Kevin Shields

You can see that effect in his pedalboard.

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.”

seen on several boards in this 2018 photo

sumission is wrong he had a dd6 and a dd7

Kevin Shields uses the Electro-Harmonix EH-7900 Micro Synthesizer, as evidenced by a collection of his gear on Rateyourmusic. The source includes various pedals, showcasing his extensive setup.

In the right half of this photo you can clearly see a ZVEX Jonny Octave just above the Roger Mayer Octavia. The art on the pedal seems to be an alternate blue, likely an earlier version of the pedal.

In a photo from an effects bay article, is a Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator Guitar Effects Pedal, on the pedal board of Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine.

https://www.effettidiclara.com/gear/my-bloody-valentine/kevin-shields

Clearly visible in the source/proof photo (in the lower right corner) there is the Echo 600 Dark by Malekko. great Analog Delay https://malekkoheavyindustry.com/product/echo-600d/

i even created two items in a complete way i am i guess one of the best and with most care and knowledge and attention at this point

Kevin talked about this in an interview in Tape Op issue 26. "We used all the standard ones. Up until the beginning of Loveless when we just used nearly only valve mics — C12s or an old [Neumann U] 67."

In the section of this article titled "Pulsing Bass", it denotes how Kevin Shields used a Neumann U87 on the bass guitar during the studio recordings.

Kevin's HBE Power Screamer Overdrive Pedal is shown in this image, originally posted by Z. Vex Effects.

In the Effectsbay user-uploaded photo titled "kevin-shields-my-bloody-valentine-main-board.jpg," Kevin Shields is shown using the Pete Cornish SS-3 overdrive effects pedal.

In the user-uploaded photo, the Shere Sound Whirligig pedal is visible in Kevin Shields' setup, positioned in the lower right corner above the Malekko Delay. This dual-channel overdrive pedal features a three-way diode switch, Clean Mix knob, and Drive, Tone, and Volume controls on the right channel, while the left channel includes a bass knob alongside the same Drive, Tone, and Volume controls.

This pedal can be seen on Kevin's pedalboard next to the yellow Tone-Bender

just a different version of the tremolessence still like most especially if they dont have the little thing wrote on ,dont know in what they were used in but i think in things like -new you- still recognize the settings like other pedals (still created by me and as always everything 100% accurate)

Kevin Shields uses the Boss RC-20XL Loop Station, as highlighted in a post by Dr. Scientist Sounds on Facebook.

Kevin Shields uses the L.R. Baggs Venue DI Acoustic Preamp, as noted in an Instagram post by 11publishing. The post mentions the preamp replacing an SWR amp previously used for acoustic guitar, highlighting its role in his setup.

Visible in this excerpt of The Joy of the Guitar Riff at 0:05.

A user-uploaded photo reveals Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine using the MG Music - That's Echo Folks delay pedal on his secondary pedalboard.

In a YouTube video by Reverb, Kevin Shields discusses and demonstrates his first signature pedal, the Fender Shields Blender Limited Edition.

In this article, Huw Price, a recording engineer at The Garden studios during My Bloody Valentines recording of the Glider EP and some of the album Loveless in 1990, recalls Kevin using a Neumann U47 to record bass in the studio.

They arrived at The Garden Studio, in a pre-gentrified Shoreditch, in early January 1990. Drums had already been recorded, so I aligned the studio’s Otari MTR90 MkII 24-track tape machine with the band’s two-inch test tones and grabbed a Neumann U47 microphone to begin recording bass.

In this Instagram post Kevin Shields is seen with a Shergold guitar.

In this magazine article (title unknown), the rough translation reads:

Kevin (Shields) used The Takamine EN-20C Jumbo Acoustic Guitar in the recording of the track "sometimes". He explains how he recorded the acoustic guitar by running it through his VOX Tone Bender Fuzz into his Marshall amplifier, and layering it 7 times, panning each of the 7 layers from Left to right in a "clock-like" position.

These claims are substantiated by the fact photos were taken and supplied by Kevin Shields himself.

Note: The En-20C is the variation of the EN-20 with a cutaway for easier accessibility to the higher frets.

In this BeatRoute magazine page, it shows that Kevin Shields was using a Boss Super Distortion in his live rig in the late 80's. It was likely also used in studio recordings around that same time.

At 3:03 in the video, Kevin Shields mentions that his refinished 1959 Fender Jazzmaster has been his main guitar since he acquired it in 2002 from the London guitar shop Vintage and Rare.

In the back right of this photo you can see half of what seems to be a jc120

In this Sound on Sound article, there is a picture of Kevin's studio outboard gear which includes a pair of Empirical Lab EL8 Distressors.

In this Sound on Sound article, there is a picture of Kevin's studio outboard gear which has two Manley Stereo Variable Mu compressors.