Garbage

There isn't a whole lot on Garbage out there but this is what I've found.

Steve Marker (guitar, bass, samples, loops)

Shirley Manson (vocals, guitar)

Duke Erikson (guitars, keyboards, bass)

Butch Vig (drums, loops, noise, effects)

Daniel Schulman (bass)

"...early lyrics were penned during group agony sessions at a fishing cabin in the north woods of Wisconsin. Back at the studio, Manson would sing them over and over until the band invariably decided she'd done it best the first time. Further effort was spent getting the guitar and keyboard sounds perfect by utilizing the latest in expensive digital gear -- and then it was all scrapped in favor of outdated analog equipment, a 1965 Epiphone guitar and a monophonic synthesizer of unknown age, prone to emitting random squeals at inopportune moments. In fact, an unplanned sample of a digital tape deck in its death throes inspired the melody of one song and another opens with the sound of Vig accidentally wiring the mixing desk into the air conditioning system. "But," says Erikson, "whatever weird sounds there are have to serve the song. Whatever takes away from it is cut. The song is what's important." Vig concurs, "Nothing's sacred. The day after pouring your guts into recording, you have to be able to say 'erase it.' In the end, they're just magnetic impulses."

I believe that due to Garbage's wide range of sounds they use many different guitars.

Fascist wrote to alt.music.garbage: (he got some of the names mixed up)
"When I saw them in Glasgow on the 27th I had a good look at Duke's pedals, and he uses a Girk Music Corp. Effect box, I don't know what is on it, or what it looks like, but it's quite big! though it may just have been a complex switch box for his many rack effects, he has ZOOM and DIGITECH, he knows what he's doing! - I guess! Muhahaha ! He also has a Jim Dunlop Wah, but it has a tremelo or Rotovibe on it too, 'cos it had a red/green light! They use Marshall amps I'm sure! Guitars! Mainly Gibson! Shirley was using a Rickenbacker (360) or a Strat! And Butch stays with his Les Paul's all the time! and doesn't treat them well! he breaks his high E a lot, a T in The Park, he broke his HIGH E in the first song! RIGHT AT THE START, HE's cool! effects, on VOW, I'm pretty sure it's a rack effect, but you can get similar with an Electro Harmonix effect, don't know it's name, ckeck the site out, but it is a tremelo, that has a pan too that pan's at whatever speed you want to...........you can have it in time with or out of time with the tremelo! it sounds like a great pedal for about £100, I may mail order it myslef some time !" I hope I have helped you out! but I can't really be sure, they are all producers, except Shirley, BUT I can let her away with it, because she's Cool, oh and she is a babe! - but them being producers, they know what effects do what, so..... but, I hope that's helped anyway!"

I believe there is more information in the October 1998 issue of MUSICIAN magazine.