Pat Smear's Effects Pedals

When watching Endless, Nameless from the Live and Loud performance, you can clearly see the pedal at 1:41 if you slow the video down.

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In the effects pedal section for pat smear it says he kept these on his pedal board.

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Pat used an ProCo Rat 2 during the early Foo Fighters (1995-1996/1997) period.

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In a user-uploaded photo, Pat Smear's pedalboard with the Foo Fighters prominently features a ProCo RAT pedal. It's unclear if this is a RAT 2 or the original Small Box RAT, similar to what he used during his time with Nirvana.

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Kurt Cobain gifted a Tech 21 SansAmp Classic to Pat Smear for his pedalboard. While Pat owns the SansAmp, he opted to use a ProCo Rat during live performances due to personal preference. This is supported by a user-uploaded photo.

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In this source photograph, Pat Smear's pedalboard with the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal can be seen on the floor.

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Here is a view of the board with Pat in the picture.

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During the Endless, Nameless at Live and Loud, you can see a Memory Man at 1:41

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The Lexotone is seen at the top right corner (bottom left from our view) of Pat's board.

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Seen on live pedalboard circa August 2021.

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Seen on live pedalboard circa August 2021.

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Pat Smear is known to use the MXR M-104 Distortion +, specifically a late 1970s model, as detailed in Alex Roberts' equipment guide on Live Nirvana.

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You can see the Small Clone next to the Boss Ds-2 during the video at 1:41

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The Fulltone website features Pat Smear's pedalboard, which includes the Electro-Harmonix Micro POG Polyphonic Octave Generator.

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The TU-3 can be seen on the right of Pat's board

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Seen on live pedalboard circa August 2021.

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Pat Smear uses the Line 6 M13 Stompbox Modeler, as seen on his pedalboard featured on Fulltone's artist page.

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Pat Smear is shown using a Voodoo Lab Amp Selector in a photo featured on the Fulltone website.

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A Dunlop Volume Pedal can be seen in this photo of Pats rig.

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In this screenshot of the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996, we can see the pedalboard of Pat, it is composed of a ProCo Rat 2 (see one of my previous submission), a Arion Stage Tuner (we can clearly see that it’s the Arion Stage Tuner), a Boss BF-2 (sure it’s the Boss BF-2 because of the shape and color of the pedal but also of the live at Concert Hall 1996, where during the noise part of Exhausted we can ear a Flange effect), and a Digitech Whammy II (sure it’s a Whammy II because of the shape, footswitch, and color of the pedal).

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In this screenshot of the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996, we can see the pedalboard of Pat, it is composed of a ProCo Rat 2 (see one of my previous submission), a Arion Stage Tuner (we can clearly see that it’s the Arion Stage Tuner), a Boss BF-2 (sure it’s the Boss BF-2 because of the shape and color of the pedal but also of the live at Concert Hall 1996, where during the noise part of Exhausted we can ear a Flange effect, and the version is the Japanese one with the black knobs), and a Digitech Whammy II (sure it’s a Whammy II because of the shape, footswitch, and color of the pedal).

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In this screenshot of the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996, we can see the pedalboard of Pat, it is composed of a ProCo Rat 2 (see one of my previous submission), a Arion Stage Tuner (we can clearly see that it’s the Arion Stage Tuner), a Boss BF-2 (sure it’s the Boss BF-2 because of the shape and color of the pedal but also of the live at Concert Hall 1996, where during the noise part of Exhausted we can ear a Flange effect), and a Digitech Whammy II (sure it’s a Whammy II because of the shape, footswitch, and color of the pedal).

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On Live Nirvana’s website it states Pat used a MXR Distortion+ on his pedalboard

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