Instruments & Equipment

Bill Carter uses Fender Telecasters exclusively, with the heaviest-gauge Rotosound strings, and plays through HH amps with Gauss speakers. He's also got a digital echo, but doesn't know what kind it is.

Onstage, Carter favours a fairly straightforward setup. He runs his Telecasters simultaneously through two combo amps, a MESA/Boogie and an HH outfitted with Gauss speakers. Aside from the occasional use of a wah-wah pedal, his only onstage effect is the Ibanez DDL. For his occasional forays into slide, he favours 'the mike stand, or whatever is handy.' He uses open tunings 'only when the strings go open by accident.'