Jeff Loomis

Jeff showcases his signature JL-7 throughout this video.

"I have a very long history with Schecter and I am extremely happy being with them. The Jl-7 guitar has been very successful and is still my main instrument of choice. With Arch Enemy I wanted something a bit more brutal and metal looking so we came up with the Cygnus JLX1 FR. It’s based on an early 80’s Charvel Star guitar with some tweaks in the design to make it look a bit more intense. I’m very happy with the results because it also has my new Seymour Duncan Signature Blackout pick ups which are brand new for 2016. Check out www.schecterguitars.com and www.seymourduncan.com websites for more info." -Jeff Loomis

Jeff gives us the scoop on his NEW JLV signature Schecter!!

Jeff can be seen here playing on a Gibson Flying V.

Here, Jeff's playing a Schecter C-7 Blackjack

Here Jeff is playing with his Schecter Hellraiser C-7

Here Jeff plays a song he wrote to demonstrate the new Jl X 7 Fr

Here we can clearly see the guitar. There's one more photo of Jeff using it live with Arch Enemy on his Instagram.

"This was an incredibly fun project. My very first real metal guitar was a Charvel model 1 back in the late 80s. I was lucky enough to find two of them in fairly decent shape on @reverb. However upon getting both of them they were not in the best condition. Enter my buddy Andy Beech from @dhaitreguitars. He did complete new paint jobs adding gold hardware new jumbo frets plus a few more extras to make these guitars play and sound insane. Thanks again my friend for your great work. I can relive my teenage years a bit."

"Doing some recording with this bad boy today. Probably one of the nicest guitars I have ever played"

Jeff showing off two of his two main axes for the Will to Power tour cycle.

Jeff Loomis talks about his Engl Amp during a break in shooting his rock house DVD EXTREME LEAD GUITAR

"For the entire record, I used an Engl Special Edition head, an awesome amp that comes out of Germany."

Mr. Loomis refers to using a Peavey 5150 head in an article with Guitar Player. "I also used an old Peavey 5150 head that belongs to Peter Richards, our producer. "

You can see the Kemper rack on the right side of Jeff's desk. As far as I know Jeff and Keith Merrow are using Kemper profilers most of the time.

From metalsucks.net: I used to use the Savage 120 Engl head but recently switched over to Engl racks. I use the tube preamp 570 and the 100W Stereo power amp going into two Engl cabs housed with Celestion Vintage 30’s.

I used to use the Savage 120 Engl head but recently switched over to Engl racks. I use the tube preamp 570 and the 100W Stereo power amp going into two Engl cabs housed with Celestion Vintage 30’s.

I used to use the Savage 120 Engl head but recently switched over to Engl racks. I use the tube preamp 570 and the 100W Stereo power amp going into two Engl cabs housed with Celestion Vintage 30’s.

Jeff is playing the song through his Revv Generator 120

I used the same basic amp setup for every time we've recorded in a different studio, which is a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier with a tube screamer - very simple stuff.

All guitars were the album takes, reamped through the 100w 6L6 version of the head. The cabs are Hesu 2x12 cabs with Celestion V30 speakers. Drum mix by Mark Lewis at Audiohammer, song remix by Keith Merrow. Filmed at Jeff's studio in Seattle.

Loving the Strymon stuff specially for cleans and ambient soundscapes at the moment

The easy editing of tones and effects are perfect for backstage warmup

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(2:54 minute mark) - Loomis loves the Boss SD-1 overdrive, because it doesn't change the tone of an amplifier. He praises it because most of the overdrive pedals take a lot of low end when the gain is raised, while Boss SD-1 doesn't do that.