Joey Santiago

Joey Santiago uses Fulltone OCD Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

At 3:18 in this rig rundown he begins talking about this guitar by saying, "I call this the equal opportunity guitar. It's an ES-345 1965. I think George Harrison played this same kind of year. I'm obsessed with... Now I'm going to start collecting whatever he played. It's a Gibson with a Fender strap, which says a lot about me. It's got another Bigsby, which is great. I picked the right one. So it kinda goes a half step down, automatically. I picked it up at the vintage store I got it at."

"I think Marshall screwed up when they stopped making the 2205s—with that two-channel thing. When we go to rent amps—because the truck doesn’t make the next gig or whatever—we try to rent [the 2205s], and half the time they don’t have them."

"He shows it at 1:00."

Joey Santiago uses the Boss Hyper Fuzz Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

Joe uses a 1964 Fender Vibrolux per this Guitar Geek diagram.

Joey Santiago uses the Atomic Boost OC-44 Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

Joey Santiago of The Pixies is associated with the PRS Starla 2008 Bigsby electric guitar, as seen in a PRS Guitar Sale advertisement.

12:39 into the loudQUIETloud documentary, a shot of Joey santiago's pedalboard reveals a black effect pedal which looks like it must be a Pro Co Vintage RAT.

It's shown at 2:00.

Santiago relies upon a relatively modest yet rather intriguing array of pedals to achieve a wide variety of tones and effects. These include a Fulltone OCD overdrive, a Way Huge Swollen Pickle, a Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, a Menatone Pleasure Trem 5000 tremolo, a Maxon AD9 analog delay, a Moogerfooger MF-108M (controlled by a Roland EV-5 expression pedal), an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail, an Electro-Harmonix PitchFork, a DOD FX-17 Wah-Volume and a MXR ten-band EQ.

"It’s really more aggressive on the top end. It’s not throwback sounding—it’s not like a ’60s sound at all. It sounds modern. I use it as a filter. I set it and don’t mess with it."

In a user-uploaded photo on Imgur, Joey Santiago praises the PRS Starla, stating, "The Starla is great." This quote highlights his use and appreciation of the guitar.

A shot of Joey santiago's pedalboard shows him turning some knobs on his Boss DM-3 at 12:39 into the loudQUIETloud documentary. It could have just as easily been the Boss DM-2 but the knobs on Joey's pedal are shaped like tiny tophats. The DM-2's knobs are wider, shorter and metalic instead of white at the top.

Santiago relies upon a relatively modest yet rather intriguing array of pedals to achieve a wide variety of tones and effects. These include a Fulltone OCD overdrive, a Way Huge Swollen Pickle, a Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, a Menatone Pleasure Trem 5000 tremolo, a Maxon AD9 analog delay, a Moogerfooger MF-108M (controlled by a Roland EV-5 expression pedal), an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail, an Electro-Harmonix PitchFork, a DOD FX-17 Wah-Volume and a MXR ten-band EQ.

Joey Santiago uses the Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Reverb Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

Joey Santiago uses the Keeley Compressor Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

In this Pixies' performance of "I've been tired" Joey can be seen using Ovation Viper. You can tell it's the particular guitar because of the word "Viper" on its pickguard (about 2:05 in the linked video). The guitar is black and it has two large single coil pickups, distinctive for Vipers.

12:39 into the loudQUIETloud documentary, a shot of Joey santiago's pedalboard reveals a pale green effect pedal which looks like it must be a Boss PN-2.

Roland Micro Cube seen in 10:00

Patrick Brennan's interview with Joey Santiago and Linda Mallari about the release of The Martinis' release "Smitten" has sadly disappeared from the internet. At the top of that page it showed a picture of Joey holding a Guyatone TD-X Tube Echo.

Santiago relies upon a relatively modest yet rather intriguing array of pedals to achieve a wide variety of tones and effects. These include a Fulltone OCD overdrive, a Way Huge Swollen Pickle, a Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, a Menatone Pleasure Trem 5000 tremolo, a Maxon AD9 analog delay, a Moogerfooger MF-108M (controlled by a Roland EV-5 expression pedal), an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail, an Electro-Harmonix PitchFork, a DOD FX-17 Wah-Volume and a MXR ten-band EQ.

Joey Santiago uses the Empress Tap Tremolo Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

Joey Santiago uses the Lehle Dual SGOS Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

Joey Santiago uses the Roland EV-5 Expression Pedal in his pedalboard during the Pixies performance.

Santiago used a Duesenberg Starplayer Ltd Mike Campbell live in Berlin in July 2016.

It's a little hard to see because of all the labels but a GigRig QuarterMaster QMX8 can be spotted on Joey Santiago's pedalboard in this gear rundown video.

Joey can be seen using Digital Performer on his laptop several time in the loudQUIETloud Pixies documentary. After a videochat with his family, he records some guitar playing at around 48:03. Later on at around 1:07:55 Joey Santiago find himself recording Kim's vocals using the same software.

Santiago relies upon a relatively modest yet rather intriguing array of pedals to achieve a wide variety of tones and effects. These include a Fulltone OCD overdrive, a Way Huge Swollen Pickle, a Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, a Menatone Pleasure Trem 5000 tremolo, a Maxon AD9 analog delay, a Moogerfooger MF-108M (controlled by a Roland EV-5 expression pedal), an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail, an Electro-Harmonix PitchFork, a DOD FX-17 Wah-Volume and a MXR ten-band EQ.

Santiago relies upon a relatively modest yet rather intriguing array of pedals to achieve a wide variety of tones and effects. These include a Fulltone OCD overdrive, a Way Huge Swollen Pickle, a Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, a Menatone Pleasure Trem 5000 tremolo, a Maxon AD9 analog delay, a Moogerfooger MF-108M (controlled by a Roland EV-5 expression pedal), an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail, an Electro-Harmonix PitchFork, a DOD FX-17 Wah-Volume and a MXR ten-band EQ.