Steve Rothery

"The guitar on that also has this thing called a Vo-96. Paul Vo, who did some work for Moog down in Asheville, North Carolina, came up with this system. It’s almost like a polyphonic EBow. It generates magnetic fields to vibrate the strings, but it does it at different harmonic intervals and cycles between them. So at the beginning of the album, when you hear something that almost sounds like an organ come up underneath, that was another take of the same guitar part, using my Farida acoustic with the Vo-96 driving the strings."

"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."

According to the Premier Guitar, Rothery uses Super Slinky guitar strings.

Steve's original Squier has been modified with a Kahler tremolo and EMG SA pickups.

Mentioned on Marillion's official website.

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."

According to the Premier Guitar's article, Rohtery uses Groove Tubes Dual 75 power amplifier.

According to Premier Guitar's article, Rothery uses Pitcher Shadow SE amplifier head.

According to Premier Guitar, one of his Marshall cabinets is loaded with Celestion Vintage 30's.

"I'm known as a perfectionist when it comes to tone," says Steve. "and the Multiamp is by far and away the best guitar amp simulator I have ever heard. It responds like an amp should and is a great addition to any guitarists collection." --from DV Mark's website

Mentioned on Marillion's official website.

Mentioned on Marillion's official website.

Mentioned on Marillion's website.

You can perfectly see this amplifier behind Mr. Rothery's head in the 2020 version of "Made Again".

In the user-uploaded photo, Steve Rothery is seen using the Shure SRH840 headphones.

I'm not sure if this is the right model number, but this is definitely a 4x12 cabinet, and it's definitely a silver jubilee. On Marillion's official website (http://www.marillion.com/band/rothery.htm) it is mentioned as "Marshall 4x12".

Seen in this photo behind Mr. Rothery. Photo taken on 12.12.2019 in Auditorium Della Conciliazione, Rome.

Can be seen in the music video of Marillion- Kayleigh and live in 1985 https://youtu.be/-GcAL0k7wYI That Steve Rothery used the Roland g505.

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).

Well, exactly! It limits how fast you can pick for a start. But if you angle the pick, you can get a reasonable amount of speed up, but only for a certain kind of style. I just love the dynamic range a light to medium pick gives you. I use the yellow ones, I think it’s a 73mm.