Devin Townsend

"A little green bastard that tightens it up and compresses it in a way that I personally think is really cool" - Devin Townsend on the Maxon OD808 Overdrive

In this video, Devin Townsend of Vai, Front Line Assembly, The Wild Hearts, and Strapping Young Lad talks about his effect units and other equipment, mentioning the Bad Horsie Wah pedal at 1:33.

introduction by Devin Towensend of an early prototype of the MOOER Ocean Machine

In this livestream video, Devin Townsend was spotted using a Fractal FM3 for his quarantine concert.

The pedal can be seen in the first four seconds of Devin's "Testing Some Gear In Standard Tuning" video, and can also be heard throughout.

Devin's pedalboard, which features a Diamond CPR-1, can be seen in this video as of 0:31.

"For this tour, I’m using the Voodoo Lab. Someone broke into my truck at home and stole my Malekko one, so this was what was kicking around. And it’s good - it acts like a tremolo!"

"I’ve got the TC delay prior to it as well, so basically, they feed into each other. You kick this Rainbow Machine on and it does random things. There’s something to be said about it that I really dig, for that element of surprise."

"I remember we toured with a band years ago when I was with Strapping [Young Lad] and when this pedal first came out, we made fun of the guy relentlessly for having a Decimator.

"We thought it was the stupidest name for a pedal ever. And we had this whole back story about his Decimator where it was in its own rack - don’t fuck with the Decimator, man, because if you hit it wrong or you turn it up past a certain threshold, it will create a vortex that will suck us all in.

"So we made fun of him, then after a while I realised it was the best noise gate ever! So now I have a Decimator. But don’t fuck with it, because I will and have been known to turn it up past its threshold."

On Radial's website, Townsend was mentioned as user of Radial Switchbone.

You can find this effect on Devin's board in this video, it is a Flashback Triple delay.

First visible at 2:28 in this interview with That Pedal Show.

"I currently am enjoying the Disaster Transport, Afterneath, Rainbow Machine and Dunes pedals. Highly recommended!"

"I currently am enjoying the Disaster Transport, Afterneath, Rainbow Machine and Dunes pedals. Highly recommended!"

"Got myself an MXR Carbon Copy pedal a few months back, and it's really great! ... solution to an old analog delay problem with a bassman..." – Devin Townsend on the MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay Guitar Effects Pedal

As of 0:31 in this video, Devin's pedalboard can be seen. Among the different effect pedals there is a TC Electronic Flashback.

In this picture of Devin's pedalboard we can see a DigiTech Whammy. Proof of this being Devin's board can be seen in this image.

TC Electronic Spark Mini Booster

"If I want to play a lead, I throw this in, which is basically just a clean boost."

"Then is goes into the Saucy Box, which is essentially a Klon overdrive sound. Again, it’s a parallel addition to the sound."

On Radial's website, Townsend was mentioned as a user of this product.

In a rig tour video by TotalGuitar, Devin Townsend showcases his use of the Mesa/Boogie Grid Slammer Overdrive pedal.

In this video Devin talks about his gear, including this one used in conjunction with Casualties of Cool.

In this video Devin talks about his gear, including this one used in conjunction with Casualties of Cool.

In this video Devin talks about his gear, including this one used in conjunction with Casualties of Cool.

In this video at 15:20 Devin talks about the reasons he switched from Bad Horsie to Dunlop CryBaby.

"I run wireless so I can assume rock poses for the whole show, and then throw my back out like I did the other night, but nobody knew until the next day when I complained viciously about it to everybody within earshot.

"We’ve got a bunch of packs and we switch with the JR-5 remote, which runs this [Radial JX44] and is essentially my splitter box. It gives you the opportunity to run four inputs, four outputs, change the phase, isolate the ground. It’s a brilliant piece of gear.

"So when Armando gives me a guitar, one of them might be pack A or pack B, so he switches it here before he passes over the guitar. On the guitars, B has two stripes on the pack and A has one."

In this video (4:45) he uses it to control a Line 6 Spider, to switch between a clean, rhythm and lead sound.

Devin Townsend uses the TC Electronic Viscous Vibe pedal, as detailed in his artist story and gear overview on the TC Electronic website.

"through a DarkGlass Vintage Deluxe"

First clearly visible at 5:46 in this interview on*That Pedal Show*.