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Gallery: Pro Pedalboards 2014, Pt. 1

Tasty stomp stations from top players.

G. Love

Love’s signal goes into a Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95 wah, which has been squeezed off the pedalboard to make room for other effects. Next comes a Boss TU-2 tuner, then a Keeley 2-Knob Compressor, Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron, Boss BD-2 Blues Driver, Xotic Effects RC Booster, Boss BF-3 Flanger, Electro-Harmonix Wiggler, Boss DD-6 digital delay, and a Voodoo Lab Amp Selector, which lets Love use up to four amps simultaneously. He also uses a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2.

We rummaged through our entire backlog of Rig Rundown footage and photos to compile a guide to some of 2014’s tastiest, most elaborate stomp stations, including boards from the Cult’s Billy Duffy, Keith Urban, the Pixies, the Sword, Carlos Santana, Brent Mason, and more.

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