March 2012 \ Features \ Effects \ 10 Pro Pedalboards Revealed

10 Pro Pedalboards Revealed

Rebecca Dirks

We recently combed through all the pedalboards we’ve seen in the last year of Rig Rundown video shoots to bring you the 10 most stacked rigs we’ve encountered across a range of genres.
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Steely Dan's Walter Becker

Signal Chain: Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner > Barber Electronics Tone Press > Eventide PitchFactor > Eventide Space > Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor > Lehle 1@3 Switcher. Photo by Joe Coffey

Walter Becker is a bonafide pedal freak. “We have every pedal ever made by every manufacturer,” boasts guitar tech Bob “Nitebob” Czaykowski. Because of this, Becker’s board is constantly changing—even which pedals are being used on a given board. Case in point, not everything was plugged in on this board when we caught up with Steely Dan in summer 2011. “We had everything plugged in at one time and realized he was losing a little bit of signal,” explains Becker’s other tech, David Rule.


Photo by Cees van de Ven

One of the pedals that never changes, however is the Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner. A stickler for intonation, Becker settled on the Sonic Research because of its clarity and speed. The Eventide PitchFactor is set with two presets, while the Eventide Space is used only on the Spring Reverb setting. The Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor is on the board to combat building-specific noise. From there, the signal heads into a Lehle switcher that splits out to Becker’s multiple-amp setup. At the time we saw the board, the Moog MF-105 Moogerfooger MuRF, Pigtronix Envelope Phaser, and MXR Carbon Copy Delay weren’t connected. Many of Becker’s pedals are connected and disconnected for soundcheck, and he has additional pedalboards in his dressing room and hotel room with completely different effects. “We have a big box [motions with his hands at about 5-feet high] with five drawers full of pedals that we didn’t even bring,” says Rule.

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Brumus
on 11/21/2012 		TJ White, virtuoso guitarist and prolific songwriter, uses two Voodoo Pedal Power units (he calls them juiceboxes) for his pedalboard, signal flow is 1959 Fender Stratocaster, custom Gibson Les Paul Studio Baritone guitar, Samson UT% UHF transmitters, Samson UR5D UHF rcvr, DOD250 A/B switch (switches btwn 2 Samson UHF wireless units, for the 2 different guitars), a Boss TU2 tuner, vintage Crybaby WahWah, Boss OC2 octave, vintage Boss OD1 overdrive, Smallstone Phase Shifter (Russian), Ibanez FL9 Flanger, Ibanez CS9 Chorus, DOD FX25B Envelope Filter, Boss NS2 Noise gate, to Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier. DL4 delay in the amp loop. amp has 3 channels. awesome sound! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/TJ-White/ 23113241319
Lungfixer
on 09/14/2012 		All the guitar-poseur "Boss haters" on the guitar forums who love to brag on their "boutique" pedals need to pay attention to articles like this and realize how many TRUE pros rely on their tried-and-true Boss pedals!! Petrucci can have any phase shifter he wants...and what does he choose? The PH-3. In fact, out of these ten rigs, NINE had at least one Boss pedal being used...including Satch!! Nuff said.
progmaster
on 03/09/2012 		Petrucci's rig killz all others!
d0c_t@z_nj
on 02/15/2012 		Alderete's rig is awesome. As for Petrucci, it must be a blessing to have the Axe-FX units... that shrank his multi-cab effects racks by 1000X, ha!
Dan
on 02/13/2012 		Man, thats a deam rig for sure. i owe an Mesa Boogie amp, and believe me, its speaks for itself. What a tone.
KJ7409
on 02/13/2012 		When I saw Mastodon a few months ago, Brent had that same plush creature but it had a card taped to it. At the end of the show, he pulled a joint out from behind the card lol xD



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