Pete Anderson

"I bought the Groove Tubes Solo 75, which was very much like a Deluxe, and then I got the new models from Fender like the Vibro King and the Dual Professional."

"“By the time I got to Dwight, my main amp was a blackface Deluxe with an Electro-Voice speaker, 6L6 Groove Tubes, and a solidstate rectifier."

"“That existed until I hooked up with Line 6. Remember when Amp Farm came out? I beta-tested the software. They brought over the very first Flextone and said, ‘Check this out; it’s like your Deluxes.’ I played it and said, ‘Well, yeah, it sounds real good, but I can’t tell if it’s like my Deluxes.’ I A/B’ed it with my Deluxes, but they were hyped up, different amps. I think of it as cloning, so I asked them to get me the amp that was the mother of this amp, the one they cloned it from. They brought over this pre-CBS blackface, and I A/B’ed the mother, the organic clone, and the software clone. I recorded an instrumental on all three amps, and had the engineer switch between the three without me looking, to see if I could pick out which one was which. I could always tell which one was the organic amplifer; there was something missing. But between the mother amp and the software, I could not tell the difference. So I figured, I’m not stupid; I’ll just start using the software. So I started recording in Amp Farm."

"And, I had a [Fender] Tonemaster so that I could switch from channel A to channel B and get more drive, and it became my massive rock amp, with the Dual Professional as my clean, basic country amp, and I still had my Solo 75 for the Deluxe sound."

"Pete’s main acoustics have been a Martin HD-28 or a Larrivee, but recently he’s been working with Robbie Brown, of Legend, designing “…the ultimate Pete Anderson acoustic guitar,” which is going to be called the Delta Bomber."

The PA-1 is another signature model done with Reverend Guitars.

Guitar.com, 2015

My main guitar is made by Reverend. It’s called the PA-1. It’s a laminated, arch-top, f-hole, Bigsby, P-90s. Because Seymour [Duncan] is a pal of mine, it comes with P-90s. And I’ve done different things, and because my music has gotten a little bit more sophisticated, and I wanted a cleaner sound, I went to humbuckers. But what Seymour made for me was a humbucker in a P-90 frame with rails instead of pole pieces, so I didn’t have an issue with string spacing. I really love the pickups, they’re great, great, great pickups. I have a real Bigsby on it.

The DIY Kit is the best cable on the market. We use it at my studio for every session

EXL140 Nickel Wound are my go-to strings for my "D" tune Teles. Lots of pop and snap

"And, I had a [Fender] Tonemaster so that I could switch from channel A to channel B and get more drive, and it became my massive rock amp, with the Dual Professional as my clean, basic country amp, and I still had my Solo 75 for the Deluxe sound."

"I bought the Groove Tubes Solo 75, which was very much like a Deluxe, and then I got the new models from Fender like the Vibro King and the Dual Professional."

Anderson has several signature models with Reverend Guitars called Eastsider.

Guitar.com, 2015

And the I did a Tele-body with them called the Eastsider, which we’ve been selling. And I’ve just been concentrating on being a guitar player, getting my endorsement stuff together, getting my signature guitars together, working on a signature acoustic guitar line, working with a guy to start designing an amplifier. Just stuff like that that I would have been doing if I’d just been doing this all along. And I’m just having the time of my life. (...) And that guitar I play for the majority of the show. I’m playing a little bit of slide, and I’ve got what looks exactly like a Telecaster, but it’s called an Eastsider, made by Reverend. It’s got a multi-radius fingerboard, it’s got some cavities up in the front of the guitar. It’s got a shaved heel, kind of like an Anderson.

New signature model guitar for Pete from Reverend

I had a vintage 335 that I replaced with a 335 that I got from Gibson that was just a better guitar. And I said, ‘Well, I’m about playing better guitars.’ And I sold that old one. I downsized a lot of that stuff because you had to have two of everything when I toured with Dwight [Yoakam].

I use that for slide, and I’ve got Rock Slides — Danny Songhurst at Rock Slides took the company over from his uncle who passed away, and he makes these incredible slides that his uncle invented. It has a little divot in it for your finger to rest in, and a little half-moon cut out to sit over your finger. They’re just brilliant, and they’re really comfortable. And I told him he needed to make some glass slides, because I sort of never had played glass slides, and then I switched over because I found out they were warmer. So he makes a glass slide — he makes all kinds of slides. But the glass slide is what I’m using by Rock Slides.

In this Rig Rundown with Premier Guitar, Pete Anderson discusses his signature Reverend PA-1 and the design philosophy behind the instrument.