Primus – Pork Soda album cover

Primus – Pork Soda

Album 1993

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1993 album Pork Soda.

Music from Pork Soda

Gear Used On Pork Soda

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Primus – Pork Soda (1993). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Guitars used by Larry "Ler" LaLonde on Pork Soda

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS with Floyd Rose

Avg price: $499.99

This was his main guitar from 1989-1992 and he still occasionally used it for studio sessions during Pork Soda and Tales From the Punchbowl. He can be seen using it in the majority of live peformances at that time. However, his has a maple neck instead of the rosewood in the image provided. He no longer brings it out on tour because he is afraid of it getting broken or stolen.

Solid Body Electric Guitars

PRS Custom 24

Avg price: $3,081.78

Larry used PRS Custom 24's from mid-1992 to 2000. He used a Green Custom 24 in '92 and then in '93, he switched to a Vintage Yellow Maple Top Custom 24 for his primary guitar and then a Walnut Custom 24 for his backup guitar. He broke the neck in 2000 at a show in Kalamazoo, Michigan and when it was replaced, he lost Paul Reed Smith's signature on the back of the original neck. He brought it back during the 2015 New Years show and in 2017 for songs from Pork Soda and Tales From The Punchbowl.

Amplifiers used by Larry "Ler" LaLonde on Pork Soda

Guitar Amplifier Heads

Marshall JCM800 2205 50-Watt Amplifier Head

Avg price: $1,731.52

Larry used JCM 800's in Possessed, Blind Illusion, and in Primus up until Pork Soda. He kept it on the distorted channel most of the time, using the volume knob on his guitar to get a cleaner sound until Sailing the Seas of Cheese where he began switching between the clean and distorted channels.

Guitar Amplifier Heads

Marshall JCM900 4500

Avg price: $557.70

He switched over from JCM 800's to JCM 900's in 1993 and continued using them until Primus' hiatus in 2000. They were his main amps during during the Pork Soda and Punchbowl-era, but in 1997, he began to use them with other amps.

Effects Pedals used by Larry "Ler" LaLonde on Pork Soda

Fuzz Effects Pedals

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

Avg price: $92.97

Larry used a Big Muff in the studio during Pork Soda on My Name is Mud, Nature Boy, and The Pressman (mentioned at 24:15 on his 2017 Rig Rundown).

Delay Effects Pedals

Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

Avg price: $113.37

Larry started off with one DD-3 during Sailing the Seas of Cheese and then during Pork Soda, he began using two of them until Primus' hiatus in 2000.

Harmonizer & Octave Effects Pedals

Electro-Harmonix XO Octave Multiplexer

Avg price: $99.49

He used or at least had an Octave Multiplexer in the studio during the recording sessions for Tales from the Punchbowl and Pork Soda.

Multi Effects Pedals

Systech Harmonic Energizer

Avg price: $1,079.00

He had this with him in the studio during the recording sessions of Pork Soda.

Phaser Effects Pedals

Mu-Tron Bi-Phase

Avg price: $2,099.00

Used during the recording sessions for Pork Soda.

Multi Effects Pedals

Morley RWV Rotating Wah

Used during the recording sessions for Pork Soda.

Guitar Synth Pedals

Ludwig Phase II Synthesizer

Avg price: $1,341.00

He had this in the studio during the recording sessions for Pork Soda.

Studio Equipment used by Larry "Ler" LaLonde on Pork Soda

Effects Processors

A/DA STD-1 Stereo Tapped Delay

Avg price: $27.50

He used this during the recording sessions for Pork Soda.

World Instruments used by Les Claypool on Pork Soda

Mandolins

Mandolin

In the personnel section of the album "Pork Soda," it is documented that Les Claypool played a mandolin, of an unspecified model, on the track "Pork Chop's Little Ditty."