Noveller

What is your guitar of choice? "I was using a double-neck SG-style Epiphone guitar. Initially, I used the Epiphone played flat on a keyboard stand. I was able to do lots of dual eBow stuff and process that. When I used the double-neck there was a 14-minute piece that I really loved called “St. Powers” that is on two of my LPs. On that tune I am plucking the strings and chording as well as bowing. I was asked to do a show in the south of France and I flew there with the double-neck guitar and the hard case got completely destroyed. I realized if I ever want to do a tour of Europe it would cost a fortune to fly with it—and it weighed a ton. As a solo performer that is stuff that you have to be aware of—you don’t want to kill yourself getting to a gig. My first European tour I brought the Jaguar but I still laid it flat. Then I decided I hated bringing the keyboard stand, and it was hard to appreciate the instrument playing it that way. I realized I could still bow the guitar wearing it traditionally with a strap."

In a user-uploaded image from Guitar.com, Noveller is seen using the Electro-Harmonix Metal Muff with Top Boost pedal during a 2011 gear review.

"But, starting with my album No Dreams, I broke away from the guitar-only records and started incorporating other instruments. While I was on the Iggy tour, I preordered the Electro-Harmonix MEL9 pedal. When I got back from the U.S. dates, it was waiting for me, and I used that so much on the new record, specifically, “Lone Victory Tonight” and “Emergence.”"

"My current setup includes 12 pedals. As flawed as it is, I couldn’t play without my Line 6 DL4 pedal. It’s how I create my loops and other trickery."

"I have eight in my current set-up, but I’m constantly swapping things out. I try not to add any, because I’m trying to be as compact and efficient as possible. Recently, I got the Eventide H-9, and it’s a square, white pedal with an LED screen. It’s really awesome; it allows me to access any preset Eventide has ever created and it can do reverb, delay, pitch shifting, harmonizing, it can do all these crazy things. It’s a compositional tool in itself."

"Which amp are you using? I am using a Sunn Concert Bass head and a Musicman cabinet with one 15? speaker in it. My bass player boyfriend and I were touring in the US and I had this Ampeg Super Jet guitar amp. One night he mentioned that with the frequency ranges I was using I might like a bass amp. Some other people had also floated that idea; so one night I asked him if I could plug into his bass amp. I loved it and played through it for the rest of the tour: a Gallien-Kruger 800RB through two 12? PA speakers."

"I’m also using the flute sound doing these pitch dives with the Boss PS5 pedal. I use the MEL9 cello sound on “Trails and Trials,” and the brass sound on “Loan Victory Tonight.”

"The Red Panda lineup that I used in my last video. They all fit together so beautifully. Some of the most creative tools out there. "

She's using the Empress Effects Zoia pedal in this video. She states that she's using the pedal.

"My studio setup is very simple. I, for the most part, use all of the same pedals and same guitar, which is a Fender Jaguar – it’s a Japanese reissue – that I use when I play live on tour."

"When I record, I do everything myself at home, but I go direct into my Mbox into Pro Tools. I don’t mic and record it through an amp. I did do that for my earlier albums, maybe even through Glacial Glow, but because I have so many effects pedals that I’m going through I find that I don’t really need that sound from the amp to enhance it. I just really want a very clean sound when I’m recording.

There are a few software effects that I use in Pro Tools, mainly just a reverb or the EchoBoy delay. There is one effect called the Crystallizer and I was using it a lot in Pro Tools, and then when I was going and trying to make live arrangements of these songs I was like, “man, I’m really missing this effect.”"

"When I played with the Brooklyn indie-rock band Parts and Labor my guitar was a 1972 Fender Custom Reissue Telecaster. They didn’t like the way it sounded. It was piercing and not full enough, it was fine for live shows but they were going to be recording and they encouraged me to buy a new guitar for that. I had always been interested in the Jazzmaster and Jaguar models but never had the money to buy one. Since it was being demanded of me, I found this one at South Side Guitars in Brooklyn. It was a 1995 Japanese model so I could afford it. I fell in love with it and started using it for Noveller stuff. There is still one song that doesn’t sound right called “Bleach Beach”—it needs the piercing sound of the Telecaster."

Tell us about the Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation pedal "It has a send, return, output and input. I have it as the first pedal in my chain; the guitar goes directly into it. Then I have the Tube Screamer and Boss Bass overdrive pedal. Normally I also have an Electro-Harmonix Metal muff in the mix, but it is glitching out on me right now. I run all of the distortion pedals in the loop. The send goes to the Tube Screamer, then into the Bass Overdrive, then into my Tuner and back into the return. The output goes out into my volume pedal, then into the rest of my chain. The Annihilation has a switch and one knob on it. I keep the knob in a general region that will produce a feedback tone I need for one song. If I had different distortions in the loop, or different settings on the distortions, it would change the frequency of the feedback tone. Basically it just makes a feedback loop—some nasty sounds with whatever you are sending."

In the user-uploaded photo from Guitar, Noveller is shown using the Morley Little Alligator Volume Pedal during a performance.

In the photo titled "noveller_sarah2.jpg" from Guitar, Noveller's signal chain includes the Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer.

Here's a cool video of Sarah Lipstate—a.k.a. Noveller—getting some awesome sounds using a Guitar Triller and an army of hot pedals!

"I am either using the Earthquaker devices Rainbow machine, or sometimes, in addition, the Soundtoys crystallizer plug-in. Sometimes I add that after the fact, but for the most part, it’s the Rainbow machine. I did get an Earthquaker Sea Machine and that’s my first chorus pedal. I am excited about that."

"I am either using the Earthquaker devices Rainbow machine, or sometimes, in addition, the Soundtoys crystallizer plug-in. Sometimes I add that after the fact, but for the most part, it’s the Rainbow machine. I did get an Earthquaker Sea Machine and that’s my first chorus pedal. I am excited about that."

"This week I got two Way Huge pedals: the Saucy Box overdrive and the Supa-Puss analog delay. I put both of those on there with the Spruce Effects Salt Water Fuzz and the Levitation reverb by Earthquaker. Of course, my Boomerang looper is also on there."

Q: I noticed you bowing behind the bridge, which is something Jaguars and Jazzmasters are good for. A: "That’s true; I used to do that on the Epiphone and was glad I could still do it on the Jaguar. The only thing I don’t like is that it is longer than a standard guitar and doesn’t fit in the one flight case I have. Whenever I fly I have to put it in a gig bag and carry on the plane."

In the user-uploaded photo from Guitar, Noveller is shown using an Ibanez Tone-Lok TS7 Tube Screamer, highlighting its role in her setup.

In the provided photo from Guitar, Noveller is shown using the Moog Moogerfooger MF-105 MuRF, highlighting its role in her setup.

In the photo, Noveller is pictured using the Heet Sound EBow, a tool often utilized for creating sustained guitar notes.

"That is the million-dollar question. Yesterday, I dropped off my new American Professional Fender Jazzmaster at my local shop, Future Music, to get it set up and ended up bringing home a double neck guitar."

"This week I got two Way Huge pedals: the Saucy Box overdrive and the Supa-Puss analog delay. I put both of those on there with the Spruce Effects Salt Water Fuzz and the Levitation reverb by Earthquaker. Of course, my Boomerang looper is also on there."

"This week I got two Way Huge pedals: the Saucy Box overdrive and the Supa-Puss analog delay. I put both of those on there with the Spruce Effects Salt Water Fuzz and the Levitation reverb by Earthquaker. Of course, my Boomerang looper is also on there."