Nels Cline

"When I started playing with Wilco, I went through the many pedals lying around the Wilco loft looking for EVEN MORE DISTORTION SOURCES. Jeff Tweedy had this, an early '69, and he let me have it. One of the things I look for in any distortion device is MASSIVE GAIN. I need stuff that won't get QUIETER when you hit it, and frankly a shocking number of fuzzboxes and the like are super wimpy in this regard. The '69 (new one pictured here - Jeff's broke, and I need it because this new one sounds different…) just makes the grade. Check my Wilco setting: EVERYTHING ALL THE WAY UP."

"I always use the Zvex Fuzz Factory," Cline says in this Premier Guitar interview at (26:10), "which most people recognize at being really strange, and intense, and uncontrollable."

"This is a beautiful time for boutique effects pedals, and there are so many great ones out there, and I love them: the Fulltone '69 (classic), Uglyface (ultra-wild), Creepy Fingers MkI (classic), Catalinbread Octapussy (classic), Mid-Fi Electronics Random Number Generator (super sick), and the Devi Ever Soda-Meiser and/or White Spider (classic and sick) are just a few favorites. But the one I always bring along is the Z.Vex Fuzz Factory."

Another of Cline's pedals is the Crazy Tube Circuits Starlight. "It's a distortion, much like a RAT but better," he says at (27:20).

"I love my Devi Ever pedals, especially the old Soda Meiser."

Featured on Cline's official Rainger FX artist page.

"What's a Mid-Fi Glitch Computer? My roommate Bobb turned me on to this little company, which seems to basically be a guy in Massachusetts named Doug and his raw, loud, and SICK creations. Bobb's Glitch Computer is different from mine, but at least mine does what I had hoped for: it makes things sound like they're blowing up. Warning: These boxes (he makes distortion of various types) have so much gain it would be easy to blow up your gear! Start at low gain…"

In the Premier Guitar Rig Rundown, you see the Fulltone '69 fuzz @ 22:55. @ 27:06 "And the 69 fuzz Germanium fuzz sound, I prefer this one."