Alex Turner — Rig Network

The primary guitar for the classic Arctic Monkeys era — "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor", "R U Mine?", "Do I Wanna Know?". The 330's bright, chimey character through an AC30 defines the angular indie rock guitar tone of the mid-2000s.

AM:PM and later era — the Jazzmaster's floating tremolo and offset body give it a darker, more complex character than the Rickenbacker. Used heavily on "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino" for the psych-lounge aesthetic.

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Fully hollow Casino — used for the warmest, most jazz-adjacent tones on Tranquility Base and Submarine EP sessions. Similar construction to John Lennon's famous Casino.

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Primary amp throughout the Arctic Monkeys discography — the Class A EL84 character and Top Boost channel provide the chime and natural compression that suits Turner's chord-heavy rhythm playing.

Added for extra gain and British warmth on AM era — "R U Mine?" and "Do I Wanna Know?" use a more compressed, mid-heavy crunch than the pure AC30 character.

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Not an amp but treated as a key signal processor — the tape echo unit runs through the signal chain and gives the Tranquility Base era its warm, analog delay character.

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Octave fuzz used on specific tracks for extra harmonic complexity — particularly on AM era lead breaks.

Early Arctic Monkeys era heavy fuzz for the heavier garage rock passages — "Brianstorm" and "Teddy Picker" era tone.

Used expressively on select tracks — not always present but appears for dynamic filtering on live versions of heavier songs.

Tape echo simulator for the Tranquility Base era — complements the hardware Roland Space Echo for layered delay textures in the studio.

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Optical tremolo for the vintage lounge-psych aesthetic on the later albums.

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