Steve Vai guitar rigs

ARTIST 304 / 3612 RIGS·1999–2007·'90s'00s

Steve Vai has 2 documented rig setups spanning 1999–2007 in the Suede DNA collection. Every entry is indexed from the community-maintained Guitar Geek Archives item on the Internet Archive and links to its original archive.org file. Suede DNA adds a presentation, normalization, and search layer. The manifest records an artist association, year, file format, structured source URL, and stable identifier for each archived diagram. Those fields support browsing and source tracing; Suede DNA does not interpret the photographed gear or independently fact-check the upstream artist and year attribution. Coverage reflects the diagrams available in the upstream collection, not a complete history of this artist's equipment or career.

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1999
2007
  1. Steve Vai guitar rig setup, 1999
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  2. Steve Vai guitar rig setup, 2007
    2007VIEW DNA →

Steve Vai in the archive

1999The archive holds 35 rig diagrams dated 1999. Other reviewed artist pages with a 1999 rig: Ben Lurie — The Jesus and Mary Chain, Brian May, Chuck Berry, Guy Picciotto — Fugazi, Jonny Lang, Robert Fripp, Stephen Carpenter — Deftones, Ty Tabor — King's X. Search the archive for 1999.

2007The archive holds 12 rig diagrams dated 2007. Other reviewed artist pages with a 2007 rig: Michael Wilton — Queensryche. Search the archive for 2007.

Discussed in Shred Guitar Rigs and the Virtuoso Signal Chain.