Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix with upside-down Fender Stratocaster.

Jimi Hendrix was a musician active in the late 1960s. Widely considered one of the best guitar players ever.

Guitar tone

Many players chase Jimi's tone.

• Fingers
• Strings - 10 high string gauge, light .38 low string gauge. Pure nickel wrap.
• Coily cable - high capacitance guitar cable
• Fuzzface pedal
• Wah pedal
• Marshall 100w amp - cranked 100w JTM45
• Speakers - Early Celestion Greenbacks (G12H30), later JBLs.
• Pickups - Stock Fender or Seymour Duncan custom-made pickups. Formvar, enamel?. Reverse angle bridge pickup. Reverse stagger. Abigail Ybarra also wound pickups at Fender in California.
• Right-handed guitar played upside down - different tremolo position. Changed string tensions, less tension on high strings and more on lower strings.
• Tone capacitor - likely 0.1 mfd (standard with Fender until the 1970s). Mylar (polyester) "green chicklet".
• Fender Stratocaster - most used guitar
• Necks - '68 Woodstock guitar was maple-capped maple neck. He also used rosewood necks.