Steve Vai

In the YouTube video titled "For The Love Of God," Steve Vai plays an Ibanez RG320Z Electric Guitar, showcasing his skill and the guitar's capabilities.

Listed on Steve's official Roland page.

Listed on Steve's official Roland page.

Listed on Steve's official Roland page.

At the second column, you'll read "Steve uses: Ibanez Guitars, DiMarzio Evolution Pickups, Marshall, Bogner, Carvin and Fender Amps, Dean Markley Strings, Morley Pedals."

I also personally asked DM on their FB page:

Me: "Hi, one more question. Can you tell me what specific DM strings Steve Vai used back then? Because that's exactly what I want. ????" FEB 16TH, 8:11AM

DM: "Hi Dave, Steve played the Blue Steels 9-42s"

In the Premier Guitar "Rig Rundown" video, Steve Vai is seen using a Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar.

At 4:36, you can see Steve Vai using an Dunlop Fuzz Face during the work for the 25th Anniversary Edition of "Passion and Warfare"

"Commemorating the 25th anniversary of Passion and Warfare comes a special 2CD edition of the album which includes the first-ever release of Vai's Modern Primitive songs and recordings. Based on song sketches and works-in-progress penned, and recorded, by Vai following the release of Flex-Able, the artist's debut album, in January 1984, the music on Modern Primitive has been completed by Steve for release as a full album bonus disc in the Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary Edition."

Steve Vai is associated with the Ibanez Steve Vai Premium Series JEM77P Signature Guitar, as detailed on the Ibanez Guitars website under their Electric Guitars JEM/UV series.

You can see him holding this amp at 2:21

"I use usually three microphones, on one cabinet and the way that they're placed is all properly in phase. And I'll use a 57, you know, [Sennheiser] 421 and maybe a Beyer 160. And they all have extremely different characters. And if you can properly blend these characteristics.."

"I felt very lucky when Steve Vai contacted me after hearing the DS-1 Seeing Eye Mod. Afer getting two pedals from us (one to ship to Joe Satriani) he sent two of his own pedals for us to modify. (...) So, I sat down to mod these beauties while listening to Live in an Ultra World.“ - Robert Keeley

Steve Vai used this guitar when he played in the movie "Crossroad" with Ralph Macchio

Steve Vai is an educator on the online guitar lesson website TrueFire. His course can be found here:

• Alien Guitar Secrets: Passion & Warfare

Steve Vai used the Charvel So-Cal Style 1 HH Slime Green guitar early in his solo career before collaborating with Ibanez to design his signature model. This image captures Vai with the Charvel guitar, highlighting its role in his development as an artist.

In this video, Steve Vai demos his signature Synergy modular preamp.

At 0:15 in the video, Steve Vai's Synergy rack is shown to consist of his signature Vai module, as well as a Plexi, BMan and T-DLX module.

In this video, Vai can be seen playing his new Custom Ibanez Triple-Neck "The Hydra".

"The Hydra", features one body, three necks (two headstocked) that include: a 7-String guitar neck (middle), a 12-string guitar neck (top, half-fretless shortways), and a 4-string 3/4 scale bass neck with no headstock (bottom, half-fretless longways). As well, the instrument also has 13 sympathetic harp strings, single coil, humbucking, piezo, MIDI, and sustainer pickups, hardtail and tremolo bridges, phase splitters and much more.

Given all of those features, it should come as no surprise that this odd instrument took five years to design & manufacture.

A Prototype version of the instrument can be seen here on Vai's offical website.

At 0:15 in the video, Steve Vai's rack is shown to consist of a BMan module.

In this June 2022 rig rundown with Thomann's Guitar & Basses, at 5:45, Steve Vai's guitar tech Doug pulls down a Mirror finish Ibanez with L.E.D. fretboard inlays stating:

[Doug]: "...This guitar gets used on "Avalancha", it's tuned to Drop-C."

[Thomann]: "My favorite tune on the new record."

[Doug]: "Yeah, it's a cool record... Steve lightened up his gauge for Drop-C, he used to always use 10-52, it's 10-46 right now, it might change, Steve changes thing up y'know, he's constantly evolving. So that's what this guitar's set up with."

"This is a great model too. This is the 20th anniversary and it's very heavy. It's like a dipped guitar, but the dip is on the inside. It's got this really cool light inside it and it illuminates the whole guitar," explains Steve Vai about his Ibanez JEM20TH Steve Vai Jem Electric Guitar.

"Steve Furlong also built me the Vac Rac tube limiter which in itself is hard - tube limiters have a particular analog sound so they're pretty different than like brick walls and limiters. I really prefer the sound of that stuff," says Steve Vai about the Inward Connections Vac Rac Series TSL-3 Tube Limiters which is used in his studio.

"These are also called lunch pails because you can just take these various 500 series that people make and just kind of stuff them in here," says Steve Vai about the API 500V 10-slot Lunch Pail.

This Ibanez Steve Vai Euphoria EP7 in green with quilted maple top was used on recordings like the silence is warm inside as well as in 2013 for the recordings with the Metrople Orchestra in Holland.

In a YouTube video titled "HeYaaaandy!" by SteveVaiHimself, Steve Vai demonstrates his Ibanez Jem 777DY while discussing his work on "The Moon and I." He mentions the challenge of maintaining pitch consistency when using the whammy bar, showcasing the guitar's role in his creative process.

This guitar was launched in 1987 as a limited edition of 777 guitars only worldwide. Steve keeps this one in his collection.

This guitar was launched in 1987 as a limited edition of 777 guitars only worldwide. Steve keeps this one in his collection.

Steve Vai used this guitar for a performance on 'Visual Sound Theories' on a song called 'Kill The Guy With The Ball'.

Steve Vai used this guitar for an acoustic idea and keeps it in his collection.

"Ibanez Jem Acoustic Prototype No Serial Number This beautiful Ibanez acoustic was built as a prototype for a possible Steve Vai acoustic model. The development continues to evolve and change. It features a tree of life inlay on the neck, and a deep cutaway below the neck for easier access to higher notes. This guitar is always close at hand in the Harmony Hut studio."

Ibanez Custom ("Red Lace") Serial #: F616858 This guitar, "Red Lace", is a custom guitar built by Ibanez to specs provided by Steve's 1993-1996 guitar tech Roger Bell. The body is mahogany with a maple top, with humbucking pickups in the bridge and neck positions and a single-coil pickup in the middle (Red Lace's pickups are DiMarzio Evolutions). The neck you see here is actually from a Jem 7WH, fitted to Red Lace when the guitar's original neck had to be replaced. Steve has used this guitar as a spare onstage, and Mike Keneally used it every night on the G3 and Fire Garden tours. Red Lace was auctioned for charity in 2001.