Joe Walsh's Effects Pedals

This pedal is mentioned in this interview for Boss.

"What BOSS pedals get the most mileage onstage?"

"The delay [DD-3] is a favorite, the overdrive [OS-2], and more and more the pitch shifter [PS-5]. I prefer the DD-3 onstage, but for recording I use the DD-6."

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Boss OD-3 overdrive pedal.

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This pedal is mentioned in his interview for Boss:

"What BOSS pedals get the most mileage onstage?"

"The delay [DD-3] is a favorite, the overdrive [OS-2], and more and more the pitch shifter [PS-5]. I prefer the DD-3 onstage, but for recording I use the DD-6."

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This pedal is mentioned in this interview for Boss:

"What BOSS pedals get the most mileage onstage?"

"The delay [DD-3] is a favorite, the overdrive [OS-2], and more and more the pitch shifter [PS-5]. I prefer the DD-3 onstage, but for recording I use the DD-6."

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According to Reverb's website, his pedalboard for the "Hell Freezes Over" tour included the Boss PSM-5.

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Joe Walsh used the RMC RMC1 Wah Pedal during the Eagles' 2010 tour, as shown in images from a Google search.

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According to Reverb's website, his pedalboard for the "Hell Freezes Over" tour included the Boss CS-3.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Boss BF-3 flanger.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Boss LS-2 line selector.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay.

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Gifted to Walsh by Peter Frampton, as stated by Frampton in this September 2013 Vintage Guitar article. It is yet unknown if Walsh has used it.

“Joe Walsh and I frequent the same sushi joint here in Los Angeles, and I ran into him a while back. He’s still my idol when it comes to using the Talk Box; his ‘Rocky Mountain Way’ is the ultimate Talk Box solo. I said, ‘Did you get the Framptone I sent you, because you know you were such an inspiration to me and I just wanted to give you one.’ Joe said, ‘That’s the least you could do!’”

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Mentioned on the official Bucket Seat product page.

The Bucket Seat is the same Rumble Drive circuit that is found in our 5-star pedal the “Rumble Seat” – which is herald by artists like James Burton (Elvis Presley), Stevie Wonder, and Joe Walsh (The Eagles, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band).

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Mentioned by former Systech president Greg Hochman in Analog Man's Guide To Vintage Effects, as transcribed by Joe Gore in this December 12, 2012 tonefiend.com article.

We did a custom preamp for a guitar that Greg Lake had. We were in Kalamazoo, where Gibson was….Ritchie Walborn had designed it; others asked us to build one for them. It eventually became what we called the Harmonic Energizer. It was a variable-state filter, which was kind of high-tech at the time, and it got a pretty good following from Joe Walsh to Jan Hammer….It allowed you to dial in up the Q of the filter, and by changing the frequency of the filter, you actually had the ability to choose what key you were going to have sustain and feed back. The thing actually had 55dB of gain when you got it up to a high-Q filter, so it didn’t allow you to be subtle onstage. It was dangerous, but it had a unique sound to it.

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Walsh mentions many pedals in this interview for Boss, including the Boss DD-6:

"What BOSS pedals get the most mileage onstage?"

"The delay [DD-3] is a favorite, the overdrive [OS-2], and more and more the pitch shifter [PS-5]. I prefer the DD-3 onstage, but for recording I use the DD-6."

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According to Reverb's website, his pedalboard for the "Hell Freezes Over" tour included the Boss CE-1.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Dunlop 535Q multi-wah, which was later replaced with RMC wah.

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Mentioned in this excerpt from an eBay listing preserved on Effects Database.

About the v1 with 1 slant and 1 flat side

eBay seller John Mameli:

Bob Heil checked it out and told me that there are only two with one slant side and one flat side, with Heil Sound logo on the flat side and with purple Celeste driver... mine and Joe Walsh. Bob said his is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, (a later model), but still all of them are from the first batch of 50 ever made.

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Walsh used the very first Heil Talk Box (now part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's collection) live for "Rocky Mountain Way", as described by this Getty Images item and this 2006 Musician's Friend interview with Bob Heil.

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Part of the Bob Heil's collection for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include this serial #1 Heil Talk Box created by Heil for Joe Walsh and used on Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way." He also gave one to Peter Frampton to record "Show Me The Way." (Photo by Derik Holtmann/Belleville News-Democrat/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Musician's Friend, 2006

Joe Walsh had recorded "Rocky Mountain Way" using an 8" speaker and a funnel, a device used in Nashville by the steel guitar players. Well, it wasn't very loud so you couldn't use it live. So here we are, two ham radio operators on a Sunday afternoon out in my plant. We grabbed a 250-watt JBL, built a low-pass filter, got all the plumbing together, and voila—the Talk Box. That's how it started. After that tour, everybody's going nuts! "What's this thing he's got?" So I put together a commercial unit called the Heil Talk Box. Then Peter Frampton's girlfriend Penny called me wanting a Christmas present for Peter. So I sent a Talk Box. The rest of the story writes itself from there.

The first 50 were done in fiberglass, and Peter still carries his fiberglass one today. When you see him, somewhere in his gig box is that original Heil Talk Box. I have serial number 1 that will go in the Rock Hall with Peter and Joe's signatures.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Korg DTR1000 tuner.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Visual Sound H2O chorus and echo pedal.

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According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus.

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Used for the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Performance, as featured on Analog Alien's Press page.

2015 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY PERFORMANCE

On June 10th, HBO aired the the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Performance that occurred on April 18th. Joe Walsh (The Eagles) played with our Alien Bass Station and Rumble Seat alongside Billie Joe (Green Day), Joan Jett, Sir Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr.

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Developed in collaboration with Walsh.

The Joe Walsh Double Classic, or JWDC for short, is a dual effects pedal that we designed specifically for Joe Walsh. This unique, one of a kind pedal, combines two essential circuits (Compressor & Classic Amp), which Joe uses in both live performances and studio recordings.

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Joe Walsh used the Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive during the Hell Freezes Over tour, as noted by Bill Worrell in his article "The Gear of The Eagles' Guitarists" on reverb.com.

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In this Instagram post from Joe Walsh in 2022, his pedalboard shows a DigiTech WH-5 Whammy V next to his right foot.

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