Robert Levon Been

One of my favorite tones on the album is the synth-y bass on “King of Bones.” How did you get that tone and how did that song come to be? Been: The Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail pedal had a lot to do with the sound on that one. Once the riff came to me, I realized I was kind of in Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets territory, and I really like that, and it’s been a really long time since we’ve done anything in that world.

I really like fucking around with just regular old Boss EQ pedals. People underestimate what those pedals can do when it comes to carving out tones on the fly when you’re playing, but also the extra little bit of drive you can get from one of those

I mainly use pedals made by Dave Archer under the name Vintage FX: the Colordrive and VFX Overdrive. I also use the Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail and different delays like the Akai Headrush for looping stuff?

At the official TC Electronic page we can see that he uses a Flashback Delay.

We can see at the TC Electronics page that Robert uses a Ditto X2 Looper.

Picture attached shows Robert Levon been's pedalboard. The Subnup mini is most notably as an organ effect on the track circus bazooko by brmc. He also utilises it for extra depth on his bass parts.

Robert Levon been's pedal board pictured here shows the dd3 is utilised by this artist.