John Paul Jones' Effects Pedals

The album has quite a few distorted bass sounds. What effects are you using? On the record, most of the distortion comes from running bass through Josh’s guitar amps. Live, I’m using an Electro- Harmonix Big Muff.

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Used with Them Crooked Vultures, as is visible in this photo of Jones' pedalboard for the band (taken from Kit Rae's list of Big Muff users).

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According to TC Electronics website John Paul Jones is using the TC Electronic Corona Chorus

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According to TC Electronics website John Paul Jones is using the TC Electronic PolyTune Tuner Pedal

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According to the product website JPJ uses the Ditto X4 looper.

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Jones also notably utilised effects units for his keyboard playing in Led Zeppelin, particularly favouring a Maestro Phase Shifter to emulate various rotary speaker sounds, which can be sitting atop of his keyboard rig in various images from 1973-1979.

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