Scott Holiday

Scott holiday said in an interview "A lot you might have seen this, I used it all over [Rival Son's second album, 2012's] Head Down, for the tour. It's by my favourite builder and it's one of my favourite guitars.

These pickups were actually wound for me by a great guy named Chris Klein [of Klein Pickups] and they've got original '50s Gibson magnets and they're also like a mini-humbucker. It's also got custom pinstripes, which are kind of fun and kind of cool."

Scott Holiday says in this video, “This firebird, I actually bought it before I ever touched it, which is never a smart thing to do, but I had finished our first record, Before the Fire, and used a gaggle of guitars, old Teles, and Esquires, and Strats, and Les Pauls, and just a whole bunch of instruments, never a Firebird though. When I went to go back and play the songs on the record, nothing I had was really defining what I wanted to do. Like it wouldn’t make the sounds of the record. So I started to look for a new guitar and I came across this one. I live in California and I found one online in T-Neck, New Jersey.

It’s a 1999 Custom Shop historic of a 1965 Firebird. And I’ve replaced the pickups with a friend of mine’s pickups. His name is Tom Short. Kind of puts a, it’s not quite a firebird, it’s like a mini-humbucker version in a Firebird cap that he does. He does them for Mark Ford and quite a few other guys.

I use all the settings on all the pickups. I had all the wiring redone, it’s basically like a Les Paul. So I can turn the middle pickup on at any time, off a pop, and then I have one volume for the other two. At any time I can get all three going, or any two, or any configuration. I use all the configurations and kind of change it up nightly with how the room feels and how things feel.

As much as I want to use that vibrato, I just really don’t trust it. The maestro is one of the most tuneful vibratos, and definitely the coolest looking, but probably not the trustiest, so I never use it. I just tuck the bar back.

That Firebird is a real man’s guitar. My wife plays as well, and this guitar just feels like a gigantic machine to her. She can’t really touch it. It’s got a really big neck. It’s quite heavy, the instrument. It’s not really long scale, but it feels long scale from the scale of how the guitar is. It’s a real rock and roll machine. I love it. It’s my number one. This is the guitar I use the most on stage, definitely.”

I have not found any statements online regarding him and the unit, however in this clip you can clearly see him having a helix on his floorboard.

In this interview with Guitar Player, Scott Holiday talks about some of the gear he used on the album Head Down. He said he plugged his 1962 Fender Jazzmaster guitar into his Basic Audio Gnarly Fuzz pedal, which he then plugged into his amp.

"Everybody knows this one! It's the Electro-Harmonix Micro POG [octave pedal] and I think everybody knows where that goes in our set," says Scott, in this article.

Scott Holiday says at 1:46, “This is my number two. It is a 1962 Fender Jazzmaster, obviously refinned. Probably in 1963. It’s really road-worn too, it actually came with these knobs and as you see it. I love this guitar. She is very lovely. I play a lot of slide on it. The only thing I’ve done to this guitar, aside from beat it up more than it already is, is I put a set of Lollar P-90s in it, which are lovely. I have the originals, but they are quite thin and kind of like surf guitar sounding. I used them for a while, but right when I dropped these in, it was wonderful.”

At 5:27 into this video, Scott Holiday shows his Analog Man King of Tone, saying, "I use both settings, one for a bit of brightness and sparkle, and one for a bit of a boost and drive..."

Also, in this article he says, "Right above the wah is the Analog Man King Of Tone. It's the version four King Of Tone, which is coveted. It's a wonderful overdrive - beautiful,"

On the JetSlide website, Scott Holiday is quoted saying, "The brass slide is the ONE for me still. I have a feeling your JetSlide will be with me for a long while. It's already been about 9 years! wow . . . We're in this together now, dude! It has really become a kind of necessity for me. I wear the JetSlide even when I'm playing a song that doesn't have slide just incase i get inspired to throw some stuff in!"

In this source video, Scott Holiday recalls the usage of the 200 watt Orange Thunderverb.

In a MusicRadar video, Scott Holiday mentions at 3:57 that he uses a Gretsch G6134 White Penguin in the studio, which belongs to his producer. Despite this, he identifies himself as a Firebird enthusiast, reflecting his personal guitar collection.

Scott on the Deep Trip Pedals: "For a guy who has played through a fairly astounding amount of fuzzies... I was pleasantly surprised by how kick ass and right up my alley your creations are! You nailed it."

This is his current live pedalboard 2016, posted by Salvage Custom and reposted by Deep Trip, where you can see Deep Trip BOG and Hellbender.

"Above it is one of my oldest and trustiest tremolo pedals, the Demeter Tremulator, which was originally built for Ry Cooder to emulate the Fender Tremolo. I love it."

At 5:46 talks about his ZVex Fuzz Probe. “This deviant little robot down here is Zachary’s Fuzz Probe, the ZVex Fuzz Probe, one of my favorites. That’s my favorite probably on my board.”

Scott holiday said in an interview: "I used a good portion of my live rig in the studio but there were some specific pieces that we used on the record that I don’t use live. It was because our producer (Dave Cobb) owned it and it was great stuff. Just before we came into the studio he came in with a Gretsch Masterbuilt White Penguin. It was aged from the custom shop and I used that all over the record. It’s a wonderful guitar."

"This is the mystery pedal. What could be inside that box? Well, I won't tell you, but it's called 'Zap!' and that's basically what it does: it zaps ya! It's a fuzz I use on basically everything." - Scott Holiday.

Scott on the Deep Trip Pedals: "For a guy who has played through a fairly astounding amount of fuzzies... I was pleasantly surprised by how kick ass and right up my alley your creations are! You nailed it."

This is his current pedalboard 2016, posted by Salvage Custom and reposted by Deep Trip, where you can see Deep Trip BOG and Hellbender.

"This is something I got when we started touring [third album] Head Down. It's the Strymon Flint and I get reverb and tremolo sounds out of this."

"The first track you hear is a ’66 Telecaster into a mid-’60s Vox Berkeley, which is a solid-state Vox with reverb."

At 27:00 Scott talks about his JHS Colour Box and how he uses it.

“The Magnatone Twilighter is what I used mainly on this record [Rival Sons' Hollow Bones], which I still don’t own, it was one Dave had so I’ll have to reach out to him and grab one. It’s a really, really great sounding amp. It’s very versatile. So that was my live off-the-floor amp and my friends at Supro sent a bunch of stuff out. I tried all of them and they’re all really good but the one that won for us was the Coronado 2x10. I did all the overdubbing with that amp, it was all we needed; the Twilight and Coronado. I know everybody thinks you need Marshalls and all these huge amps but it’s very difficult to record big amps in the studio and get them to sound big and right. The air, force and volume doesn’t translate through a microphone. It certainly doesn’t translate to Pro Tools, and doesn’t really translate to tape. We’ve just learned through history that these smaller amps really end up sounding much, much larger. And it works every time.”

At 5:13, Scott Holiday talks about his wah pedal by saying, “Anyway this is the Dunlop CAE Wah pedal, which is really cool. It’s got the MXR Boost built into it and it’s got two inductors here. I use the yellow inductor.”

In this source video of Guitarist magazine, Scott Holiday is recalling the use of the MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay.

In this source video, Scott Holiday recalles the usage of the Option 5 Destination Rotation.

At 8:52 Scott Holiday talks about "A pedal that is very popular, everyone uses this thing...and ummm, a lot of people complain about it, try to say it doesn't sound good. I don't know, I think it sounds REAL good... I got a whole box of them delays and I still want this one on my board. And you can see, usually when you buy it it's got the red LEDs. Naturally, mine's better because it's got the blue LEDs...it MUST be better!" referring to his Keeley-modded Line 6 DL4.

"I used my Reeves Custom 30’s, I used the Vintage Orange OR120, and a lot of the time I used a Silvertone 1484." - Scott Holiday.

According to the official Orange Website, Scott Holiday uses Orange PPC412 Cabs.

https://orangeamps.com/portfolio-item/scott-holiday-of-rival-sons/

This article lists the Peppermint Fuzz among the gear Scott Holiday uses.

In this YouTube video, Scott talks about his gear and at 3:06 he shows his two Orange Thunderverb 200 heads. At 3:10 he says that at home he normaly uses the 50 watts version (Thunderverb 50).

At 35:01 Scott shows his Mojo Vibe, but his pedal has a kind of custom paint job.

“The Magnatone Twilighter is what I used mainly on this record [Rival Sons' Hollow Bones], which I still don’t own, it was one Dave had so I’ll have to reach out to him and grab one. It’s a really, really great sounding amp. It’s very versatile. So that was my live off-the-floor amp and my friends at Supro sent a bunch of stuff out. I tried all of them and they’re all really good but the one that won for us was the Coronado 2x10. I did all the overdubbing with that amp, it was all we needed; the Twilight and Coronado. I know everybody thinks you need Marshalls and all these huge amps but it’s very difficult to record big amps in the studio and get them to sound big and right. The air, force and volume doesn’t translate through a microphone. It certainly doesn’t translate to Pro Tools, and doesn’t really translate to tape. We’ve just learned through history that these smaller amps really end up sounding much, much larger. And it works every time.”