Ruban Nielson's Gear

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In this TapeOp interview with Ruban, he states he used a Shure SM58.

"I did two records with a [Shure SM]58"

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In this interview Ruban provides info about his gear. Among his amp gear, he has the Orange AD30 head and a Fender Hot Rod DeVille.

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In this TapeOp interview with Ruban, he states he uses a Fender Blues Jr:

"a [Fender] Blues Junior"

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In this interview with Noisey, Ruben says, "I really like them; they change the way that I play. I used to play a regular scale Telecaster in a punk band I was in [The Mint Chicks], but when I changed to the Jag-Stang, I could play much more intricate stuff. It's a really subtle difference, but it makes a big difference."

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In this video, at 2:34, Ruban Nielson says that he switched out his EHX Holy Grail for a Catalinbread Topanga Spring Reverb.

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In his Instragram's account, Ruban shows one of his latest aquisitions: the Rickebacker 620.

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In this photo of Ruban in his home studio, a pair of Yamaha HS7 monitors can be seen. he has backed this up in an interview with TapeOp:

http://tapeop.com/interviews/109/unknown-mortal-orchestra/

"I had these [points at Yamaha HS7 monitors]. I still have no desire to upgrade from them."

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"And I've got the Pareidolia which is a univibe, and that sounds really good," says Ruban, at 2:56 in this video.

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At 2:24 in this video, one can see an Analogman Bi-Comprossor located at left top corner of Ruban's pedalboard.

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In this photo of Ruban in his home studio, an MBox 2 Mini can be seen on top of the right monitor.

http://tapeop.com/interviews/109/unknown-mortal-orchestra/

This is also backed up in a TapeOp interview with Ruban, in which he states:

"and my Mbox Mini,"

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In this photo of one of Ruban's effects boards, a Chase Bliss Warped Vinyl MKII can be seen.

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In this photo from Catalinbread's instagram you can see a Belle Epoch on Ruban's board.

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you can see him using it 49 seconds in

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Ruban Nielson is seen with a custom Baranik B3-R guitar in a photo shared by Baranik Guitars on Instagram.

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In this video, at 2:24, there is a close look at Ruban's pedalboard, which includes an Electro-Harmonix Nano Freeze pedal.

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At 2:29, one can see a Nano Small Stone on Ruban Nielson's pedalboard.

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In this photo, one see a Micro Q-Tron in Ruban's pedalboard.

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Right at the middle sits Ruban's Small Stone.

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At 2:10, Ruban Nielson says that he bought a Soundblox Guitar Envolope Filter just to try out, but it turns out to be very good.

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Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra is seen using the Rogue Sitar, an electric guitar model designed to emulate the sound of a traditional sitar, in a user-uploaded photo on Louderthanwar.

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In this picture the DOD Overdrive Preamp can be see, with a bit of tape with Ruban's setting.

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In this photo of one of Ruban's effects boards, a Danelectro Back Talk Reverse Delay can be seen.

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In this photo from Ruban's studio, a Moog Realistic Concertmate synth can be seen on the ground.

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In this video, at 2:29, one can see that Ruban's pedalboard includes a Ditto Looper.

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Right next to the Small Stone sits the MXR 10 band eq on Ruban's pedalboard.

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Right at the front row of Ruban's pedalboard, the Octafuzz can be seen.

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In this interview Ruban provides info about his gear. Among his amp gear, he has the Orange AD30 head and a Fender Hot Rod DeVille.

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"unknownmortalorchestrathis is gonna be fun. Thank you @manticconcepts #pedalgram"

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throughout the video hes playing on what looks like a red fender mustang.

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In this photo of Ruban in his home studio, an Electro-Harmonix Screaming Bird Treble Booster can be seen on top of his left monitor.

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Album Credits

  • Multi-Love

    Multi-Love

    Unknown Mortal Orchestra · 2015

    Engineer Mixing Engineer Producer