For example, when he joined the Dunlop roster, Wylde switched out his BOSS gear to accommodate his new signature series, the Jimi Hendrix Wah made way for the Zakk Wylde Signature Cry Baby Wah ZW-45 (‘It’s like the classic Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Wah on steroids’ he said). However with new endoresments the makes and models started to change over time. Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society rigįor many years the core components of his rig remained largely unchanged – guitar to wah to rotovibe to overdrive to chorus/phaser to amp. This rig would form the basis of his signature tone for years to come. Les Paul Customs (with an EMG81 in the bridge and EMG85 in the neck) in to a Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Wah to Dunlop Rotovibe Pedal to BOSS SD-1 Super Overdrive to BOSS CH-1 Super Chorus with the signal split from the Super Chorus in to dual JCM800 100 Watt Marshall heads. Zakk Wylde’s ‘No More Tears’ rig is metal meat and potatoes. The Aphexes added this huge bottom end that you can hear on No Rest for the Wicked.” Lee Jackson, Premier Guitar, February 11, 2010īy the time it came to recording the Ozzy Osbourne album ‘No More Tears’ Wylde had dumped the rack mount gear – rumoured to be due to some issues thr rack had created on tour – for the Marshall JCM800 heads he would become known for. He didn’t want anyone to know, so we blacked out the fronts of the Aphex units in his rigs so you couldn’t see them in his racks. In both his studio and live rigs, we used the Aphex units between the preamps and the power amps. “We only suggested that and used them for one artist: Zakk Wylde. In an interview with Premier Guitar, creator of the GP-1000 preamp shed some light on Zakk Wylde’s early rack setup and the inclusion of the Aphex Aural Exciter: This consisted primarily of a Metaltronix GP-1000 all-tube rack preamp, as well as an Aphex Aural Exciter in to a Metaltronix SP-1000 power amp, as seen below.
Not many people realise that, before he moved to the Gibson/Marshall combo he became renowned for, Zakk Wylde recorded his first album with Ozzy Osbourne, ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ using a bunch of rack gear. While he began his career with Ozzy Osbourne playing his famous Bulls Eye Les Paul Custom with EMG pickups he didn’t begin with a Marshall back line. Wylde’s early Ozzy Osbourne era guitar rig The launch of his own company, Wylde Audio, in 2015 and the split from Gibson and Marshall have signalled probably the biggest changes to Wylde’s tool kit since he first launched his career with Ozzy Osbourne in the 1980’s. For much of his career he’s been known for shredding on his trademark bulls eye Les Paul Custom through a couple of pedals in to a wall of Marshall amps. Zakk Wylde, founder of heavy metal juggernauts Black Label Society and on again/off again guitarist with Ozzy Osbourne, is a metal icon.
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