SYNYSTER GATES

'Synyster Gates'
(born 'Brian Elwin Haner, Jr.' on July 7, 1981) is the lead guitarist for Avenged Sevenfold.

Contents

Biography

Equipment

Guitars

Amplifiers

Effects Units

Accessories

Trivia

References

Biography

Brian, joined Avenged Sevenfold (A7x) in 2001, after the release of the band's first album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. He was featured on their EP, Warmness on the Soul, and on the reissue of their first album, only playing on one song, "To End The Rapture." He also plays piano for the band on songs such as Seize the Day and Sidewinder . His father, Brian Haner Sr. is a musician and is often called Avenged Sevenfold's official acoustic guitar player for his appearances on their albums, such as the acoustic solo on City of Evil's "Sidewinder". Synyster Gates attended Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach, California as a child, and then the Musicians Institute in Hollywood^[1]as part of the GIT program, studying jazz guitar. Django Reinhardt, Adam Aparicio and Roddy are cited as his favorites and as major influences. Synyster has won numerous awards, including the "Young Shredder" award of the year in the Metal Hammer awards in 2006 and the "Guitarist of the Year" Award for Total Guitar Magazine in 2006.

★ He has filmed numerous guitar tutorial lessons for Total guitar magazine
In the Avenged Sevenfold DVD "All Excess," to emphasize the seemingly random placing of names, Synyster stated that his name was thought of on a drunken drive through the park with The Rev. He usually sports his trademark fedora hats at concerts.
Synyster was also a member of the band Pinkly Smooth, a side project with The Rev (Avenged Sevenfold's drummer), alongside former bassist of Avenged Sevenfold, Justin Sane (not to be confused with Justin Sane from Anti-Flag). Pinkly Smooth was disbanded because Synyster and The Rev wished to focus full-time on Avenged Sevenfold, although when asked recently, they both revealed there is a new side project being planned, featuring the two playing older Pinkly Smooth songs.
Synyster also has newly released a clothing line called Syn Gates Clothing. Eighteen Visions singer, James Heart has worn Syn Gates Clothing in Eighteen Visions' last two music videos.
He has been sponsored by Schecter Guitar Research since 2004, and has signature Avenger models.[2] [3] He uses the guitars listed below.

Equipment

Chapter-Four.net equip. listings

Guitars

Syn is currently endorsed by Schecter Guitar Research guitars

★ Avenger (including custom shop models)

★ C-1 FR{with SH-invaders)

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★ Most, if not all, of Syn's Avengers are custom made.
In the past, Syn has used a number of different guitars,

★ Gibson - Les Paul

★ Parker Guitars

★ Ibanez - RG Prestige

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★ Synyster normally uses custom shop Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader pickups in his guitars.

Amplifiers

★ Krank Revolution Head

★ Bogner Uberschall and Caveman (main)

★ Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier
'Speaker Cabinets'

★ Marshall 4x12" cab

★ Bogner Uberkab 4x12" and standard Bogner 4x12" (main)

★ Mesa/Boogie 4x12" dual Recto Cabinet

★ Krank Revolution 4x12" cabinet

Effects Units

★ Krank Distortus Maximus

★ Frantone "The Sweet"

★ MXR Wylde Overdrive

★ BOSS RV-5 Digital Reverb

★ Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter

★ Boss CS-3 Compressor

★ Visual Sound H20 Chorus/Echo

★ Digitech Whammy Pedal

★ Jim Dunlop Dimebag Crybaby From Hell Wah-wah pedal

★ Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Π Fuzz Pedal

Accessories

★ Ernie Ball 'skinny top, heavy bottom' strings.

★ Jim Dunlop Gator Grip 2.00mm picks in custom black with a "Deathbat" logo printed

★ Voodoo Labs GCX Guitar Audio Switcher rack unit

★ Voodoo Labs DMC Ground Control Polo pro

Trivia

★ Synyster Gates and M. Shadows are featured in the song and music video, "The River" by Good Charlotte

★ James Stephen Hart from the band Eighteen Visions can be seen wearing Synyster Gates Clothing in the film clip for Victim and tonightless. Lately they have been writing material together on what will be James Hart first solo effort.

★ Synyster Gates has explained that he got his stage name when him and the Rev were driving around drunk in a park.

★ One of his sleeves of tattoos is all monsters that he thought looked cool.

★ His first tattoo was the number 1 on his thumb.

★ He and the rest of A7x all have the bloody coffin on the inside of their middle finger, which they got with Good Charolette who also share the tattoo.

★ He is dating Michelle Dibenedetto (twin sister of Valary Dibenedetto, M. Shadows' fiancé).

References

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★ Avenged Sevenfold Info Site