Kenny Wayne Shepherd

According Dunlop's website, Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses Dunlop Genuine Celluloid picks.

At 22:19 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his custom pedal board and we're shown a still image with the Butler being seen in the left hand side of the image.

"Left to Right: Martin Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Acoustic prototype, Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Strat with GraphTech saddles and a custom neck (used heavily on his first album), National Resophonic Dobro Electric (used for "Aberdeen"), Guy Guitars Strat-style with lipstick pickups, built-in Roger Mayer overdrive boost, and Drop D lever," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

“A Univibe circuit is a pretty complex beast. The bulk of the sound on the original Univibes was dependent on this lightbulb flashing on and off inside. And when you’re trying to condense that into a very compact box like this one, you’re going to start sacrificing some of the sound. So this is, in my opinion, one of the best solutions for getting as close to the sound as you can in as smaller housing as possible. I only use it on one song, which is Blue On Black. We have a rhythm part that comes in right at the top of the second verse. I go from the acoustic sound to the Univibe for the rhythm.”

At 16:47 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny says "this is the super sonic twin; this is one of Fenders latest creations and if you know much about me the majority of my career I’ve been a Fender Twin guy. I used to run, for several years I just ran three Fender Twins wide open…For me I like a really nice round clean amp sound and I generaly use my pedals to get the distortion, but this is a really versatile amp."

At 22:19 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his custom pedal board and we're shown a still image with the Butler being seen in the left hand side of the image.

In this video, Kenny talks about his 61 Strat. The guitar is also mentioned on Kenny's official site they write about this guitar saying "This guitar is 'THE ONE'. Every guitar player dreams of finding that one guitar that they pick up one day and it fits like a glove. This is that guitar for KWS. Kenny describes it as an extension of his own body. He loves all of his guitars, but they all take a back seat to this one."

At 14:23 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny shows us his amps saying "tonight what I’m gonna be running through…the first one over here is the 1964 Fender Blackface Vibroverb re-issue, and you know originally they only made the Blackface Vibraverb I think for like one year…the total production only expanded for about years."

At 22:37 of this “Rig Rundown” with Premier Guitar, Kenny says about his pedals, “starting off in the single chain we have the Dunlop Univibe Re-issue. That is in particular I use that for the rhythm sound on “Blue on Black”. You know it just gets a really unique sound; it’s really ‘Hendrixy’”

"Left to Right: stock Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Strat, Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Strat prototype, Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Strat with GraphTech Ghost pickup system (used for the "Blue on Black"), Fender Jimi Hendrix Monterrey Pop Limited Edition," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the MXR M-103 Blue Box Pedal on his pedalboard.

At 19:00 Kenny Wayne Shepherd calls this amp the "secret weapon". He then continues to explain why.

Quoted on the official Shin-ei website.

"My new Vibe-Bro kills it! This thing has THAT SOUND, just like my original Uni-Vibe! Thanks to my boy Dustin Sears from Shin-ei for building this for me!"

At 27:26 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his Octavia re-issue saying "I have an original Tycobrahe Octavia at home that I reserve just for studio use. But these guys have really nailed the re-issue, I mean this an accurate re-issue of any other pedal I’ve ever seen."

At 34:54 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny says about his Bi-Chorus "so this is a really cool chorus pedal; it’s one circuit but he has the ability to have two independent settings…I have one side set for like a fast setting, which gives you more like a ‘Leslie’ sound. And then I have a very slow setting on the other side of it to sort of smooth things out."

"Left to Right: Martin Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Acoustic prototype, Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Strat with GraphTech saddles and a custom neck (used heavily on his first album), National Resophonic Dobro Electric (used for "Aberdeen"), Guy Guitars Strat-style with lipstick pickups, built-in Roger Mayer overdrive boost, and Drop D lever." - Premier Guitar.

At 25:23 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his wah pedal saying "I’m a big Dunlop user, have been for years basically, and this wah pedal - I’ve been in search you know now for the best sounding wah pedal…I have an original Vox Clyde McCoy wah pedal from the sixties, that’s like the Holy Grail of wah pedals. Everybody tries to emulate that and I’ve just been on the lookout for the one that sounds closest or sounds the closest to what I want a wah to sound like and this is it.”

Kenny Wayne Shepherd's gear includes an MXR M288, according to Dunlop's website.

Kenny Wayne uses a "Guy Guitars Strat-style with lipstick pickups, built-in Roger Mayer overdrive boost, and Drop D lever," according to this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd incorporates the Ibanez TS808HWB Hand-Wired Tube Screamer into his pedalboard, as evidenced by a user-uploaded photo on Premier Guitar.

Used this guitar for “Woman Like You”.

In this video from Fender, Kenny Wayne Shepherd discusses the features of his signature stratocaster and demonstrates the guitar.

At 23:47 in this “Rig Rundown” with Premier Guitar, Kenny says “this is an octave generator basically. You know this thing get’s all kinds of like trippy far out sounds.”

On Dunlop's website, it lists an MXR MC-402 among gear used by Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses a Joe Bonamassa Fuzz Face, according to Dunlop's website.

In a photo from Premier Guitar, Kenny Wayne Shepherd's pedalboard features two Voodoo Lab Pedal Switchers, highlighting their role in his setup.

Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the Voodoo Lab Commander on his pedalboard.

Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner Pedal on his pedalboard.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd praises the JAM PEDALS Delay Llama+ as an incredible-sounding delay pedal, highlighting its HOLD switch feature. This endorsement is featured on JAM Pedals' official artist page.

Kenny plays: Delay Llama+, TubeDreamer88, Fuzz Phrase