What kind of Guitar does Trey of (Phish) play and what Amp/Rig does he use?
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M$3 Answers
Pearl-white solid-body Ibanez
Time Guitars
Europe acoustic
Original blonde (1987) *
Padauk blonde (1990)
Koa hollowbody (1996) *
Wentzell acoustic *
Trey uses a midi-switchable rig with multiple loop paths. Trey uses Schaller pickups. Trey uses two Ibanez Tube Screamers, the classic TS-9 model. He has used a Bradshaw 3-channel preamp with old RCA tubes.
There is much more information available, as well as conflicting reports of what rigs Trey Anastasio uses at the link.
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M$Phish's long-time sound manager (Paul Languedoc) has built every guitar that Trey Anastasio has played. They have always been hollow-bodied (not solid-bodied Ibanez as the first answer says) and have typically had that shape that is in the picture of the 2nd answer (that really is one of the guitars).
So the guitars are not a store-bought brand, they are all Languedoc guitars. He has slowly started selling hand-made guitars that are almost exactly like the ones he built for Trey, and he says that they have a base price of $10,000 and there is quite a waiting list, I think.
To get the typical Phish sound, though, you can relatively successfully recreate it without too much effort. The two most important parts that influence Trey's sound is the fact that the guitar is hollow-bodied and the Compressor he uses. His sound is much more complex than just that, but you'd be surprised at how close you can come with those two things.
If you don't want to go out and buy effects pedals and such (pretty expensive), a pretty good amateur solution is to get some sort of recording software for your computer (i.e. Guitar Rig 4). A lot of those applications that you'll find, you'll be able to find people who have already figured out how to get relatively close to Trey's sound.
Hollow-bodied guitars running through a compressor with mucho overdrive
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M$http://strangedesign.org/rigs/
(amp/rig also listed)
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