David Torn

"Now, I have two Hexe reVOLVERs and they do very different things. One is an original revolver, and the other is called the reVOLVER DT, which was fed by my ideas."

"I used my new Basic Audio Fuzz Mutant pedal and the Fryette Power Station attenuator with my Fryette Deliverance amp. It sounded so damn good I couldn’t even tell if I was playing well or not!"

Part of pedal 88 (Torn's reVOLVER DT) in Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists, as can be seen in the quick browse video at 0:37.

"My regular looping rig is a modified Lexicon PCM 42—the first one made of its kind. [Lexicon designer] Gary Hall modified it around 1981 to have approximately 20 seconds of sampling/delay time. The originals only had five seconds. I have another PCM 42 that was modded to feature a reverse-play switch."

"I have a Lexicon PCM80. I programmed what I believe was the first commercially available version of what people now call “Shimmer.”"

"I was following the reVolver with a Digi- Tech DT Whammy Pedal. It let me shift the pitch of those short reVolver loops, but not the length. I shifted them in a musical way while I was playing and transposed in my head as I went."

"I had a Fryette Sig:X head in the middle as my dry amp, which isn’t actually totally dry. "

"I was turning an Empress Effects Compressor on and off."

"I also used the Chase Bliss Audio Warped Vinyl. It’s a vibrato pedal with an analog signal and a digital controller attached to the back. You can control it with LFOs or the envelope of your attack. I was pushing the amp with it, even when I wasn’t using any pitch changing. Anything that sounds like a chorus on the guitar would be that."

"I was using the THD Hot Plate Attenuator, which would send the signal to my rack mixer for my rack effects, and then to a Fryette Two/Fifty/Two stereo power amp that fed a Fryette Deliverance cab on one side of the stage."

"The looper I never bring on the road—because it requires a keyboard to control it—is the Electrix Repeater. I didn’t use it on Only Sky because I knew I wouldn’t be using it on tour. Each loop can be composed of four separately addressable tracks. And the multi-track loop can change pitch, time, or both simultaneously, in real time. Also, there’s full-tilt loop storage and recall."

"I started with the first PCM70. I bring my own reverb with me, but there are certain rooms that enhance every sound."

DAVID TORN WITH HIS RONIN MIRARI - USING THE ORIGINAL DT PROTOTYPE FOILBUCKER PICKUP SET.

This pic was published on the website of koll guitars

The equipment responsible for Torn's unique guitar treatments live revolves around a Steinberger guitar and a collection of delays and effects - a Lexicon PCM70, PCM42, with 20 seconds of delay time, ADA and Ibanez harmonisers, a BBE Sonic Enhancer and a Microverb. At home in the 'States he has an E-mu Emax sampler, Casio CZ101, TX81Z, Alesis HR16 drum machine, a Macintosh running Performer 2.3 and Intelligent Music software and "all kinds of weird home-made things."

"I also have an Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro, which doesn’t get as much use as it used to, and for a while now there’s been a single Hexe reVOLVER going into my regular pedalboard, not my wet rig."

"I was using the THD Hot Plate Attenuator, which would send the signal to my rack mixer for my rack effects, and then to a Fryette Two/Fifty/Two stereo power amp that fed a Fryette Deliverance cab on one side of the stage."

Sylvian and Torn also spent some time building up guitar tape loops recorded on Sony PCMF1 that contributed to the atmospheres of songs like 'Mother and Child'.

The equipment responsible for Torn's unique guitar treatments live revolves around a Steinberger guitar and a collection of delays and effects - a Lexicon PCM70, PCM42, with 20 seconds of delay time, ADA and Ibanez harmonisers, a BBE Sonic Enhancer and a Microverb. At home in the 'States he has an E-mu Emax sampler, Casio CZ101, TX81Z, Alesis HR16 drum machine, a Macintosh running Performer 2.3 and Intelligent Music software and "all kinds of weird home-made things."

The equipment responsible for Torn's unique guitar treatments live revolves around a Steinberger guitar and a collection of delays and effects - a Lexicon PCM70, PCM42, with 20 seconds of delay time, ADA and Ibanez harmonisers, a BBE Sonic Enhancer and a Microverb. At home in the 'States he has an E-mu Emax sampler, Casio CZ101, TX81Z, Alesis HR16 drum machine, a Macintosh running Performer 2.3 and Intelligent Music software and "all kinds of weird home-made things."

The equipment responsible for Torn's unique guitar treatments live revolves around a Steinberger guitar and a collection of delays and effects - a Lexicon PCM70, PCM42, with 20 seconds of delay time, ADA and Ibanez harmonisers, a BBE Sonic Enhancer and a Microverb. At home in the 'States he has an E-mu Emax sampler, Casio CZ101, TX81Z, Alesis HR16 drum machine, a Macintosh running Performer 2.3 and Intelligent Music software and "all kinds of weird home-made things."

The equipment responsible for Torn's unique guitar treatments live revolves around a Steinberger guitar and a collection of delays and effects - a Lexicon PCM70, PCM42, with 20 seconds of delay time, ADA and Ibanez harmonisers, a BBE Sonic Enhancer and a Microverb. At home in the 'States he has an E-mu Emax sampler, Casio CZ101, TX81Z, Alesis HR16 drum machine, a Macintosh running Performer 2.3 and Intelligent Music software and "all kinds of weird home-made things."

The equipment is listed in this premier guitar article.

Min 33:48, on this video can we see David Torn, backdays sound have in his setup floor chain this: TC Electronic Sustain Parametric EQ,  Boss AW-2 Autowah, Guayatone WR2 Wah Rocker, TC Electronic TCXII Programable Phaser, Zoom Driver 5000, Boss FV200 Keyboard Volume Pedal, Boss DM-3

Min 33:48, on this video can we see David Torn, backdays sound have in his setup floor chain this: TC Electronic Sustain Parametric EQ,  Boss AW-2 Autowah, Guayatone WR2 Wah Rocker, TC Electronic TCXII Programable Phaser, Zoom Driver 5000, Boss FV200 Keyboard Volume Pedal, Boss DM-3

Min 33:48, on this video can we see David Torn, backdays sound have in his setup floor chain this: TC Electronic Sustain Parametric EQ,  Boss AW-2 Autowah, Guayatone WR2 Wah Rocker, TC Electronic TCXII Programable Phaser, Zoom Driver 5000, Boss FV200 Keyboard Volume Pedal, Boss DM-3

At 33:48 in the YouTube video "David Torn Painting with Guitar part 1," David Torn is seen incorporating the TC Electronic TC XII BK Phaser into his effects chain. The setup also includes the TC Electronic Sustain Parametric EQ, Boss AW-2 Autowah, Guayatone WR2 Wah Rocker, Zoom Driver 5000, Boss DC-2 Dimension C, Boss FV200 Keyboard Volume Pedal, and Boss DM-3.

Min 33:48, on this video can we see David Torn, backdays sound have in his setup floor chain this: TC Electronic Sustain Parametric EQ,  Boss AW-2 Autowah, Guayatone WR2 Wah Rocker, TC Electronic TCXII Programable Phaser, Zoom Driver 5000, Boss DC-2 Dimension C, Boss FV200 Keyboard Volume Pedal, Boss DM-3

Min 33:48, on this video can we see David Torn, backdays sound have in his setup floor chain this: TC Electronic Sustain Parametric EQ,  Boss AW-2 Autowah, Guayatone WR2 Wah Rocker, TC Electronic TCXII Programable Phaser, Zoom Driver 5000, Boss DC-2 Dimension C, Boss FV200 Keyboard Volume Pedal, Boss DM-3

Min 33:48, on this video can we see David Torn, backdays sound have in his setup floor chain this: TC Electronic Sustain Parametric EQ,  Boss AW-2 Autowah, Guayatone WR2 Wah Rocker, TC Electronic TCXII Programable Phaser, Zoom Driver 5000, Boss DC-2 Dimension C, Boss FV200 Keyboard Volume Pedal, Boss DM-3