Mike Vennart

Mike plays a heavily modified 1985 Squier Strat with Dimarzio and Ibanez pickups and a Marlin bridge.

In an interview with MusicRadar, Mike Vennart mentions using the Danelectro DD-1 Fab Tone Distortion pedal, humorously describing it as his choice "for when I just want to kill everyone," highlighting its intense sound.

"Fender were very kind enough to hook me up with this about 6 years ago and it's one of the only guitars I've got that I haven't absolutely rinsed and changed and made it into something weird, this is just a standard American Tele, and it's taken a licking over the years, it's one of the only guitars that I've not had to modify or had to repair because it pretty much speaks for itself. The strange thing about this particular Tele, I don't really know why, but it's really guttural, apart from the, sort of, twang and bite, it's good for really heavy stuff [...] it's a surprisingly adaptable guitar."

Mike can be seen playing a left-handed Kurt Cobain Singature Fender Jaguar in this photo. The volume pot for the bridge pickup has been removed.

At 2:30 into the video, Mike says he uses a "standard RAT for the horrible, fuzzy sort of stuff".

Mike can be seen playing an American Vintage Telecaster in this video (starting at 2:05).

“I fell in love with the Retro 50 after seeing Pavement several times in 2010. It was the best tone I’d ever heard – great cleans, but nicely broken up and dirty. After that it was my dream amp, and it’s never been beaten. I use loads of pedals and they all sound great through the Retro. It just BARKS when you crank it. There’s a perverse satisfaction in never even looking at another amp, safe in the knowledge I’ve found my sound! I use the OR50 for back-up, cos I don’t think they make the Retros any more.”

A TU-2 can be seen on Mike's pedalboard at 1:58 into the video.

A POG2 can be seen as the pedal on the far right of the top row on Mike's pedal board.

Mike's signature pedal. Originally issued as a very-limited edition AccessPass on the PledgeMusic page for Vennart's debut solo album The Demon Joke. It was described on the site as "2 of the greatest fuzzes on earth, in one box". Vennart elaborated on this further in his interview with Total Guitar: "You've got the [Lovetone] Big Cheese on one side with four different settings of fuzz. I use that a lot for broken-up, Velcro-y shitty-sounding stuff. And then the other side is the IC Big Muff; it's got a switch on it that takes the tone control out so it just gets more woolly but really, really fat."

In a Facebook post by Green Carrot Pedals, Mike Vennart describes the Dwarfcraft Shiva Fuzz Guitar Effects Pedal as "volatile" and "horrible," perfect for creating "My Bloody Valentine atonal nonsense."

An Echo Dream 2 can be seen to the left of the POG2 on the top row of Mike's pedalboard in this Facebook picture posted by Green Carrot Pedals.

Mike can be seen playing a left-handed Gretsch Duo Jet in this video.

Mike can be seen playing through this head starting at 7 seconds into the video.

Mike when performing with Oceansize often used two microphones. A Shure SM58 for general clean vocal and a 520DX Harmonica bullet microphone for distorted lo-fi style vocals.

"The Whammy Wah is like an old 90s pedal. I bought a couple of these because they keep breaking; I think they're just made for the studio, really, [...] the whammy effect is something that I use an awful lot just for texture and when [I'm] using a lot of delay and other stuff and it sounds really tasty. It's got some other stuff on there like auto-wahs and filters and stuff like that."

"I'm using it in place of a Whammy; the Whammy was taking up too much space. That's the main sound on 'Infatuate'."

This can be seen in this picture, in the top right hand corner of Mike's pedalboard.

At 3:15 into the video, Mike discusses the Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler, saying "I use that for, like synth sounds and horrible swells and string pads and stuff like that. There's a lot in it, but most of it's pretty tasteless, so you have to use it quite sparingly".

Mike Vennart praises the Green Carrot Pedals Cornstarch Overdrive Pedal, describing it as "just deadly" with a "really clear, amp-style distortion," as noted in a post by Green Carrot Pedals on Facebook.

Mike Vennart uses the Green Carrot Pedals Dirty Radish for a touch of overdrive, as mentioned in a Facebook post by Green Carrot Pedals.

"In addition Mike uses 3 Boss delay pedals: A DD-3 Digital delay marked 'Space', a DD-6 and an old school analog DM-2"

"In addition Mike uses 3 Boss delay pedals: A DD-3 Digital delay marked 'Space', a DD-6 and an old school analog DM-2"

"In addition Mike uses 3 Boss delay pedals: A DD-3 Digital delay marked 'Space', a DD-6 and an old school analog DM-2"

Mike when performing with Oceansize often used two microphones. A Shure SM58 for general clean vocal and a 520DX Harmonica bullet microphone for distorted lo-fi style vocals.

In this YouTube video at 0:31 We can see the pink Behringer HM300 Heavy Metal pedal.

In this YouTube video at 2:29 We can see Mike tweaking the knobs of the Boss MT2 Metal Zone.

In this video at 53:30 Mike talks about the Life Pedal.

Seen at 2:23 saying it’s his new distortion (at the time)

Says at 2:53 that he uses it because he’s a pavement fan