Jon Gomm

he guitar I use in the video is my one and only touring and recording guitar, a Lowden O12C called Wilma. Lowdens are handbuilt in a workshop in Northern Ireland, and they are truly special instruments, they have a midrange warmth that other guitars just don't. I've installed Keith Banjo Tuners on the top two strings, made by Bill Keith in Woodstock, NY. They make the crazy tuning tricks I do in the song much much easier!

You will see the amp in the background at many parts in the video

The Wampler Ego Compressor can be seen in this photo of Jon Gomm's pedalboard.

At 0:55 Jon discusses his use of three Boss PQ-3B pedals in his pedalboard set up

At 2:33 Jon describes this pedal as the "Swiss Army Knife" in his pedalboard set up. Jon says he's had the pedal since he was a kid, and uses the pedal to blend three different audio signals coming from his guitar into one mono signal.

At 2:55 Jon describes his use of this pedal as overdrive for his humbucker pickup

At 3:12 Jon describes his use of this pedal on its polyphonic setting to drop the octave of the lowest frequency on his guitar, effectively creating "the world's most boring..." but "the world's most reliable bass player"

At 4:26 Jon describes that his entire pedalboard signal routes to this delay pedal, which he likes to set on ping-pong to get a wider live sound. He also uses "the faux analogue setting a lot."

At 5:14 Jon describes his use of this pedal for it's big stereo sound. He talks about liking the pedal's ability to preserve the note within the reverb effect, "rather than just adding a big splash to whatever you do."

At 6:08 Jon describes this as a recent addition to his set up for reverb and harmonizer purposes (video date February 28, 2014). He details how he uses the harmonizer to simply pitch-shift his vocals down an octave for a "weird pseudo-artificial and yet really organic" sound for his vocals.

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