Steve Rothery

In this interview, Steve Rothery says, "In the old days, we’re going back a few years, from our second album, Fugazi, through pretty much to probably Radiation, the two amps I used were a Marshall master volume head on a 4x12 for the crunch sounds, sort of heavy chordal sounds, and a [Roland] JC 120 which I used with various effects: digital delays, BOSS chorus, BOSS DS-1 distortion for solo sound… And that was kind of what I used to use for that clean picking arpeggiated sound."

Marillion's Steve Rothery is also using a Bi-Chorus, also heard on with other band The Wishing Tree

"It’s not that large a palette that I tend to draw upon. There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork."

"It’s not that large a palette that I tend to draw upon. There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork."

"And then, in the loop of the Pitcher, there are Strymon delays and reverbs. Sometimes I run both independently, which gives me a very wide spread."

Strymon BigSky is further mentioned in the gear list.

"Within the loop of the 2290 I have other things, like the Rotosphere and an AdrenaLinn pedal, and that goes into a Lexicon reverb. And then, in the loop of the Pitcher, there are Strymon delays and reverbs. Sometimes I run both independently, which gives me a very wide spread."

Then there’s my Lexicon MPX G2, which is a greatsounding unit by not very well thought-out; it has 300 presets but only 50 user presets—great idea, guys. I still have my Roland GP-16s, and I also used the Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere quite a lot, as well as the TC Electronic 2290,

It’s not that large a palette that I tend to draw upon. There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork.

Also mentioned in the 2022 guitarguitar interview

Then the way my signal flow works is I use a Gig-Rig pedal - a G2 or a G3 - to control how hard the input of the preamp is being driven, and then boosting the level to compensate for that if you’re kind of cleaning up.

"It’s not that large a palette that I tend to draw upon. There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork."

"And then, in the loop of the Pitcher, there are Strymon delays and reverbs. Sometimes I run both independently, which gives me a very wide spread."

• Strymon TimeLine is further mentioned on Rothery's gear list.

"There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork."

Mentioned on Marillion's official website.

Mentioned on Marillion's official website.

"It’s not that large a palette that I tend to draw upon. There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork."

"It’s not that large a palette that I tend to draw upon. There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork."

"It’s not that large a palette that I tend to draw upon. There are certain sounds that I love. I use a GigRig G2 at the front end normally when I’m writing and recording, and I’ve got a selection of stompboxes at the front end, like a Prince of Tone or King of Tone, Jester Overdrive, Analog Man Mini-Chorus, Keeley tremolo, and an Electro-Harmonix POG and Pitch Fork."

Mentioned on Marillion's website.

Steve Rothery's pedalboard, crafted by Marillion collaborator Dave Foster, includes the Rockbox Boiling Point Overdrive Pedal, as detailed in the article "Gear Acquisition Syndrome: Steve Rothery's Grande Board" on Daveyfoz.

Rothery uses this pedal as a substitution for Lexicon MPX G2 reverb rack unit.

All of my 2290’s have died too, after touring for years around the world, but I use the Free The Tone Flight Time, which is like a 2290 in a box. It’s exactly the same. I want to go in and alter the time or filter the delay and that lets me do it in about three button presses. That’s what you need in a creative situation, as opposed to (mimes messing about with submenus on some old rack system).