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Gallery: Pro Pedalboards 2014, Pt. 1

Tasty stomp stations from top players.

The Devil Wears Prada’s Jeremy DePoyster

DePoyster’s signal runs from his guitars into three separate Sennheiser EW 500 G3 Pros Wireless systems and then into a Whirlwind MultiSelector 4x. The board starts with a tried-and-true Boss TU-3 tuner, which then connects to a Moen GEC9 Effects Routing System. DePoyster’s effect-loop system is a bit complicated, but the simplified version goes like this:
Loop 1: Boss NS-2 into Fulltone OCD
Loop 2: Electro-Harmonix Small Stone
Loop 3: Electro-Harmonix Micro POG
Loop 4: DigiTech Whammy
Loop 5: Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy
Loop 6: Boss OD-1 into Electro-Harmonix Neo Clone into MXR Carbon Copy (direct to clean combo only)
Loop 7: Boss NS-2 into Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano (via the Rockerverb FX loop)

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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An easy guide to re-anchoring a loose tuning machine, restoring a “lost” input jack, refinishing dinged frets, and staunching a dinged surface. Result: no repair fees!

With a bit of downtime back in Nashville, co-shredders-in-chief Megan and Rebecca Lovell joined Shred With Shifty to deconstruct their face-melting leads on “Summertime Sunset,” off of their 2022 record Blood Harmony.

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An ’80s legend returns in a modern stompbox that lives up to the hype.

A well-designed recreation of one of the most classic tone tools of the ’80s. Sounds exactly like the tones you know from the original. Looks very cool.

If you don’t like ’80s sounds, this isn’t for you.

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MXR Rockman X100

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Was Tom Scholz’s Rockman the high-water mark of guitar-tone convenience? The very fact that this headphone amp, intended primarily as a consumer-grade practice tool, ended up on some of the biggest rock records of the ’80s definitely makes a case. And much like Sony’s Walkman revolutionized the personal listening experience, it’s easy to argue the Rockman line of headphone amps did the same for guitarists.

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The legendary Louisville rockers brought tons of vintage tone tools on the road this year.

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