John Helps

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Pictured and discussed in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner

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"It has lovely bright lights on the display which is wicked in hazy dark venues!"

Pictured and discussed in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.

Electro-Harmonix Slammi Plus Polyphonic Pitch Shifter and Electro Harmonix Pitch Fork

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"These are pitch pedals. The Slammi is used in a couple of songs for whammy-type pitch effects, but not a great deal.

"The Pitch Fork I basically use as substitute for down-tuning the guitar for specific songs. I don't really like to change the tuning for the guitar – most of our stuff is in drop C# but there are a few songs where it needs to go lower so we use the Pitch Fork to get the guitar down an octave and make it all a bit heavier when it needs to be."

Pictured and discussed in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.

Electro-Harmonix Slammi Plus Polyphonic Pitch Shifter and Electro Harmonix Pitch Fork

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"These are pitch pedals. The Slammi is used in a couple of songs for whammy-type pitch effects, but not a great deal.

"The Pitch Fork I basically use as substitute for down-tuning the guitar for specific songs. I don't really like to change the tuning for the guitar – most of our stuff is in drop C# but there are a few songs where it needs to go lower so we use the Pitch Fork to get the guitar down an octave and make it all a bit heavier when it needs to be."

Pictured and discussed in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.

Boss DD-500 Delay

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"From there everything else is in an effects loop and we come back to the DD-200 Delay in the amp's effects loop. I basically have one delay setting which I don't really use during songs but use it for tails out of sections and songs to sustain things a bit. It's way more complicated that it needs to be for that.

"But it's nice to have something that's versatile because a lot of these pedals get used in the studio as well as live. So this is kind of a delay workhorse."

Pictured and discussed in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.

Walrus Audio Slö Multi Texture Reverb

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"This is my main reverb, though it's perhaps a bit washier than I would like. But it's the reverb that we used on almost all of our new record. Loads of tone were done with this Slö from Walrus Audio. It's really great; pretty versatile and sounds really good."

Pictured and discussed in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.

Boss RV-5 Reverb

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"I always have it set to the Modulate reverb mode – we've always described it as the I Like Trains sound, if you know that band their reverb has a very distinctive sound and that is all the RV-5.

"When I'm playing live I choose between [this and the Slö] depending on how I'm feeling in the song. I don't really have a set one I go to. They're relatively similar but the RV-5 has more of the wavy, modulated sound."

Pictured and discussed in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.

JHS Pedals Mute Switch

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"It just switches my sound off completely. We have a few songs where it's just a real abrupt stop and that lets me just do that without worrying about the reverb tails.

Pictured in this February 8, 2023 Music Radar interview.