Matt Heafy's Gear

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In this post matt shows off his new epiphone signature model. This is an updated version of his original signature les paul custom. It features his signature fishman pickups. The guitar comes in either black or white finish, with evertune or standard bridge options. The guitar is loosely based on the les Paul custom he got at 12 which was on almost every trivium recording

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The black Gibson Les Paul Custom that was gifted to Matt Heafy by his father, which he used extensively on tour and to record all of Trivium's records until his endorsement with Epiphone. His Epiphone signature model is based on this guitar.

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Matt Heafy talks about his Epiphone signature model Les Paul guitar in this video.

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Matt Heafy also uses 7 string Explorers as his main 7-string guitars of choice live before his endorsement with Epiphone.

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Matt has a 6505 amp in his collection. He states that throughout trivium’s history, they have always used a 5150 style amp. Either a peavey 5150, evh 5150 III, or a Peavey 6505

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At 0:22 in this video about Matt Heafy's signature Dean guitar, he starts talking about the creation of this Dean Guitars manufactured signature series guitar. It is based on the Dead Guitar ML guitar, and he says "So I decided to take something I love, the ML, and basically hot rod it and customize it to my specs." Some of those specs include 24 frets, a carved away neck for maximum playability, one master volume knob, and an input jack on the side.

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In this post Fishman announces that Matt has become a Fishman artist. Matt states that he was given a set of modern fluence pickups by brand rep Ken Susi. Ken gave him this set to try during the trivium set. Matt claims he instantly loved the pickups. he claimed it was what he was missing from his live setup. He claims the pickuos have helped him become a bettert guitar player

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He used it extensively live during his period with Dean guitars during the late 2000's and during instructional videos during the same era.

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Matt has a percision drive in his setup. He was given this by a twitch mod of his. He was told this is the drive pedal you should use

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In this interview with ken susie for fishman pickups, matt announces his signature fishman custom set. They are based on the modern fluence set that matt had used for awhile. These pickups will be in his 2021 signature epiphone les paul custom, as well as his new signature kramer super strat

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Matt Heafy uses the EVH 5150III 100S 100-Watt Tube Head for guitar tones on Trivium's album 'In The Court Of The Dragon,' as confirmed by Trivium's Instagram post.

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Named by @ihsahnofficial , made by @epiphone , I present #snøfall, the soon-to-be-released newest #mkh #lespaulcustom. This one is customized with @richterstraps #mkh, @evertune, @gruvgear, @jimdunlopusa strings/picks, @emgpickups.

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In this Post Matt Shows off his Aristides 080 8 string. He Had this custom made for him by the guys at Aristides. Matt got this after wanting an 8 string for quite some time. he often plays this while warming up for shows, and during various twitch streams

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Matt uses fret wraps on his guitars. he uses this to stop string noise on his guitars. this is especially helpful when using extended range instruments

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In this video Matt unboxes the care package he was sent by beyer. one such item he was sent was the DT 240 pro headphones. he uses these as his main travel listening headphones. He claims he was likes listening to music the way it was recorded.

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In this post, Matt shows off his custom tsmith 7 string guitar. This guitar was custom made for him by t smith. It is in the explorer body shape. It is fitted with an evertune bridge, and a pair of fishman modern fluence humbuckers

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At 2:27 in this Premier Guitar rig rundown, Perry explains Matt Heafy's minimalistic live setup, mentioning that he and the other band members all go through Kemper systems. Matt Heafy says "it's guitar, wireless, Kemper, Kemper goes directly to the PA."

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Matt Heafy used the Epiphone 7-String Flying V during a few performances in the Shogun era, following a transition from Dean guitars. This was a temporary solution until he acquired the Gibson 7-String Explorer he later favored.

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In his livestream Matt said, that new album was recorded on Peavey Triple XXX II.

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Used to record The Sin and the Sentence album

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In an interview with the website Sonic State, Matt states that they use Peavey 5150 amps in the studio.

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In this post matt shows off his streaming and recording rig. On the road matt uses a Asus laptop to Stream himself Gaming, and Warming up guitar and vocals

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Matt states that he uses a asus strix magnus mic. he used this mic until switching over to a shure sm7b mic

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At 0:56 in this video, Matt mentions that the TS9 was used during the recording session for “What the Dead Men Say”

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In this entire youtube video, he tries out the Victory Super Kraken.

That's pretty much it. :P

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He uses the 7 string version of his signature Epiphone Les Paul Custom in the video and shows.

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Matt ordered it when he got his endorsement from Dean, and used it to record Shogun as well as using it on the Shogun tour.

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On this video Matt Heafy used alpine white Les Paul Supreme

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In this post Matt shows off the Guitar Tsmith sent him. this is a custom made jm model

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