Musical Equipment
- Early years
Guitars: Guild S-100
Amplifier: Bass Ampeg Mesa Boogie with 15" speaker
Effects: Jim Dunlop Crybaby wah, MXR chorus
- Badmotorfinger
Guitars: Guild S-100, Gibson Les Paul Custom Lite, Gibson Firebird
Amplifiers: Peavey VTM-120, Music Man HD130, Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier
Effects: To get the heavy sound in studio, many guitar tracks were layered and panned to add the body that was lacking from previous albums.
- Superunknown
Guitars: Guild S-100, Gibson Les Paul, Fender Telecaster, Gibson SG
Amplifiers: Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers, Mesa Boogie 50-watt Mavericks, an old Fender Super, a Fender Princeton, Fender Twin Reverbs and Vibro-Kings, and an old Orange head.
Effects: Intellitronics LA-2 and Summit DIs. (To get him to play most comfortably, Thayil's living room couch was brought into the studio, as per an article published in the May 1994 issue of Guitar World)
- Down on the Upside
Guitars: Guild S-100, Gibson Les Paul Custom Lite (Thayil calls it a "Diet Les Paul"), Fender Telecaster, Fender Jazzmaster, Gibson SG.
Amplifiers: Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers
Effects: Jim Dunlop Crybaby wah, Colorsound wah, Jim Dunlop Rotovibe, Mu-Tron
- Current Live Setup
Guitars: Guild S-100, Guild S-300AD
Amplifiers: Mesa Boogie Tremo-Verb 2x12 combo amplifiers, Mesa Boogie Electra Dyne heads paired with Mesa Boogie Stiletto 4x12 cabinets
Effects: Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner, Ehx Micro Pog, Mxr Doubleshot Distortion, Dunlop Rotovibe, Dunlop 535Q Wah, Ehx XO Deluxe Memory Man, Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere
- King Animal
Guitars: Guild S-100, Guild S-300AD
Amplifiers: Mesa Boogie Tremo-Verb 2x12 combo amplifiers, Mesa Boogie Electra Dyne heads paired with Mesa Boogie Stiletto 4x12 cabinets
Effects: Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner, Ehx Micro Pog, Ibanez CS9 Stereo Chorus, Dunlop Rotovibe, Cae MC-404 Wah, T-Rex Reptile, Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere
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