Stian Westerhus

Stian used this at the end of the chain, after delays, before Boss looper.

"I used mostly my two Hiwatt Custom 50 combos and recorded them with Audio-Technica AT4081 ribbon mics."

"I used my Gibson 1970 ES-335, except for an Ibanez baritone on one track. I modified it with two mini humbuckers."

"On the pedalboard, I now have a Boss tuner into a Fulltone FullDrive 2 that’s always on with a clean setting."

standard part of Stian's pedalboard

"I used my Gibson 1970 ES-335, except for an Ibanez baritone on one track. I modified it with two mini humbuckers."

"That’s all guitar. I compressed the shit out of the baritone, and then filtered it on the desk, just rolling things off. If it were a plug-in, it would have been the FabFilter Pro-Q1."

"I was using Boss RC-20 loopers when I first started building those big boards, but I didn’t like their headroom and preamps."

"That goes into a Fulltone OCD and then a Boss OC-3 octave pedal."

"From there it goes into the Line 6 Echo Park delay, the Moog Ring Modulator, and then into and Eventide H9. That goes into the laptop through a MOTU Ultralite audio interface."

"From there it goes into the Line 6 Echo Park delay, the Moog Ring Modulator, and then into and Eventide H9. That goes into the laptop through a MOTU Ultralite audio interface."

"My live amp rig—since I can’t get Hiwatts anywhere—is a pair of Fender Twin blackface ’65 reissues with Jensen speakers, linked up to two Ampeg SVT Classics with 4x10s."

"I use the old Roland FC-200 MIDI foot controller just for simple CC [control change] messages to turn on and off the different effects chains."

"I have all my systems backed up to Dropbox and all the plug-ins are on iLok, so if everything fails and I need to borrow or buy a new computer, I can easily download my systems from Dropbox and I’m good to go."

"I used mostly my two Hiwatt Custom 50 combos and recorded them with Audio-Technica AT4081 ribbon mics."

"That goes into a Fulltone OCD and then a Boss OC-3 octave pedal."

"From there it goes into the Line 6 Echo Park delay, the Moog Ring Modulator, and then into and Eventide H9. That goes into the laptop through a MOTU Ultralite audio interface."

"From there it goes into the Line 6 Echo Park delay, the Moog Ring Modulator, and then into and Eventide H9. That goes into the laptop through a MOTU Ultralite audio interface."

"My live amp rig—since I can’t get Hiwatts anywhere—is a pair of Fender Twin blackface ’65 reissues with Jensen speakers, linked up to two Ampeg SVT Classics with 4x10s."

Stian Westerhus extensively uses the Moog Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator, notably for the tremolo effect in the song "Sabkah" from Nils Petter Molvaer's album Hamada. This is highlighted in the BBC Radio 3 photo gallery for the Late Junction collaboration session with Swati Natekar.

Stian Westerhus consistently uses the MXR M-132 Super Comp compressor pedal, as seen in the BBC Radio 3 photo gallery from his collaboration session with Swati Natekar.

You can see it in the pic number 6 of the blog.