Troy Van Leeuwen

Troy Van Leeuwen used the Schecter Traditional Standard Maple guitar exclusively during his time with A Perfect Circle, featuring a hot-rail bridge pickup similar to his goldtop PT. It was last seen in 2001, as shown in a user-uploaded photo.

At 3:21, Troy says, "I really like this company called EarthQuaker Devices. They're in Akron, Ohio. I'm using a couple of their pedals. I use the Dispatch Master, it's a nice reverb echo. I also use the Bit Commander."

At 4:21, Troy says about the Axe-FX II "Actually, I've gotten quite used to the Fractal. It sounds great, actually. Once you get into all the parameters of all the effects, you can actually make it sound pretty good, pretty much custom." He says later at 5:27, "I'm really using the Axe-FX for reverbs and tap delays. I actually use it also for a sort of like a Uni-Vibe sort of wobbly effect. I also use it for routing stuff to different amps."

Troy Van Leeuwen used a modified red Yamaha AES1500 for songs in C on the Lullabies to Paralyze tour. Seen on the Catacombs Tour in 2025, he has added a Höfner H62/10-N tailpiece.

Troy Van Leeuwen has been using a black Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster Special Electric Guitar for performances since 2011, as shown in a photo featured on Premier Guitar.

Troy Van Leeuwen used this gibson ES-175 heavily during "Song for the deaf" era. You can see this guitar on "No one knows" music video.

"I’ve always used the Seymour Duncan Custom and sometimes I’ll use a JB. I’ve experimented with using different ones for the neck and the bridge, but I almost always end up using the Custom."

Along with his custom made De Leon from Echopark, Troy also has a Lake Placid Blue Model J which he used throughout the recent ...Like Clockwork tour. You can see a clear shot of it at 18:16-18:20 and 18:48-18:54 during Smooth Sailing from their Reading show

In an interview featured on Guitar.com, Troy Van Leeuwen discusses his music equipment, including his use of the Gibson ES-135 Black Custom guitar.

This guitar can be seen in "The Way You Used To Do" video.

Seen in the whole video. Troy owned 2 other AES1500s, a white one and a 3 pickup red one but the black one was modded for a stopbar instead of a bigsby. Used in A Perfect Circle, Enemy, and QOTSA. The guitar was last seen/used in a 2010 performance of Sky Is Fallin' where Dean played it.

Van Leeuwen's gear includes a Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face Distortion pedal, according to Dunlop's website.

At the 3:07 mark of the video, Troy Van Leeuwen is seen playing a Höfner Verythin 4575 guitar.

This blog shows an interview with Troy about his team on the Post Pop Depression tour, and shows the new Echopark vibramatic 23 head amp.

"Well, the first guitar I ever had was a Telecaster. Teles are a classic. I’ve had a reissue of the American Deluxe Tele – the Keith Richards guitar, that’s what I call it. I used that guitar a lot on the last Queens record, and live also. I love the way a Tele sounds, but also I like the location of the pickup switch. Because I have to play lap steel, it’s easy for me to flip the switch and go to lap steel and then go back to playing. It’s just really useful.

On our last Queens record, we started getting into more wiry tones. We’ve been known as a heavy band, but it’s very not heavy in the way that we approach our music. The Tele really came in handy for that, and the Jaguar because it kind of separated all the heaviness. There was a cut to all of my parts. It really lent a different color to our band."

Mentioned in this June 29, 2019 interview on the website for Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World’s Greatest Guitarists.

“I have a Maestro Bass Brassmaster, which is a fuzz pedal everyone’s been searching for forever,” he explains. “I don’t ever take that stuff on the road though. I would use it on records, but I’ve been able to get what I want out of other fuzz pedals. Malekko made a clone of it, which sounds really great too. It’s called the Barker B:Assmaster. I’d rather take that than take the original. Brassmaster on the road. I don’t want it to mess up. If it ever messes up, those things are expensive now.”

Troy Van Leeuwen is seen with a Schecter PT guitar, which he likely acquired around June 1997. This guitar is not his only Schecter; he also had a goldtop PT with two humbuckers featured in a Schecter advertisement. A user-uploaded photo verifies his use of the Schecter PT.

In this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown article, it's pointed out that Troy Van Leeuwen uses this item for his work.

At 6:58 in this rig rundown, Troy says "So I'm using also this Supa-Puss delay, just for, you know, if I want to get nutty for a second. It get's really extreme."

In this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown article, it's pointed out that Troy Van Leeuwen uses this item for his work.

Van Leeuwen's gear includes a Dunlop MC404, according to Dunlop's website.

Here in the recording sessions (at SoundCity Studio) video of the "lullabies to paralyze" album, Troy appears using a Maton Guitar that seem to be a Maton MS2000 DLX, to record "Tangled up in Plaid". Check it out in: 13:47 of "QOTSA - The Way Finds You".

In this video you can see Troy playing the Squier

Troy can be seen playing Josh Homme's Yamaha SA-70 bass here.

Troy van leeuwan used this guitar for the music video 'sick, sick, sick'.

"Troy getting a taste of his new 50 watt non master Narb Amplifier.."

Seen miking Van Leeuwen's Vox AC30 at12:58 in this Rig Rundown.

At 5:05 of this video, this extension cab is seen sitting on top of the Marshall 4x12 cab.

Troy can be seen using a similar version without the white pick guard and the Bigsby removed. @32:15 at a QOTSA show @ Eurockeennes De Belfort Festival, France on 07-02-2011 (The same double white fret inlays on the neck and white truss today cover on the headstock can also be seen)

A "Javelina" prototype, given to Van Leeuwen by Jeorge Tripps, is part of the Pink Duck pedal collection. It features in this May 5, 2019 interview on the website for Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World’s Greatest Guitarists.

“This is the prototype Jeorge gave me for Way Huge’s Havalina pedal,” Van Leeuwen explains. “It’s similar to a Russian Big Muff using germanium circuits. You’ll note they changed the name for the production version.”