1959 Gibson Les Paul Custom Ebony – This guitar, that was originally red, is featured on the cover of the Elegant Gypsy album.PRS (Paul Reed Smith) Private Stock McCarty.The Godin Multiac Jazz has a single-cutaway chambered body and a Godin GJN1 humbucker. The Ovation is equipped with a MIDI pickup to use with a Roland guitar synthesizer.Īl Di Meola has 2 Godin Multiac guitars: a Godin Multiac Jazz and a Godin Multiac Nylon SA model. In the studio, he records the Ovation 60% microphone and 40% direct signal. One thing he likes about the Ovations is that its strings do not have bridge pins, they attach at the rear of the bridge. Most of the album Cielo e Terra is recorded with the Ovation. Paco De Lucia also plays Conde Hermanos guitars.Īl Di Meola has an Ovation signature model. To amplify the guitar, Al uses a Schoepps C-530 condenser microphone and an RMC piezo pickup.

He had the guitar modified with a Florentine cutaway. The guitar is almost 30 years old and has tremendous beauty and great sustain.Īl Di Meola also has a signature model made by Felipe Conde. The Conde family from Madrid (Spain) is a famous guitar-building family.Īl Di Meola uses a Conde nylon-string guitar on recordings like World Sinfonia, Winter Nights, and Elegant Gypsy. Al Di Meola is an influential guitar player who blends different musical styles such as jazz, flamenco, and rock into his recognizable fusion sound.Īl Di Meola uses a sophisticated pedalboard running through his amps.Īcoustically, he uses a microphone and the line from his guitar, using an RMC pickup that picks up the natural sound of his guitar and also accesses a divider into his Roland VG-88 guitar synth.Īl Di Meola – Guitars Conde Hermanos Guitars

Rat pedal serial number