Lzzy Hale Quotes

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic. We just use a couple of cabinets each - sometimes just one, if we think that's enough. We mainly go for 100-watt and 50-watt heads.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

As for the first guitar I actually bought, I believe it was a Cherry Red Kramer! I think I bought it because Eddie Van Halen played Kramer, and I remember it had a Rockinger tremolo on it.

In my opinion, the P-90 is the best pickup for slide - it has the right overtones.

I'll have a chorus pedal or a flanger or an echo, that kind of thing. But as far as specific pedals, the one that's really been a mainstay is the TC Electronic MojoMojo.

I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon.

I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I start looking for a certain type of pedal, learn the history, who and what it was made for, that kinda thing.

I use Pearl Eliminator Pedals and I swear by them.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.