These are flanked by two current-production Marshall 4x12 slant cabs driven by a Freidman BE100.ĭuffy’s guitar signal goes through a Line 6 G90 wireless to a switchless Jim Dunlop 95Q wah, a Boss TU-3 tuner and NS-2 Noise Suppressor, a prototype Dunlop Echoplex EP101 (which will debut at Winter NAMM 2014), a Boss BF-2 flanger, a Boss DM-2 analog delay, an Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, a Lovepedal Kalamazoo, a Whirlwind the Bomb boost, and two Boss DD-3 digital delays. The tri-amp rig that powers Duffy’s live onslaught consists of an Asian-built Vox AC30 combo that sits dead center above a stereo-miked Roland JC-120. He uses a black Les Paul Custom made for him by the Gibson Custom Shop, as well as a ’58 Standard Custom Shop reissue with a lemonburst finish. But while Duffy is best known for his love of white Gretsches, he only plays Les Pauls on the Electric part of the set-just as he did on the hit 1987 album.

Duffy explains the “not very deep mysteries” of a triple-amp rig powered by his signature Gretsch Falcons, custom Gibson Les Pauls, and a bevy of mostly mainstream pedals.ĭuffy keeps it iconic with his two unmodified Gretsch G7593T Billy Duffy Falcons, which feature ’70s Baldwin-era styling, a white gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish, V-shaped Falcon headstock, silver-sparkle binding, custom-wound “Black Top” Filter’Tron pickups, and a Bigsby B6CW with a wire handle. Premier Guitar’s John Bohlinger met with the Cult’s Billy Duffy before their show at Minglewood Hall in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 15, 2013.

Guitar rig setup