Gear Rundown: Bully
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Gear Rundown: Bully

GUITARS

 

BLUESMAN VINTAGE CUSTOM

 

 

Bognanno’s number one is this extremely cool looking Bluesman Vintage custom-built guitar in surf green. It’s a mish-mash of different parts, including a Squier ’51 body, custom neck, a Telecaster-style single coil in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge. The bottom chrome knob actually functions as a three-way pickup selector – this guitar’s tone is always on max. 

 

FENDER JAZZMASTER

 

 

Clayton Parker’s main squeeze is this early 2000s Fender Jazzmaster. Parker bought this guitar used, its previous owner having swapped out the bridge soapbar for a humbucker. The addition of a wild-looking Mastery Offset Bridge was the only modification Parker installed in its long history of use. 

 

FENDER PRECISION BASS DELUXE

 

 

Reece Lazarus’ main bass guitar is this gorgeous American P-bass, finished in a stark olympic white. While this bass features both active and passive pickup modes, Lazarus mainly uses the passive mode on tour, with the tone controls wide open. 

 

 

AMPLIFIERS

 

 

Bognanno plays through a 1971 Fender Bassman head, running through an old Marshall 2×12 cabinet with stock Celestion speakers. Bognanno almost never pushes this beast past 3, where it’s teetering on the edge of breakup. 

 

FENDER HOT ROD DEVILLE 4×10

 

 

Parker plays all of his lead lines through a tried and true classic: the DeVille 4×10. He chooses this amp for its excellent tone, reliability and ease of servicing. Parker even has an identical amp waiting in the wings as a backup.

 

 

Reece Lazarus plays through a retro-looking Gallien-Krueger 800RB head, with a massive Fender 8×10 cabinet stack. To further sweeten his tone, Lazarus often includes a light-up soft serve cone on top of his amp on most of their live shows. 

 

EFFECTS

 

 

Bognanno’s board begins with a pair of Boss TU-3 Chromatic tuners; one used in the chain, and the other kept as a backup. For dirt, Bognanno uses a Greer Amps Little Samson Distortion, EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold, and a Stomp Under Foot Violet Menace for a backup fuzz. Her modulation stompboxes include a Rogue Analog Delay, and an EarthQuaker Devices Ghost Echo Reverb.

 

 

Similarly to Bognanno’s chain, Parker’s board includes a Boss TU-3 tuner, with only the MXR Super Badass Distortion and a humongous Electro-Harmonix Black Russian Big Muff Pi for heavier tones. Parker also includes a MRX Carbon Copy Analog Delay, EarthQuaker Devices Bows, MXR Phase 90, and an Electro-Harmonix Neo Clone Chorus for the rest of his chain.

 

 

Bully just can’t seem to get enough of Boss tuners, which really says something about their accuracy and reliability. Reece Lazarus’ board includes the famous ProCo RAT, Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Bass Pi Distortion, EarthQuaker Devices Tone Job, and wraps it up with a Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI.