Vance Joy

In this Instagram photo, Vance Joy can be seen holding a Takamine GC3CE-NAT acoustic-electric classical guitar backstage. He captions the photo:

"Having a bit of a hahahahaha lol backstage in melbourne"

On this page of Maton's website, it lists the Heritage ECW80 as one of the instruments used by Vance Joy.

In an interview with Acoustic Magazine, he says this about his Maton:

"I am playing a Maton which is an Australian make of guitar. My dad bought it for me in 2007 and it’s a very sturdy guitar. It’s very good for touring because it has a good strong construction, I have been touring with it for the last two years, and it has just had a real pounding."

The full interview can be found here.

In this video, Joy is performing "Riptide". For this ocassion, he sung into a Shure SM7B microphone.

Vance Joy can be seen using his Kala Cedar Top Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Tenor Ukulele in this live performance video of the song "Riptide." At 1:55 is a great closeup shot of it, and the details match up.

Vance Joy's main ukulele which he has used in lots of his live performances.

At 1:03 in the "Snaggletooth" acoustic video you get a clear shot of the Kala KA-SMHCE-C. The Kala headstock logo, mahogany body and a cutaway are obvious.

The Kala website also lists Vance as one of their ukulele artists but does not specify with which model.

Shure endorsed Vance Joy uses Shure's SM57, according to Shure's artist page.

In this photo Vance Joy posted to Instagram, he's holding his Kala KA-CEME Exotic Mahogany Concert Acoustic-Electric Ukulele. Vance's ukulele has a mahogany top, 18 frets (which indicates it's a concert size uke), and on the top of it you can see the Concert EQ system with 3-band EQ and tuner, indicating this is an acoustic-electric ukulele.

Vance Joy captions the photo:

"Camomile - I don't give a damn"

In this photo, Joy's picks are visible, which are Dunlop Tortex 0.60mm picks when zoomed in.

Featured on Joy's official Kala artist page.

James is currently at work writing for his next project. He can be seen in many live videos playing his collection of Kala ukuleles, including his guitarlele.

https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/vance-joy-breaks-out “The concept of the band is that every single part of the music should be played live by a band member, night in and out, and by doing so, every performance becomes unique,” Vertanessian explains. “I apply the same concept to my FOH mixing, and I do not use snapshots or any major automation. Although I have a number of cues per song, I do them manually every night, with the help of a few specific macros which I may or may not use depending on that night’s performance. We have a fair amount of acoustic guitars, ukeleles and guiteleles, whose sound can change drastically under different weather conditions. “The Avid S6L has a fantastic sound by itself. I only use a handful of really good plugins and let the desk do the rest. However, for reverbs I rely heavily on hardware units—Bricasti M7, Lexicon PCM 92, TC 3000 and TC 4000,” he continues. “In terms of microphones, we have DPA d:facto on the main vocal, DPA 2011s on snare drum, DPA 4099s on toms and horns, and a combination of Shure, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, and Audix for the rest of the inputs. All our DIs are Radial.”

Seen in live performance of Vance Joy "I'm With You" Live audio recording Josh Woodhouse @ Droplink Studio youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYfdO770FIA