Joe Hottinger

"Man I've tried so many distortion pedals and that one I just keep coming back to...I like running the amp just under where I'm comfortable and I just put a little gain on that and it puts me in the sweet spot," says Joe Hottinger, about his Tube Screamer, at 35:15, in this rig rundown.

Joe Hottinger can be seen using a Gibson Flying V in this photo from MMRBQ 2012. It features a mirror scratch-plate, a mahogany body and neck, and an ebony fretboard. A 496R Ceramic magnet Humbucker for the neck pickup, and a 500T Ceramic magnet Humbucker for the bridge pickup.

Joe also used some Gibson guitars during the recording process: “I have a '59 Reissue Les Paul that I used a lot. I used my Gibson Johnny A guitar a lot.”

"I use that as another boost, for just a different flavor of boost. It gets harsh and crazy. I like it with solos sometimes when it gets out of control," says Joe Hottinger, at 35:40, in Premier Guitar's rig rundown.

"It's just a different sound, a little fresher. It's interesting to see some guitars work better with it than others," says Joe Hottinger, about his POG2, at 34:10, in this Premier Guitar rig diagram.

According to Premier Guitar, Joe Hottinger uses a Custom Audio Electronics Power System.

"This is a custom shop one of their '63 reissues and Lzzy actually got this for me for Christmas, it's great being in a band with her you know we're like Christmas presents? Guitar! We just get each other Guitars." - Joe Hottinger at 18:40. This custom shop comes equipped with Gibson '57 classic pickups.

"The Tele, I always wanted the 'Teleist" Tele that was my goal when I was starting to really get into collecting guitars" - Joe Hottinger at 23:40.

"My Martin D-18GE. When a guitar sounds this good, songs just fall out of them." - Joe Hottinger describing his Martin D-18GE on Instagram.

"It's whatever kind of reverb you want," says Joe Hottinger, about his Cathedral Reverb pedal, at 37:45 in this rig rundown.

"I pretty much use this as like a little slap," says Joe Hottinger, about his Echotone, at 37:25 in Premier Guitar's rig rundown.

"I've had shoot-outs with other boosts and it just beats them out every time," Joe Hottinger says, at 35:00 in this rig rundown.

Joe Hottinger's MXR EVH-117 is mentioned in Premier Guitar's rig rundown.

Joe Hottinger's MXR EVH90 Phase 90 is mentioned in Premier Guitar's rig rundown.

It's mentioned in this rig rundown that Joe Hottinger uses a Boss SL-20.

It's mentioned in this rig rundown that Joe Hottinger uses a Dunlop JC95 Jerry Cantrell wah pedal.

"I got this at Norm's Rare Guitars in LA, one of the great guitar shops in the world and, I broke the knob off but I'll fix that one of these days, but...it's self reliced, it's a beautiful top and I mean it's just one of the best sounding Les Pauls" - Joe Hottinger at 21:20.

"It's one of those dream guitars you always want" - Joe Hottinger at 26:20.

"Starting out this is my Tonemaster, I got this while we were making out last record. Jay Joyce our Producer had one and he just had it all done up, and Tonemasters are something that Fender made, the custom shop made in the '90s only. I don't know the full story behind them but my guess is that it was them trying to kind of 'out Marshall' Marshall" - Joe Hottinger at 28:32

It was a tale of two approaches when it came to gear in the studio. Lzzy kept things stripped back, using her road gear and plugging her Explorer straight into her Marshall JCM800 2203. Joe, however...

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"I have a '59 Reissue Les Paul that I used a lot. I used my Gibson Johnny A guitar a lot, my red Tele, my Custom Shop that Dennis Galuszka built, and my '57 Hardtail Custom Shop Strat

The way huge green rhino is an overdrive pedal used by Joe Hottinger, the pedal features volume, tone and drive knobs, as well as a curve knob and a 100Hz EQ knob.

"New Amp Day! Fender Excelsior Pro! Bam!! So cool. Green too !!" - Joe Hottinger describing his new Fender Excelsior Pro on Instagram.

Joe uses this guitar throughout the performance (1:46). It is this guitar as this guitar is made with two contrasting peices of wood and you can see the strip down the center of his guitar

"The chain starts with a Shure UR4D Wireless housed in a rack with a Monster Power Pro 2500 and a TC Electronic G-Major," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

"The chain starts with a Shure UR4D Wireless housed in a rack with a Monster Power Pro 2500 and a TC Electronic G-Major," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

"The chain starts with a Shure UR4D Wireless housed in a rack with a Monster Power Pro 2500 and a TC Electronic G-Major," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

Joe Hottinger uses a Boss TU-3, according to this rig rundown.

According to this article, Joe Hottinger uses a CAE RS-T.

"I use this for the cleaner channel" - Joe Hottinger at 30:00.

"The first one, loop one starts out with this Carl Martin Compressor Limiter, it's a well known pedal, it's awesome, you know, just put it in the box when you need to" - Joe Hottinger at 33:35.