coils, which sometimes have low outputs. This gives him the volume boost he needs and he keeps the sensitivity around 9 o'clock.

James has been working with JHS for a few years. He runs his amp very clean and stacks his overdrives. This is the first pedal in that chain.

James uses this to stack with his lead lines to "beef" them up a bit. He also has been known to use it for swells.

Been on James' board for the past two years. He used to use the TS9 but it broke and he like the darker sound this pedal had.

James uses this with some of his lead lines. The best example is his solo on Matt Redman's "It Is Well With My Soul."

Weird pedal. James has had it on his board for the past few months. Not exactly sure how he uses it. Probably with swells.

James swears by this pedal. He has had it for a long time. Chooses it over the Timeline, Timefactor, etc. He wants a DD-500 but for the time being he uses this.

This is a new addition for James. He had a DM2 and then he had a Deluxe Memory Man 1000TT. He's using this now.

Keeps it on the mod setting. He has said in an interview that reverb can make of break tone. James uses his reverb with the volume low and the decay a little higher.

Tuner. It tunes his guitars.

James was using this for a while. It is now replaced with the Moog

Used it as an overdrive. He loves JHS. Probably used it as a third stage OD

By the looks of the placement he was using it as a wash behind his delays.

He likes to hold down the tempo button and have it make a helicopter sound. It talks about it in this interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYONkgB1HA

The holy grail of overdrives.

More than likely he used this as a wash.

Probably used it as a 3rd stage overdrive. James has looked up to Stu G for a long time and considers him one of his influences in guitar playing.