Thomas Gabriel Fischer

"I now consider it a huge mistake to have used guitars different than my usual Ibanez Icemans for anything other than leads. It caused me to temporarily lose my signature sound, a sound I was/am extremely fond of and which defines me entirely." Source: http://www.triptykon.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1733&sid=c3124cbe2fd8e751084cf29d72df6093

there are many photos of Thomas using a flying V

Plays this guitar on rare occasions

Played a Charvel on the late 80's

Played this guitar in the early 80's

"The red guitar with white stripes and a Stratocaster body is my first St. Blues "Eliminator", which is still in my possession today (although I do intend to sell it).

I used it for almost all guitars recorded for "Into The Pandemonium" and, later, "Vanity/Nemesis", and also on the associated tours. I also used it, although in a far more limited manner, for "Monotheist" and "Eparistera Daimones" (see below).

Tommy Vetterli of Coroner and I were, for a time in the late 1980s, quite taken by the quality of the luxurious workmanship applied to the St. Blues guitars and by their sound. It was Tommy who, still as my guitar tech, pointed these guitars out to me. At one time, I owned three St. Blues "Eliminators", one in red and two in black. I sold the black ones in Texas in early 1993.

I now consider it a huge mistake to have used guitars different than my usual Ibanez Icemans for anything other than leads. It caused me to temporarily lose my signature sound, a sound I was/am extremely fond of and which defines me entirely. The red St. Blues is an excellent guitar for leads, however, particularly because of it's fantastic old Kahler tremolo system. I thus used it for a few harmonies, leads, and guitar turmoil on "Monotheist" (e.g. in "Ain Elohim") and "Epaistera Daimones" (e.g. in "The Prolonging")."

He used it at the 1989 live Celtic Frost gig at Hammersmith Odeon. This guitar can be seen in this video. As seen in the video his Model 5 gitar has multiple Michelle logos on it, those are the initials of his ex-wife Michelle Villanueva.

He can be seen with this guitar in this Hellhammer era picture.

What stands behind him is clearly his JCM 800. He used it in Hellhammer, throughout Celtic Frost and I believe he's still using it in Triptykon, although I'm not sure.

On the site it says: ''He currently plays an Ibanez H. R. Giger series Iceman guitar. He also uses an Ibanez Tube Screamer overdrive pedal. '' but it's taken from Wikipedia, so we surely need a better source.

We'd need an interview where he states that, but it's just common knowledge among all the Hellhammer/Celtic Frost fans around the world that his set up has always been a JCM 800 and an Ibanez TS9.

It might have been taken down, but I recall reading about him saying (in an interview I can't find anymore) that he used this ''Roland PW-1 Rocker Wah''. I wouldn't have know of this pedal's existence, otherwise. Help me finding the source, please, I'm sure he used it.

Ian Robertson of Chromaticism blog took a picture of Thomas Gabriel Fischer's pedalboard during Triptykon's 2016 Zürich gig.

The pedalboard contained a Ibanez TS-Mini, a Boss OC-3 Super Octave Pedal, an Ibanez WD7JR Weeping Demon Junior wah, and a Korg PitchBlack Chromatic tuner.

Since the TS-Mini was released in 2015 this pedal was obviosly not a part of his old Hellhammer and Celtic Frost era pedalboard.

Sinc the TS-Mini is essentially a miniaturized TS-9 it's quite possible that the original Tube Screamer used by him in old albums was a TS-9.

Ian Robertson of Chromaticism blog took a picture of Thomas Gabriel Fischer's pedalboard during Triptykon's 2016 Zürich gig.

The pedalbaord contained a Ibanez TS-Mini, a Boss OC-3 Super Octave Pedal, an Ibanez WD7JR Weeping Demon Junior wah, and a Korg PitchBlack Chromatic tuner.

The Boss OC-3 wasn't a part of his Hellhammer and Celtic Frost era pedalboard.

Ian Robertson of Chromaticism blog took a picture of Thomas Gabriel Fischer's pedalboard during Triptykon's 2016 Zürich gig.

The pedalboard contained a Ibanez TS-Mini, a Boss OC-3 Super Octave Pedal, an Ibanez WD7JR Weeping Demon Junior wah, and a Korg PitchBlack Chromatic tuner.

Since the Ibanez Weeping Demon Junior was introduced in 1999 it's obviously wasn't a part of his original Hellhammer and Celtic Frost era pedalboard. He used some other wah pedal in his old albums.

Ian Robertson of Chromaticism blog took a picture of Thomas Gabriel Fischer's pedalboard during Triptykon's 2016 Zürich gig.

The pedalboard contained a Ibanez TS-Mini, a Boss OC-3 Super Octave Pedal, an Ibanez WD7JR Weeping Demon Junior wah, and a Korg PitchBlack Chromatic tuner.

Since the Korg PitchBlack chromatic tuner pedal was released in 2008 it obvisouly wasn't a part of his Hellhammer and Celtic Frost era pedalboard.