Martin L. Gore

The Shaker Vibrato pedal is one of the TC Electronic products that Martin Gore uses, according to their website, on this page.

From Musician magazine, October 1993 issue:

"Depeche Mode keeps things simple onstage: no amplifiers. Every sound, from keyboards to guitar to drums, runs through the P.A. system: a Brittania Pow Flashlight System. Dave Gahan and the backup singers use Samson Synth radio microphones with EU 757 capsules. Martin Gore plays a Roland A-50 and Alan Wilder plays an Akai MX1000, each controlling two Emulator Emax II samplers: Andrew Fletcher has another pair of Emaxes. Each pair is hooked up in parallel, so that if one were to malfunction, the other is ready. But 'I don't remember an instance when we had to go to a spare,' says Wob Roberts, the keyboard technician. Samples come from strange and sundry sources, including old analog equipment. The piano onstage is a Korg 01/W Pro X transplanted into a grand-piano body. For down-stage keyboards, Fletcher and Wilder use Philip Reese MIDI line drivers. A MicroLynx sends SMPTE time code to the video and film setups. Away from the keyboards, Gore plays either a Gretsch Country Gentleman or a copy of a Gretsch Anniversary guitar, strung with Gibson strings, from .010 to .046 gauge. Dick Knight copied Gore's original Gretsch for stage use, using Gretsch parts but adding more wood in the body to cut down feedback. The guitars run through a MESA/Boogie Tri-Axis preamp and a Zoom 9002 effects processor, with a Sennheiser UHF transmitter. Wilder's drums are mostly Yamahas: a 22" bass drum and 12", 13", 14" and 16" tom-toms. He uses Noble and Cooley piccolo and 7" snare drums and Zildjian K cymbals: a 22" ride, an 18" China, 16" and 18" crashes, a 6" splash and 13" hi-hats. And don't forget the tapes: two Sony 3324s, one of them a spare. Of the 24 tracks, Depeche Mode uses only 14, because many of the songs were dubbed from a 16-track Tascam that used 12 tracks for sound and four for sync. 'As soon as anyone sees the size of the machines, they think the whole show is on tape,' says Roberts. 'But it's just bass and drum parts and a couple of sequences. This band does not mime.'"

At 1:06 into this video, you get a glimpse of the pedals in Martin Gore's rack. Bottom row, second from the left is the T-Rex Engineering Bass Juice Distortion Pedal.

At 1:06 into this video, you get a glimpse of the pedals in Martin Gore's rack. Bottom row, third from the left is the Red Witch Fuzz God II pedal.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for.

Martin Gore’s guitar tech Jez Webb: “The past couple of tours we have been using the TC Electronic G-System. This has been the hub, the brains of everything for us. We've got pretty much a patch for every different song. There we go! "A Question of Time" there, "Wrong" and "Personal Jesus", just as a few examples.”

This is from the TC Electronic video “Gear Run: Martin Gore of Depeche Mode”, uploaded March 2010, 0:16 into the video. The upload date indicates this was Depeche Mode’s Tour of the Universe.

Martin Gore’s guitar tech Jez Webb: “…there's a couple of pedals which live out on the stage with Martin. That's basically the only thing that's out there with him which is a Fuzz Phazzer, which he picked up in rehearsals in New York, which is used in the song "It's No Good" and also for the opening song "In Chains" he uses a Wah pedal.”

This is from the TC Electronic video “Gear Run: Martin Gore of Depeche Mode”, uploaded March 2010, 1:07 into the video. The upload date indicates this was Depeche Mode’s Tour of the Universe.

From the GuitarPlayer article "Depeche Mode's Martin Gore," Gore says, "I also got quite a few Maestro pedals—a PS-1 Phase Shifter, an MPS-1 Mini- Phase, and an FZ-1A Fuzz-Tone—as well as Ross compression and distortion pedals that I used a lot, too."

Martin L. Gore utilizes the TC Electronic Dark Matter Distortion pedal, as confirmed by its listing on TC Electronic's website among the gear he uses.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for. By coupling the T-Rex Octavius and Bass Juice analog pedals with the more modern Kemper and Rivera amps they produced an intoxicatingly fat, warm sound. It was particularly exciting to check-out how they were utilizing the FuelTank Power Supplies such as, Classic, Chameleon and Junior based on the amount of juice they need.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for.

From the GuitarPlayer article "Depeche Mode's Martin Gore," Gore says, "I also got quite a few Maestro pedals—a PS-1 Phase Shifter, an MPS-1 Mini- Phase, and an FZ-1A Fuzz-Tone—as well as Ross compression and distortion pedals that I used a lot, too."

From the GuitarPlayer article "Depeche Mode's Martin Gore," engineer/ programmer Luke Smith says, "On “Corrupt,” Gore got a digitized buzzsaw- type sound by plugging the Gretsch Bo Diddley into an Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer, a wah, and a Divided By13 LDW 17/39 combo. “I controlled the wah with my hands while Martin played the riff,” Smith recalls. “This enabled us to get a nice, slow curve on the effect."

Martin L. Gore uses a MojoMojo Overdrive pedal, according to this page of TC Electronic's website.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for. By coupling the T-Rex Octavius and Bass Juice analog pedals with the more modern Kemper and Rivera amps they produced an intoxicatingly fat, warm sound. It was particularly exciting to check-out how they were utilizing the FuelTank Power Supplies such as, Classic, Chameleon and Junior based on the amount of juice they need.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for. By coupling the T-Rex Octavius and Bass Juice analog pedals with the more modern Kemper and Rivera amps they produced an intoxicatingly fat, warm sound. It was particularly exciting to check-out how they were utilizing the FuelTank Power Supplies such as, Classic, Chameleon and Junior based on the amount of juice they need.

This page of TC Electronic's website lists the PolyTune Polyphonic Tuner pedal as one of the products used by Martin Gore.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for.

Recently Depeche Mode swept through Copenhagen on their 2017 World Tour and T-Rex jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jez Webb, Martin Gore’s guitar tech, to take a sneak peek at how they use our pedals to produce the amazing sound they are known for. By coupling the T-Rex Octavius and Bass Juice analog pedals with the more modern Kemper and Rivera amps they produced an intoxicatingly fat, warm sound. It was particularly exciting to check-out how they were utilizing the FuelTank Power Supplies such as, Classic, Chameleon and Junior based on the amount of juice they need.

He uses Famulus according to Red Witch .