Ben Gibbard

According to Ben Gibbard in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown, the Death Cab for Cutie guitar player uses a ZVex Box of Rock. "This stays on all the time," Gibbard said at (16:35).

The Box Of Rock is a great pedal, but I found it was a little dark. The big distortion was a little bit murky, so the BB pedal has been doing all the big distortion stuff. And these actually layer pretty well; you can use the yellow side of the Box Of Rock, the overdrive side, with the BB, and they do gain up rather nicely.

Excerpted from this post which also discusses the live pedalboard used by Ben.

According to Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown, "I've never been happier since I went to the [Eventide] Space... Reverb pedal," he said at (17:45).

According to Ben Gibbard, the Death Cab for Cutie guitar player uses a ZVEX Super Duper 2-in-1 Boost Pedal in his live rig. "This is such a great pedal, I recommend one to any guitar player," Gibbard said at (16:00).

In this post, L.A. Sound Design shared the pedalboard they made for Death Cab for Cutie. There's a Strymon BlueSky seen on Ben's pedalboard.

The signal chain is detailed as follows:

The guitar board signal chain is as follows: Z-vex Super Duper----Voodoo Lab PX-8 (L1----TUNER----L2 BOX OF ROCK----L3 POG----L4 MXR CHORUS----L5 ZVEX LO FI-----L6 ED DISPATCH----L7 TIMELINE---L8----BLUE SKY) ---RADIAL SGI-TX.

In this photo of Ben Gibbard performing live, the large pedal on the left side of the pedal board (Ben's right) is a Line 6 DL4 Stompbox Delay Modeler.

The Electro-Harmonix Micro POG can be spotted on Ben Gibbard's pedal board in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video at (18:00).

In this post, L.A. Sound Design shared the pedalboard they made for Death Cab for Cutie. There's an EQD Dispatch Master seen on Ben's pedalboard.

The MXR Stereo Chorus can be spotted on Ben Gibbard's pedalboard in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video at (18:00).

According to Premier Guitar.com "A Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 provides all the juice," to Ben Gibbard's pedalboard.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Gibbard used Boss GE-7 equalizer.

According to Ben Gibbard in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown, the Deathcab for Cutie guitarist uses an Eventide Timefactor delay pedal. "These are great because you can store the settings elsewhere on a computer and then put them on a new pedal. These have been fairly bulletproof for me," Gibbard said at (17:15).

The Boss TU-2 tuner can be spotted on Ben Gibbard's pedalboard at (17:47) in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown.

For simple pedal switching on his live board, Ben Gibbard uses the Voodoo Lab Pedal Switcher, as seen in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video at (18:10).