Tim Commerford

Tim Commerford on stage with Rage Against The Machine with his Fender J Bass.

The bass Commerford used for most of the early Rage Against the Machine years. Pickguard removed on a natural wood finish.

He used Lakland jazz basses in recent RATM shows but switched to red stingray bass when playing live for Prophets of Rage

At 1:16 we can see Tim holding this bass

Two images are shown during this video immediately after each other, at 12:29, showing Commerford with two different Rickenbackers, a natural finish one with white binding and an arctic white finish one with what looks to be like an gold-anodised aluminium pickguard and no binding ( seems to be a 4001S model due to the dot inlays ).

Tim can be seen working on two beat-up Ampeg SVT-VR heads in this video.

Lots of forums mebers report this but he never personally talks about his rig really.

"You Don't Know How Much Better A Cab Can Be."

He shows he is using this in a video from orange, most clearly at 0:37

At :28s of this video we can see a 105Q Bass Wah Pedal.

An Electro-Harmonix POG2 can be seen on Tim Commerford's pedalboard at 0:28 in this video.

At 0:28 in this video, Tim Commerford's Boss TU-2 can be seen on his pedalboard.

Tim is seen using an A/B switch on the inside cover of 1996's "Evil Empire" to switch between amplifiers.

At 12:53 we can see in Tim's pedalboard that he has a MXR Boost-Line Driver

We see in this video that a Dunlop mini bass wah is in pedalboard around min 13.

We see at 13:43 that he is using a EBS Multicomp.

At 16 00 we see that Tim is using an Ampeg SCR-Di.

Commerford is very secretive of his tone, even going so far as to put effects on his pedalboard that he doesn't even use, making his own gear, and even removing the labels off some of his effects. Here are some effects which he has used during his career. Marshall Guv'nor Distortion Pedal (RATM, 1991–1998) The Guv’nor’ was launched in the late 80s to critical acclaim among guitar players: skip forward to the late 90s, and we saw a few bassists (most famously Tim Commerford of Rage Against The Machine) enjoying this almost forgotten pedal.

Commerford is very secretive of his tone, even going so far as to put effects on his pedalboard that he doesn't even use, making his own gear, and even removing the labels off some of his effects. Here are some effects which he has used during his career. Marshall Guv'nor Distortion Pedal (RATM, 1991–1998) The Guv’nor’ was launched in the late 80s to critical acclaim among guitar players: skip forward to the late 90s, and we saw a few bassists (most famously Tim Commerford of Rage Against The Machine) enjoying this almost forgotten pedal.

Commerford is very secretive of his tone, even going so far as to put effects

Commerford is very secretive of his tone, even going so far as to put effects

Commerford is very secretive of his tone, even going so far as to put effects

COG built this custom octaver fot Tim Commerford

COG built this custom fuzz for Tim Commerford

"You Don't Know How Much Better A Cab Can Be."

"You Don't Know How Much Better A Cab Can Be."