Equipment
McCready is known to use a variety of different guitars, but during Pearl Jam's early years he used mainly Fender Stratocasters. His arsenal now includes Gibson Les Pauls and Gibson Les Paul Juniors, among others.
A Fender Stratocaster has been used constantly and most often throughout his career. McCready has used many types of Stratocasters, from vintage to Fender's Road Worn Series. He has even played left-handed Stratocasters with reversed strings, so that the slanted bridge pickup would have more treble on the lower strings, as opposed to the intended higher strings. This was a common practice of Jimi Hendrix, who played right-handed guitars even though he was left-handed.
McCready's second most used guitar is the Gibson Les Paul. He now uses it for live performances of "Alive", "Brain of J." (from Yield), and "Given to Fly", among others. He has only recently started to use the single pickup Gibson Les Paul Junior, and uses only the yellow 1957 model. He plays Fender Telecasters on live performances of "Save You" (from Riot Act), "World Wide Suicide" (from Pearl Jam), and "Marker in the Sand", among others. A Gibson ES-335 is used for live performances of "Faithfull".
Throughout his career McCready has changed his pedalboard and guitar amplifiers many times. This list includes his current setup:
- Pedalboard
- Dunlop Crybaby Wah
- Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere
- Ibanez Tube Screamer
- Fulltone Distortion Pro
- Boss DD-2 Digital Delay
- Line 6 DL4
- Line 6 MM4
- Amplification
- 1959 Fender Twin Tweed Head
- 1959 Fender Bassman Tweed 4x12 Cabinet
- various vintage Orange Amps
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