Ed O'Brien

"The Gear Blog is a behind-the-scenes look at the instruments and equipment that graces the Austin City Limits’ stage. Our Audio Engineer Kevin Cochran goes in-depth to give our gearheads some insight." - Austin City Limits. This image of Ed's pedalboards comes from this article and you can see the Tech 21 MIDI Mouse pedal in the right pedalboard in the top right.

You can see it around 9:45

"Part of Ed’s setup in the late 90’s. It was used on the recording of Airbag during the bridge, and for live performances of the track from 1996 to 1998."

"Used to switch presets on his Yamaha FX500 in 1993."

Listed under O'Brien's gear on The King of Gear.

"Though Ed generally prefers digital and analog delays, he did briefly use a Space Echo in circa-1996."

"Used from circa-2008 to circa-2012."

"Used [during the] In Rainbows Tour".

"Used live on Idioteque in 2001."

A Supa-Nova can be seen at 4:40.

In this article that discusses the process of making O'Brien's debut solo album, "Earth", he shows the instruments that he used to record the album.

One of them is Epiphone Rivoli semi-hollow bass guitar. Ed says this about the instrument:

I played my 1964 Epiphone bass with a single pickup, which sounds really dubby, fat and thick.

O'Brien's favorite synth, as stated in the "Ask away..." highlight folder of his Instagram (dated December 25, 2019). It is the thirty-fifth picture in the highlight.

What is your fav synthesizer

Roland Juno 60

Wrote the foreword and contributed a pedal to the book.

Stompbox showcases the actual effects pedals owned and used by Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Frank Zappa, Alex Lifeson, Andy Summers, Eric Johnson, Adrian Belew, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Ed O’Brien, J Mascis, Lita Ford, Joe Perry, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Vernon Reid, Kaki King, Nels Cline and 82 other iconic and celebrated guitarists.

These exquisitely textured fine-art photographs are matched with fresh, insightful commentary and colorful road stories from the artists themselves, who describe how these fascinating and often devilish devices shaped their sounds and songs.

(...) Foreword: Ed O’Brien (Radiohead)

Kingsley Page V2 is in Ed's pedalboard (21:35) on this video.

Visible in this photo of O'Brien's 2010 Radiohead for Haiti pedalboard, taken from the OD-1 page of the official Analog Man website.

We were pleasantly surprised when we saw this picture of Radiohead's Ed O'Brien's pedalboard, with our OD-1 mod on it.

Visible in this photo of O'Brien's 2010 Radiohead for Haiti pedalboard, taken from the OD-1 page of the official Analog Man website.

We were pleasantly surprised when we saw this picture of Radiohead's Ed O'Brien's pedalboard, with our OD-1 mod on it.

Visible in this photo of O'Brien's 2010 Radiohead for Haiti pedalboard, taken from the OD-1 page of the official Analog Man website.

We were pleasantly surprised when we saw this picture of Radiohead's Ed O'Brien's pedalboard, with our OD-1 mod on it.

In this June 2023 YouTube at 25:00 on the GigRig channel, Ed adds the Line6 DL4 MkII to the pedalboard he’s constructing with Dan.

"Used from the 90’s until 2009."

"A MIDI controller designed specifically to control the Stymon Timeline’s looper. Part of Ed's early-2014 TheGigRig “studio” pedalboard. Ed’s unit has the older paint-job."

"Used as a tap tempo for his Boss DD5’s."

"Used from circa 1996 until 2007."

Listed under O'Brien's gear on The King of Gear.

A GigRig Doubler can be seen at 4:40.

A GigRig TimeLord can be seen at 4:40.

A Distributor can be seen at 5:59.

A Generator can be seen at 5:59.

Visible in this photo of O'Brien's 2010 Radiohead for Haiti pedalboard, taken from the OD-1 page of the official Analog Man website.

We were pleasantly surprised when we saw this picture of Radiohead's Ed O'Brien's pedalboard, with our OD-1 mod on it.

In this June 2023 YouTube at 24:15 on the GigRig channel, Ed adds the Epoch Boost to the pedalboard he’s constructing with Dan.

In this video about Ed O'Brien's pedalboard, an Eventide H90 can be seen throughout. A closeup of the board with a clear view of the H90 appears at 23:13.