Dominic Chad's Effects Pedals

In this transcription of a 1997 interview with Total Guitar magazine Chad stated, "'I use one of those Mesa Boogie V-Twin pre-amp pedals, so obviously then you've got two other channels. I've got one set up as a clean channel and one set up as a solo channel. That's my favourite sound, the solo channel on the Mesa Boogie...'"

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This transcription of a 1997 interview with Total Guitar magazine states, "In order to create their massive sound, Chad's fairly simple pedal board consists of a Boss ME-8 multi-FX processor, and the bizarrely-named Lovetone Meatball and Big Cheese."

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In this transcription of a 1998 interview with Guitar magazine, Chad discussed the recording of Mansun's Six album. "I've got two foot processors, a Boss ME-8 and a Zoom 8080..."

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In this transcription of a 1997 interview with Total Guitar magazine Chad stated, "'I've got a Boss ME-8 effects unit - I use the pitch shifter and stereo delays on that with that lead sound.'"

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In this transcription of a 1998 interview with Guitar magazine, Chad discussed the recording of Mansun's Six album. "Then there were loads of smaller pedals - a Colorsound Toneblender, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, a Daddy-O, a Rat fuzz, plus an old Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory which is excellent for a really shitty chorus sound."

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This transcription of a 1997 interview with Total Guitar magazine indicated that Chad utilized a CS-3. "'I use a Boss compressor,' he confides. 'The CS-3 compressor and sustainer. Basically it's fairly subtle and just gives a little more attack to the notes.'"

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This transcription of a 1997 interview with Total Guitar magazine states, "In order to create their massive sound, Chad's fairly simple pedal board consists of a Boss ME-8 multi-FX processor, and the bizarrely-named Lovetone Meatball and Big Cheese."

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In this transcription of a 1998 interview with Guitar magazine, Chad discussed the recording of Mansun's Six album. "Then there were loads of smaller pedals - a Colorsound Toneblender, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, a Daddy-O, a Rat fuzz, plus an old Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory which is excellent for a really shitty chorus sound."

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In this transcription of a 1998 interview with Guitar magazine, Chad discussed the recording of Mansun's Six album. "Then there were loads of smaller pedals - a Colorsound Toneblender, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, a Daddy-O, a Rat fuzz, plus an old Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory which is excellent for a really shitty chorus sound."

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In this transcription of a 1998 interview with Guitar magazine, Chad discussed the recording of Mansun's Six album. "Then there were loads of smaller pedals - a Colorsound Toneblender, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, a Daddy-O, a Rat fuzz, plus an old Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory which is excellent for a really shitty chorus sound."

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