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Rig Rundown: Deafheaven

Guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra might have similar tastes in gear, but their approach to combining modern metal riffs with soundscape samples sets them apart.

McCoy’s pedalboard starts with an Ernie Ball VP Jr. volume pedal (with the tuner out feeding a Boss TU-3), and then goes into an Electro-Harmonix Memory Man, Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, and a Boss RE-20 Space Echo. Off to the side sits an EarthQuaker Devices Grand Orbiter and a Boss RV-6 Reverb. The DigiTech JamMan looper runs into a Radial SB-2 DI for sampled spacy interludes.

Special thanks to day-to-day manager Dan Nakhoul for all his help.

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