Richie Kotzen

In this video, Richie Kotzen talks with his signature model, made in Japan, Fender Telecaster guitar. The guitar is equipped with two DiMarzios Pick Ups, N-Tune tuner, Series/Parallel Knob Switch and Hipshot Xtender.

Kitchie Kotzen presents his Fender Stratocaster on this video. The entire video is about it.

Circa 2006~2007, there was a Fender Special Run (FSR) of Richie Kotzen's guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D--yFdSQ-U

The guitar featured a ash body with flamed maple laminated top, thick "C" maple neck with maple fingerboard, DiMarzio built-to-specs pickups, and a vintage-style synchronized tremolo. The guitar is now discontinued.

On this page of Cornford's website, this picture shows Richie with his signature amp heads, the Cornford RK100.

"I used a Fender Custom Vibrolux and a Fender Vibro-King—I often had them linked—and I also sometimes had a Fender Bassman linked in with the Vibro-King"

In this video Richie shows the on/off switch on his pedalboard that controls the vibrato circuit on the Fender Vibroking amp.

"I was in Sao Paulo and they couldn’t get my amp down there so I was playing through a Marshall JCM800. I used a Japanese overdrive pedal from this company called Sobbat" The Marshall logo is taped over but you can clearly see from the knobs that this is a channel switcher, most likely a 2210.

"I use the Marshall [1959]HW, which is a 100 watt Plexi, but it's handwired. [...] I like it because it's a very simple amp, it's loud, which is important, and it's very percussive, which is also important to me, because I play with my fingers."

At 3:17 in this video Richie Kotzen shows the Cornford MK50 amp he used as a substitute for his own amp, and also points out the differences between the two.

"For amplification, I used my signature-model Cornford RK100 with a Cornford 4x12 cab loaded with Celestion 30s. It’s a pretty simple 100-watt, hand-wired amp that kind of sounds like an old Marshall. But, out of all of the amps I’ve ever used, I can get a tone instantly with that rig. I plug in, turn up, tweak a few knobs, and I’m there. I also used a Cornford Hurricane 1x12 combo for a lot of the solos and rhythms. It was already miked up during the sessions, so I just tried it, and it sounded really cool—the midrange was very clear and focused."

Richie hints at the amp several times via instagram, then on No Guitar Is Safe-- a podcast hosted by Jude Gold, Richie comes out and explains that the amp is a 50 watt guitar combo (Presumably a 2x12). The amp has a master volume, tone, gain, tremolo, and reverb. The amp is also equipped with an effects loop. This can be heard here:

https://soundcloud.com/guitar-player-magazine/episode-47-richie-kotzen

at around 9:30.

After 2:09 in this video Richie Kotzen talks about the Zoom G2R unit and the way he uses it live.

At 1:05 in this video Richie Kotzen shows the PB-2 on his pedalboard stating that "this is the pedal that I use as my phase shifter".

"Kotzen’s guitar tone is fat and natural sounding. All of the reverb and tremolo you hear comes from the Vibro-King. His bare-bones pedal board contains only a Sobot Drivebreaker 4 overdrive, a Tech 21 digital delay and a Dunlop Jerry Cantrell wah."

Richie is complete artist but I want to see him play some songs with blues harmonica sound. This Eletric harmonix's pedal "hog" makes emulates "Blues Harmonica". He should try!

According to the Line6 website Richie upgraded the G50 to this G70.

In this article Richie talks about programming sounds into the Zoom G2 multi effects processor.

In this video Richie walks through his pedalboard.

Richie used this pedal before his signature RK5 came out.

At the end of the effects chain Richie had the Holy Grail nano.

"You said you don’t really hear effects, but you did use some stompboxes on the album—right? I don’t need any overdrive pedals because the amps have plenty of overdrive. But I used a CryBaby wah, a Dunlop JD-45 Rotovibe, a Dunlop TS1 Tremolo, a Boss OC-2 Octave, and a Mesa/Boogie Revolver rotating-speaker cabinet."

"You said you don’t really hear effects, but you did use some stompboxes on the album—right? I don’t need any overdrive pedals because the amps have plenty of overdrive. But I used a CryBaby wah, a Dunlop JD-45 Rotovibe, a Dunlop TS1 Tremolo, a Boss OC-2 Octave, and a Mesa/Boogie Revolver rotating-speaker cabinet."

Richie Kotzen seen here in this YouTube video demonstrating his guitar pedals, including the Bobber Wah.

"You said you don’t really hear effects, but you did use some stompboxes on the album—right? I don’t need any overdrive pedals because the amps have plenty of overdrive. But I used a CryBaby wah, a Dunlop JD-45 Rotovibe, a Dunlop TS1 Tremolo, a Boss OC-2 Octave, and a Mesa/Boogie Revolver rotating-speaker cabinet."

In this YouTube video, Richie Kotzen demonstrates the many uses of the RK5.

“This is the last thing in my rig. It’s a standard Dunlop classic wah.

"There’s no extra boost, or voicing, or extra potentiometers. It’s a straight wah.”

As for the product website the Samson Q8 is Richie's vocal microphone of choice.