Thom Yorke's Effects Pedals

"Here's a short experimental video by Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- look carefully, and you'll spot his Frequency Analyzer, Stereo Polychorus, and Big Muff Pi."

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Thom was first seen with an MXR M-104 Distortion + Guitar Pedal in photos on DAS from the recording of In Rainbows. He used on the In Rainbows tour, and later for the 2010 Atoms for Peace tour. It can be seen on the main board in the source photo, second from right. The MXR Distortion + is also listed as part of Thom's gear on fan sites.

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This is a picture of Thom's pedal boards from their appearance on Austin City Limits. The photos are displayed on Austin City Limit's Gear Blog located here: http://acltv.com/tag/gear/

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In this image of Thom, one can see his 45000 Looper above his Machinedrum.

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Thom Yorke can be seen with a Holy Grail pedal in this picture.

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In this image circa 1993/95 Thom's main (and only) pedal was the ProCo Turbo Rat, and was the main distortion pedal on both "Pablo Honey"and "The Bends", it's also rumoured that this was the only pedal that thom used on both albums.

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This article includes this photo of Thom Yorke's pedalboard, which includes an EHX Iron Lung.

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A Telenordia Kompressor can be seen on Thom's pedalboard in this photo.

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A Line 6 DL4 can be seen on each of Thom Yorke's two pedalboards in this photo, from this article detailing their gear when they played Austin City Limits in 2010.

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This article includes a picture from 1997 showing a DD-3 on Thom's board

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"Thom used this delay during the 2006 pre-In Rainbows tour. He used it with a Boss FV-5U for tap tempo. Thom may have been experimenting with using delay on the early versions of In Rainbows tracks, but none of that experimentation seems to have made it onto the record."

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At 53:40 Thom's pedalboard gets exposed, the blue pedal with teh four knobs and to switches at hte end of his chain looks almost exactly like the Fulltone Fulldrive 2.

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According to this article Thom Yorke uses the EHX Small Stone Pedal. This can be seen on his pedalboard on the right side, top left corner.

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this is a pic of thom's pedalboard for the in rainbows tour.

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"Used for an octave harmony effect on Where I End And You Begin. Some claim that it was a Boss PS3, but since the few blurry screencaps seem to include the white tipped knobs of the PS2,and since Radiohead sold a “ps2” on ebay, it is far more likely a PS2."

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according to the king of gear website thom used the DBA interstellar overdriver in the atoms for peace project in 2013.

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"Thom started using a Shredmaster halfway through the OK Computer Tour, and one was also on his board for shows in support of Kid A and Amnesiac. He had ceased use by Hail To The Thief touring, but had it on his auxiliary board in during the 2008-2009 In Rainbows tour."

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"During the recording sessions for In Rainbows, the big box version of this pedal can be seen next to Thom’s Tech 21 XXL, so it is probably that he used it, though the parts recorded with it may not have made it to any of the final versions of songs."

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A Boss LS-2 can be seen on Thom's pedalboard in this photo.

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"Here's a short experimental video by Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- look carefully, and you'll spot his Frequency Analyzer, Stereo Polychorus, and Big Muff Pi."

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"Here's a short experimental video by Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- look carefully, and you'll spot his Frequency Analyzer, Stereo Polychorus, and Big Muff Pi."

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This article mentions Thom's use of a PSM-5 around the Kid A/Amnesiac era

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In this image, from this article, Thom's Akai Headrush E2 can be seen.

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"A staple on all of Thom’s boards since the mid-2000’s."

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This article mentions the use of an XXL, with proof

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Visible in this photo of Yorke's pedalboard, featured in this article by Austin City Limits' Gear Blog.

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This article includes this photo of Thom's pedalboard, which is powered by a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus.

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Rainbow machine on thom’s pedalboard from The Smile’ livestream

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It can be seen at 2:22 in the live performance video.

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Seen on his pedalboard on a live stream for thoms band the smile

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