Ed's Clapton Stratocaster (2 of 2)

Is this one even used anymore?

Fernandes FSK-401 neck pickup

Silver Lace Sensor Middle pickup

optional fernandes humbucker in bridge (i think.. not sure)

Ed's Clapton Stratocaster (1 of 2)

"Ed's Strat has one gold lace sensor in the centre position , the humbucker in the bridge is part of the Sustainer unit which works together with the front pickup."

 -planks blog

FYI, the bridge humbucker is completely optional. (but you still need a bridge pickup for the fsk-401 to work)

Jonny's Gretsch G6119-1962HT Tennessee Rose HT

Phil's Drums (In Rainbows Tour... Thanks Plank!)

From Plank's Blog: "Premier Vintage white 20" Bass drum, 16" floor tom, 13 + 10" rack toms, 12" maple snare and 14" Noble and Cooley vintage snare...... drum heads are Remo powerstroke 4's and a Coated ambassador snare........ also custom triggers and pads running into Roland SPD brain..........
Cymbals are Zildjian.....custom 13" Hi hats, 12" splash, 15" thin crash, 16" crash and 18" breakbeat ride...... DW9000 Hi Hat remote and premier hardware.....

pic is of kit from earlier in the tour..... :-)"

a few citations from Plank's Blog (LOOK HERE FOR INFO ON AMPS USED)

Thom's Rickenbackers are standard 330's with no mods

Ed's FC200 is controlling a custom built switching unit linked to the pedal boards and rack............I make the guitar and link cables using angled and straight switchcraft 1/4" jacks and VDC oxygen free instrument cable which works nicely............these jacks are lighter and less bulky than others also putting less strain on pcb mounted sockets..............

Ed uses 2 Mesa Boogie Dual rectifier Trem-o-verb combos, both from 1995-6, they are slightly different but both run with standard Boogie 6L6 / ECC83's..........also two of the first modded 1996 Vox AC30 specials from Dave Petersen, running Watford Valves original Mullard / Tesla ECC83 / EL84's as described earlier.................Thom"s two AC30 specials date from 1999 and are modded the same way running with Harma valves at present.............Colin presently uses a 240v Ampeg SVT-CLU classic head with standard valves into an Ampeg 8x10 cab...an unbeatable combination as anyone knows!!......also some rehearsing and recording done with a blue diamond finish Ampeg B-15RW combo................at the moment, Jonny is using a standard 1998-ish Vox AC30 6-TB and a Fender 85, which is from 1988..........the 85 and studio 85 are the same !...........other amps used in the studio are: Fender '65 Twin reverb fitted with groove tubes, a Selmer Truvoice and Bassman head from the early 60's running into a home made speaker cab, some Ashdown amps, a Marshall blues breaker combo and an old Ampeg GV22 combo.....various other Amps come and go but they are the ones I mostly fall over at the moment!

Plank : A question I am getting asked many times is whether or not Jonnys shredmaster has been modified - the current one is standard apart from the switch which gets replaced regularly. I made a version of the shredmaster a few years ago but after a couple of tours the prototype box was flattened due to being stomped on and that was it !!...... am checking out the true bypass questions and updating Eds guitar info

also the Shredmaster is not run through the overdrive, they are separate

Q's....Vintage tele bridges with the three brass saddles can be a problem which many learn to live with by fine adjustment and reaching a compromise with the intonation.....it can be worse if a bridge happens to be fitted a couple of mm off and sometimes the only thing to do is to retro fit a 6 saddle bridge if it's too bad............I did fit a Kaoss pad screen to Jonnys spare tele a while back and we configured it to change trigger points and shift x-y co ordinates in a couple of weird computer programs but it all got a bit mental..........then something more urgent came along so it joined the list of good ideas to be continued one day ??........DC power run up two cores of four core screen along with signal into 6 pin XLR.....
The old RE201's are being used loads again as well as the RE 20's now....why use one thing when three will make it 1.5 times better? ho ho !
pic is of visitor to stage right during DC show :-)

a ps to this blog.... the above bit about kaoss pad is a quick bit of info in response to a question, the job itself took many hours was complicated involving dismantling entire unit, removing and re soldering components, running extra ribbon cables and mini surface mount switches and routing of the guitar, I wouldn't advise tearing in and wrecking your shiny new kaoss pad!....arrr :-)

Plank is fitted with Kent Armstrong humbuckers
Thom's hybrid tele 3 has a '57 Gibson PAF in bridge
Tele 2 has Seymour Duncan stacked humbucker in bridge
Fender Jazz bass has Seymour Duncan STR-J1 in neck and bridge

Thom's Pedalboard - in rainbows tour

From Left to Right:

Boss TU-2

EHX Holy Grail

Telenordia TK-23 Kompressor

Bixonic Expandora

Boss LS-2 (which isn't hooked up to anything)

Fulltone Fulldrive2 Mosfet

Thom Yorke Solo Pedalboard

thanks to mr benn at HCFX

This isn't a very good picture, I can make out a boss tu-2 (or 3, but most likely 2), an akai headrush e2, and a line 6 DL4.

I've read that the full board here is:

Boss TU-2 

2 Akai Headrush E2's

Line 6 DL4

Pro Co Rat

 and the rat is inbetween the DL4 and the 2nd Headrush

Radiohead for Haiti gig - Jonny's pedalboard

Jonny's board

• EHX Smallstone
• Demeter The Tremulator
• DOD 440
• 3 Boss LS-2's
• Digitech WH-1 Whammy
• Akai Headrush E2
• Marshall Shredmaster
• Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
• Boss Tuner (not a pedal)
• Boss RE-20
• Boss OD-3

"Here's the definitive explanation of his signal chain:

EHX Small Stone
Demeter Tremulator
Boss LS-2 (Acting as a bypass loop for the DOD 440)
Whammy I

At this point, he uses an LS-2 to split the signal into two paths. . .

Path 1:
Marshall Shredmaster
Ernie Ball VP Jr. (with dry out going to Boss tuner)
Fender 85 Solid-State combo

Path 2:
Boss OD-3
Boss RE-20
Vox AC30 tube combo

After all this is the Akai Headrush E2, which seems to be in the FX loop of the AC30. Done."

-DylanWilde (hcfx)

Radiohead for Haiti gig - Ed's Pedalboard

Thanks to Ponda Boba at the HCFX forums for these pics from the Radiohead for Haiti gig. Here's ed's board.

1. Peterson StroboStomp2 Tuner 

2.Below that is a Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso.

3.To the left of that is a Demeter Tremulator.

4. Next is an Analogman modded boss overdive.

5. Dunlop Crybaby

6. Line 6 DL4

7. Boss TR-2

8. Above the TR-2 is an EHX Deluxe Memory Man

9. To the right of the DMM is an EHX Hog.

10. Digitech Whammy

Sitting outside of the board is a boss delay (I can't say which one for certain.) A boss footswitch, a boss FV-500L, and I think an expression pedal controlling the HOG. I think those are Thom's pedals sitting near the AC30, but I can't say what they are for certain. One is a boss stompbox.