Greg Edwards

Pictured Greg Edwards playing his modded silver Jazzmaster with swapped pickups to humbuckers.

Pictured Greg with his silver Gibson SG with Autolux. Also mentioned on Autolux article here: http://www.emusician.com/artists/1333/autolux-guitarist-greg-edwards-expands-his-sonic-vocabulary/43396

Premier Guitar's article on Failure reports Gregs guitar being a 1976 Gibson Les Paul Standard with Seymour Duncan Custom (bridge) and ’59 (neck)

In this photo, Greg Edwards can be seen with a Wal Fretless Bass. In a Premier Guitar interview, Edwards stated, "I bought one because Mick Karn played them in the band Japan. When I saw the crazy and unique way he played that instrument, I was completely in awe. So in a way, he’s really the first person who brought attention to them."

Guitar.com, 2015

I sold my Wal a while back and I regret it. It’s heavy – I don’t regret losing the weight, but that bass was so unique, the feeling of it and the way it makes you play. I didn’t find it especially easy to play. I liked that you had to wrestle with it, but if you did you were repaid with the tone.

In a user-uploaded photo on Premier Guitar, Greg Edwards is shown with his recording equipment, including the EarthQuaker Devices Arpanoid pedal, among other EarthQuaker pedals.

Greg can be seen using a turbo rat in Failiures Golden Doccumentary. Aditionally, its a classic tone later used by Paul D'Amour on Tools first E.P.

We can see here Greg using the Rainbow Machine along with other Earthquaker pedals.

A bit commander can be seen here while recording.

Premier Guitar's article covers Gregs guitar currently using a 1994 Fender American Standard telecaster with Seymour Duncan hot for tele bridge pickup.

Both Greg and Ken praise the fractal for its convenience and sound quality in the Premier Guitar's interview about Failure's new album.

Greg ran through this head and 8x10 Eden cabinets in the 1990's, which he's since replaced with the Fractal AXE-FX systems, according to this interview.

Guitar.com, 2015

I am philosophically and emotionally resistant to it – for bass, the Ampeg 8×10 and the SVT-2 head are impossible to beat. But the reality is this virtual stuff is really, really good.

Back when Failure toured in the 1990s Greg's rack contained several different distortion and fuzz pedals. However, he used a Lexicon Vortex for more modulated weird sounding stuff that didn't involve his Dunlop tremolo. https://youtu.be/6LjZP_WPOS8 in this video you can hear Greg messing around with the Lexicon right before Stuck On You plays. The sound does come from him as you can see his foot trigger a button on his pedalboard right when the noises stop.

For the making of Failure's last album, we can see here the tracking with a Fender Precision Bass American Standard.

Guitar.com, 2015

They’re very new, there’s nothing magic or special about them. They reliably do what a 60s or 70s Precision would do without that extra bit of tactile magic you get from an old bass. I would say there’s certain transference of power down the neck when you hit a low E that you feel even when you’re not plugged in. The Wal was amazing like that – you could feel the power of the open E ringing through your body. Certain older P basses have that too. I love that, it’s one thing I miss, but they do the job and when we’re all playing it’s enough. I miss the Wal, though!

Tracking of Failure's last album with Earthquaker pedals including the Palisades pictured.

For the latest Failure album, Greg relied heavily on Earthquaker pedals, as seen in this shot with his board.

At the end of his board pictured we can see a boss TU-3

On the premier guitar article covering the Hear is a Monster sessions, they highlight this: "Greg Edwards has moved away from using Wal basses and now prefers Fender Precisions with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder pickups."

Used as the only speaker cabinet in conjunction with the venues PA. It can be seen in various pictures of Premier Guitar's article on Failure.

Greg uses a Music Man Stingray in a sunburst finish with a black pickguard and three band EQ on the video clip to Failure’s song Undone from the 1994 album Magnified. Its seen mostly throughout the clip. The other Basses seen in the video belong to Paul D’Amour of Tool.

Last on his board, a whammy 4 pictured on the shot of the Failure tracking.

Seen on the far left of the picture. Sitting on top of his rack with the VHT logo covered up with Gaff Tape.

Seen here in his rack case sitting under his Lexicon Vortex from his Autolux tours, which was swapped for an Eventide TimeFactor in 2010.

In this image of Greg’s pedalboard on the 2016 Autolux tour, we can see Edwards using a DL-4 in conjunction with a small tap switch on top, next to his Whammy and above his expression pedals.

In the image, stacked on top of a nondescript and stripped 4x12, we can see Edwards using a Twin Reverb, likely a reissue or possibly left over from Failure’s touring rigs.

In the image included we can see Greg Edwards playing a Gibson ES-345. It's specifically the 345 model because of the identifiable fretboard inlays. It's unknown where and when he used this guitar as he's most commonly seen in Autolux playing a Yahama SG copy and in Failure with Ken Andrews' Telecaster or Les Paul.

In the very top left corner of the pedalboard, we can see a Sustain Punch Creamy Dreamer, identifiable as this model by it's knob and footswitch placement as well as it's chickenhead knobs. He's used this pedal in Autolux since the very beginning of the band, and has featured in every rig he's had.

Found in the top left corner next to his Sustain Punch Creamy Dreamer, we can see Greg Edwards using a Crowther Hotcake distortion pedal. In the early days of Autolux he used two, and replaced one around the time of Transit Transit. Unknown which model this is, as in the early days of the band he used the 2 knob version, and the one on his 2016 pedalboard shown here is a 3 knobs version.

Found next to his Crowther Hotcake in the top left corner of the pedalboard, Edwards can be seen using a Fulltone Fulldrive II. He started using it around the time of Transit Transit, replacing one of his previously used Crowther Hotcakes, though as we can see he did keep one of them.

Found beneath his Sustain Punch Creamy Dreamer and Crowther Hotcake, we can see Edwards using a Digitech Jam Man Stereo Looper. As Autolux's music has grown more complex and relied on more instrumentation it may be easier to loop certain parts or use it in order for Edwards to cover multiple instruments in the same song.

Found sandwiched between an Eventide TimeFactor and Fulltone Fulldrive is a Fuzz Factory, used specifically as a replacement for many pedals used for the intro sound on Plantlife. Possibly also a replacement of the Frantone Peach Fuzz he used for Transit Transit.