Jerry Cantrell

Alice in Chains' guitarist and the architect of a tone that sounds like one enormous amp and is actually three small ones. His instrument is a 1984 G&L Rampage he bought in Dallas in 1985 -- all-maple, ebony board, a Seymour Duncan JB dropped in, a pin-up sticker that gave it the name Blue Dress -- and by his own count it is on nearly everything he has recorded. On Dirt, producer Dave Jerden split the rhythm guitar across three amps by frequency range and doubled each one, which is why the record has weight and clarity at the same time rather than trading one for the other.