Dustin Kensrue's Effects Pedals
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Line 6 Helix Floor clearly visible in front of Dustin during sound check.
Dustin Tweets: "Rook overdrive from @MojoHandFx Thinking this might end up as my pedal for heaviest settings. Very musical/open/clear"
Dustin Tweets: "New goodies from my friends @WalrusAudio ! Yeah!!!" The photo clearly shows the Iron Horse pedal connected within a pedal chain.
In this tweet posted by Kensrue, the Strymon BigSky is visible.
Dustin Kensrue (Thrice) pedalboard for "To Be Eveywhere Is To Be Nowhere" (2016)
These @jhspedals are crazy. The SuperBolt especially is blowing my mind
“I have five levels [of gain]: three is the Rook, I can go down two on the input, and then if I want to go up, I add the Harvester in line, and then the next level adds the Iron Horse….”
“That Iron Horse is really cool, and that’s my main bigger rock tone, and it can handle getting a bit jumpy without sounding like a Metal Zone or something – it still sounds really musical and full. And then I’ve got the JHS Muffuletta, where they basically put all of the Muff circuits in one pedal, and I’m using their own custom one – it’s really cool.
The reason I end up [stacking drives] is because I was really trying to keep a consistent tonal palette as it built “That stacks on top of the other ones, so it’s a lot of stacking. The reason I end up doing it is because I was really trying to keep a consistent tonal palette as it built, and I wasn’t liking it going to something completely different.”
“I’ve never used a compressor until really recently. I just didn’t find one that I liked; it felt like it was crushing the tone, and I didn’t feel that way about the Deep Six.”
“One Rook is for when I’m using the bridge pickup, and one is when I’m using the neck pickup, so they’re just EQ’ed slightly differently to get those pickups to sit more in the same space – I really hate the overly muddy sound of a neck pickup when I’ve set it for the bridge pickup.
“One of the Rooks is always on, so it’s my baseline tone, and then I’ll use the Line 6 M5 to notch down one or two steps with the volume pedal on there, so that’s decreasing the input into the Rook.”
On the picture of Dustin's "small board setup" you can see the JHS Panther Club delay.
This tweet shows a custom fuzz pedal designed by John Sherrill, for Dustin Kensrue. It is based on a 90's Russian Big Muff pedal (as the creator himself says in the sub-tweet thread).
Dustin tweets: "New goodies from my friends @WalrusAudio ! Yeah!!!" The Photo shows the Walrus Audio Mayflower Overdrive Pedal in his pedal chain with an Iron Horse distortion pedal.
Dustin Tweets: "Oh snap! Look what just showed up in the mail. @WalrusAudio #janus" The photo is of the Janus pedal he obtained from Walrus Audio.
"Someone might fighting a way onto my pedalboard @WalrusAudio #messner"
“It’s a fuzz pedal, but it’s not incorporated in anything yet; I’m just playing around with it.”
In a MusicRadar rig tour article, Dustin Kensrue of Thrice discusses his use of the Strymon Mobius Modulator, praising its versatility and quality among his pedal collection.
“I haven’t used it before this record, but it’s on a lot of the kind of lead stuff; it’s just in there a little bit, so the main riff on Hurricane, it’s on there, and it’s on the guitar in the verses of Stay With Me. So, it’s in there pretty subtly, but it adds a thickness and dimension to some of that stuff.”
In the Premier Guitar article "Rig Rundown: Thrice’s Dustin Kensrue and Teppei Teranishi," Dustin Kensrue is shown using the Voodoo Lab HEX Audio Loop Switcher as part of his guitar effects setup.
On the image a JHS little black buffer with a flashing yellow light is visible. It was used on Dustin's pedalboard for "to be everywhere is to be nowhere"(2016).
On his twitter post Dustin spoke about the Walrus Audio Messner pedal. However, he took a picture of his pedalboard where the Mojo Hand Fx Iron Bell is also visible.
In this post Dustin talked about the JHS Mornig Glory and the Superbolt. However under another post(can be seen here: https://twitter.com/dustinkensrue/status/649637351203860481) he took a picture of some of his pedals. The post is primary about the Walrus Audio Messner, but in the picture the JHS Morning Glory is clearly visible aswell.
On the photo of Dustin's "small board setup" the JHS Red Remote Footswitch is plugged into the JHS Superbolt.
On this picture you can see that Dustin uses the Stompshield on almost every pedal.
In a MusicRadar rig tour article, Dustin Kensrue of Thrice discusses his use of the Strymon TimeLine delay pedal, praising its versatility and quality.
Dustin Kensrue (Thrice) pedalboard for "To Be Eveywhere Is To Be Nowhere" (2016)
In the YouTube video titled "Songs at the Shop: Episode 11 - Thrice," Dustin Kensrue can be seen using the Walrus Audio Julia chorus pedal.
In the YouTube video "Songs at the Shop: Episode 11 - Thrice" by Walrus Audio, Dustin Kensrue is seen using the Walrus Audio 385 overdrive pedal.
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