Johnny Hiland

Johnny has been a long time fan and endorser of Ernie Ball Music Man guitars. Johnny's main guitars are two beautiful 1998 Axis Sports along with his tried and true Silhouettes.

Johnny Hiland includes the TC Electronic HyperGravity Compressor on his pedalboard, as listed on his official site under his current gear.

"I actually found an old CS-2 compressor, and I found the old three-knob red analog delay Boss had [DM-2] and, of course, the Blues Driver. But, then, I got turned on to the DS-1, and I’ve just been turned onto the new Mega Distortion [MD-2]."

"I just recently got turned onto the Micro-CUBE. There needs to be a law against how much fun you can have in hotel rooms with the Micro-CUBE! Man, that little amp is cool as sh*t! [Laughs.] I tell you, there’s been so many little pocket amps, and y’know, you’ve always gotta hook up some kinda pedal rig up to it, or hook something to get your effects, or to at least get a tone you’re happy with, but not the Micro-CUBE.You have all your delays, your phases, choruses, reverbs. It’s been so much fun! I’ve had a lot of people go, “Darn, man, the tone on that tape is a killer, what are you using? “They think I’m using some big rig or something, and I tell ’em it’s a Roland Micro-CUBE, and they say, “You’ve gotta be kidding me!” And it has so many voices, man. I mean, you can play jazz, it’s got a heavy metal tone in it — you can even get a Danny Gatton rockabilly tone."

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Johnny Hiland includes the Barber Tone Press Parallel Compressor on his pedalboards, as listed on his official website.

Guitarist Johnny Hiland uses the TC Electronic MojoMojo Overdrive on his pedalboard, as listed on his official website.

Johnny Hiland runs through his rig in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video at 22 minutes 44 seconds.

"My clean tone consists of the Cali76 compressor made by Origin [Effects]. which is amazing - it's my favourite compressor!"

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

"But Ricky was really the main reason I turned to electric guitar, and I must tell you, for all the folks listening out there, the first pedals I really got turned on to were BOSS pedals. Moving to Nashville in ’96, I had a little BOSS treble box, a TU-series tuner, the CS-3 Compressor, the BD-2 Blues Driver, and a DD-3 Delay."

On Johnny Hiland's official gear page, the AmpRx BrownBox is listed among the effects he uses. This device is designed to optimize the performance of vintage amps by regulating voltage, which suggests Hiland might be employing it in the studio for precise tone control.

Johnny announced his new signature guitar Kiesel JH6 which based on Kiesel S6H(T-shaped electric guitar) Specs is pretty much same as his previous S6H, but its pickup selector placed on under knobs.

In this video, Johnny Hiland demonstrates and give his thoughts on the Origin RevivalTREM.

Johnny Hiland is a longtime fan and endorser of Ernie Ball Music Man guitars, including the Axis Sport model, as listed on his official website.

In an article by Ann Wickstrom for Vintage Guitar® magazine, Johnny Hiland is noted for using the DigiTech X-Series Metal Master distortion pedal, highlighting its role in achieving his heavy metal sound.

Johnny has 4 main pedal boards. He uses Pedaltrain pedal boards and powers them with Voodoo Lab and Visual Sound power supplies.

Touring: PedalTrain Terra 42

Johnny has 4 main pedal boards. He uses Pedaltrain pedal boards and powers them with Voodoo Lab and Visual Sound power supplies.

Touring: PedalTrain Terra 42 Voodoo Lab Mondo

Johnny Hiland uses the Pedaltrain Mini for fly dates, as noted on his official site under the gear section.

Johnny Hiland uses the Visual Sound 1 SPOT - Space-Saving 9V DC Adapter with his Pedaltrain Mini for fly dates, as listed on his official site under gear.

Johnny Hiland's official site lists the Wampler Ego Compressor as one of the effects he currently uses on his pedalboards.

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

According to Johnny Hiland's official site, he currently uses the Barber Electronics Small Fry Overdrive Pedal on his pedalboards.

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

Here are the effects that he is currently using on his pedalboards

"But Ricky was really the main reason I turned to electric guitar, and I must tell you, for all the folks listening out there, the first pedals I really got turned on to were BOSS pedals. Moving to Nashville in ’96, I had a little BOSS treble box, a TU-series tuner, the CS-3 Compressor, the BD-2 Blues Driver, and a DD-3 Delay."

"I’ve used the DD-3 and DD-5 in the past, but the Giga Delay just offers so much more. I love the tap tempo feature, having the preset modes…"