Rig Rundown – 311’s Tim Mahoney, P-Nut, and Nick Hexum
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Before their career-spanning show at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works, guitarists Tim Mahoney, (and singer) Nick Hexum, and bassist Aaron “P-Nut” Wills (above right) walk PG through their various instruments and talk about how they use their impressive load of gear to cover material from 14 studio albums.
Tim’s longtime No. 1 is “Ol Blue”—a PRS Custom 24 that has been used on every 311 album and tour since he got it from Paul in 1999. When testing out new gear or pickups, Tim goes with “Ol Blue” because he’s most familiar with its tone and can hear the slightest changes to the sound produced out of the speaker. He used to use Seymour Duncan Antiquities and PAF-style humbuckers, but before this tour he put in Seymour Duncan Pegasus (bridge) and Sentient (neck) pickups.
Frontman/guitarist Nick Hexum’s gear lust started when he was 14 and traveling with his dad to a camping trip in Canada where they found a 1963 Gibson Les Paul goldtop in a pawn shop. Sadly, the guitar no longer exists—snapped neck—but his love for Les Pauls is still there. He uses this natural Gibson Les Paul on most of the band’s early work like “Down” and “Homebrew.” All of his guitars take Ernie Ball Slinky .011–.048 strings.
Influenced by Fishbone’s Norwood Fisher who rocked Warwick in the ’90s, a young Aaron “P-Nut” Wills loved how Norwood’s sound “was greasy, distorted, funky, and at the same time, the bass looked like it had just been freshly cut from a tree,” and he’s been popping and rocking ever since on Warwicks. This particular 5-string is from his signature series and based on the Streamer II body that Wills first played decades earlier. One request on the body design is that they sandwiched purpleheart in between to slabs of Australian blackwood burl (top) and afzelia (back). It comes stock with MEC pickups and preamp, but P-Nut has upgraded with a Seymour Duncan Music Man humbucker and a slanted Seymour Duncan Apollo.
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Tim is one of my all time favorite guitarists, the guys just absolutely great.
It really throws me for a loop that he doesn’t use the HFS/Bass pickups and opts for Seymour Duncan’s. That’s super surprising but makes total sense and not gonna lie, I kind of wanna go the route of low output pickups considering I use high gain amps and his explanation makes way more sense.
Long haired version of Steve Buscemi
I’ve never owned a PRS guitar knowing they are fine guitars but Tim Mahoney made me want one because of this blue he wrote so many hits on!#311#PRS#????????✨
Dude is just stepping all over Tim’s cables and it’s driving me nuts. You can tell he’s in a metal band
Still love em. Hexing is obviously really creative and talented but Tim and pnut steal the show. Appreciate his honesty about envelope filters. Always loved that they squeeze in that jerry sound whenever possible even tho it shouldn’t fit in this type of music.
rocking real deal 42s, that's cool as a motherfucker. what a cool rig
nice said he had a 63 LP gold top? does that sound a little off to anyone else???
I hear a Vibrato effect on the Amber solo, but don't see any vibrato pedal on Tim's pedalboard. Is anyone aware of what FX he uses for that solo?
I like when they're willing to explain things. most artist are so dismissive.
Then it goes to the water heater, then the kitchen sink and finally a pos comes out the wah and then and then and then….????
Not a tone douche, just a great musician who happens to be a guitar player. So clean and he makes it look effortless.
yeah….uh, i like blue guitars
………with strings
and, uh…..yeah, blue…………
for a guy who has spent THIRTY YEARS with a guitar in his hand, you'd think he's have more to say
Is Tim's main high-gain tone just the dry Uberschal or does he use any of the drive pedals with it?
Don't worry Tim a lot of us are having trouble seeing numbers and letters on things. I virtually can not read any medicine bottle at this point. I have to use my phone camera and enlarge it. I feel you.
Those weren't 18's. They were 15's.
Bro
what model schecter is that 7 string?
I don't know why but it really cracked me up that his daughter has a name like "Sunshine" and then he's like "and my son Tim Jr." hahaha. "hey, Sunshine! Tim Jr! time for dinner!"
You can always tell when miT just burned one. Lol
great rig rundown