Guthrie Govan's Sound
The most complete technician alive, and the most stylistically fluent.
Transparent, dynamic overdrive that adapts to whatever genre he is inhabiting
The rig
The gear associated with the sound. Each item opens a live Reverb search — vintage examples where they exist, modern equivalents where they don't.
Guitars
- Charvel Guthrie Govan signature HSHFind on Reverb
- Suhr Modern (earlier)Find on Reverb
Amps
- Victory V30 The CountessFind on Reverb
- Suhr BadgerFind on Reverb
- CornfordFind on Reverb
Effects
- Wampler pedalsFind on Reverb
- Strymon delay and reverbFind on Reverb
- WahFind on Reverb
Pickups
- Custom Charvel/DiMarzio-spec setFind on Reverb
Why it sounds like that
Waves
Clean-to-edge tone with long reverb, relying entirely on touch dynamics for the swells.
Bad Asteroid
Mid-heavy drive with enough clarity for hybrid-picked wide-interval lines.
Wonderful Slippery Thing
A tone that changes character section by section without a single patch change.
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