Rig Rundown - The Offspring's Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman

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Just minutes before doors opened for the Offspring’s sold-out show at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville, guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman took a break from the pre-show madness to give Premier Guitar’s Perry Bean the details on his surprisingly high-tech touring gear.

Wasserman has been playing Ibanez guitars since the 1990s, and in 2003 the company released Wasserman’s first signature model, the NDM1—which is perhaps most notable for being wrapped in duct tape. The NDM1 that Noodles uses on the road these days features a DiMarzio Tone Zone bridge pickup, a DiMarzio PAF Pro neck pickup, and an Ibanez Evolution single-coil in the middle position. He also uses a 2006 NDM2 that uses identical pickups and has a more conventional black finish. The newest axe in Noodles’ touring arsenal is a 2012 tv yellow NDM3 with a Seymour Duncan SP90-1 neck unit and an SP90-2 bridge pickup. All his guitars are strung with D’Addario .011–.049 strings, and his preferred picks are Dunlop .73 mm Tortex.