Tim McIlrath

"I'VE BEEN PLAYING MARSHALLS MY WHOLE LIFE AND SO DID MOST OF THE PUNK BANDS I GREW UP LISTENING TO. WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING AS RELIABLE AND CLASSIC AS A MARSHALL, YOU DON'T MESS WITH ANYTHING ELSE. " -Tim Mcllrath on Marshall amps (from the official Marshall website).

At this section of the Rig Tour with Rise Against, Tim Mcilrath identifies a Les Paul Classic Custom that he uses on tour.

On the official Marshall site, Tim McIlrath is quoted saying, "I've been playing Marshalls my whole life and so did most of the punk bands I grew up listening to. When you find something as reliable and classic as a Marshall, you don't mess with anything else." He is listed as using the 1960B cabinet. Original source here.

At 10:18 Zach Blair, the lead guitarist of Rise Against, lists Tim's pedal and says that he uses a boss delay and places his hand on a boss flanger. Although he says boss delay the pedal is clearly a boss flanger as you can tell from the colour.

In the YouTube video "Rise Against Live Part 4 Generation Lost" by latinoheatllama, Tim McIlrath can be seen playing an ESP E-II Eclipse-7 in Black Satin during the RPM tour.

At various points throughout this video (particularily 24:34) Tim shifts around to reveal a Les Paul hanging on the wall directly behind him. The body is shown to be in the TV yellow finish that is distinct to Les Paul Specials. However, the fret inlays and the truss rod cover look to be customized.

Tim McIlrath plays a 6-string 814ce, made of Sitka Spruce and Indian Rosewood according to Taylor's official site.

It took me literally10 years to figure this out, but Tim actually has two Silverburst Les Paul Customs!

Throughout this video, Tim is using a 1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom. It is V.O.S (Vintage Old Stock) which designates it as being a modern instrument built according to vintage specifications-most distinctively, the yellowed finish of the silverburst (for a detailed breakdown, check this video out)

If you pay attention, Tim has used both the regular Les Paul Custom (Example 1) and the 1979 Custom (Example 2). The differences are subtle: the 1979 Custom has more of a "teardrop" finish, whereas the modern Custom has more shading around the perimeter. Other than that, they sound exactly the same.

Tim has been using this new semi-hollow Les Paul (it looks like it's white, or maybe has a metallic silver sheen) for the rest of the Wolves, Mourning In Amerika, and Europe 2018 tours.

No idea which tier of Eclipse Tim was using, but you can see it’s 6 string, not 7, which is also listed as a piece of gear used by Tim.

At 10:20 in this rig rundown video, Zach points out the Boss NS-2 as one of Tim's pedals.

At 10:23 of this video Zach Blair explains Tim's effect pedal set up, which includes an MXR Carbon Copy Delay.

On this Rig Tour with Tim Mcilrath, identifies an acoustic that he uses on tour. It was introduced to him by Jackson Browne who let him use it, to which he bought his own.

In this live, Tim plays with a 2004 Gibson Les Paul Supreme in Alpine White. This guitar is very iconic cause Tim write with tape in the back of the guitar Out Of Step, and he uses this guitar in a best part of The Sufferer & Witness tour. I think he change the gold hardware to chrome or nickel hardware.

In the video for "Injection," Tim McIlrath is seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Standard. He used this guitar during the early stages of the tours for "The Sufferer & the Witness" and "Appeal to Reason."

"I've played a lot of acoustics with mixed results over the years, and I've found my soulmate. The D-35 does everything I need it to do and is by far the best acoustic I've played live. It allows me to stop thinking about the instrument and focus on the song."

Tim has been using this Les Paul during the Wolves tour.

In the official video for "Hero Of War" by Rise Against, Tim McIlrath is seen playing a Gibson Hummingbird Artist acoustic guitar.

The Orange amp is shown at various point thorughout this video in Tim's garage/practice room.

Tim played this semi-hollow D'Angelico during a live performance with Prophets of Rage. The guitar actually belongs to Dave Grohl, who has also performed with Prophets of Rage as well. Foo Fighters and Rise Against have toured before as well as used the same proudcer for their records, so this comes as no surprise!

In the Ernie Ball String Theory video, Tim McIlrath of Rise Against discusses using Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Guitar Strings (10-46).

Throughout this video, the 2014 ES 335 Studio is hanging on the wall behind Tim. It's a 2014 model because the black finish was exclusively used on their Memphis 335 models then.

At 10:19, Zach Blair lists some of the pedals that Tim McIlrath uses, including his Line 6 Tap Tremolo, which can be seen at 10:22.

Tim Micilrath does an overview of his guitars at this section of this Rig Tour. On the subject of his Gibson SG, he talks about his use of an Evertune bridge due to the SG not staying in tune.

On this Rig Tour with Rise Against, Zach Blair spots a rach unit that he uses. The UR4D by Shure is spotted and identified by Zach once the camera pans to the rack.

Here in this video Tim shows off his Gibson Les Paul Custom that he bought from Wildwood guitars in Chicago. He has had it fit with an Evertune bridge. "Their(Wildwood guitars) one of Gibson's exclusive retailers so Gibson let's them pick the woods, go in and f**k with it a little bit and you get these signature Les Pauls that you can only get from them" says Tim in this interview.

“Essentially, it’s stuff that we came across during the recording of the songs. When we’re writing songs, we don’t mess with pedals, we just plug guitars into amps. It’s only in the studio that we find all the different toys and gadgets to add to different parts. That’s what these are: bits and pieces from the most recent record, The Black Market mainly.

"I do a lot more clean tone stuff than Zach does, so that tone has to be just right. We’ll spend days in the studio trying to get the right clean tone, so we’ll try and simulate that with some of these. It’s all fairly simple stuff: delay, reverb and tremolo. We trust Jeff - he’s like our ‘artist’ back here - to introduce these colours to the songs and he does a great job of it.”

“Essentially, it’s stuff that we came across during the recording of the songs. When we’re writing songs, we don’t mess with pedals, we just plug guitars into amps. It’s only in the studio that we find all the different toys and gadgets to add to different parts. That’s what these are: bits and pieces from the most recent record, The Black Market mainly.

"I do a lot more clean tone stuff than Zach does, so that tone has to be just right. We’ll spend days in the studio trying to get the right clean tone, so we’ll try and simulate that with some of these. It’s all fairly simple stuff: delay, reverb and tremolo. We trust Jeff - he’s like our ‘artist’ back here - to introduce these colours to the songs and he does a great job of it.”

Tim McIlrath uses a grey special edition Gibson ES-175 Electric Guitar exclusively in the studio, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Tumblr.

Strings can be seen in the Ernie Ball string theory video