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GALLERY: Reader Pedalboards 2013, Part 1

We asked PG faithful to show us their pedalboards, and you delivered! In honor of our annual pedal blowout, we bring you 30 of our readers' personal stomping grounds.

Samuel Jones does a bit of tap dancing with this setup: Ernie Ball VP Junior, (tuner out going to TC Electronic Polytune) into homemade Z.Vex Fuzz Factory clone, Electro-Harmonix POG2, Line 6 M5, Boss DD-20, Ibanez TS9, Electro-Harmonix Soul Preacher to amp. Effects loop: Boss AC-3, Boss NS-2, true-bypass looper with MXR Carbon Copy and Strymon Bluesky in loop, BBE Sonic Stomp to Effects Return. "The DigiTech JamMan Stereo is only for triggering samples live and is not in my guitar chain," he says. "The Blackstar footswitch is for my Blackstar Series One 1046l6." The board is a Pedaltrain PT-Pro and is powered by two Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus and wired with Lava Cable CX Cable Kits.

Stevie Van Zandt with ā€œNumber One,ā€ the ’80s reissue Stratocaster—with custom paisley pickguard from luthier Dave Petillo—that he’s been playing for the last quarter century or so.

Photo by Pamela Springsteen

With the E Street Band, he’s served as musical consigliere to Bruce Springsteen for most of his musical life. And although he stands next to the Boss onstage, guitar in hand, he’s remained mostly quiet about his work as a player—until now.

I’m stuck in Stevie Van Zandt’s elevator, and the New York City Fire Department has been summoned. It’s early March, and I am trapped on the top floor of a six-story office building in Greenwich Village. On the other side of this intransigent door is Van Zandt’s recording studio, his guitars, amps, and other instruments, his Wicked Cool Records offices, and his man cave. The latter is filled with so much day-glo baby boomer memorabilia that it’s like being dropped into a Milton Glaser-themed fantasy land—a bright, candy-colored chandelier swings into the room from the skylight.


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