Rory Friers

“This is probably my favourite pedal on the ’board at the minute - it’s gorgeous modulating delay, set for really slow, really long delays, repeats up really high.

“You can just brush the strings and just let the sound of the pedal do the rest.”

"It's a reissue, plays very well. I'm using it as my back up at the moment, all stock" -Rory Friers

“I switched back to using my US Tele [American] Deluxe - on the past 18 months’ touring, I’d gone to my other Tele, which is a semi-hollowbody ’73 Thinline - but it was difficult to tame if you were doing any choppy stuff" - Rory Friers

“I found that for my clean stuff, I was digging into the strings and breaking a lot of strings, because my guitar wasn’t thick or loud enough.

“I wanted to work on my clean tone, so I bought this, and it’s solved all my problems. I have it on for 50 per cent of my show.”

“Our last album had a lot of sounds, so it was impossible for me to make them all come on at the same time, so I had to resort to a multi-effects.

“And I was pleasantly surprised. I’d always had a bit of a thing - I guess a lot of people do - about multi-effects pedals, like they’re inferior, but for what I needed it for, it was great. And it has a looper in it, as well.”

“My first gain stage is this OCD: you can have it quite subtle - a little gritty - or it works as a nice distortion if I’m ever doing any festivals where I don’t have my exact rig, and I might be using what’s at the festival.”

“I actually just have it on one setting, the 300-millisecond modulation, and have everything turned to turn it into this self-oscillating insanity, so essentially, whenever I press this button, it just creates this big, thunderous, cacophonous ‘reeargh’.”

“I use it on a hall setting; sometimes I’ll have it full mix up, so it’s just reverb, sometimes not, but I usually don’t mess around with it too much.”

“I have it set to loop: whenever you press and hold it the loop starts, and when you release it the loop ends.

“So, the shorter you do that, then the shorter the sample it records, so I use it to do little stuttery ‘brrrrp’ effects every now and again.”

“I use it on a standard digital delay with tap tempo. I don’t really do anything very fancy with it.”

"I switched back to using my US Tele [American] Deluxe - on the past 18 months’ touring, I’d gone to my other Tele, which is a semi-hollowbody ’73 Thinline" -Rory Friers

Rory Friers of And So I Watch You From Afar is shown using the Orange Thunderverb 200W guitar amplifier head in a photo from a live performance, as seen on Wikimedia.

Rory Friers uses the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 PLUS on his pedalboard, as featured in MusicRadar's article "In pictures: 68 pro guitarists' pedalboards."

In a recent Instagram post, Rory Friers is shown using the Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer, positioned horizontally below his Line 6 M13.

“This is just an octave pedal, really. I’ve had it for ages and it does the job.

“I use it less and less, actually, because I have a preset on the M13 that I really like, but I use this whenever I’m doing some volume stuff, like low volume-y stuff with some delay on.”

“I have one set to go from natural up to two octaves above in a big, long linear ‘weeeooorp’.

“And then I have the other one set to go up with zero attack, so it jumps from the natural sound to a 5th up, and I use this for this arpeggiation thing: I’m doing hammer- ons on triplets, and I’m pressing this on the beat. It makes it sound like I’m really good on the guitar.”

"Yeah I sometimes use an old Silverface Twin, not sure what year tho?" -Rory Friers

You can make out an Avalance above his Boss Digital Delay

Rory Friers uses the Boss DD-500 Digital Delay, as evidenced by its appearance on his pedalboard in an Instagram post.

Rory Friers is confirmed to use the Boss RV-500 Reverb, as evidenced by its presence in a photo of his experimental pedalboard on Instagram.