Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher's Gear
In this photo, Noel Gallagher can be seen playing his Gibson ES-345 electric guitar, in a red finish. It appears to have a VariTone switch as well. He spoke about this guitar in an interview:
Interviewer: "So the 355 is the basis of your sound right now? You have been playing a Gibson 345 on tour…"
Noel: "Yeah, the guitars I bring on tour are either 355s or 345s. Those are what I play."
The tour he's speaking of in this context is for the first album of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
Gibson ES-345 is not seen as much as his infamous ES-355, but he did play it, as said in interview, for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' gigs. He played it for "Do The Damage" and a few other songs in this gig, done for Absolute Radio in Rivoli Ballroom, in 27th of March, 2015.
Noel Gallagher used the Way Huge Aqua Puss in a live presentation at "Later With Jools Holland" in 2000. The effect used starting at 3:32 to make oscillating noises and the pedal itself is visible at 3:52.
Noel Gallagher shows his pedalboard (new as of Oct 2016) on his Instagram. In the top row, fifth from the left, is his JHS Muffuletta 6-way Fuzz pedal.
The signal coming out of the pedalboard looks to be going into the first Vintage channel of his Fender '68 Custom Twin Reverb Amp.
In this early Oasis video Noel can be seen using an Epiphone EA-250. Noel is also seen holding this guitar while sitting on a piano on the cover of Oasis first single Supersonic. He is also seen using this guitar in some very early photographs taken by photographer James Fry in 1993.
Noel used various models of Takamine guitars in the 90s. On a picture is a Takamine Jasmine, which he occasionally played live.
In this interview with Music Radar Noel says: "There’s this clean boost pedal I use called Big Trees; it's like a signal enhancer or something, and it's fucking great. It's on every single take of guitar. Thing looks great as well.”
This pedal was also featured as pedal he uses on Premier Guitar's list of equipment and interview.
Although forum talks say that those strings were used for Don't Believe The Truth album, definitely confirmed source dates from 2015, where in the interview for Premier Guitar, it was listed that Noel Gallagher uses Slinkys 2221.
Noel Gallagher using a Boss DD 5 at Knebworth 1996. Noel's pedalboard shown in the Oasis Knebworth 1996 Documentary at 35:07 at the end of Supersonic. https://www.paramountplus.com/movies/oasis-knebworth-1996/FsgkdtzMwFAVQ54M_V9MRjEVXcGa2i0b/
You can clearly see the MXR M-133 Micro Amp in this photo of Noel Gallagher's pedalboard.
For sale on Reverb.com.
Up to all OASIS and Noel Gallagher’s Fans!
I sell from my collection Noel’s Fender Pro Junior III, he uses those amps quite a lot on stage, they are great.
Let me me know if you have any questions,
it comes with a COA signed by Noel.
Original Reverb listing here.
In September 2016 Noel Gallagher commissioned Daniel Steinhardt of The GigRig and That Pedal Show fame to build him a pedalboard for studio use. Noel and Daniel’s impeccable taste is shown here with their choice of pedals including the Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe compressor.
Pedalboard photo from Origin Effects.
A part of his usual setup on stage since around the 2005.
Noel Gallagher shows that he uses the Boss PN-2, according to this photo of his pedalboard setup posted to his Twitter. His Boss PN-2 can be seen to the right of the mic stand, in the upper right corner. The Tweet says, "A Noel's-eye view of his pedal board #NGHFBTour" (posted March 2015).
In this photo, we can see Gallagher's pedalboard, which has the DigiTech Whammy. This pedal has been used for the end of "The Shock Of The Lightning", and it can be heard on Wembley 2008 performance.
Noel Gallagher used the Gibson Silver Florentine electric guitar live during the "Be Here Now" tour, as pictured in this photo. The guitar features a hollow Les Paul-styled body, custom pearl silver paint and the usual dual humbuckers.
This video of Oasis playing "Supersonic" live at Wembley Stadium in 2000 shows Noel Gallagher using a guitar that almost exactly matches a Gibson 1959 Les Paul Custom Historic Electric Guitar, in a Cherry Sunburst finish. Various points throughout the video show the guitar from different angles and give detailed views of the body, finish, pickups, neck, and headstock. Around 0:27 the truss rod cover can be seen, which contains no written (or engraved) text. Around 2:04, Noel plays the solo of "Supersonic", and the pickups are shown as well as the pickup rings (3:54 is a great look at it as well). All of these details match the aesthetics of the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Custom Historic. This video is from the concert film Oasis - Familiar to Millions: Live At Wembley.
This photo of Noel Gallagher's pedalboard taken from his Twitter shows his pedalboard, which contains a Catalinbread Topanga Spring Reverb pedal (left portion of the board, in the upper left). The photo was posted March 2015 and captioned, "A Noel's-eye view of his pedal board #NGHFBTour".
Noel Gallagher uses this pedal at least from 2015. It was featured in Premier Guitar's list of pedal he uses.
Some sources, however, say he used this pedal before 2015. This pedal could have been used in 2007. as this source cites.
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In this site, there is also a photo which is thought to be from 2007 Brits, possibly showing his pedalboard, where SL-20 is seen somewhere in the top left corner.
From a listing on Reverb:
This Fender Bassbreaker comes from the private collection of Noel Gallagher.
15 watts from two EL84 tubes for aggressive midrange character
Noel Gallagher's pedalboard (new as of Oct 2016) uses a TheGigRig Remote Loopy-2, seen on the right side of the board. The Remote Loopy-2 allows Noel to set up the effects in his amp's FX loop and control them remotely from anywhere on the stage. Noel says:
"Thanks to Daniel at Gig Rig for building me a new pedal board. I shall be noodling now from here to eternity!"
The signal coming out of the pedalboard looks to be going into the first Vintage channel of his Fender '68 Custom Twin Reverb Amp.
A photo on Daniel's Instagram reveals that Noel Gallagher's pedalboard initially featured a Boss DC-2 Dimension C pedal, along with a Catalinbread CSIDMAN, before they were later replaced.
In the 5:15 , he says that use that guitar nowdays. Here's another video of him using the guitar.
In a photograph from a 1996 performance at Maine Road, Noel Gallagher can be seen using the Boss PH-2 Super Phaser.
Used with late Oasis and more recent, High Flying Birds.
In this photo of Noel Gallagher performing at a gig at Splash Club, Water Rats, London on January 27, 1994, his Roland RE-201 Space Echo effects unit can be seen behind him, atop his Vox and Marshall amps.
According to this transcript of the first issue of Oasis magazine, a Bluesbreaker was used by Noel when recording the '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' album. In the interview, Owen Morris says, " On this album the equipment he used was: guitars – his trusty Epiphone semi, a Firebird, a Les Paul, a vintage Strat and a couple of Epiphone acoustics: amps – his stupidly loud Marshall stack, a Marshall Bluesbreaker combo, an Orange and an early sixties Vox AC30."
A Tweet from Noel Gallagher from March 2015 shows his pedal board from the Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Tour. In the right portion of the pedalboard, in the upper left corner, his Electro-Harmonix Micro POG can be seen.
In this performance of "Wonderwall", Noel is singing into Neumann KMS104 microphone. This can clearly be seen at :19s of the video.
In this video of a Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds performance in South East London for Absolute Radio in 2015, Noel Gallagher can be seen using a pair of THD Hot Plate Guitar Amplifier Power Attenuators (8 Ohms) on top of his Fender Blues Junior amp. A good shot of them can be seen at 2:26 minute mark.
He likely needs two of these THD Hot Plate Attenuators for the two tube amps he's using live - the Fender Blues Junior, and below it his Hiwatt Custom 100 Combo.
In this user-uploaded photo, Noel Gallagher is seen with a Boss TR-2 Tremolo pedal, highlighting its use in his setup with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
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