Michael Landau's Gear

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Saw this pic from L.A. Sound Design. This pedal has dry knob, so he can kill dry without having to mod the pedal, unlike the RV-7.

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According to the Fulltone website, Michael plays an OCD pedal.

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According to the Fulltone website, Michael plays a Plimsoul pedal.

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Quoted on the official Shin-ei website.

"Thank you Shin-ei for making this beautiful musical instrument. The Vibe-Bro has all of the soul of the original and more."

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Specified on the official Foxrox artist page.

Michael Landau

ProVibe rackmount installed by Bob Bradshaw

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"I used the Line 6 Echo Pro, which was added when I was mixing. I used the “Echo Platter” setting. It’s a nice, almost choruslike tape flutter effect."

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The upper photo of Michael Landau's pedalboard contains a Roland EV-5 expression pedal on the right.

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The lower left photo of Michael Landau's pedalboard contains a Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe.

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Michael Landau uses the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 PLUS on his pedal board, as seen in a post by Digitech on Instagram, which also highlights the addition of the Looking Glass and Hardwire RV-7.

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His signature model has three Fender Custom Shop Fat 50s single coils .

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Michael Landau incorporates the Drybell Vibe Machine V-1 into his pedalboard, as noted by DryBell.

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He uses this chorus by Red Witch .

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Michael Landau uses the Vemuram Butter Machine Overdrive, as it is his signature pedal.

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In an April 2, 2016 Instagram post by Way Huge, Micheal Landau is shown playing through the Way Huge Mister Box, a limited edition overdrive designed with his input.

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Michael Landau is confirmed to use the Way Huge Electronics Limited Edition Blue Hippo Analog Chorus MKII, as evidenced by a photograph of his pedalboard posted by Andrew Raharjo Tsai in June 2025 in the Michael Landau Fan Club on Facebook. Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1220938452765207&set=pcb.10162502988601140

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In the YouTube video titled "Michael Landau session for Ricardo Sanz with producer Urs Wiesendanger," Michael Landau can be seen using the Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer pedal at 1:25 into the video, as evidenced by footage provided by AOR CLOUD.

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Michael Landau confirms his use of D'Addario NYXL Nickelwound Guitar Strings 10-46 on the official D’Addario strings website, stating, "I've been using the NYXL 10-46 for a long long time. D'Addario strings sound great, are very consistent, and built for a lot of guitar abuse."

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In a Facebook picture taken in Tokyo on January 16th, 2026, featuring the Boone's Farm band with Steve Lukather and Michael Landau, the Vemuram Budi-G can be clearly seen positioned to the right of the Boss volume pedal.

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In this picture taken at the Baked Potato, on October 4th, 2025. We can see the Octavio pedal on the far left of the pedalboard, right next to the Roger Mayer "Voodoo-1".

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On the original Soldano order form, Michael bought unit 13 and 99.

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In a Facebook picture from April 10, 2026, taken at the Baked Potato, Michael Landau's pedalboard is shown with the MXR MC401 CAE Boost / Line Driver as the first pedal in line.

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Michael Landau has used the Friedman Buxom Boost since 2025; it is visible on his pedalboard for the James Taylor tour in the provided image proof.

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In the provided pedalboard image, Michael Landau’s Suhr Jack Rabbit is shown connected at the final stage of the dry signal path, and the original source note states that the pedal’s internal buffer appears to play an important role.

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Michael Landau uses the Strymon blueSky Reverberator; in MUSE ON MUSE’s Vol.112 Michael Landau / August 2020 feature, his pedalboard is shown with a blueSky, and the original comment notes that he has also used a BigSky.

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In TikTok video of Michael Landau at the Baked Potato Jazz Club, Michael Landau is using a Marshall JTM45 45W Tube Guitar Amp Head as a dry-signal amp connected to a reactive load. But nowadays, Princeton-style amps are mainly used for dry signals, and the JTM45 is used for wet signals.

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Michael Landau is seen using a Gibson SG Standard '61 Sideways Vibrola in the YouTube video Michael Landau Live - Baked Potato - Sept 29, 2006, which supports that he used this model in the mid-2000s.

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