Dan Auerbach

"The Boss Super Octave and the phaser, those are together in one loop. That's the 'Tighten Up' sound at the end," explains Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Boss OC-3 SUPER Octave Pedal.

Dan shows this fuzzbox in a gear rundown, around 3:40 in the video.

"This is a regular Tremolo," remarks Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal.

Taken from this interview which also discusses the studio pedalboard used by Dan:

It’s just an analogue delay. I think they try to make the line-amp in it sound like the Maestro Echoplex EP-3 solid-state line-amp, which has a really cool sound. That pedal is just a great analogue delay. There’s a bunch of fun sounds in there.

Dan Auerbach's rig includes an Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter Pedal that is connected on the same loop as a Boss OC-3 SUPER Octave Pedal.

"I do have a loop of cables that come out just for this pedal. This is the only and actual pedal that signal is coming out to and back during the show. It's in one of the loops, so it only comes on when he's using it, and that's for the intro to 'Lonely Boy.' It's the Super Shifter and he uses the Tremolo arm. We took the analog appraoch because you have to step on the pedal itself to actuate it. There's no remote. It does have an expression pedal jack, but you'd have to have another expression pedal to make it work. And if you step on the pedal it just dips the signal an octave and it comes back up when you release it. It's so much easier to do it that way. That's the way it was designed in the first place. So for that riff I have a buffered signal that comes all the way out here to this pedal and all the way back to the rig. It just comes on when he plays that riff and then we move on to a cleaner signal path. I'm just trying to keep all the time available his straight-into-amplifier sound because anything that you put in the path of that is not through bypass or splitters. Splitters usually buffer, although the devices we're using don't. They just transform or isolate splitters. So it sounds exactly like if you had just plugged into the amp," explains Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Boss Super Shifter PS-5.

From 2010 Premier Guitar interview.

I’ve got shelves of pedals—sick amounts of pedals. But I swear, I use the same pedals I’ve always played. I bought an early-1970s Ibanez Standard Fuzz pedal—the octave fuzz with the two sliders. I’ve been using it since the first record, and I cannot top it.

When touring Attack & Release in 2008 and 2009, Dan Auerbach used a Analogman Sun Face Fuzz Pedal. The pedal was also mentioned in Auerbach's interview with Guitar World (published in November 2022 issue). Auerbach mentioned that he used the pedal for "over 20 years", and had used it while recording "Didn't I Love You".

From Auerbach's guitar tech:

This is a vintage companion fuzz. And the companion fuzz also goes into this EQ so that we can cut some of the lows and bring back some of the mids that are scooped out. It's a very cool octave fuzzy sound, but it kind of scoops the mids out. Even though it gets a whole lot louder, you have to bring that back into it,

Auerbach mentions Shin-Ei Companion as one of his favourite pedals in 2012 Guitar World interview. In 2012 Vintage Guitar interview, he uses Shin-Ei Companion fuzz to push the smaller amps that he uses.

"This is unsual. It's all made by the Shin-Ei Company. It's a Japanese fuzz wah, although we don't use the wah part. It's got a real mid-range sound which is a lot different than the Big Muff," says Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Rosac Electronics Nu-Wa Fuzz Pedal.

An EarthQuacker Devices Hoof can be seen at 10:29 in this video.

Its numbered as "8" on this picture.

“This is my pedalboard for the studio,” explains Dan, before we pick through a sample of his boutique and vintage stompbox collection.

“I’ve also got a whole rack next to it that’s connected on a separate switcher that’s all linked up, so I’ve got about 20 wildly different sounds that I can call on instantly. It’s all meant for ease of use, and being able to cut fast.”

In this newest rig rundown, at 3:05 Dan's tech talks about using the El Capistan as a backup because "it's super quiet".

"It has the Earthquaker Devices' Terminal, which is a great fuzz pedal. We have it dialed up so that it's barely on...a manageable fuzz that doesn't feedback like crazy," says Dan's tech, at 10:42 in this video.

We spotted an MXR M-108 Ten Band Graphic Equalizer Pedal in Dan Auerbach's rig during in this rundown video.

In this 2008 photo of Auerbach performing, the EarthQuaker Hummigbird can be seen in his pedalboard.

At 2:46 into this video of Black Keys performing "Hard Row" live, Dan Auerbach's Fulltone Soul-Bender Fuzz MKI can be seen on his pedalboard.

In a 2019 interview with MusicRadar, Dan Auerbach discusses using the Xotic Effects RC Booster on his studio board for his album.

Dan's Earthquaker Devices Tone Job can be seen at 10:29 into this rig rundown.

Taken from this interview which also discusses the studio pedalboard used by Dan:

The Fulltone is cleaner sounding and less out-of-control. It gives me the cleaner, Octavia-style sound and then the Ibanez gives me that wild, Black Keys sound!

A Hallmark Nu Fuzz pedal can be seen among Dan's pedals at 10:29 in this video.

"I've got one other gadget that I'm super proud of, the Kikusui voltage regulator...It's really cool because these old amps don't like 120V, they like 117V...It's super reliable," says Dan's tech, at 12:15 in this video.

Dan Auerbach used a Boss Digital Delay in 2010.

Taken from this interview which also discusses the studio pedalboard used by Dan. Although he did not discuss Earthquaker Devices Transport SR, this pedal can be seen at the bottom left end of the pedalboard.

Visible on Auerbach's pedalboard in this MusicRadar interview.

When touring Attack & Release in 2008 and 2009, Dan Auerbach used a Analogman AR20DL Analog Delay.

Taken from this interview which also discusses the studio pedalboard used by Dan:

That’s the UniVibe clone that they make down in Texas with a bunch of new-old- stock parts and it’s just a great, interesting sound. Apparently they bought up from the factory an old stock of circuit boards, switches, housings, pedals... it’s just crazy. So they sound like the originals and there’s nothing else like those. It’s a really amazing invention.

Dan's Radial Engineering BigShot PB1 Class-A Power Booster can be seen at 9:08 into this video.

Dan's Q-Tron can be seen at 10:29 into this video.

Dan Auerbach used a Danelectro Reel Echo until 2010.