Tim McIlrath's Effects Pedals

At 10:18 Zach Blair, the lead guitarist of Rise Against, lists Tim's pedal and says that he uses a boss delay and places his hand on a boss flanger. Although he says boss delay the pedal is clearly a boss flanger as you can tell from the colour.

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At 10:20 in this rig rundown video, Zach points out the Boss NS-2 as one of Tim's pedals.

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At 10:23 of this video Zach Blair explains Tim's effect pedal set up, which includes an MXR Carbon Copy Delay.

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At 10:19, Zach Blair lists some of the pedals that Tim McIlrath uses, including his Line 6 Tap Tremolo, which can be seen at 10:22.

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“Essentially, it’s stuff that we came across during the recording of the songs. When we’re writing songs, we don’t mess with pedals, we just plug guitars into amps. It’s only in the studio that we find all the different toys and gadgets to add to different parts. That’s what these are: bits and pieces from the most recent record, The Black Market mainly.

"I do a lot more clean tone stuff than Zach does, so that tone has to be just right. We’ll spend days in the studio trying to get the right clean tone, so we’ll try and simulate that with some of these. It’s all fairly simple stuff: delay, reverb and tremolo. We trust Jeff - he’s like our ‘artist’ back here - to introduce these colours to the songs and he does a great job of it.”

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“Essentially, it’s stuff that we came across during the recording of the songs. When we’re writing songs, we don’t mess with pedals, we just plug guitars into amps. It’s only in the studio that we find all the different toys and gadgets to add to different parts. That’s what these are: bits and pieces from the most recent record, The Black Market mainly.

"I do a lot more clean tone stuff than Zach does, so that tone has to be just right. We’ll spend days in the studio trying to get the right clean tone, so we’ll try and simulate that with some of these. It’s all fairly simple stuff: delay, reverb and tremolo. We trust Jeff - he’s like our ‘artist’ back here - to introduce these colours to the songs and he does a great job of it.”

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