Tim Mahoney

Tim uses a Boss Super Overdrive SD-1 pedal, according to Guitar Geek.

"This might be my absolute favorite pedal. I’ve been a fan of envelope filters since the late ’80s, when I saw the Grateful Dead and first experimented with acid. I remember hearing those Dead songs like “Delta Dawn,” “Estimated Prophet,” and “Run for the Roses,” and just wanting to sound like that. My first envelope filter was a Boss TW-1 T Wah."

MAIN BOARD LA Sound Design buffered pedalboard input > Boss FV-300L volume pedal (tc electronics Polytune 2 in tuner out) > CAE wah > LOOPSTRIP 1 > 1. Boss OC-2 Octave 2. Digitech Whammy Ricochet (on Party board) 3. Mu-FX Micro-Tron 3 MXR phaser (vintage) > Xact Tone Solutions “The Pusher” (Pegasus boost) > Way Huge Blue Hippo Chorus > Maxon AD-9 analog delay in One Control loop box > A / B Amp Select Box… A out > Input Amp A, Bogner Überschall (high gain) with Lexicon pcm42 delay in FX loop B out > Paul Cochran Timmy OD > Xact Tone Solutions Precision OD > One Control Loop Box for send/ return to:

PARTY BOARD Digitech Synth Wah > Catlinbread Echorec > Strymon blueSky reverb > EHX 2880 Looper (in One Control loop box) > Empress Tremolo > Strymon El Capistan delay > Free The Tone Flight Time delay > Input Amp B, Mesa Triple Crown (clean) with Lexicon pcm42 delay in FX loop * Strymon Favorite Switch for El Capistan * MIDI Mouse controls Flight Time presets * 2x 1/4” stomps control bypass on pcm42s

This detailed gear diagram of Tim Mahoney's 311 stage setup includes a Musitronic Mu-Tron III Envelope Filter.

According to LA Sound Design, the ND-1 Nova Delay was added to Tim Mahoney's overseas touring rack replacement board.

"The board is set up so that he can run a Volume pedal and Nova Delay in the loop of his Dist amp and a Volume pedal, Nova Delay and Nova Reverb in the loop of his clean heads in stereo. A custom power supply was built as well as the custom interface with Jensen ISO transfromer. Tim will use this along with his giant board in front of the amps."

Full article here.

A list of Tim's current rig setup is posted on the website.

"This pedal is criminally underrated. I know Boss sometimes has a bad rep with the pedal-using community, but this super-simple stompbox has been on every single 311 album since Unity in the early ’90s. I really enjoy using it on heavy, single-note guitar parts because it adds some nastiness and fattens the tone, bolstering the dry distortion sound. I kick it on for songs like “Ebb and Flow” and “The Great Divide” off Stereolithic. I prefer the Boss Octave to an octave fuzz because it only tracks one or two octaves below the original signal, and it’s simple, clean, and pure."

"My argument for having this pedal in my top five might have the most holes in it, because I’ve had many of these, and several were duds. But the one that’s been on my board for over a decade is a champion of a chorus. I remember getting my hands on John Scofield’s Loud Jazz, being blown away by the music, and finding out he used a CS-9, so I had to get one. I lucked out and found this early-’80s version that is so smooth, transparent, and water-like that I haven’t been able to replace it.

I recently put a Jacques Stompboxes Meistersinger on the party board. It’s a great analog chorus, but I feel the CS-9 is just more versatile. It can do the slow, signature chorus sound, but I really dig chorusing effects when you crank the rate to 75 or 80 percent. They get choppy, hectic, and almost abrasive. I add the CS-9 to songs like “You Wouldn’t Believe” and “Revelation of the Year.”

According to Premier Guitar, Mahoney uses Strymon TimeLine pedal.

MAIN BOARD LA Sound Design buffered pedalboard input > Boss FV-300L volume pedal (tc electronics Polytune 2 in tuner out) > CAE wah > LOOPSTRIP 1 > 1. Boss OC-2 Octave 2. Digitech Whammy Ricochet (on Party board) 3. Mu-FX Micro-Tron 3 MXR phaser (vintage) > Xact Tone Solutions “The Pusher” (Pegasus boost) > Way Huge Blue Hippo Chorus > Maxon AD-9 analog delay in One Control loop box > A / B Amp Select Box… A out > Input Amp A, Bogner Überschall (high gain) with Lexicon pcm42 delay in FX loop B out > Paul Cochran Timmy OD > Xact Tone Solutions Precision OD > One Control Loop Box for send/ return to:

PARTY BOARD Digitech Synth Wah > Catlinbread Echorec > Strymon blueSky reverb > EHX 2880 Looper (in One Control loop box) > Empress Tremolo > Strymon El Capistan delay > Free The Tone Flight Time delay > Input Amp B, Mesa Triple Crown (clean) with Lexicon pcm42 delay in FX loop * Strymon Favorite Switch for El Capistan * MIDI Mouse controls Flight Time presets * 2x 1/4” stomps control bypass on pcm42s

In this Guitar Geek rig diagram, Tim's Boss CE-2 can be seen.

Tim uses an MXR Flanger, according to this rig diagram by Guitar Geek.

Tim uses an Ibanez AD9, according to Guitar Geek.

According to this detailed gear diagram of Tim Mahoney's 311 stage setup, he uses an Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man.

According to LA Sound Design, the Boss FV 300L was added to Tim Mahoney's overseas touring rack replacement board.

"The board is set up so that he can run a Volume pedal and Nova Delay in the loop of his Dist amp and a Volume pedal, Nova Delay and Nova Reverb in the loop of his clean heads in stereo. A custom power supply was built as well as the custom interface with Jensen ISO transfromer. Tim will use this along with his giant board in front of the amps."

Full article here.

According to LA Sound Design, the TC Electronic NR-1 was added to Tim Mahoney's overseas touring rack replacement board.

"The board is set up so that he can run a Volume pedal and Nova Delay in the loop of his Dist amp and a Volume pedal, Nova Delay and Nova Reverb in the loop of his clean heads in stereo. A custom power supply was built as well as the custom interface with Jensen ISO transfromer. Tim will use this along with his giant board in front of the amps."

Full article here.

Tim and his guitar tech were interviewed for this guitar rig, which shows him using the G4 rotary speaker simulator on his "party" pedalboard.

If I had to choose one effect that MXR is best at, I’d probably say the phaser. I love the Phase 100 and the Phase 45 pedals—I own both—but for me, the quintessential phase box is the 90. The 45 is a two-stage phaser, while the 90 is a four-stage unit. Some might claim the 45 is milder, making it more musical, but I like how much phase you can dial in with the 90. It can be subtle and svelte, or it can be a whooshing monster. It sounds solid across the knob’s entire sweep. Plus, I kind of like the unintended affect it has to my tone, since it adds gain and volume. You can hear it getting a workout on our cover of the Bad Brains song “Leaving Babylon.”"

According to Premier Guitar, Mahoney also uses XTS Precision Overdrive Pedal.

According to Premier Guitar, Mahoney uses the Digitech Synth Wah pedal.

According to Premier Guitar, Mahoney uses the TC Electronic Nova Repeater pedal.

"Then I have a Boss GigaDelay (DD-20) out there. That's this new one this year that has an LED read out so you can dial in the exact milliseconds. I use that on a lot of songs."

The blueSky covers all of my “greater than subtle” reverb effect needs. It’s typically set between a big spring or modulated plate, with the favorite set to huge modulated room

I’ve been using the El Cap and blueSky on my live boards for a few years now. I can’t remember if my first Strymon effect was an El Cap or Brigadier, but there was a time when I was using one of each on my pedalboard. The Brigadier only came off because of real estate needs on the board. I’ve also had a TimeLine on my board, but in the live environment show flow, I prefer the individual effects like El Cap and Brigadier, with their independent specific stomps, knobs, and toggles. The El Cap is on because it’s my favorite sounding vibey delay pedal, I use it with a Favorite Switch set for slapback.

MAIN BOARD LA Sound Design buffered pedalboard input > Boss FV-300L volume pedal (tc electronics Polytune 2 in tuner out) > CAE wah > LOOPSTRIP 1 > 1. Boss OC-2 Octave 2. Digitech Whammy Ricochet (on Party board) 3. Mu-FX Micro-Tron 3 MXR phaser (vintage) > Xact Tone Solutions “The Pusher” (Pegasus boost) > Way Huge Blue Hippo Chorus > Maxon AD-9 analog delay in One Control loop box > A / B Amp Select Box… A out > Input Amp A, Bogner Überschall (high gain) with Lexicon pcm42 delay in FX loop B out > Paul Cochran Timmy OD > Xact Tone Solutions Precision OD > One Control Loop Box for send/ return to:

PARTY BOARD Digitech Synth Wah > Catlinbread Echorec > Strymon blueSky reverb > EHX 2880 Looper (in One Control loop box) > Empress Tremolo > Strymon El Capistan delay > Free The Tone Flight Time delay > Input Amp B, Mesa Triple Crown (clean) with Lexicon pcm42 delay in FX loop * Strymon Favorite Switch for El Capistan * MIDI Mouse controls Flight Time presets * 2x 1/4” stomps control bypass on pcm42s

A Boss DSD-2 can be seen on Tim's Guitar Geek rig diagram.

According to Guitar Geek, Tim uses an MXR Phase 45 Pedal.

Tim uses a Line 6 FM4, according to Guitar Geek.

According to Guitar Geek, Tim uses a Digitech Whammy 4.

According to this Guitar Geek rig diagram, Tim uses a Boss FV-500H.