Isaac Brock's Gear

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In the picture provided, it shows Brock using a Westone Corsair XA1420 live on stage.

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Isaac Brock uses a Wicks Custom Guitar, featuring a solid mahogany body, a bound top, and a five-piece maple neck with a "Tree of Life" inlay on the Pau Ferro fretboard. This guitar includes a Wilkinson tremolo and recommended Wolftone pickups. Unique to Brock's guitar are a custom Calaham Guitars tremolo and a distinctive inlay, which are exclusive due to a gentleman's agreement. This setup is captured in a user-uploaded photo on Pollstar.

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"Brock reaches compelling levels of intensity, delivering stabbing guitar work with his treble-tastic Fender JagStang and buckshot lyrical delivery" Brock can be seen playing a fender jagstang in a photo on this page

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Isaac is pictured using a gibson sg. He often uses the SG live for songs such as "Night on the Sun"

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At 6:10 in this studio tour, a Boss Blues Driver can be seen.

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Quote from Image, "This is the first time I ever photographed Modest Mouse live. The band played in Olympia, Washington, opening up for Dub Narcotic and The Make-Up. I always loved the vice grips on Isaac's guitar in this photo."

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Isaac is playing this guitar in this photo. Jim Fairchild also mentions the time Isaac used it at this concert, in his Rig Rundown on Premier Guitar.

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Isaac Brock uses Soursound Custom Number One amplifiers, as detailed on the Interstate-8 website.

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During Modest Mouse's spring/summer 2017 tour, Issac played on a custom purple Telecaster with a blue pickguard and orange control plate. According to an Instagram post, the guitar was built for him by bandmate Jim Fairchild, with assistance from Paul Waller of Fender

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Brock is pictured holding the guitar on Schecter's official website. However, it is unknown if he has used the guitar live

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In the official factory video by Malekko HeavyIndustry, Isaac Brock uses the Malekko Scrutator, describing its sound as reminiscent of an Atari.

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Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse is shown using the Electro-Harmonix Micro POG Polyphonic Octave Generator on his pedalboard, as featured in an Instagram post by Reverb.

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Since 2017, Issac has been using Schroeder Amps. According to Schroeder's official Instagram, he uses two Dozer 200 Watt heads when playing live

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In bits such as 1:31, you can see Isaac wearing a custom Souldier guitar strap.

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Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse is seen using the Catalinbread Karma Suture fuzz pedal on his pedalboard, as featured in a post by Reverb on Instagram.

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Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse uses the EarthQuaker Devices Levitation reverb pedal, as seen on his pedalboard in a post by Reverb on Instagram.

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'I've talked to their amp guy before on myspace. I'll copy/paste some stuff that might be helpful: " input vol is usually around 7-8, treble 7, mid 5.5, bass 4, reverb 3-8, master about 8. you can get in the ball park with just about any tube fender, with the treble up higher than the bass. lately he's used the middle single coil on his guitar a lot live, in the past he used a filtertron in the bridge pickup pretty often, and that can get you there too. he's got a variety of fuzzes and things, but the basic things he's used for years are a blues driver and a digital delay. at the time of the video he was probably using a boss DD-3 or DD-5, a boss BD-2 blues driver, and maybe a boss metal zone. he may have used 2-3 of the digital delays chained together. he has always preferred to put the delays at the front of his signal chain (i.e. guitar-->delay-->distortion) while most people do it the other way. this changes the sound a little, adding distortion on the repeats of the processed delay sounds. those pedals will definitely help get closer to the sound-- the blues driver is on a lot of the time, and it adds a kind of rounded out midrange and treble. set your amp for a good clean sound instead of using the distortion on the amp, and use the blues driver for your distortion-- it's more mild than it seems. setting the amp to sound as distorted as it might sound on the record, but at a bedroom/practice volume won't get the sound, because part of that tone comes from the speakers and tubes in the amp breaking up/distorting a bit when pushed. on the newer stuff, isaac uses a lot of boutique pedals, fuzzes, delays, and so on-- i.e. zvex pedals, SIB mr. echo, boomerang, menatone, etc.-- but the core of the sound is still the amp and a basic overdrive. '

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Seen at 38:27, among others

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At 7:06 minute mark, Brock's Marshall Major amp head can be seen, according to house tour.

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In this photo, the Keeley Modded Ibanez TS9 is visible next to the Strymon Brigadier pedal.

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In this photo, Brock can be seen using an Audix OM7, the mic he has been using as of his most recent tour.

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Isaac Brock's pedalboard features the MXR M103 Blue Box, as seen in an Instagram post by Reverb. Notably, the knobs appear to have been modified.

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Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse is shown using the Boomerang E-155 Chorus/Delay Pedal on his pedalboard in a post by Reverb on Instagram.

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Featured on Hawley's official Rainger FX artist page.

Dr Freakenstein Fuzz DrFF-3, Air Traffic Controller, Dwarf, Air Space Invader

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Featured on Hawley's official Rainger FX artist page.

Dr Freakenstein Fuzz DrFF-3, Air Traffic Controller, Dwarf, Air Space Invader

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Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse is shown using the EarthQuaker Devices Arpanoid on his pedalboard, as featured in a post by Reverb on Instagram.

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Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse has incorporated the EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run delay pedal into his pedalboard, as evidenced by a post from Reverb on Instagram.

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At 7:06 minute mark, Brock's Orange PPC412 4x12 cabinet is visible.

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At 7:10 minute mark, Gibson Falcon combo amp can be seen.

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Isaac Brock plays a Koll Duo Glide, as well as a Spectro Glide 12 string, among other Koll customs.

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