Nels Cline Equipment Analysis

Used to belong to Roy Rogers

Painted red to match outfit

3-way pickup selector.

Vintage Frets

Floating Tremolo bridge

White paint on neck to designate fret markings

Alder body

Independant volume/tone toggles

Alder Body

Single Coil Jaguar pickups

Maple Neck (24”)

Rosewood Freatboard (7.5”)

Vintage frets.

Alder body

3-way pickup selector.

Independant volume/tone toggles

1959 Fender Jazzmaster

“Roy” 1962 Fender Jazzmaster

1966 Fender Jaguar

GuitarsNels Cline primarily uses the 1959 Fender Jazzmaster for all of his Wilco studio recordings as well as using it extensively for live performanc-es. He first purchased a Fender Jaguar to get closer to the “Sonic Youth” noise sound primarily be utilizing the strings behind the bridge plus some distortion and later fell in love with the tone of the Fender Jazzmaster due to the extra string length via the longer neck scale.

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Jazzmaster soap bar pickups

Alder Body

Maple Neck (25.5”)

Rosewood Fretboard (7.5”)

3-way pickup selector.

Vintage Frets

Slapboard Construction

Floating Tremolo bridge

Independant volume/tone toggles

Repainted to silver color

Mirror pickguard

Charlie Christian pickup (neck)

Seymour Duncan custom pickup (bridge)

Vintage Frets

3-way pickup selector.

Kristen McNenemy Jazzmaster

1969 Fender Jaguar

GuitarsThe Kristen McNenemy Jaguar was purchased for $300 and did not work initially and featured a ton of “hippie” paint. It has a very loose tremolo system and is featured on the song “Hummingbird” Kristen McNenemy was put over the hippy paint because “She’s so fabulous.” The Silver 1969 Fender Jaguar was purchased off Ebay and customly modified by Nels and proved to be a great guitar after “much work”. Initially, someone had appoxied the electronics of the guitar which required much work to fix “People did weird things in the 60’s and 70’s”.

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Alder Body

Single Coil Jaguar pickups

Maple Neck (24”)

Rosewood Fretboard (7.5”)

Vintage Frets

3-way pickup selector.

Independant volume/tone toggles

Strings Picks

GHS Boomer 12’s Dunlop Ultex 1.14mm

Dynamic microphone

Used for all studio recordings

Positioned “a couple inches” from the axis

Impedance of 150 ohms

Undirectional (cardioid)

Rotationally symmetrical

40 to 15,000 hertz frequency response

Yairi DY-53

Shure SM-57 Dynamic Microphones

GuitarsWhen playing acoustically, Nels Cline generally picks up the Yairi for which his parents paid $200 in 1974. Other alternative acoustic guitars include a Taylor 12-string he purchased in 1976, a Baby Taylor which was given to him in 1997 or a 1952 Martin 00-17 he bought four or five years ago.

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Mahogany back

Solid Spruce top

Folk Body Style

Mahogany neck

DC Rosewood bridge

Mahogany neck (25.5”)

Rosewood fretboard

1-11/16 nut width

Ernie Ball Vol-ume Pedal

Digitech Wham-my

Crowther Audio Hot Cake

Boss DD-2 Digi-tal Delay

Klon Centaur

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Boss CS3 Com-pressor

ProCo Rat Distor-tion

Fulltone ‘69 Fuzz Fulltone Deja Vibe

Effects

Gain 7/10

Treble 6/10

Output 1/10

Level 7/10

Tone 6.5/10

Attack 4/10

Sustain 4.5/10

Distortion 6/10

Filter 3.5/10

Volume 7/10

Mid 5/10

Low 7.5/10

Volume 6/10

Bias 10/10

Contour 10/10

Fuzz 10/10

Volume 10/10

Intensity 6/10

Zvex Fuzz Fac-tory

Boss Vibrato Pedal Electro-Har-monix Pulsar

Cry Baby Wah Electro-Harmonix POG

Volume 6/10

Gate 0/10

Comp 0/10

Drive 7/10

Stab 3/10

Rate 7/10

Depth 2/10

Rise 4/10

Depth 4/10Shape 4/10Rate 4/10

Level 4/10Feedback 4/10Detune 5/10800ms

Level 6/10Presence 4/10Drive 6/10

2 6L6’s delivering 40 watts clean headroomCustom wound Mercury Magnetics transformers1x 6SC72x 12AX7’s5U4 rectifierRed tolex standard

Marshall JTM-45

Schroeder DB7

AmplifiersNels Cline originally played on vintage Marshall JTM-45 amplifiers, but eventually partnered with Schroeder to design an amplifier specified to his demands.

Schroeder DB7- Volume 4/10 Treble 1/10 Middle 3.5/10 Bass 3.5/10 Presence 3.5/10

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2x KT66 power tubes4x ECC83 driver Gz34Enclosed tone stack and feedback loopFour inputsTwo Channels (High, Low)Active tone controls

“Nels Cline Tech Talk.” nelscline.com. 2010. www.nelscline.com/tech.html

“Nels Cline - Effects De Moi!” nelscline.com. 2010. www.nelscline.com/effects.html

“What They Play.” acousticguitar.com. 2010.www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag138/gear138.html

“Wilco Guitarist Nels Cline.” youtube.com 2010. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzn0KOLrarw

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Paul Joseph Stewart