Eraldo Bernocchi

!I mainly play in stereo, as I like ambient sounds, using a lot of delay for atmospheres or doubling guitars. If I go heavy I don’t use an amp. I use a Mesa Boogie Valve Twin pedal and its speaker emulator, or a Meteoro Doctor Drive or a Yerasov Pterodrive. All these preamps are tube powered. Yerasov is a small Russian company that does cheap preamps and effects but they really blast and have a raw sound. If I need to reamp things I go to external studios.!

"KING COCKROACH: The heavy riff is the Schecter going through an MXR Fullbore Metal—amazing pedal I’d say. During the mix I doubled it with a delay plug-in to open the sound. The reggae/dub part is a clean Mesa to delay and reverb."

"FIST FULL OF FLIES: Electro-Harmonix Q Tron (old model from 95/96) going to delay. Mesa in blues mode. The theme part is without the Q Tron. The heavy part is like the track before but with single coils."

"My main workhorse is the Mesa. I have a lot of pedals but my favorites are the Line 6 M9 and M13 pedalboards. They have all the effects I want and I like most of them. I’m really not into the distortions of those boards but delays, modulations, and compressors are great. They have weird synth sounds I like to use sometimes. Another machine I can’t do without is the Eventide Space pedal. Those reverbs are just incredible."

"...I have a lot of pedals but my favorites are the Line 6 M9 and M13 pedalboards. They have all the effects I want and I like most of them. I’m really not into the distortions of those boards but delays, modulations, and compressors are great. They have weird synth sounds I like to use sometimes..."

"...I have a lot of pedals but my favorites are the Line 6 M9 and M13 pedalboards. They have all the effects I want and I like most of them. I’m really not into the distortions of those boards but delays, modulations, and compressors are great. They have weird synth sounds I like to use sometimes..."

"SCHIZOPOLIS: The beginning is some guitar drones; I don’t remember how I did them. The dirty riff is compressor, octaver, Mesa in blues mode, flanger and a room reverb. The super heavy part is the above with another favorite of mine the Digitech Synth Wah at the very beginning of the chain. The intermission part is a single coil sliding atmosphere with a massive reverb."