Tasty stomp stations from top players.
Third Eye Blind’s Kryz Reid
Dave Phillips at L.A. Sound Design built both Reid’s “A” and “B” effects rigs. Phillips wires everything with Mogami 2524 cable, except for the Divine Noise 50/50 (half curly, half straight) cable that connects Reid’s guitar to the pedalboard. The A rig consists of a RJM Effect Gizmo, a programmable true-bypass loop switcher run by an RJM Mastermind GT MIDI foot controller. The Effect Gizmo sits next to all the effects in a rack unit alongside his amps and cabs. The Mastermind GT lives in Reid’s pedalboard with a custom A/B Box interface for the rack, two custom-made Mission Engineering expression pedals, an Ernie Ball 25k Ohm Volume Pedal, a Boss TU-2 tuner, and a TC Electronics Ditto Looper. Reid’s guitar runs into a custom Phillips A/B box. The A signal goes to the rack and the B signal runs to his redundant pedalboard and amps. The signal then feeds a Jim Dunlop Rack Wah controlled by a custom Mission Engineering expression pedal.
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.
The American metal core band spills the details on their three-guitar assault.
On March 21, 2014, Premier Guitar’s Perry Bean met with Mike Hranica, Jeremy DePoyster, and Chris Rubey of The Devil Wears Prada before their show at Rocketown in Nashville. The metal-core band’s three guitarists mix heavy, drop-tuned, overdriven guitars with trippy, soundscape effects. Carrying about as many pedals as a well-stocked guitar store, they skillfully combine their three distinct tones to create a wall of sound.
Chris Rubey's Gear
GuitarsMike Hranica’s Gear
GuitarsJeremy DePoyster’s Gear
GuitarsLoop 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)
DePoyster has a separate small pedalboard for his TH30 that includes an Electro-Harmonix Soul Preacher Compressor connected to the amp’s input and an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Reverb into a Boss NS-2, which runs in the TH30’s effects loop.
PG would like to give a shout out to wonder-techs Chris "Wiggly" Danson and Kyle Sipress for helping us with so many gear details.