Pete Thorn

An Analog Man King of Tone pedal can be seen in this photo of Pete Thorn's pedalboard, from Strymon's website.

"Yeah. That pedal is fantastic—really amazing. I watched the Power Stack one the other day, and it knocked me out again. In particular, the sound I dialed in using a Les Paul, I was like, “Man, that sounds good.” It’s a really cool pedal."

"I’ve used that pedal before in the past. Some of the other BOSS pedals that I have that I’m really digging…I still bust out the classic blue [CS-3] compressor. It has a really distinctive sound."

We met up with guitarist Pete Thorn at Line 6 HQ to get his first impressions and demo of the new HX Stomp Multi Effects Processor Pedal, including building presets and using the HX both with an amp and direct-recording.

This deceptively small multi-effects pedal features over 300 effects and models from Helix, M-Series, legacy Line 6 products, and more.

"The loops in the switcher have 8 pedals (1 per loop). They are:

Loop 1 – Suhr Koji Compressor Loop 2 – Boss MO-2 multi overtone…" - Pete Thorn.

In a photo shared on his Facebook page, Pete Thorn is seen using the Two Notes Torpedo Live Digital Loadbox and Speaker Simulator, highlighting its role in his setup.

"My little Japan hotel room studio is working! Suhr Bella, one of my old prototype Suhr Reactive Loads (sitting on the Bella), Atomic Amplifire, UA Apollo Twin…"

Pete tests out his PT15IR (running d.i. with Celestion IR's) with Helix HX Effects for amp switching and all FX sounds..

In this video review of IK Multimedia's AmpliTube 5, Pete Thorn says at 13:56

You could make a full album using nothing but this plugin, I think, and it would sound really quite impressive.

Pete Thorn's pedalboard can be seen in this photo, on this page of Strymon's website, and on it is a Suhr Koko boost.

An MXR CSP026 can be seen on Pete Thorn's pedalboard, in this photo, from Strymon's website.

"The switcher feeds a TC Polytune mini. The loops in the switcher have 8 pedals (1 per loop). They are:

Loop 1 – Suhr Koji Compressor Loop 2 – Boss MO-2 multi overtone Loop 3 – Strymon Mobius…" - Pete Thorn.

"Every guitarist needs some quality delay, verb, and tremolo in their lives... Used these fine specimens in my upcoming Suhr Hedgehog demo, the Strymon El Capistan and Flint, and Diamond Quantum Leap"

"This thing really SINGS!"

"My other "Cool Pedal Alert" for the day- bet you've never seen one of these- Crews Quaddrive, from Crews Manic Sound in Japan, great JTM45-type tones that stay tight, with a boost too…"

In this video, Thorn demonstrated the JHS Andy Timmons signature channel drive.

He demonstrated this pedal on his channel. He used Suhr PT100 for the amplifier during this demo.

"Yeah. It’s such a problematic thing using tape delays on tour. Even in the studio, sometimes I’ll bust them out because a couple producers I know have them, and it’s like, “Oh, let’s try the Echoplex.” But they’re noisy, and if they’re not set up just right it’s a pain. [So we usually] just go back to the [RE-20] pedal."

"I also use the [Roland] MICRO CUBE amp backstage to warm up. It’s great. You can throw batteries in it, and I’ll take it in the back lounge of the bus, or wherever, and the thing sounds amazing. It’s fun to sit there and play through. The thing’s great. It’s all you need. [BOSS and Roland] just make a ton of cool stuff for guitar players and I can’t say enough good things."

A full demonstration of the Helix, by guitarist Pete Thorn

https://www.instagram.com/p/BT-E-wqgaiS/

Recorded his single using the Headrush Pedalboard.

I love this thing, might be my candidate for favorite guitar I think

At the description of this video, Mr. Thorn said: "A full demo of the BE-OD from Friedman"

On commentaries, Ola Englund said: "Sick demo Pete! Pedal and song sounds awesome!"

Pete Thorn utilizes the Providence Vitalizer BF VZF-1 Active Impedance Converter on his compact pedalboard, as highlighted by VBoutiqueUSA on Twitter.

Guitarist Pete Thorn is shown using the Wampler Tumnus overdrive pedal as part of his compact yet versatile VBoard Pro pedalboard, as highlighted in a tweet by VBoutiqueUSA.

In this video Pete Thorn demos and reviews the Ramble FX Twin Bender V3.

He closes out the review saying:

Really, really cool, versatile, tweak-able version of the old Tone Bender circuit. Just sounds terrific.

In this photo of Pete Thorn's pedalboard, found on Strymon's website, a Crazy Tube Circuits Starlight pedal can be seen.

A Strymon TimeLine can be seen on Pete Thorn's pedalboard, in this article.

"The signal runs into a Mission volume pedal and Vertex Axis wah, then hits the Musicomlab MKIII switcher…" - Pete Thorn.

"Been using the TC clip on Polytune tuner for a few weeks now, I love this thing!"