Steve Stevens

Beginning at about 5:38 in thie promotional video for his signature Friedman amplifier, Steve Stevens recounts how EVH got him into using the "original Peavey 5150" as his main touring amp while Steve was touring with Vince Neil in support of Van Halen.

Legendary guitarist Steve Stevens wails on his new Supro 1624T Dual-Tone Reissue 1×12 Combo Amplifier

"One of the things that I did do, on the second track, “Hell Cats Take the Highway,” I used a tiny little amp, it’s called a Rex and it’s made by Valco. It’s got a tiny little Jensen speaker, it’s not even round, it’s one of those kind of elliptical speakers. I got that off eBay. I think I paid about $250 for it. It’s like this tiny little amp and I put a mic in front of it -- I was trying to capture those early Led Zeppelin/Yardbirds sounds. So I just plugged one of my Les Pauls into it and that was the sound. I tracked the entire song with that one amp. I just thought, if I’m gonna try to capture that whole era, that was the sound: very small amps turned all the way up. There were only volume and tone controls on that amp and it was cool."

(0:30 minute mark) - Stevens is seen stomping on the Boss FB-2 pedal while playing the Fender Stratocaster.

His wife Josie bought him one..

On this page from an April 1993 issue of Guitar World magazine, Steve Stevens can be seen with a Washburn SS100 electric guitar.

Steve Stevens is seen using the Knaggs Severn SS/XF, a guitar customized with Bare Knuckle pickups, locking Sperzel tuners, and a Gotoh Floyd Rose tremolo, in a video by Chicago Music Exchange. This model features a unique design with purple inlays and a ray gun at the 12th fret, similar to the guitars Stevens tours with.

“I love my EarthQuaker Arpanoid pedal. There’s nothing else that knocks people out and gets people’s attention like that pedal. Every time I use it, I get asked ‘What was that effect’?”

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According to the official site of Bare Knuckle, Steve Stevens uses this pickup on many of his guitars.

" “The Rebel Yell just growls with an even harmonic richness that I never hear in other pickups. It's so full of clear bottom and perfect pick attack. These pickups are in a whole other league - they're the real deal ! "

In this user-uploaded photo, Steve Stevens is seen holding a Peavey EVH Wolfgang Electric Guitar, which he frequently uses on tour.

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Shawn Hammond talks with Steve about his gear setup. At 9:05 Shawn asks which model of Seymour Duncan pickups Steve is using, to which Steve replies JBs.

In this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Shawn Hammond talks with Steve about his gear setup. At 9:22 Steve picks up this custom Chena and says "I wanted kind of a sloppier guitar, almost uncontrollable - and I thought that this semi hollow Knaggs, which is I think a Chena. The only thing I had is - the factory version comes with little bit more beveling, and I wanted my, I like my guitars thicker, just out of creature of habit or whatever. So, they did me this one and it's really easy to get notes to sustain, and it is sloppy sounding if I want it to be".

At 10:19 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar Steve pulls out this guitar and says "for that song I kind of described that I really wanted super clean, very Strat like tones and - just three single coil pickups. Not even sure what pickups they are, I just trust Joe. And this is really a beautiful guitar that I used for one of the new songs."

At 12:00 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve talks about this guitar saying "there's a - Les Paul we were using for one of the songs in the set that had an E flat tuning, and this one has LEDs in the neck that Sims had done me at a company out of England. These are Bare Knuckles. I'm not sure which model, but I wanted this to be a sort of metal guitar."

At 15:50 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve shows us his RX1 switcher saying "out of the wireless, into the switcher. And then through a series of - this basically has a bunch of loops, signal chain loops. And when I'm not using an effect it's switched out of the chain."

At 16:42 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar we get a great shot of Steve's amps. In this accompanying article, Premier writes "For super-clean tones, like on the verses in 'Flesh for Fantasy,' he brings along two Custom Audio Amplifiers PT100s, one for backup."

At 16:56 of this "Rig Rundown" with *Premier Guitar, Steven shows us the Paradox TZF pedal saying "(this) does that kind of classic 60s through 0 flanging, which sounds like an old Hendrix record."

At 17:54 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve shows us this pedal saying he uses this mainly for solos.

At 18:14 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve shows us his Phase 90 saying "then there’s an old Phase 90, which does the usual kind of 'Van Halen-esque' thing.”

At 18:50 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steve points to his Vibe Tool saying "this is like a Uni-vibe- this is my vibe tool. Really cool sounding like Uni-vibe type pedal, sounds great with Humbukers."

At 19:17 of this "Rig Rundown" for Premier Guitar, Steve shows us his Moogerfooger which he says he uses for "wacky ring modulator effects."

At 22:48 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar we're shown Steve's GR-33.

Around 25:00 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar Steve plays us some effect samples from his pedalboard, complete with the DigiTech Whammy DT.

At 27:36 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar Steve shows us how he achieved that ray gun sound for "Rebel Yell" and...you guessed it, he used a toy ray gun!

According to the Fulltone website, Steve Stevens uses the Fulltone Secret Freq

Onstage he keeps several items in stomping distance - including this Crybaby.

Onstage he keeps several items at stomping distance - including this volume pedal.

This article shows pictures on Steve's rack including the modpro.

This article shows photos of Steve's rack including the echo pro.