Cory Wong

One can clearly see him talking about why he chose this pedal between 1:50 and 3:05. This pedal was also visible in his pedalboard in his Instagram Story of an unknown date.

'As befits a man who swims deep in the groovy waters of funk, Cory is rarely seen on stage without a Stratocaster – and one Strat in particular. Cory’s Sapphire Blue Highway One model might not be the most high-end guitar for a globe-trotting guitarist to trust every night, but this one has been his faithful companion for a long time.

“I’ve had this guitar since high school – my first real guitar was a Strat,” he explains. “I wanted to play guitar so bad. I went to a pawn shop as a sixth grader and bought a Gretsch Traveling Wilburys guitar – they’re still out there somewhere! It was this $75 used guitar and it didn’t stay in tune. It’s probably actually a nice guitar, but the one that I had… well there’s a reason why I was sitting in a pawn shop!”

But Cory persisted with his ungainly Gretsch, all the while badgering his dad to buy him a real guitar, desperate to convince him that this wasn’t a passing infatuation.

“By that time, I’m in seventh grade. I’ve got a punk rock band. I’m playing with my friends, and I said, ‘I have this much money saved up. And I’m wondering if we combined Christmas and my birthday and everything else…’ And I live in Minnesota, so I was like,‘If I shoveled the driveway 100 times this winter… could you buy me a guitar?’

“And my dad says, ‘Alright, but here’s the deal – you need to get a Stratocaster.’ ‘Okay, why?’ ‘Well, look at Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Nile Rodgers…’ he’s listing off all these legends. ‘I rest my case!’ And I’m like,‘Okay, cool.’

“So I got a Strat, and here we are, it just feels like home. When I play a Strat, it just feels like my voice. I love other guitars, but the Strat is just home.”' - https://guitar.com/features/interviews/cory-wong-motivational-music-for-the-syncopated-soul/

"Latley, what I've been using is the Wampler Ego Compressor"

In this video interview from Guitarist, Cory Wong discusses his philosophy on amps.

There’s a lot of amps that I really like, but the ones that I like the most are the ones that just kind of get me to my sound; a big fat clean sound. Something that sounds in you face and punchy. And I can get there from a JC120, or a Fender Twin, or like the DV Mark Raw Dawg I’ve been using a lot lately. So I’m not a tube amp snob. I’m not a digital snob. It’s just like whatever kind of gets me to my sound, I’m going to find a way to get there.

"There's something about the NYXL strings that just feels like home under my fingers. These things sound amazing whether they've been on my guitar for 5 minutes or 5 months! There are so many things that go into a guitar players tone, but for me, the first thing I react to is the feel and sound of the strings themselves. D'Addario NYXL strings are the only strings I use on my strat!"

Then there’s the Vertex Steel String Clean Drive, which is what gives me more of that tube amp feel - a tiny bit of drive but not too much. I use it to bring my clean tone even more out front.

Cory says obout walrus compressor that he's using in Vulfpeck (at 0:46). This pedal was also visible in his pedalboard in his Instagram Story of an unknown date.

At 20:39 we can see the Dumble Amp, whith the setting he use. He brought it in San Francisco.

At 52:53 we can clarly see the Music Man Guitar. He used it during the live of Vulfpeck at the MSG Theater. He use it as a second guitar.

We can see a jc40 all along the show in the back of Cory.

As far as amps in the studio, all I really ever use now is a Kemper [Profiler]. I use one of the M. Britt profiles. I use his 70 Marshall SL2 profile. I just turn the gain down to almost zero and it sounds awesome.

If I need to kick things out even further, I use the Walrus Audio Warhorn, which is my favourite sounding overdrive.

This pedal was also visible in his pedalboard in his Instagram Story of an unknown date.

In this photo, which comes from Cory Wong's Instagram story, his session pedalboard is visible. One of the pedals that can be seen is the Line 6 M9.

Cory explains at 9:30 that while he uses his Kemper for recording, the profiles are either of a Vibroverb or Super Reverb.

In the YouTube video "THE FEARLESS FLYERS /// Ace of Aces" by Vulf, Cory Wong plays the Bacci Guitars Leonardo Baritona, specifically the first model with a double output.

In this photo, which comes from Cory Wong's Instagram story, his session pedalboard is visible. One of the pedals that can be seen is the Walrus Julia.

5:15 on this video.

In this photo, which comes from Cory Wong's Instagram story, his session pedalboard is visible. One of the pedals that can be seen is the Walrus Contraband.

Cory explains at 9:30 in this video that while he uses a Kemper for recording, the profiles are of either a Vibroverb or Super Reverb.

This is Cory's new signature guitar based of his heavily used and modified Highway One series Stratocaster. it features the fourth position panic switch, a scaled down body and the Cory Wong signature hair ties in its tremolo system. It comes stock with Cory's signature Seymour Duncan pickups

He has been using this overdrive since Vertex's Mason Marangella started working on his pedalboard.

Cory is playing his Eastman in this live recording https://youtu.be/XJojzloJwHI You can also see it in the background of this interview - https://youtu.be/9AvMVt-r2LQ

Cory used this Eastman alot through his "jazz phase" as well.

In the YouTube video "Pedalboard Makeover | Cory Wong" by Vertex Effects, Cory Wong mentions using the Line 6 HX Stomp Guitar Multi-Effects Floor Processor occasionally to replace delays on his pedalboard.

In this photo, which comes from Cory Wong's Instagram story, his session pedalboard is visible. One of the pedals that can be seen is the Barber Burn Unit.

Around 1:13 in the youtube video provided in the source, Cory pulls out his VoiceLive Play from his suitcase. He is known to use pitch shifting effects on his voice while talking to the audience or doing speeches.

He uses Strymon Bigsky. This pedal was also visible in his pedalboard in his Instagram Story of an unknown date.

seen at 3:25 Uses this plugin to emulate going straight into a mixing desk instead of a guitar amp, like the funk guitarists from the 70s and 80s.

In a video by Universal Audio, Cory Wong demonstrates using the Universal Audio UAD Ocean Way Studios Plug-In to achieve a rich room sound for clean guitar tones.

The photo on this article shows Cory's board with the bigger HX unit. He was also seen using it in a simplified rig for his UK tour (https://www.pressreader.com/australia/total-guitar/20190412/282565904511337).

During this whole video, Cory shows his Pro Tools session as well as other plugins.