Chris Allen

"The one that I have on almost all the time is the Ibanez Tube Screamer. I used to have the TS808 reissue, and I really like that a lot, but I was going through them a lot. I was breaking them for some reason. I think it was the TSA, you know we were flying around so much. And my pedalboard wasn't great so I didn't pack it right. Well anyway, this time around I bought one of the handwired ones that they just redid. They hand selected the chips and hand wired the pedal and gave it a different color - it's a dark green. I just A/B the two against each other and this one just sounded way better. That's like my main pedal."

"Another one that I just started using on this new album is my DigiTech HardWire Chorus Pedal. It's just like a $100 pedal but it's got a really good chorus sound to it and we put it all over this album."

"I came across Malekko, they make these little mini ones. They're just tiny. I really like the sound of them, and they're also really affordable."

"I just got a Cusack Pedal Tamer, it helps me switch between all my different effects. It was getting a little too tough. I was doing a little too much tap dancing. I was able to manage it with just the one album of material but now that we have two albums it was getting a little hectic. But with this I can hit one button and it can switch six different pedals on or off. So that's been very helpful."

"So I was kind of running out of space in my pedalboard. I already have one of the biggest that they make, that Pedaltrain makes. I had very little space to work with and so I started looking for very small pedals. I came across Malekko, they make these little mini ones. They're just tiny. I really like the sound of them, and they're also really affordable, like $100 for either the tremolo or the vibrato, and then $140 for the other one. For like boutique type pedals that's pretty good. I really like them."

"I have the Fuzz Factory. Zvex is a really fun company. I like all their hand-painted stuff. I didn't spring for the hand-painted pedal, but the hand-painted ones it's like the whole thing is done, it's like a unique piece of art. This one just has the name on it like painted on there. But yeah it's a fuzz pedal, kind of like vintage style. It's a real crazy, nasty-sounding fuzz. It squeals. I use it on two songs, so I don't use it a ton. I use it on 'Teenage Sounds' and on the end of 'Trust'."

A Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus appears in this rundown video of Chris Allen's rig.

A TC Electronic PolyTune Polyphonic Tuner Pedal is seen in Chris Allen's pedalboard during this rig rundown video.

A Fulltone GT-500 FET Distortion plus Booster and Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal Red appears in Chris Allen's pedalboard in this rig rundown video.

This rig rundown video of Chris Allen's pedalboard shows a Strymon El Capistan dTape Echo Delay Pedal in use.

An MXR M-133 Micro Amp Pedal appears in this rig rundown video of Chris Allen.

An Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Reverb Guitar Effects Pedal is seen in Chris Allen's pedalboard during this rig rundown video.

A Keeley 4-Knob Compressor Guitar Effects Pedal appears in this Chris Allen rig rundown video.

According to DigiTech's website, Allen uses the DigiTech Whammy 4th Gen pedal.