Larry Carlton

At 21:25 in this interview, Larry Carlton talks about his use of the Zenkudo Overdrive. "...down here we have an overdrive pedal, Zenkudo, that’s a Japanese maker obviously, and been using that for a number years now on my pedalboard when I'm doing backline. That becomes my overdrive to get a little more out of the amps that I'm borrowing. For that night and it’s sweet it's really sweet it's tight with the 335 it works. I've tried other overdrive pedals that other guys like but it seemed to not work with the 335, so this one does in my opinion. I could get the same character [as my Bludotone amplifier]. To where it makes me, I'm feeling what I want to feel when I’m playing it's not as open as an amplifier would be but it's, it doesn't have any of the ugliness that a lot of other pedals have. This was just sweet in the center."

At 19:24 in this interview Larry Carlton points out his Sho-Bud. "So obviously that’s a Sho-Bud volume pedal which I started using in the early 70’s... Well at the time I don't know of another volume pedal that was available but I do know that the great steel guitar player Buddy Emmons, he used a Sho-Bud pedal and we were comrades in the studio so I, when it came time to get one, I thought that I’d get the Sho-Bud since that’s what Buddy’s using."

Larry Carlton used a Tonehunter Blueline during his performance at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle, WA USA on September 20, 2019. Additional information on the Tonehunter website, http://www.tonehunter.de/pedals/BlueLine.php.

At 20:40 Larry Carlton talks about his Providence Chrono Delay after talking about his Liquid Chorus. "So yeah, this has been clean and sounds wonderful… same with the Providence delay. I like it. It’s got the the tap, so I can tap the tempo to whatever song we’re playing so that, it drives me nuts if it's not in time."

At 20:19 in this video interview from Premier Guitar, Larry Carlton talks about his Liquid Chorus. “But now we're up here in the chorus you know this Liquid Chorus. I open my show with the Lord's Prayer every night, and so I liked it to get the beautiful chorus going and some delay and really create a solo guitar atmosphere for the audience for the very opening of the show. So yeah, this has been clean and sounds wonderful…”

Around 21:12 in this rig rundown, Larry Carlton says, “…and then this TC Electronic reverb pedal since the Bludo’s don't have reverbs built-in, it's nice for me to have some reverb available. And it depends on how dead the stage is and all that stuff."

Larry Carlton talks about his Hilton Volume pedals at 23:45 in this interview. "This volume pedal would be for the acoustic guitar, and then this one would be when I'm playing the electric guitar." Larry's pedals were custom built by Keith Hilton and include a tuner out modification.

At 19:59 in this video, Larry Carlton talks about his wah pedal stating, "Yeah, next we have just a Cry Baby Wah Wah. Nothing special about it. I like having it there for the once in awhile time that I'm I might want to do that."

The Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ is seen on Larry Carlton's pedalboard around 18:30 in this rig rundown.

The board starts with two Hilton volume pedals—one for electric and one for acoustic—each of which has an output to send a signal to the Korg DTR-2000 tuner (top).

At 1:36 of the video, it's possible to see the pedal.

During Larry Carlton's live performance with Richard Bona at Blue Note Tokyo on August 29, 2019, I observed and documented his use of the Free The Tone AMBI SPACE AS-1R reverb pedal. This detail was shared on my website, highlighting its presence in Carlton's setup.

Mentioned in the February 1977 Guitar Player interview "Larry Carlton" by Steven Rosen.

The guitar is always wide open (volume and tones on 10) and controlled with a Sho-Bud pedal, while other pedals, used primarily for 'live' shows, are an MXR distortion unit (heard on 'Spiral', a track from the Crusaders' LP Those Southern Knights), and an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser (on 'Keep That Same Old Feeling', one of the band's latest singles). The Sho-Bud is employed for rhythm shadings and set all the way down to give the guitarist his solo peak.

Canton also has a complete line of phasers, compressors, and fuzzes, but uses them only when a song calls for a specific effect (as on 'Spiral', where the MXR is barely turned on to blend with the sound of the amp). When devices are used, Larry changes his amp settings to compensate for the loss in highs.

Mentioned in the February 1977 Guitar Player interview "Larry Carlton" by Steven Rosen and in an interview included in Volume 34 of Keyboard.

The guitar is always wide open (volume and tones on 10) and controlled with a Sho-Bud pedal, while other pedals, used primarily for 'live' shows, are an MXR distortion unit (heard on 'Spiral', a track from the Crusaders' LP Those Southern Knights), and an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser (on 'Keep That Same Old Feeling', one of the band's latest singles). The Sho-Bud is employed for rhythm shadings and set all the way down to give the guitarist his solo peak.

Canton also has a complete line of phasers, compressors, and fuzzes, but uses them only when a song calls for a specific effect (as on 'Spiral', where the MXR is barely turned on to blend with the sound of the amp). When devices are used, Larry changes his amp settings to compensate for the loss in highs.

Keyboard, Vol. 34

When I was working with Billy Joel on The Stranger, I started invading all the music stores looking for a [Electro-Harmonix] Small Stone phaser. The whole Fender Rhodes sound [on "Just The Way You Are"] is that.