James Monteith

This guitar is shown around the 10:49 mark in the video where James says "First off i've got, basically, this is actually a prototype of an Ibanez RGD stock guitar called an uppercut." So although the guitar listed in this post is not actually the same, it is what this prototype that James has is based off of.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKK5GK7PrLU&t=555s

At around the 11:33 mark of this video, James shows his LACS custom shop Ibanez 7-String Prestige. It is based off of the RGD shape like his other guitar, but obviously has a custom paint job and a custom inlay with the band logo. It has an alder body, fixed bridge, locking tuners, kill switch, and Bareknucle Black Hawk P'ups which are tapped seperately in a configuration explained in the video.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKK5GK7PrLU&t=555s

All throughout the video you can see James and Acle using 6505+ heads with Marshall and ENGL cabinets.

EDIT: Moderators, my mistake. These are normal Peavey 6505 heads, not 6505+. You can see that around the 0:13 timestamp when the camera is relatively close to the stage.

“We’ve actually just moved over to Kempers! We were using the Axe-Fx Ultra pretty much up until the end of last year." - James Monteith

(MetalSucks, Rigged: TesseracT Guitarist Acle Kahney, metalsucks.net, June 12, 2013, http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/06/12/rigged-tesseract-guitarist-acle-kahney/)

“One of my guitars has Bare Kuckle Black Hawks in it, and the other two have Bare Knuckle Aftermaths. I’m a big fan of Bare Knuckle pickups: they’re just really bright, punchy, good low end, incredible clarity, and they’re quite high output for passive pickups." - James Monteith

(Darren Charles, Tesseract's James Monteith Talks Guitar Tone, guitar.com, August 8, 2018, https://guitar.com/features/interviews/tesseract-james-monteith/)

“One of my guitars has Bare Kuckle Black Hawks in it, and the other two have Bare Knuckle Aftermaths. I’m a big fan of Bare Knuckle pickups: they’re just really bright, punchy, good low end, incredible clarity, and they’re quite high output for passive pickups." - James Monteith

(Darren Charles, Tesseract's James Monteith Talks Guitar Tone, guitar.com, August 8, 2018, https://guitar.com/features/interviews/tesseract-james-monteith/)

"Acle had his AxeFx Ultra and I was still running a Line 6 POD for the cleans." Though he only mentions a Line 6 POD in this article, Acle frequently mentions both of their uses of the POD XT Pro for clean patches created for TesseracT's first album One. Sources below:

(Darren Charles, Tesseract's James Monteith Talks Guitar Tone, guitar.com, August 8, 2018, https://guitar.com/features/interviews/tesseract-james-monteith/)

(MetalSucks, Rigged: TesseracT Guitarist Acle Kahney, metalsucks.net, June 12, 2013, http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/06/12/rigged-tesseract-guitarist-acle-kahney/)

"Now we use Axe-FX Ultras. It keeps the tone consistent between recordings and live and it’s a hell of a lot easier and more reliable." - Acle Kahney

Note: This is an older article from 2013. TesseracT have since updated their live rigs to include Kemper rack units.

(MetalSucks, Rigged: TesseracT Guitarist Acle Kahney, metalsucks.net, June 12, 2013, http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/06/12/rigged-tesseract-guitarist-acle-kahney/)

At around the 12:56 mark of the video, James shows his first LACS custom shop Ibanez 7-string prestige. In the video, he explains that it has similar hardware to his recent LACS Ibanez, but it has coil tapped pickups, which are the Bare Knuckle Aftermath bridge pickup, and a DiMarzio PAF Pro neck pickup. It also has a kill switch, three way toggle switch, locking tuners, and has a swamp ash body.

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At the 13:12 mark of the video, James shows that he used the PAF Pro as a neck pickup, in a coil tap configuration with his other pickup.

"At the moment we bring our own HH Tessen monitoring...We hoping eventually to upgrade to the in-ear monitor route." - Acle Kahney

Note: In this article, Acle mentions that he hopes TesseracT can upgrade to in ear monitoring, which they did not long after this article was written.

(MetalSucks, Rigged: TesseracT Guitarist Acle Kahney, metalsucks.net, June 12, 2013, http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/06/12/rigged-tesseract-guitarist-acle-kahney/)

"Our Axe-FXs are chained up via MIDI into an RME Fireface 800 and into a laptop." - Acle Kahney

(MetalSucks, Rigged: TesseracT Guitarist Acle Kahney, metalsucks.net, June 12, 2013, http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/06/12/rigged-tesseract-guitarist-acle-kahney/)

James and Acle are using Marshall 1960A lead cabinet half stacks in this video. James uses 1, Acle uses 2.

James uses an Engl 4x12 half stack in this video. Not sure of the exact name, but Engl only makes a few 4x12 stacks so I added their standard series.

Monteith mentioned the use of EVH 5150III in the end-of-the-year Guitar World 2022 issue.

James Monteith uses the Neural DSP Quad Cortex, as confirmed by Acle Kahney in an interview with Guitar World. Acle stated, "We’ve moved over to the Neural DSP Quad Cortexes now," explaining the benefits of consolidating various tones into these devices. He highlights its practicality for flight gigs, noting, "It’s just nice to have everything in one tiny little unit that weighs about two kilograms." Although James enjoys playing his EVH 5150 III at home, he acknowledges that using real amps on the road is impractical, saying, "There’s so many patches, so many sounds, so many tempos for delays and so much stuff that to do it any other way [than with the Quad Cortexes] would be really, really complicated." This information is sourced from an article by Ellie Rogers in Guitar World.