His gauage was .13 but dropped down on nights where his fingers where taking a beating. In terms of amps, he used fender super reverb, and fender vibroverb. He had them modded by a dude named ceaser. He used a ts-808 that was on at all times and then a ts 9 for leads. His sound comes mostly from this picking dynamics as most of his strats with different settings still sounded similar. He also used the round edge of the pick. He would pull alot of strings to get slappin noises out of most of his bass strings. His pickups where over wound intentially which gave him a hotter sound and more midrange. At times he used a chorus but not very often.