Board To Death Ep. 33 - Lee Kiernan (IDLES) | EarthQuaker Devices 

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I'm guessing this video is why i've just sold out of the Vena Cava Filter. Cheers Lee! haha

“I don’t need the guitar” tosses guitar from a few feet in the air.

I love seeing someone that just has fun with their board. No elitist cork sniffing nerd stuff, just creative tools to make interesting sounds.

Excellent-he’s basically a modular synthesist with a guitar.

Fingers crossed for one with Bowen.

Now I know what that "bomb dropping" sound is in Never Fight A Man with A Perm when they play it live! Would have never guessed it's a Data Corrupter.

The sound of Ultra Mono was absolutely out of this world! Now we know why!

"I'm just gonna make...a noise " Indeed sir, indeed.

I like that they’re showing his other brands pedals instead of just earthquaker

lots love to the way he drops his guitar....

Ultra Mono was the album of the year for me! So cool to see Lee treat pedals essentially how I do. Love this series!

2:50 "I'm going to get rid of the guitar because I don't need it anymore." My type of pedal user :)

These videos are awesome. I’m always interested to see and hear what’s on other musician’s pedalboards. Please keep em coming.

his neighbors must love him

Love the simplicity mixed with the joy of experimentation...and how annoyed it makes some people :)

I like this chap and his approach to pedals and sound building. I also like the colour of his Telecasters. Much to admire here.

That pedalboard is massive 🤯

The level of experimentation going on here is incredibly fascinating, so many creative explorations of sound and tone.

When it was my time to choose a career I didn’t know this was an option...

That first pedal sounds like the pedal responsible for the intro effects to Car Crash. Love it

I love this guy... he seems like such a nice bloke.

Bumped into Lee in a hotel before going to see them at a gig in London, he stopped for a wee chat, lovely fella, great band.

somone please give him a modular synth already

No money left for straplocks after build this board

"It's pretty simple" lol, it has every pedal you own.

so cool he did a noise set for this segment love this

Hi Lee. Great video. I can appreciate how you get excited by this stuff for writing purposes. Please keep playing like a man possessed on your live performances - it’s remarkable. I love watching your live guys videos on utube where every in the band is giving It 100%, fully engaged, and singing the lyrics (always a good sign of a band having fun) - and delivering to the public like their lives depended on it. Extraordinary stuff. Keep being awesome you guys. Incredible songs/work. Blessings.

Holy shit

I’m not familiar with his band but I would have this guy play on all my records. Great combo of player/attitude. When he delivered the song title “never fight a man with a perm” I laughed my ass off.

Best Board to death episode EVER!!!

This is brilliant. Best pedal board overview I've seen from any band. It's because he talks about the pedals but then also for a lot of them he gives examples of how it sounds like. Stamen is sold out, I wonder if it's because of this video. The little photos of the pedal really helps.

So much for adequate soundproofing in your studio. That would BUUUUG me. Sick board Lee!!

This was a cool episode, I enjoyed listening to Lee discussing his philosophy on using pedals, even if I would struggle to use some of those sounds. Good stuff \m/

I frequent this video

If anyone has never here of idles is the best fing out there incredibly amazing

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG OMFG

I just bought the Plumes, Dispatchmaster, and Acapulco Gold. Up next Organizer! Stoked!

My kinda pedal board! Also LOL at the pleasant music / rehearsal in the background going off whilst he's mangling audio.

I am now a Drolo Fan!! Thank You..for helping me discover this pedal.. I hope they put you on payroll..

Hands down favorite board to death.

Killer video !! Love the Idles, and the crazy sounds of their guitars, you need to shoot a video of Mark too !!

I loved this vid, holy man

WONDEFUL!

This might be my favourite pedal board ever! I used to do the LFO filter sound with a lightfoot labs goatkeeper controlling a koma elektronic filter.

I feel like if he and Dave Simpson ever shook hands, they would go back in time.

I'm not into that much dirty sounds but I love the exploratory approach! Love it 🚀

Love these videos and especially Lee & Idles! So glad to see the gear he uses ! Thanks ! ♥

Cool sounds

this guy gets it, boy does he get it.

This was great!

Legend

Fun fact, that guitar is smashed to bits now

EQD: So how many pedals do you have on your board? Lee: YES.

Super gnarlyness!

He's right about that MF Chorus. I'm in love with the Minifooger pedals, I have the chorus and tremolo and want more of them but people charge so much for them, especially the delay (+$400 sometimes). I understand why a company like Moog, who make everything themselves, has to discontinue stuff to make room for their their new designs, but I really wish they still made these.

Awesome video. Im a fan of his

Love Idles, Love noise, Love this!!!

Stamen by Drolo has to be first in the chain , then you can manipulate with the signal with more pedals ;-) Thnaks for the video, love it !

His admission of discovering expression pedals leads me to why amazing expression pedals like the Moog MP-201 and the Source Audio Reflex never took off (both discontinued)....if you like knob twiddling, these types of controllers are what you need. The modular synth world devotes loads of engineering and products to just this thing.

Used the Moog Chorus for years; the whole MF line , up to recently , was unrecognized ,and could be found used fairly cheap.Replaced it with a mix of the Walrus Julianna( Exp pedal controlled) and the Aqueduct, which gave me a broader and more useable palette.(The EQD Aqueduct is my current go to, subtle to crazy.) The Catalibread Topanga Spring Reverb was designed, and works well pre drives; level turned down, it adds fat depth and body, which compliments a later stage verb. The EHX Superego and Freeze are fun , simple tools; I prefer the initial version of the SE, as the later just has too much going on.Malekko make some unique takes on common ideas , like the Sneak Attack( Trem) and Downer( pitch shifter),- often overlooked. I think many experimental guitarists dismiss classic effects like Tremelo( Caroline Parabola), or Phaser( Walrus Lillian)prematurely, thinking that traditional " R&R" voices are all they are capable of.What I hear is a LOT of barely explored territory, and many ways to reshape the signal before or after something else.Wah is another great ex.; you might hate the "Hendrix" application, but switch up the approach, or combine it with something else, - tired becomes fresh. It's really the approach that makes it the SOT, or something completely different; don't blame the tool when it's a lack of imagination. Great band, - fresh, fearless, but still fun .

Love the distortion/overdrive/boost sounds. Also, It be cool if Earthquaker had a Mod shop?

pretty cool!

Being a lifelong Tom Morello fan and more recently an IDLES fan, I really admire all of this pedal-worship

I love those drums. Ludwig Epic are so underrated. They're discontinued now, but I suspect the Mapex Armory are the same constrction.

Nice! 🤘👽

YES!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

That poor poor fender

Lee is such an amazingly creative player. His work with Bowen is up there with Graham Coxon for me. One of the few people who made me re-evaluate guitars.

That sound is out of this world. You can send a message to space and bring down aliens with that.

neeedd one of those expression pedal selection switcher boxes

What you expect : some distorsion stuff & cool riff from Idles. What you really got : Electro noise music. Amazing.

That's about the size of my board, two man carry. I built a riveted roadcase for my pedals about 2'x4'. It's like a big playground.

Cool man. This is My kinda stuff. I dig idles. Gotta see ‘em now

please get someone from gilla band on 🙏

"a video of Ed O'Brien with some pedals" .....you watched That Pedal Show, admit it! WE ALL DO!

This dude seems awesome. I wish he was in a band I could listen to.

Fucking siiiiiick

Dream board! Hopefully I will able to buy stammen and twin peaks from drolo fx. And fuzzes, heaven!

Those adidas Sox tho lol

Stellar Chromatic used to get sooooo pissed when I rearanged my board the night before a show and rightfully so,and 10 years later,I still dozens of years Later I'm still changing my pedal order constantly,switcher or patchbay can help this affliction,and the Ryan Adam's pedal would benefit you emencly with the tone treble thing I bet,or a seperate channel parallel with the elhx bass machine is also a great way to avoid treble with a volume into your second channel where I have always kept my Ep3,using my clean channel as the second constant always on,but not always with signal of that make since to anyone,thatbway you can a/b to it,or y to both,and/or volume to it,and it kills anything to digital from killing the analogue soul of your rig,unless you want the soul to hide from the Collective,for a surprise atack!

Someone get this guy a JANUS ;)

Lee may I please have that pink guitar signed by you your my favorite guitar player alive

Dam I had my eye on some drolo pedals.. Now the used market is gonna rocket. Great vid though.

Lee goes merzbow?

what amp is he using? is it a Marshall SV20?

Vena Cava FTW

should hook this guy up with Dan from The GigRig, the sonic exploration would be exponential

Weird question maybe, but what patch cables is he using? Is that Neutrik?

Hell yes. Love IDLES

Pedals in value on the board - $10,000 2 strap buttons with lockings - $5 Nah put some tape on instead

Aye this is sick! Maybe you can try get fontaines dc or shame on the show too? Keep em coming

Why using a wah pedal when you can use the evil filter with an expression pedal

Using the Trem to cut up the frozen grab from the Stamme[n] is a proper scene 13:18. Then.. take the B string, fold it over the G string and you’ve got a bell 16:38 🔔 ..Then expression pedal malarkey on ‘Model Village’ 19:19

Only made it 7 minutes in but yeah I hate it when my equipment malfunctions as well.

sonic vvizard

The way he dropped that guitar on the ground made me cringe lol

If I were a guitarist - I would be Lee.

Pretty gassy

Having been at it in the " experimental" field for some decades, I've a good idea of what pedals here are vital, and which are redundant. The Lucy Dreamer, Grey Channel,Arrows and Interstellar OD are all very basic and offer nothing special; a Hoof Reaper and basic Klon clone( like J Rockett or Bondi) would do the whole job, especially combined with an old school Treble Booster( like the discontinued Bows). Getting basic gratifying clean to Fuzz tones should be the more straightforward part, with the rest being the more specifically personal. Lay that to rest first, and then concentrate on pedal order and how the more structural effects interact; the biggest thing is always to keep it engaging and fun, versus being overwhelmed by option paralysis.