Joel Stroetzel

"I have been huge fan and player of Caparison guitars for over a decade now. Throughout the years I have tried many of their various models, and have loved them all! I am pleased to say that the JSM has all of my favorite features from all of the models I have tried, yet it still manages to be very unique within the Caparison family of instruments...

"...I truly could not say enough about this guitar! Perfection in every detail. Many, many thanks to my friends at Caparison for making my dream guitar come to life! I hope that anyone who has a chance to play a JSM loves it just as much as I do!" Joel says, in this article.

In the early days of Killswitch, Joel can be seen playing an Ibanez Universe UV777BK.

A Hughes & Kettner Triamp MKII amp is listed among Joel's gear, on his website.

Joel Stroetzel of Killswitch Engage talks about his Laney Ironheart IRT-120H and Lionheart L20T-112

Joel Stroetzel of Killswitch Engage talks about his Laney Ironheart IRT-120H and Lionheart L20T-112

Listed on Joel's official Laney page.

Listed on Joel's official Laney page.

On Joel Stroetzel's website, it lists a Maxon OD808 among his gear.

On Joel Stroetzel's website, it lists a Boss NS-2 among his gear.

A Boss TU-3 is listed among Joel Stroetzel's gear, on his website.

Among the gear listed on Joel Stroetzel's website is a Maxon AD-9 Delay Pro.

Joel Stroetzel uses an ISP Technologies Decimator ProRack G, according to his website.

A detailed gear diagram of Joel Stroetzel's Killswitch Engage stage setup that traces the signal flow of the equipment in his 2005 guitar rig. As you can see he has a Korg DTR-1 Digital Tuner.

According to this diagram from Guitar Geek, Joel switches between using the Ibanez TS808 The Original Tube Screamer or the Maxon OD808 Overdrive.

Joel's official website states that he uses EMG 81 pickups.

According to his website, Joel Stroetzel uses EMG 85 pickups.

Joel Stroetzel's website lists EMG SA pickups among the gear he uses.

Adam Dutkiewicz & Joel Stroetzel from Killswitch Engage create music that spans from the cleanest of cleans, to aggressive melodic metal. In the studio, they’ve used a wide variety of active and passive equipped guitars. Live, this presents its own set of challenges. Now Adam & Joel have one set of pickups that does it all. The Killswitch Engage Signature Set packs tremendous versatility into one set of pickups. Voice 1 begins with our Modern recipe, but Joel & Adam prefer a tighter bass for more note definition and screaming midrange and harmonics. In the bridge, Voice 2 contains an extremely unique vintage/medium output hybrid passive tone, equally great for cleans, crunch, and searing leads, while the neck produces a crystal clean, fluid voice. In addition, there are unique single coil voices for each pickup, to nail the perfect modern active “hot” coil split, and vintage passive true single coil tones.