Jonathan Pearce

Pierce's '68 Deluxe Reverb is seen throughout the video but never mentioned. However, in the comment section, EarthQuaker Devices confirm that "both Liz and Jonathan were playing Deluxe Reverbs on [their latest US] tour"

Jonathan owns both a vintage Deluxe for home practice and recording and a modern Deluxe specifically for touring. Starting at 00:24, he says "This [Les Paul Deluxe] is my touring guitar. I have a '78 Les Paul Deluxe at home and I really love it.. it's just a bit too special for me now to take it around the world, so here I'm playing a new one, but it's got the mini humbuckers which I feel is kind of my sound."

At 01:30, Jonathan talks about alternating between a Data Corrupter and Hoof Repear for the first pedal in his chain, depending on what songs are on the band's setlist. He primarily uses the former to play "Acrid"

At 01:30, Jonathan talks about alternating between a Data Corrupter and Hoof Repear for the first pedal in his chain, depending on what songs are on the band's setlist. With regards to the latter, he says "it has to go first [in my pedal chain] because the tentacle octave effect thats in the middle.. if you put it at the end it, um, it just freaks out and gets really bright, which could be fun but when we play live I try to keep it more contained, so if I'm playing, you know * plays lead riff to The Beths' 'I'm Not Getting Excited' * to get that kind of Octavia... kind of octave up [to give leads] some extra juice"

At 02:24, Pierce discusses how he uses the EP Booster, stating that mostly uses it to "kick further down the line gain stages up a notch"

When talking about his complex gain staging setup at 02:45, Jonathan states that the "Pro Co Rat is always the solo[ing] pedal."

At around 02:40, Jonathan talks about using the Plexi Deluxe to go from his initial overdriven tone to "full on Marshall distortion"

Being the first of many overdrives in his pedalboards, Jonathan activates the left when he wants "next to nothing" dirtwise and presses the right footswitch when wants his tone to be "a little bit more" dirty (02:34)

Jonathan uses the Warped Vinyl HiFi as a substitute for the much larger EHX Polychorus he uses at home and in the studio, saying the former "is stepping in as the chorus and it's pretty good." (06:31)

At 06:23, Jonathan says "I've been spoiled by my Electro-Harmonix Polychorus back home. That pedal is like half the size of this pedal board and I can't bring it [on tour]."

During his episode of Bored to Death, Jonathan reveals that he uses the H9 "for all of [his] delay effects" and for tuning his guitar. On the latter, he describes the awkward foot maneuver - pressing both footswitches simultaneously - he has to do to alternate between the pedal's regular and tuner modes. Still, he puts up with this "because it's just a great tuner" (06:50)

The last pedal in his chain, Jonathan uses it for it's "extreme" quality at slow settings, professing that it gives his music a sense of movement or, in his words, a sense that "something is happening or something's about to happen" (08:29)

"My biggest tape machine so far is a Tascam 48. It really sounds like tape when you put it through this as opposed to some of the nice fancy big studio machines where you put sounds through it and it's almost so good it sounds like a computer" (13:07)

"There’s a place we like to go near Valencia which is the perfect cheap retreat. I’ll take gear with me to set up a really basic remote studio for mixing or demoing. A 2 channel audio interface, some good studio headphones, a couple of tiny Line Audio OM1 omni microphones, and a pair of IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitors, which are quite shockingly good for their size. The whole rig is just a bit larger than a shoebox in my suitcase."

"There’s a place we like to go near Valencia which is the perfect cheap retreat. I’ll take gear with me to set up a really basic remote studio for mixing or demoing. A 2 channel audio interface, some good studio headphones, a couple of tiny Line Audio OM1 omni microphones, and a pair of IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitors, which are quite shockingly good for their size. The whole rig is just a bit larger than a shoebox in my suitcase."

Jonathan is standing by one at 23:29

"Yeah, this is the first pedal I ever bought. It's a Danelectro French Toast and it's like a Foxx Tone Machine clone. And I do have a better clone made later with the octave effect on a footswitch" (17:58)

"Because my first pedal (Danelectro French Toast) was kind of an extreme pedal for a fuzz" *Jonathan grabs a modded DS-1 * "this would've been a good first pedal... Great first pedal if you want to make grunge"

That's how he fuels his pedals. You can clearly see it underneath the MXR Phase 90 throughout the whole video.

In this photograph of Jonathan Pearce's pedalboard, taken at The Beths concert in Paris on June 13, 2023, we can see an Eventide H90 pedal.

"[Showing amp] This is the AC-15 Hand-Wired, and I don't know why every amp doesn't have tone cut. I'm cutting a lot." Pearce explains that having a lot of distortion pedals on his board means that his amp signal can get "super bright" without this feature. He uses the amp for his "main sound and delay effects" while the Fender Deluxe is more for "extreme" sounds and stereo effects.

Pearce is standing behind it and adjusting it at 1:10 (in a interview video about the gear he uses).

Jonathan Pearce uses a Gibson Acoustic J-45 Studio during The Beths' Tiny Desk Concert, as seen in the NPR Music video at the 17:31 timestamp.

Took this photo of him playing in Dallas on Nov 3, 2025. Not the clearest shot, but I don't think it could be much of anything else!