Sam McTrusty

¨I´ve known about these for years, but I was never indulgent enough to fit one on my board until now! Because I´m singing as well as thinking about crowd control, pedals are a bit of an afterthought. I was listening to a lot of ´In Utero´ while we were making our new album and I wanted to recreate that swirling, sickly feedback. Whenever that comes on, it´s to add swampiness - on tracks like ´You Are The Devil´, ´Overthinking´ and ´Valhalla´. It´s one of the pedals that can´t be replicated, and when you mix it with fuzz you get instant Nirvana. (Total Guitar, January 2017)¨

¨Like the Small Clone, I used this on nearly every rhythm guitar track on the new album. It was my way of dropping it down to single notes instead of chords, so I can fatten things out more with the same weight and presence. There´s a lot of that style on there, while before it was all about power chords! I used the high octave on the chorus of ´Heart And Soul´, with long reverbs coming from the Kemper. The tracking is so good it literally sounds like someone else is there playing a baritone, rather than being too digital. (Total Guitar, January 2017)¨

Sam McTrusty uses the TC Electronic Polytune Mini on his pedalboard, as featured in MusicRadar's "In pictures: 68 pro guitarists' pedalboards."