Glenn Tipton is a wealthy English guitarist who is worth $20 million. Glenn Tipton is best known as the lead guitarist for the heavy metal band Judas Priest. He and Ian Hill are the only two members of the band who have appeared on every studio record. Rob Halford, the band’s most famous member, was a member from 1973 to 1992 and from 2003 to the present.
Glenn Tipton began playing the guitar at the age of 19 and formed his first band, Shave Em’ Dry, which evolved into Merlin and then the Flying Hat Band. He joined Judas Priest in 1974. The band would go on to release 17 studio albums and 5 live albums. Over 45 million records have been sold globally, with 12 million sold in the United States. The band’s best-selling record, “Screaming for Vengeance,” was certified two times platinum in 1982.
What are the equipments used by Glenn Tipton?
Below are some of the equipment used by Glenn Tipton:
1. Tone
Priest began integrating guitar synths in the late 1980s, around the time of the Turbo album. Glenn began using Rocktron preamps, the Rocktron Intellifex for effects, and Crate heads and cabs with his comeback album Jugulator.
Tipton’s main instruments were SGs and a Stratocaster with two DiMarzio Super Distortion humbuckers until the mid-1980s, when he began using various Hamer guitars, including some signature models, which he used almost exclusively in live performances until 2009 when the Stratocaster and one of the SGs were brought out of retirement for the British Steel 30th-anniversary tour. Kahler tremolos are used on the majority of his guitars. Glenn used Ernie Ball standard-light (10-46) gauge strings and thin picks.
Glenn has used a variety of tunings during his career, most notably standard tuning (nearly all of the songs recorded before Rob Halford quit the band were originally written in E-standard). Glenn and KK have employed E-flat tuning for live gigs since Rob Halford rejoined Judas Priest, while still employing normal tuning extensively on studio albums.
2. Guitar
Tipton has used a variety of guitars over the years. Up until roughly 1978, these included a 1960s Fender Stratocaster. He used a black Gibson Les Paul Custom from 1978 to 1979 and then switched to a modified CBS-era Fender Stratocaster with Dimarzio Super-Distortion (humbucking) pickups.
He added a chrome pickguard for the Screaming for Vengeance tour. He also used a Gibson SG Special that he spray-painted black for this tour. The SG also came with a chrome pickguard and PAF humbuckers. He switched to a Hamer Phantom GT model in 1984, which had one EMG humbucker, a Kahler tremolo, and one volume pot. From 1984 to 1986, a signature model of this was made and marketed to the public.
Tipton still uses this model, albeit with active Seymour Duncan Blackouts pickups. Tipton brought out his Fender Stratocaster and Gibson SG Special for the British Steel 30th Anniversary tour in 2009. As of late 2015, he is now officially supporting ESP guitars, with his own signature model, the GT-600, which is part of ESP’s LTD series and is shaped similarly to ESP’s Viper series.
3. Amplification
Tipton’s live performances have nearly entirely relied on Marshall Amplifiers. Until 1981, when the JCM 800 head was introduced, Tipton employed 50 and 100 watt Marshall heads without a master volume. Tipton and fellow Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing utilized the JCM 800 for many years. Tipton was a Crate amplifiers endorsee during the Jugulator and Demolition era, using their Blue Voodoo heads in the studio, at home, and on tour. During the 2004 reunion tour, he abandoned this endorsement in favor of a massive rack setup with various preamps and effects processors and a Marshall 9100 power amp.
Tipton began utilizing ENGL amplifiers in 2008. “ENGL is the first ampline that I have ever used that not only has balls, but attitude, right out of the box,” he says of the brand. He began using Engl amps using the ENGL Midi Tube Preamp E 580 and the ENGL Tube Poweramp E 850/50. He switched to ENGL Invaders adapted to use 6L6 power tubes for the Epitaph tour.
Glenn utilizes the generation 1 Crate Blue Voodoo BV 120H all tube, all American head with blue tolex (rather than the black or red tolex of later generations) for his home studio in England (and primary practice amp).
This amp was featured in several of his demonstration videos and guitar collection tour videos online, causing a fan run on the amp, causing prices to skyrocket in the used market due to the amp’s shrinking supply (due to its age and limited production run)…this phenomenon is similar to the fan run situation on the small marshall amps (5005) used by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.
4. Effects
Tipton used a Pete Cornish custom pedalboard with an overdrive unit, flanger, MXR distortion unit, MXR Phase 100, MXR digital delay, Maestro Echoplex, line boosters between each effect to preserve the signal from input to output, and a Rangemaster-based custom treble boost connected to the bass channel of Marshall 50 and 100 watt heads with no master volume in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Tipton only utilized a modified Crybaby 535Q Wah, Digitech Tone Driver, DigiTech Main Squeeze, and a Yamaha midi board controlling additional effects and sounds in a rack unit around the time of the reunion with Rob Halford.
Glenn has generally used a rack system since the start of the 2008 world tour, with the exception of the current use of Engl amp heads. He presently employs a Korg rack tuner, a Furman power unit, a Dunlop Custom Shop Rackmounted Crybaby, Rocktron Intellifex, and Yamaha SPX-90 multi-effects units, as well as a dbx 166A compressor and noise gate.
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