Unknown Mortal Orchestra

"Armed with a Fender Jag-Stang" mentioned in an article about Unknown Mortal Orchestra

In an instagram live video on 26/6/21 Ruban was asked what he was using for overdrive while playing a custom jagstang and answering questions he answered that he was running the compressor pedal cranked into a fender blues amp giving him a light crunch

In this interview with Reverb.com Rueben says he uses this envelop filter on his pedal board

It's a Jaguar, headstock says Fender. *edit 10/25/2025 Initial posting is correct, just adding details. It's a Johnny Marr Jaguar

In this interview with Reverb.com Rueben says he uses the Topanga spring reverb on his pedalboard

Shown in the interview and says he uses it

"Armed with a Fender Jag-Stang, a Rogue Electric Sitar Guitar" as it is explained in this article.

When describing his pedalboard, Ruban's bassist, Jake, mentions that he is using Ruban's DOD 250 on his board and is running his vocals through it (at 5:25).

Unknown Mortal Orchestra uses the JAM Pedals RetroVibe on their pedalboard, as shown in their Instagram post detailing gear for their latest tour.

Fender Mustang in candy apple red. This was in the first year of the band so I'm not sure he had his Jag Stang yet.

In this interview with Reverb, Ruban describes the Synths used in their new record "Multi-Love." He mentions the RS-09, not to be confused with the Saturn 09. The RS-09 is differs from the Saturn 09 in having both Organ and String sounds.

At the beginning of this video you can see the EHX Small Stone Phase Pedal at the top of the pedal board

Rueben of Unknown Mortal Orchestra uses this preamp in the live show as shown in this interview

Ruban used the octafuzz extensively back in the day, especially on the first couple of albums.

In this video, Ruban describes the Synths used in their new record "Multi-Love."

Ruban describes the synthesizers used by Quincy in Multi Love. It itn't mentioned, but underneath the Univox MiniKorg 700 is a red keyboard. It has the iconic red color of a Nord keyboard, you can see when they pan over it you can clearly see "Nord Stage" and at 1:26 you can for a split second see 2.

Also in their live performance at KEXP you see the same red keyboard that perfectly fits the description of a Nord Stage 2 when they pan over quincy.

You can see the EHX Freeze Pedal on the pedal board

In this interview with Reverb.com the Catalinbread Pareidolia dealy is shown on the pedalboard at the 2:30 mark

Ruban (the vocalist) uses this in his vocal chain. He starts talking about it from 3:25

At the beginning of the video you can see the EHX Holy Grail Nano at the bottom of the pedal board

Here you can see a member of UMO using a Sennheiser E945 Supercardioid Dynamic Microphone live on stage.

using it live on KEXP. 2013

In the photo from Spin, Unknown Mortal Orchestra is seen using the Behringer Xenyx 802 Mixer.

In this video Rueben talks about the Range Master pedal and you can see it on his pedal board

The rack mixer can be seen on the album cover of "Multi Love" underneath a Fostex 80 reel to reel tape machine on the left.

Here you can see that UMO vocalist uses a Shure SM58 Vocal microphone live on stage.

In the same video, Ruban points out the MiniKorg 700s at 1:23.

From what I could see the headstock said Epiphone and it only has one pickup, meaning it is an EB-0 not EB-3.

In this interview with Reverb.com the Analog Man Bi Comprossor is shown on the pedalboard at the 2:12 mark

In this interview with Reverb.com the Memory Boy is shown on the pedalboard at the 2:12 mark