Guthrie Govan's Effects Pedals

In this video at 0:18 Guthrie shows his Guyatone Wah Rocker 3 pedal, stating that "arguably the best pedal in the world is on this board, and it's the cheapest one". "The tiny purple thing" that "really encourages you to play dynamic".

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Guthrie Govan shows his Xotic SL Drive at 4:20 in this video.

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At 1:00 in this video, Guthrie talks about the Koko Boost. He says, "That's really good for overdriven but not ridiculously overdriven amps...If you're going to run your signal through lots of other pedals, that kind of gives you strength so that your signal comes out like it came in your pedalboard."

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At 2:15 in this video, Guthrie mentions his Guyatone Wah Rocker pedal, saying, "It just goes quack...It's small, it sounds like a duck, what's not to like."

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In this photo, Govan can be seen playing through the Fractal FX8.

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Fractal FX8 for effects processing and amp-channel switching (“Just to clear up one common misconception," says Govan, “all overdrive tones are generated by the amp itself, not the Fractal.”)

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At 3:11 of this video you can see the Strymon Flint Tremolo on the Guthrie Govan's pedalboard and Guthrie talks about this pedal.

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At 4:54 in this Premier Guitar interview, Guthrie Govan shows his pedal-board, which includes a TC Electronic Flashback Delay TonePrint Series guitar effects pedal.

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Guthrie talks about his TC Electronic Ditto Looper pedal at 9:35. He says, "This is not something I use when I'm gigging, but it's very helpful when I'm doing clinics and stuff like that."

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Used on the Steven Wilson Tour for the "Rhino" Patch.

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I borrowed an old Univibe for the solo section of 'D-Grade...' whilst the weird guitar textures on 'Burial at Sea' were generated with an Eventide H9, mainly using its Synthonizer algorithm... Oh, and I made subtle use of an Xotic EP Booster here and there... most notably on Terrible Lizard.

The pedal was also mentioned in 2019 Guitar World interview.

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In this photo of Guthrie's pedalboard, from this Premier Guitar rig rundown, a Wampler Pedals Tweed '57 can be seen.

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GUTHRIE GOVAN

GUITARS: Charvel USA Guthrie Govan Signature Model, Vigier Surfreter fretless guitar

AMP: Victory Amplification V50 The Earl 50w all-tube (EL34) head and V30 Countess 30w all-tube (6L6) head

CABINET: Victory Amplification 4×12 or 2×12 with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers

EFFECTS:

Free The Tone Red Jasper overdrive…

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The product website insists that Guthrie Govan uses the Euphoria pedal.

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"Well, whenever I use a chorus pedal in a gig situation, I always find myself wanting that pedal to do more than one thing. Most of the time, I'm looking for one of the following three sounds: - An all-purpose "pretty" chorus, to make chords sound just a little more spacious, - A high-speed pseudo-Leslie effect for those Hammond-style comping moments, and - That Scofield-esque lead sound where the depth is almost on the verge of sounding out of tune. I like the idea that, using mystical TonePrint cyber-voodoo, I could set the range of each knob in such a way that each of those three sounds would be easy to access in real time, by turning each knob to an obvious setting like "12 o'clock" or to "all the way up". This way, you get a decent variety of tones at your disposal, all from a single pedal - and you can switch from one tone to another in a matter of moments, without messing around with MIDI presets."

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"And by request a messy pedal board…"

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At 1:42 of this video you can see the Eventide Time Factor Delay on Guthrie Govan's pedalboard.

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At 4:54 in this Premier Guitar interview, Guthrie Govan shows his pedal-board, which includes a Providence Anadime Analog Chorus. The pedal was also mentioned in 2019 Guitar World interview.

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At 7:30 in this Premier Guitar interview Guthrie Govan discusses his TC Electronic Hall Of Fame Reverb TonePrint Series guitar effects pedal.

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Guthrie's Dunlop JC95 can be seen at 5:25 in this pedal rundown video. He says, "When you pile on the overdrive it's reassuringly meaty and thick sounding."

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In this photo of Guthrie's pedalboard, from this Premier Guitar article, a TC Electronic Shaker Vibrato can be seen.

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"My typical, everyday touring board has a volume pedal, Xotic Wah…" The pedal was also mentioned in 2019 Guitar World interview.

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In this Premier Guitar interview, Guthrie Govan shows his pedal-board, which includes a TC Electronic PolyTune Polyphonic tuner pedal shown at 6:19.

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Guthrie talks about his TC HOF Mini at 8:46 in this video. He says, "Despite the fact that there's only one knob, it actually does pretty much what it's told."

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A Providence Heat Blaster Distortion can be seen on Guthrie's pedalboard, in this photo, from this Premier Guitar article.

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"On this album some of the more memorable sounds came from an MXR Phase 99, which I borrowed from the good people at that company. It’s like two Phase 90s in one box. That’s all over “Pressure Relief” and “ZZ Top.” I don’t know if there was a subliminal Van Halen influence going on because we recorded in Sunset Sound where Fair Warning and Van Halen were recorded. Maybe some subliminal echo of Van Halen was there when we were recording. I felt the need to phase certain things."

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Guthrie Govan uses the Boss FV-30H Compact Foot Volume Pedal, as seen in a photo posted by BOSS on Facebook.

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Guthrie Govan demos his TonePrint for Helix Phaser

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The Aristocrats website lists the Flashback X4 Digital Delay among the pedals Guthrie Govan uses in the effects loop.

"EFFECTS:

Free The Tone Red Jasper overdrive TC Electronic Polytune Guyatone WR-3 Autowah Xotic EP Booster Providence Anadime Analog Chorus Dunlop Jerry Cantrell Signature Wah Dunlop Volume Pedal TC Electronic Ditto Looper, Flashback x4 Digital Delay and HOF Reverb (FX Loop)"

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It says so on the Aristocrats website

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The caption to this Instagram photo, by T-Rex Effects, reads, "Guthrie Govan using the T-Rex ToneTrunk 55!"

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