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Rig Rundown: Mt. Joy's Sam Cooper

“Astrovan” took him from lawyer to soulful indie-pop headliner on the back of his rewired, ragged ’69 Jag and a bed of shimmering ’verbs and reversed delays.

Aside from the Shure GLXD16 Wireless unit and passive Boss TU-3S Chromatic Tuner, Sam’s stomp station centers around the always-on Electro-Harmonix Soul Food. For any solos or stand-out riff moments, he’ll kick on the Xotic EP Booster and/or the Ibanez TS-9. Things start getting weird when he incorporates the reverse setting on his Boss DD-7 Digital Delay, shimmery reverbs in the Strymon BigSky, or the chop trem from the Eventide H9. Auxiliary funkiness gets introduced with the EHX Q-Tron and Mel9 (he really loves the choir setting). And while not finding much use for it yet, Cooper is still trying to bond with the ZVEX Lo-Fi Junky to cover a warm warble in their newest single “Rearrange Us.”


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