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High gain gear for Indie Rock

What Indie Rock artists actually play that sounds high gain, ranked by how many of them use it

Also called lots of gain, heavily saturated, tons of gain, distort, distorts, distorted, distortion, fully distorted

Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive

Boss

$59via Reverb

used by John 5, John Frusciante

ProCo RAT 2

Proco

$86.93via Reverb

used by Jeff Beck

EVH 5150 III

Evh

used by John 5

MXR Micro Amp

MXR

$76.52via Reverb

used by John Frusciante

Colorsound Overdriver

pedal

used by Jeff Beck

Mesa Boogie Mark I

Mesa Boogie

$1466.59via Reverb

used by John Mayer

Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion

Boss

$89.43via Reverb

used by John Frusciante

Mesa Boogie Mark V

Mesa Boogie

used by John Mayer

Sola Sound Tone Bender MK1

pedal

used by Jeff Beck

Boss FZ-3 Fuzz

pedal

$80.17via Reverb

used by John Frusciante

EVH 4x12 Cabinet

Evh

used by John 5

Keeley Electronics Katana Boost

Keeley

$199via Reverb

used by John Mayer

Magnatone Super Fifty-Nine M-80 Head

Magnatone

used by Jeff Beck

Marshall 1960 4x12 Cabinet

Marshall

used by J Mascis

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