Jim Savitt's Gear

Jim favors his semi-hollow body '83 Ibanez AM-50, strung with Dean Markley's jazz gauge strings, going straight into a 60W Trace Acoustic amp. He also plays a Taylor acoustic, Takamine classical, Fender Stratocaster & Telecaster, Gibson Les Paul & ES175, Triff Bone travel guitar and uses a Casio MIDI guitar controller. Picks are exclusively Fender, heavy and medium gauge.

Jim also plays through a Fender Blues Junior amp, electronically modified by Bill Machrone, and a Peavey Classic 30.  Baoth amps contains an Eminence Cannabis Rex speaker.  For composing, Jim uses Cakewalk Sonar for Windows and a Roland JV series synthesizer.  Jim is an endorser for the following companies: