Chris Cornell

As seen in the source picture, the T-Rex Reptile is on his pedalboard of this article by Premier Guitar about his and his band's gear.

Stephen Ferrara (Chris Cornell's guitar tech): “Chris uses that as a dirty delay – he drives it a little bit so it actually kicks up the volume when he uses it and he overloads the level slightly. He’ll kick this in every now and again at the beginning of a song – he’s got it with a lot of repeats right now.”

"He runs two pedalboards, one for acoustic and one for electric. The acoustic board consists of an Ernie Ball volume pedal, Boss FRV-1 reverb, TU-2 tuner and a Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre acoustic preamp. Electric-wise, there’s a Menatone King of the Britains, Electro-Harmonix HOG, Digitech Jamman, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man and MXR 10-Band Graphic EQ, all powered by a Dunlop DC Brick. It’s an impressive selection and one that ensures Cornell’s acoustic shows are so much more than just, well, acoustic."

Featured in this August 28, 2017 Premier Guitar tribute article by Caroline Guitar Company founder Philippe Herndon.

These are two of the pedals we made for Chris Cornell in May 2014.

I’ll always remember the guys in the office cracking up when I answered the phone—them overhearing a conversation devolve into regular utterances of “oh hey,” “oh wow,” and “thank you,” and then arrive at “Well, we would be honored to make something for Mr. Cornell” as if he was going to arrive wearing a top hat and monocle for a fitting. His tech Stephen Ferrara-Grand reached out to us and raved about the Cannonball pedals we’d made for Vintage King that Chris had used in the studio, and said that Chris wanted two more pedals with that same kind of raw, industrial look to be delivered that week, before Soundgarden went on tour.

I was uncomfortable delivering something we'd been making exclusively for a retailer. Keeping a promise of exclusivity is something I take seriously, even when it inconveniences our business or gets in the way of making a customer happy. That said, they were out of stock and not due for a restock in time for the tour. I instead promised we'd make something he would like just as much, if not more. I immediately drilled out two enclosures, then left to buy some Hammered gray spray paint from the nearest Ace Hardware. I went back home, rigged up a metal coat hanger to a planter hook, and sprayed the enclosures on my front porch. After taking the time to let them dry enough to be handled, I baked them in a repurposed toaster oven I'd bought from Goodwill for $3 with “No Food!" sharpied boldly onto the door. Fun fact, DIY kids: Once you use a toaster oven to bake enclosures, you will not want to put English muffins in there.

The next day, we wired the pedals with a voltage sag circuit we'd been experimenting with, tested them repeatedly, and labeled them with an old hand-held Dymo labeler that used to be in my mother's ceramic tile workshop. I remember how we were so fearless and haphazard and excited to get this done that I had no backup plan to propose if he didn't like them. I sent Stephen this very pic, and held my breath for the go-ahead. By the end of the day, we'd been paid, given a shipping address for FedEx, and away they went.

(…) Since his death, I've seen photos people have sent me from the last Soundgarden shows where one of these pedals was visible, still on his board. May we appreciate all he shared with us during his time here. We were honored to play a tiny part in it.

Stephen Ferrara: “They’ve made quite a few of these, but this is the five-knob version. I’m actually looking to find a few more of those. Chris’s main sound is coming from the amplifiers, and then when he wants to kick in some more gain and make it a bit heavier, he uses this.”

Stephen Ferrara (Chris Cornell's guitar tech): “ We use this on Chris’s Songbook tours, too, as well as the Memory Man. For the song Rowing, one has a specific loop that’s a little bit longer, and the other one’s is slightly shorter. So, we’ve got vocal loops right now.”

"He runs two pedalboards, one for acoustic and one for electric. The acoustic board consists of an Ernie Ball volume pedal, Boss FRV-1 reverb, TU-2 tuner and a Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre acoustic preamp. Electric-wise, there’s a Menatone King of the Britains, Electro-Harmonix HOG, Digitech Jamman, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man and MXR 10-Band Graphic EQ, all powered by a Dunlop DC Brick. It’s an impressive selection and one that ensures Cornell’s acoustic shows are so much more than just, well, acoustic."

He runs two pedalboards, one for acoustic and one for electric. The acoustic board consists of an Ernie Ball volume pedal, Boss FRV-1 reverb, TU-2 tuner and a Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre acoustic preamp. Electric-wise, there’s a Menatone King of the Britains, Electro-Harmonix HOG, Digitech Jamman, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man and MXR 10-Band Graphic EQ, all powered by a Dunlop DC Brick. It’s an impressive selection and one that ensures Cornell’s acoustic shows are so much more than just, well, acoustic.

"He runs two pedalboards, one for acoustic and one for electric. The acoustic board consists of an Ernie Ball volume pedal, Boss FRV-1 reverb, TU-2 tuner and a Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre acoustic preamp. Electric-wise, there’s a Menatone King of the Britains, Electro-Harmonix HOG, Digitech Jamman, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man and MXR 10-Band Graphic EQ, all powered by a Dunlop DC Brick. It’s an impressive selection and one that ensures Cornell’s acoustic shows are so much more than just, well, acoustic."

As seen in the source picture, the Boss TU-3 is on his pedalboard of this article by Premier Guitar about his and his band's gear

"He runs two pedalboards, one for acoustic and one for electric. The acoustic board consists of an Ernie Ball volume pedal, Boss FRV-1 reverb, TU-2 tuner and a Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre acoustic preamp. Electric-wise, there’s a Menatone King of the Britains, Electro-Harmonix HOG, Digitech Jamman, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man and MXR 10-Band Graphic EQ, all powered by a Dunlop DC Brick. It’s an impressive selection and one that ensures Cornell’s acoustic shows are so much more than just, well, acoustic."

Chris has a JR-5 Remote on the top-left of his pedalboard, to control his JX-44 unit. The labels read from left to right: Savage, Savage, Mute, FTK-37, and blank.

At the 54:05 mark of the "Rig Rundown" episode provided by Premier Guitar on YouTube, Chris Cornell's guitar technician, Stephen Ferrara Grand, presents Cornell's pedalboard and explicitly mentions the use of Dr. NO Effects pedals. Notably, the Dr. NO Drive-O-Matic CC-SG pedal is highlighted as a custom-modified version of the Drive-O-Matic, specifically crafted for Chris Cornell. This is corroborated by the distinctive designs of these pedals, which can be verified on the Dr. NO website.