Synyster Gates

Brian Elwin Haner, Jr., better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn is an American musician. He is currently the lead guitarist for hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold.

Gates cites Django Reinhardt, Adam Aparicio, Dimebag Darrell, Slash, John Petrucci and Francis Canavan as his favorite guitarists and major influences.

Syn uses his custom ‘Synyster’ models, which are a hybrid of a few custom shop models. A white C-1 FR with white Invader pickups. Syn also has a lot of variations of his Synyster models, eg. (all of the following are the Avenger/Synyster shape – an American flag, a German flag, a Rebel flag, black with red pin stripes, and white with gold pin stripes, which was released on September 2nd, 2008. Recently he has replaced his neck position Invader pickup with a Sustainiac pickup. The white with gold pimp stripes signature guitar is available and is limited in production to 100.

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