Ed O'Brien - Equipment

Equipment

Guitars

  • "Plank" guitar (custom built to Ed's specifications)
  • Rickenbacker 360 (x2)
  • Fender Telecaster (x2)
  • Gibson ES-330 (60s)
  • Gibson ES-335 (60s)
  • Fender Stratocaster (white)
  • Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster (black) (x2)
  • Fernandes Native Pro
  • Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (belongs to Johnny Marr)
  • Line 6 Variax 700
  • Epiphone Casino
  • Gibson Les Paul Custom (used for The Daily Mail)
  • Fender Jaguar (used on the King of Limbs tour)

Effects

  • Akai Headrush E1 and E2
  • AMS Digital Delay
  • BOSS CE-1 Chorus Ensemble
  • BOSS DD-5 Digital Delay (x4)
  • BOSS DD-7 Digital Delay
  • BOSS FC-200 MIDI Foot Controller
  • BOSS FS-5U
  • BOSS FV-300L (now replaced with FV-500L)
  • BOSS GE-7 Equalizer
  • BOSS LS-2 Line Selector
  • BOSS OD-1 Over Drive (Analog Man modified)
  • BOSS PN-2 Tremolo/Pan
  • BOSS PSM-5 Power Supply & Master Switch
  • BOSS RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay
  • BOSS SD-1 SUPER OverDrive
  • BOSS TR-2 Tremolo
  • BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
  • Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso
  • Crowther HotCake
  • Demeter COMP-1 Compulator
  • Diamond CPR-1 Compressor
  • Diamond Memory Lane 2
  • Diamond TRM-1 Tremolo
  • DigiTech Whammy IV
  • DOD 440 Envelope Filter
  • Dunlop Cry Baby
  • Dunlop Stereo Tremolo
  • Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress
  • Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
  • Electro-Harmonix HOG
  • Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail
  • Electro-Harmonix Small Stone
  • Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man w/ Hazarai
  • Ernie Ball VP JR.
  • Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-808
  • Klon Centaur
  • KORG A2
  • Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler
  • Line 6 Pod PRO
  • Lovetone Big Cheese
  • Lovetone Doppelganger
  • Lovetone Meatball
  • Lovetone Ring Stinger
  • Lovetone Wobulator
  • Marshall ShredMaster
  • Mesa Boogie Footswitch
  • Molten Voltage Molten MIDI 2 (programmable Whammy IV controller)
  • Morley Bad Horsie
  • MXR Dyna Comp
  • MXR Micro Amp
  • MXR Phase 90
  • Peterson StroboStomp 2
  • Pro Co RAT
  • Roger Linn AdrenaLinn II
  • Roland SP-303 Dr. Sample
  • Roland Space Echo (used pre-OK Computer)
  • Strymon TimeLine
  • ToadWorks True-Bypass Looper
  • Voodoo Lab Commander
  • Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus
  • Voodoo Lab Pedal Switcher
  • Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive
  • Whirlwind Selector A/B

This list of pedals is incomplete, but are most of the ones identified over the years. Not all of these pedals were used at the same time. In 2006, a MIDI Controller took the place of many delay pedals.

He also frequently uses an EBow.

Amplifiers

  • Vox AC30 (x2) (used for clean, modulation and delay tones)
  • Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Trem-O-Verb (x2) (used for distorted tones)
  • Line 6 VETTA II
  • Fender Super-Sonic 112 combo, fed into a Super-Sonic 212 cabinet (seen used in the thumbs_down webcast)
  • Fender Vibro-King (used since "The King of Limbs" live performances)

Other

  • He plays the cabasa on "Paranoid Android".
  • Fender Rhodes on "In Limbo".
  • A shaker (percussion) instrument on live performances of "Idioteque".
  • A tambourine during "Reckoner".

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