Guthrie Govan — Rig Network
10 gear items · 30 artist connections · Guthrie Govan profile
Guitars
HSH configuration with Seymour Duncan pickups on an ash body. Designed with Charvel to cover all genres in a single instrument. Primary live guitar with The Aristocrats and on solo material.
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Early signature instrument — HH configuration with Suhr pickups. Used on Erotic Cakes.
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Used for country and blues-specific performances where the SSS single-coil character is required. Guthrie can extract authentic Strat chicken-picking from a stock instrument.
Amplifiers
Clean platform for studio and smaller live use. British-voiced 18W amp with excellent clean-to-crunch transition. Used on Erotic Cakes recording.
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Primary live rig for large tours — allows instant switching between different amp models for the genre-switching that characterises Guthrie's live performance.
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Clean American-voiced amp used for clean and light crunch passages in recording contexts.
Pedals & Effects
Transparent overdrive for pushing the Suhr Badger into natural-feeling crunch.
Primary delay — used extensively in The Aristocrats live performance for complex rhythmic delay patterns.
Ambient reverb for spacious passages and ambient guitar textures.
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Transparent compression for country and clean jazz passages where consistent attack is required.
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