EXCLUSIVE: Jon Gomm Rig

The guitar I use in the video is my one and only touring and recording guitar, a Lowden O12C called Wilma. Lowdens are handbuilt in a workshop in Northern Ireland, and they are truly special instruments, they have a midrange warmth that other guitars just don't. I've installed Keith Banjo Tuners on the top two strings, made by Bill Keith in Woodstock, NY. They make the crazy tuning tricks I do in the song much much easier!

And Wilma has two pickups installed - a Fishman Rare Earth Blend, which is a humbucker plus an internal condenser mic, and a Fishman Matrix transducer in the bridge.

My pedal board is pretty weird, it's a completely unique setup as far as I know. I run the 3 pickups (the humbucker, the mic and the transducer) into 3 Boss PQ3Bs, which are long-discontinued vintage parametric EQ pedals. The humbucker also goes through a Tech 21 Blonde, which is an awesome Fendery overdrive pedal and amp simulator, and a Boss OC3 which gives me an added sub-octave. Then the three signals from the three pickups get mashed up into one mono signal using a Boss LS2 Line Selector. Then the whole thing shoots out into a Line 6 Echo Park and a Line 6 Verbzilla for stereo delays and reverbs.

I also have a multi-fx unit you can see on the video: That's a Digitech Vocal 300 which I use on my voice. On Passionflower there's an octave effect and delays and reverbs, and some compression. I don't use any compression on the guitar, it would mess up the percussion too much.

And that's pretty much it! And yet I still call myself an acoustic artist. Ha ha!