B.B. King's gear and equipment including the Gibson Les Paul LP-1 Preamp and Gibson LP-2 Powered Cabinet. Get the gear to sound like B.B. King and get their tone.

If you really want to sound like B.B. King, using one of the pickup sets listed above will definitely get you closer to those vintage tones. The Lab Series L5. During his career, B.B. King favoured 2 main amplifiers. The first of these was an amp called the Lab Series L5.

This vintage 1970’s LAB Series L5 amp came directly from The Estate of BB King and will come with all documentation to document provenance and BB King auction hang tag. Guaranteed 100% authentic!! Amp is in excellent working condition.

For decades BB King’s sound came from the combination of him playing his famous guitar “Lucille” through his Lab Series L5 amp. This road case and amp could probably tell a million stories. The pictures barely do it justice, seeing them in person really brings his legacy to life.

Sep 2, 2014 · I am really curious about the amps BB King used in the classic early years. I have seen a photo of him from the 50s playing through a Fender tweed. I don't recall which model but he was also wearing Bermuda shorts in the photo.

It's the only solid state guitar amp I ever really liked. (B. B. King, Ronnie Montrose and Ty Tabor like them, too!) The clean tone is excellent. The built-in distortion is OK, but the amp sounds better with a good distortion pedal, or using a small, overdriven tube amp as an overdrive.

May 7, 2023 · BB King Amps. Since BB King doesn’t use effects pedals (which we’ll get to later), he relies entirely on his guitar and amp to create his signature sound. When it comes to tone, BB King is all about the clean. The cleaner the tone, the more he loves the amp. Throughout his decades-long career, King has only ever used a handful of amps.

Oct 31, 2011 · I've always really liked the tone that B.B. King has - smooth, smokey, and jazzy yet still very bluesy. I'm really not the one to search after someone elses tone, but boredom got the best of me today and I started looking into his rig. I was a bit surprised when I …

Feb 27, 2020 · Everyone knows it as the “B.B. King” amp, but it’s also the Ronnie Montrose amp—and the Ty Tabor amp. They can readily be had for less than $200 because people just want to get rid of them. It’s simply a kick-ass, solid-state amp.

Mar 18, 2022 · King needed ample volume to perform onstage with as much clean headroom as possible, which is why he preferred solid-state amps. He also liked the quick, percussive attack and the cut of the treble frequencies.