Matt Heafy's Guitars

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Matt has a ibanez monkey signature guitar in his collection. It is signed by the members of korn. It was given to matt by munky as a thank you, for gifting some korn members with his epiphone signature guitar

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In his collection, matt has a older music man jp7. He states that this was one of the main guitars used to track the crusade. He retired the guitar after having it signed by dream theater while trivium toured with them

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In this post Matt shows off his music man jp 6. he was given this guitar by John Petrucci himself

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In a video titled "Matthew Kiichichaos Heafy I Trivium I Guitar Collection 2020," Matt Heafy showcases his ESP LTD KH-602 Kirk Hammett Signature Series Guitar. This guitar was gifted to him by a fan and later signed by all the members of Metallica during a festival where Trivium performed alongside them.

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In his 2020 guitar collection video, Matt Heafy showcases a Yamaha CG101A, a gift from Paulo's uncle during a tour stay.

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Matt can be seen playing this in the Entrance Of The Conflagration Video. He also can be seen playing it live at the Rock Am Ring in 2006 during Ember To Inferno and Detonation

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In this post on Matt's Instagram, he took this picture when his 2 kids take a look at the Jared Dines StingRay

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In this post on Matt's Instagram, Gibson sent to him this 1957 VOS Les Paul Goldtop!

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In this post matt shows off the schecter Keith merrow 7 string he was sent. Keith personally sent the guitar to matt as a gift. Matt states that this means the world because he is a massive fan of keith.

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IN this post Matt shows off his Aristides 070. This guitar was bought off someone who was selling the guitar

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Matt has a kiesel vader 8 string in his collection. He had it custom made by jeff kiesel and the team at kiesel guitars. Matt states it is the first headless he ever owned

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Matt has a 10s strat style guitar in his collection. 10s made him this guitar after contacting him asking to try a guitar

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At 3:52, he talks about it a bit like Hetfield KL Explorer I saw way back as a kid in Cunning Stunts

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In this photo Matt shows off the Abasi Larada 8 string he owns. Matt named this guitar ibaraki. This is a one of a Kind model that abasi concepts made for Matt. Matt states that he has wanted one ever since Tosin announced the 8 string. The artwork on the guitar is based on Ibaraki at Rashamon Gates By Kitagawa Utamaro. This is the same artwork that Matt based his Left arm tattoo on years ago

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Matt is an avid collector of guitars. In this post, Matt shows off the JP 15 he added to his collection. He states that this guitar was acquired in a trade with his friend Matt Richard. Often Matt will trade guitars with friends who are also collectors.

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In this post matt shows off the music man majesty he acquired in a trade

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