Kevin Shields

This photo from an effects bay article, is the pedal board of Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine. It displays a Boss PS-5 SUPER Shifter Pedal

On the photo of Shields' rig from 1991 we can see a first edition of Digitech Whammy.

Kevin Shields is associated with the Danelectro Back Talk Reverse Delay, as evidenced by a user-uploaded photo on Wordpress.

Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine uses the Seymour Duncan Shapeshifter Stereo Tremolo, as highlighted by Seymour Duncan on Twitter. The post features a look at Shields' pedalboard, showcasing the Shapeshifter among other effects pedals.

Visible in this ca. 2008 photo featured in this August 2011 Effects Bay article.

This photo from an effects bay article displays a Zvex Box of Rock on the pedal board of Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine.

This photo of Shields' live rig from 2008 shows a Vox Tonebender.

In the Effects Bay article "Kevin Shields - My Bloody Valentine - Pedal Boards," Kevin Shields is noted for using the Boss TW-1 T Wah pedal as part of his guitar effects setup.

Snarling Dogs wah can be seen on Shields' pedalboard on the picture.

Used on "Only Shallow", as mentioned in this May 2018 Sound on Sound article.

Meanwhile for the distinctive squalling riff on ‘Only Shallow’, Shields had something of a eureka moment with a ’60s Burman amp and Fender Showman. “I set them up facing each other with one microphone in the middle and both of them with the tremolo going,” he explains. “So the base sound of the thing was these two amps with the tremolos shaking at different rates. I overdubbed that, so you had four different rates of tremolo. Then I sampled it in the Akai and played it backwards, so it was backwards and forwards at the same time, and then played it an octave higher.”

Kevin Shields is associated with the Smallsound/Bigsound Fuck Overdrive pedal, as evidenced by a photo shared by 11publishing on Instagram. The photo captures the pedal's settings, although the handwritten notes on it by Kevin are difficult to decipher.

Kevin Shields, like many artists including Bilinda Butcher, uses a Marshall 1960A 4x12'' Cabinet paired with a Marshall head. This is evidenced by a user-uploaded photo.

This photo from an everyday guitar gear article, displays a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner on one of the pedal boards for Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine.

A DigiTech JamMan Stereo Phrase Sampler and Looper Pedal is seen as pat of Kevin's pedalboard. This photo was originally posted by Z. Vex Effects.

In an article on Effects Bay, a photo of Kevin Shields' pedal board reveals his use of the SIB Electronics Nick Nitro Fuzz Octave.

The Octave Clang is shown in the picture and in the list of pedals.

The Ottava Magus is shown in the picture and in the list of pedals.

In this recent article published by Sound on Sound, Kevin Shields explains his use of the Akai S900 when creating drum samples for My Bloody Valentine's classic album 'Loveless'

Mentioned in this May 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

Born in Queens, New York in 1963 to Irish parents who returned to Dublin when he was 10, Kevin Shields first picked up a guitar in 1980 and began recording at home two years later, using a Yamaha CS-5 synth and Tascam 244 Portastudio.

“There were only a handful of them around in Ireland,” he says of the latter. “It ran at high speed and it had the two parametric EQs covering the whole frequency range, which was kind of something at the time. My approach was as much about using the tape machine and the synth as the guitar. Nothing was favoured at that point. I appeared to be a guitar player years later. But really, from the start, I was coming from a kind of post-punk-influenced era where it was quite normal for people to do anything. It was quite an experimental period. The idea that you couldn’t do anything didn’t occur to me.”

Used on Loveless, as mentioned in this May 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

With the help of engineer Harold Burgon, Shields and Ó Cíosóig programmed the drum parts using Steinberg’s Pro24 software in the Atari ST computer, triggering the sampled sounds in an Akai S900. “It was very similar to what he would’ve played,” Shields points out, “just programmed, with the same drum sounds. The Akai was a good sound. I think that’s the thing that people don’t appreciate is that a lot of the digital stuff that was made in that era... the people who were creating the filters and everything, essentially they’d been listening to analogue all their lives.

Kevin Shields is seen using a prototype version of the Seymour Duncan Fooz in an Instagram post by 11publishing. The post highlights its similarity in sound and design to the production model, despite its prototype appearance.

Kevin Shields uses the Smallsound/Bigsound Team Awesome! Fuzz Machine, as seen in a post by 11publishing on Instagram. The pedal, described as green, is part of his setup, highlighted alongside other gear in the caption.

During an interview with Tape Op in 2001, Kevin shields comments on the recording of "To Here Knows When" about how he used a TC unit that did "Delays and Dynamics" on the drums:

"and then there's programmed drums and they're put through this TC unit, I forget what it's called, but it does dynamics and delay and it's just adds this weird sort of feel to it."

This passage can be found in the 4th section of the said article, Issue 26.

In this article, Kevin talks about how he used MD421's to record guitar tracks.

Yeah, only condensers and a lot of them were valve. And then the second half of it was all, just anything again. 'Cause we'd usually have like three or four mics on the cabinet or amp and there'd be, like, usually a 57, the [Sennheiser] 421. I decided that I didn't like 57s but I liked them [421s] because there was less of a frequency spike in them.

Kevin has a Keely Modded Ibanez AD-9 Analog Delay in this image.

Kevin's MXR M-109 6-Band Graphic EQ can be seen in this image.

At 46:30 minute mark, the Colorsound Yellow Tonebender can be visible in Shields' board.

The Tremolessence is shown in the picture and in the list of pedals.

The Devi Ever Dream Mangler is shown in the pictures and in the list of pedals.

Kevin Shields, of My Bloody Valentine, uses the Audix OM7 dynamic microphone, as noted by Audixusa.