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From a March 2022 interview with Luke in Total Guitar:

But the Fenders continue to be hacked! I’ve been using Isaac’s gold Strat. It still has a Mojo Pickups Gold Foil in it, and now I’ve put an anodized metal pickguard on it: Gold Foil in the middle and the Creamery Firebird pickups in the neck and bridge.

Luke can also be seen playing this guitar live in the band's 'Live at Bush Hall' video released in February 2023.

A separate Total Guitar article (https://www.guitarworld.com/features/inside-black-country-new-roads-freewheeling-diy-guitar-approach) corroborates this:

[Luke] also plays a guitar Isaac built from the remains of a Mexican Strat.

It has since been changed to have a telecaster neck.

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In this Facebook post from a fan dated 22 May 2022, we can see a Boss BD-2W on Luke's pedalboard (with the footswitch plate swapped with Isaac's Boss SD-1W) from a show in Bristol on 21 May 2022: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1222779138459606&set=gm.10158825789837865&idorvanity=64533347864

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“It’s a bit of a secret weapon. I had to learn the hard way that the treble needs to be down really low and the bass needs to be up really high. I use a bright sound anyway so that’s why.”

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In this interview, Luke Mark mentions his use of the AC30 for the recording of Ants From Up There: “There’s definitely something about the attack that’s a bit Tele-like, especially for a hum-cancelling pickup. I just played that through an AC30."

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From a Total Guitar interview with Luke in March 2022:

There’s not really any obvious delay but there’s a [EHX] Memory Man on most of the time because the preamp just makes everything sound wicked. There’s some tape delay on the guitars, from a tape machine I think, not from a delay unit.

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From this 2022 Total Guitar interview with Luke:

But the Fenders continue to be hacked! I’ve been using Isaac’s gold Strat. It still has a Mojo Pickups Gold Foil in it, and now I’ve put an anodized metal pickguard on it: Gold Foil in the middle and the Creamery Firebird pickups in the neck and bridge.

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In this Facebook post from a fan dated 22 May 2022, we can see an Ibanez DE7 at the top right of Luke's pedalboard from a show in Bristol on 21 May 2022: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1222779138459606&set=gm.10158825789837865&idorvanity=64533347864

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In this Facebook post from a fan dated 22 May 2022, we can see the Boss DD-200 at the bottom of this photo of Luke's pedalboard at a show in Bristol on 21 May 2022: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1222779138459606&set=gm.10158825789837865&idorvanity=64533347864

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In this YouTube video Luke Mark can be seen using a Roland JC-120

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In the YouTube video "Black Country, New Road - Live at Clockenflap Festival (Full Set)" by Melophobia, Luke Mark is seen playing a modified Fender Telecaster, which appears to be a version of Isaac Wood's Telecaster Double Cut.

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In the live performance of Black Country, New Road at the Haldern Pop Festival 2020, Luke Mark plays a dark green Squier Paranormal Series Offset Telecaster, as seen in the official HD video by Haldern Pop Festival.

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During Black Country, New Road's performance Luke Mark can be seen playing a double neck SG. In this YouTube video of Luke Mark performing Basketball Shoes, it is shown around 2:55 and 7:02 that the headstock says CSL. Luke's guitar is shown to have a cherry sunburst.

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In this Instagram post you Can clearly see Luke playing a Squier strat

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In this photo I took, Luke Mark is seen with a Sigma 000-15S acoustic guitar. Interestingly, this is similar to the guitar Isaac used later, though Isaac's featured a gold foil pickup on the top, whereas Luke's has a pickup mounted inside.

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In this picture that I took, you can see Luke's beautiful Brad Paisley Telecaster, Just with the pick guard removed. He has used this guitar for the entirety of their latest US Tour.

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In this video at 0:48 you can see Infront of Luke Mark the distinctive shape of a Jekyll & Hyde dual drive pedal. You can tell its a V1 as opposed to a V2 because the V2 has a lip above the knobs which is not present here.

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A Shure SM57 is visible in front of the Vox amplifier.

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A Artec Mini Humbucker Toaster Pickup is visible in the middle of the Stratocaster.

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Luke has a Maxon Distortion Master, a Boss EQ modded by Adrian Thorpe of Thorpy FX, and an Electro-Harmonix Canyon delay. These go into Orange amps, currently TH30s, but they have plans to go to stacks when bigger gigs are possible again.

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Luke has a Maxon Distortion Master, a Boss EQ modded by Adrian Thorpe of Thorpy FX, and an Electro-Harmonix Canyon delay. These go into Orange amps, currently TH30s, but they have plans to go to stacks when bigger gigs are possible again.

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Luke has a Maxon Distortion Master, a Boss EQ modded by Adrian Thorpe of Thorpy FX, and an Electro-Harmonix Canyon delay. These go into Orange amps, currently TH30s, but they have plans to go to stacks when bigger gigs are possible again.

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Luke has a Maxon Distortion Master, a Boss EQ modded by Adrian Thorpe of Thorpy FX, and an Electro-Harmonix Canyon delay. These go into Orange amps, currently TH30s, but they have plans to go to stacks when bigger gigs are possible again.

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” Luke says. “But the Fenders continue to be hacked! I’ve been using Isaac’s gold Strat. It still has a Mojo Pickups Gold Foil in it, and now I’ve put an anodized metal pickguard on it: Gold Foil in the middle and the Creamery Firebird pickups in the neck and bridge.

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When the Maxon isn’t enough by itself, Luke hits it with a JFET clean boost pedal that Isaac built. Elsewhere, effects are fairly minimal.

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As seen in the video, Luke uses Audio-Technica ATH-M50X headphones.

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At the 10:25 mark in the video "Black Country, New Road - Full show (live at Haldern Pop Festival 2020 at home) Official HD" on YouTube, Luke Mark can be seen using a Dunlop Tortex Standard 0.73mm Guitar Pick. The video is provided by Haldern Pop Festival and is available on their channel.

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Luke Mark is confirmed to use the Maxon AD-999 Analog Delay pedal, as it is visible at the 24-second mark in the video titled "Black Country New Road - Sunglasses (session Eurosonic 2020)" by 3voor12 on YouTube.

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Luke Mark is playing a guitar built by Isaac Wood that features an Artec Mini Humbucker “Toaster” pickup in the bridge position.

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