Billy Duffy

“I’ve just picked up another of the BOSS “WAZA craft” pedals to use in pre-production. It’s basically its a remake of my classic DM-2 analogue delay that was part of my original set up in the early 1980s. Again those clever fellas at BOSS have kept all the features of the original but now has the familiar to waza “better” switch which in this case keeps the warmer sound of analogue but has a longer delay time more like a DM-3 and that family of digital delays… ergo… better!! I will definitely be using one of these in my live rig very soon.” Billy – March 2015

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, he says, "People used to bribe the producer to tell them what pedals and effects I used to get the guitar sound in the beginning of the song, that whole kind of mystical Easterny sound. The story that goes along with that is, it was a whole BOSS pedal board. I definitely had two delays in it, ‘cause there are two delays working against each other —long and short delays. It’s 400 and 800 milliseconds, approximately, at the beginning of the song."

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, the Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor Pedal is listed and depicted (complete with settings labeled on tape, laid just under the controls).

You can see the blue CE-2w with the silver Waza Craft sign shining from the spotlight on 15:34 min on this video of their concert: https://www.facebook.com/Billboard/videos/10156373810574581/UzpfSTExNTc2MjEzMDg6MTAyMTQ3MzM3ODU0NzU3NDI/

Print screens here:

https://imgur.com/a/AHjWE https://imgur.com/a/1bRhY https://imgur.com/a/mXf1v

The blue CE-2w or CE-2 can be seen on his pedalboard, first one on the left on 24:10 and 43:55 on this video: https://youtu.be/FhsX0DHM3dM?t=43m55s https://youtu.be/FhsX0DHM3dM?t=24m9s

Print screens here: https://imgur.com/a/vYxke https://imgur.com/a/JKzIt https://imgur.com/a/3uMII https://imgur.com/a/Jvsev

Note that there are two Vox AC30 in the middle of his amps instead of Roland JC-120 that he used to mix together either with Vox AC30 or Marhsalls for the songs from the early Cult era when he played them live (talks about it here https://youtu.be/5_qxW_htSnU?t=1m9s) which he used since the early 80s which confirms my suspicion that he is using CE-2W as a replacement for the JC-120 chorus which he stopped using for some reason. He talks about using JC-120 chorus here: https://youtu.be/5_qxW_htSnU?t=14m20s

In this photo, Billy Duffy's Klon KTR Centaur can be seen on the edge of his pedalboard.

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, he says, “This is one of the only pedals that I’ve got that is a an expression pedal, that you can effect it and it’s different every time you do it. The wah wah sound was very influential to me. Throughout my career I’ve always tried to improve what I do as a guitar player so originally I just had a regular Cry Baby but when I became famous enough to get them to modify them for me I did. I have a great relationship with Dunlop and they made me a personalized pedal based on the Cry Baby. Interestingly, Dunlop have now made a production pedal incorporating stuff that that they customized for me."

A recreation of the original 1960s British fuzz, the Park Fuzz Sound Pedal uses matched germanium transistors that give an authentic after 1960s sound! It features an increased gain and tone control range so that you can dial in the fuzz you are looking for as well as cleaning up from the volume control. The Park Fuzz Sound is a collaboration between Park and the effects gurus at Earthquaker Devices.

“This Park Fuzz pedal was a gift from Earthquaker Devices that I picked up at NAMM in January and is the only fuzz pedal I’ve ever tried that I actually like!” Billy – March 2015

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, he says, “I use all BOSS delays and I use their flanger and the Super Overdrive, still, on occasion. It [the Boss BF-2] is very much part of the early Death Cult and Cult sound and features heavily in the ‘Sanctuary’ and ‘Fire Woman’ intros."

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, he says, "I’ve ended up using the DD3 ‘cos it gives you that effect in an easily replaceable, robust, very reliable way. When I’m stopping on these with my motorcycle boots, when they’re on airplanes and the back of trucks I don’t want them to break. I use Boss pedals ‘cos they sound great and they’re made well. I could never take something on the road that wasn’t reliable, it would just create incredible headaches.”

A Morley George Lynch Tripler can be seen at 13:30 in this video, on Billy Duffy's board.

The blue CE-2 or CE-2w can be seen on his pedalboard, first one on the left on 24:10 and 43:55 on this video: https://youtu.be/FhsX0DHM3dM?t=43m55s https://youtu.be/FhsX0DHM3dM?t=24m9s as well as on this concert on 13:13 min: https://www.facebook.com/Billboard/videos/10156373810574581/UzpfSTExNTc2MjEzMDg6MTAyMTQ3MzM3ODU0NzU3NDI/

Print screens here: https://imgur.com/a/vYxke https://imgur.com/a/JKzIt https://imgur.com/a/3uMII https://imgur.com/a/Jvsev

He speaks about that the earlier sound of The Cult that was based on the Roland JC-120 chorus here: https://youtu.be/5_qxW_htSnU?t=14m20s . I saw them live in 2017 and was dissapointed to see there was JC-120 lacking from his amps, only Marhsalls and Vox AC30. This could be the reason he has CE-2 on his pedalboard. It's either CE-2 or CE-2w, I can't see it that up close in this video.

His Limited Edition signature Wah Pedal from Dunlop, the Crybaby BD95.

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, he says, "It’s not an effect but a volume pedal. It literally just boosts the signal from the strings through to the amplifier, it sounds ridiculous to say it, a bit ‘Spinal Tap,' but it’s a pedal that’s really, really useful. For example if I’m playing a really heavy section of a song and I want to go straight into a clean section sometimes you’ll lose the volume so this pedal helps by keeping the volume whilst the tone changes.”

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, he says, "Originally I used The Boss Super Overdrive ‘cos as it was given to me... Later on I got the ‘Tube Screamer’ and used to switch between the two. My Tube Screamers now have now been modified very simply but I use them for a slightly different kind of overdrive, for example in ‘Rain’ or ‘Sanctuary’ I use the Tube Screamer as my overdrive."

According to the Boss official website, Billy uses the SD-1W. "Another pedal that Jamie passed onto me when he joined Death Cult (and swapped guitar for Bass) was his BOSS OD-1. I used that as Overdrive in the early years of the band and this ‘Waza Craft’ updated one 'does exactly what it says on the box,' i.e. it gives [the] option to add more bass bottom end tone and sustain without making the effect too boomy. That’s desirable in all overdrives, as the bane of using them was that the sound got thinner (more trebly) when you switched it on. That’s been resolved by the Waza version and allows Boss to offer ’boutique’ pedal finesse on a more readily available model.”

On the Gear page of Billy Duffy's website, he says, “It’s a great useful pedal that’s also a mute.” There isn't much more information, but the pedal he owns is depicted quite clearly as part of his pedal boad.

One can see a Pedal Power 2 Plus on Billy Duffy's board at 16:33 in this video.

A Tube Screamer can be seen on Billy Duffy's pedalboard at 17:50 in this rig rundown video.

According to this page of Billy Duffy's website, Billy originally used an OD-1. "Another pedal that [Cult bassist] Jamie passed onto me when he joined Death Cult (and swapped guitar for Bass) was his BOSS OD-1. I used that as Overdrive in the early years of the band...”

This gear diagram, by Guitar Geek, shows that Billy Duffy uses a Lovepedal Kalamazoo.

Billy Duffy uses the Fulltone Full-Drive2 Mosfet overdrive pedal, as noted on the Fulltone website.

"Yeah, and I like the DD-3 also. It’s a good one — y’know, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! I use the flanger [BF-3] a little bit, and I’ve been using the Super Overdrive [SD-1], the yellow one."

Boss pedals: DM-2 Delay, BF-2 Flanger, PH-3 Phase Shifter, NS-2 Noise Suppressor, TU-3 Tuner, DD-3 Digital Delay x2

“I’ve always used them. I like them – they always work. Well, I’ve always used them, apart from one period where I got a couple of rack-mounted Korg delays, and I had like a rack-mounted guitar system for a while. I really like it, but it’s a little bit complex, and the way we work now, we do some fly-in gigs, and me being able to control it all from the floor is pretty bombproof.”

Listed on the official Lovetone "Clients" page.

Billy Duffy MB/DG/BS/BC/WL

Listed on the official Lovetone "Clients" page.

Billy Duffy MB/DG/BS/BC/WL

Listed on the official Lovetone "Clients" page.

Billy Duffy MB/DG/BS/BC/WL

Listed on the official Lovetone "Clients" page.

Billy Duffy MB/DG/BS/BC/WL

Listed on the official Lovetone "Clients" page.

Billy Duffy MB/DG/BS/BC/WL