# Ariel Posen Pedalboard 2026: Full Gear & Pedal List

> The 2026 Ariel Posen pedalboard, pedal by pedal: SusMaryOsep!, Octaland, miniFUZZ V2, Thermae and 3 more. Signal-chain order, settings and cited sources.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ariel-posen/suitcase-touring-board-2026/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

## At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Artist | Ariel Posen |
| Board | Suitcase touring pedalboard |
| Date | 2026-03-27 — March 27, 2026 (day precision) |
| Context | Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht |
| Scope | Exact board snapshot |
| Signal path | 7 units · Guitar to amplifier |
| Routing | Serial path |
| Unit evidence | Documented |
| Order evidence | Reconstructed |
| Status | Gear-tour inventory - order reconstructed |
| Audited | 2026-09-01 |
| Sources | 3 |

Ariel Posen's 2026 pedalboard is small enough to fly in a suitcase. Seven units sit on it: a Mythos SusMaryOsep! signature drive, a KingTone Octaland and a KingTone miniFUZZ V2 he stacks together, a Chase Bliss Thermae, a TC Electronic Flashback Mini he never switches off, an Eventide H9 for delays and harmonies, and a Keeley Hydra carrying the tremolo and the reverb into a clean Two-Rock.

## Signal chain

**Order evidence — Reconstructed.** No source publishes this sequence; the order is reconstructed. The units are evidenced; their sequence is the archive's inference from the convention below, not an observation. Do not report this order as documented.

Reconstruction convention: Tuner → Wah and filter → Compressor → Overdrive, distortion and fuzz → Modulation → Delay → Reverb → Amplifier. A documented routing zone always overrides it.

`Guitar → SusMaryOsep! → Octaland → miniFUZZ V2 → Thermae → TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay → H9 Harmonizer → Hydra Stereo Reverb & Tremolo → amplifier`

| # | Unit | Role | Zone | Unit evidence | Position evidence | Catalog page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | SusMaryOsep! | Serves as the only overdrive on a board that otherwise leans on the clean headroom of the Two-Rock behind it, with its boost and echo sections available from the same box. | — | Tentative | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/susmaryosep/ |
| 2 | Octaland (Mini V1) | The upper-octave half of a two-fuzz stack, run together with the miniFUZZ for the heaviest passages of the set. | — | Visually identified | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/octaland/ |
| 3 | miniFUZZ V2 | The bigger of the two fuzzes on the 2026 touring board, stacked with the octave fuzz rather than used alone. | — | Visually identified | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/minifuzz-v2/ |
| 4 | Thermae | Carries the pitch-shifted delay figures Posen has kept on every documented board since 2021, and one of the two units both 2026 sources agree on. | — | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/thermae/ |
| 5 | TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay | Runs as a constant part of the core sound rather than an effect engaged per song, which is how Posen introduces it in the 2026 gear tour. | — | Tentative | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/tc-electronic-flashback-mini-delay/ |
| 6 | H9 Harmonizer | Handles the delays and the harmonised lines on the 2026 touring board, with its presets stepped from the Morningstar MC3 beside it. | — | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/h9-harmonizer/ |
| 7 | Hydra Stereo Reverb & Tremolo | The only reverb and the only tremolo on the board, feeding the clean Two-Rock platform Posen builds the rig around. | — | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/hydra-stereo-reverb-and-tremolo/ |

### Identification notes

- **1. SusMaryOsep!:** The gear tour's chapter list calls this a Source Audio overdrive built as an R.J. Ronquillo signature. Source Audio publishes no such pedal, and the only R.J. Ronquillo signature overdrive that exists is the Mythos Pedals SusMaryOsep!, a three-in-one boost, overdrive and echo now in its V2 revision. That description has one referent, so the unit is identified as the Mythos and the brand in the chapter list is treated as an error. The identification rests on that reasoning rather than on a source naming the pedal, and which revision travels is not established, so it is recorded as tentative.
- **2. Octaland:** The gear tour introduces this only as the octave fuzz of the pair and never names it. The unit is the KingTone Octaland in its Mini V1 form, identified from the chassis: the four white knobs for drive, volume, mix and tone, the small octave toggle between the top pair and the Fullfat/Glass/Vintage voicing switch below. Two other lines of evidence agree. Posen carried an Octaland on the 2021 Goodwood board, where the builder published it by name, and the Guitar World interview of 2026 names the KingTone Octaland among the fuzzes he was working with that year. No source names the pedal on this board, so it stands as visually identified.
- **3. miniFUZZ V2:** The gear tour introduces this only as the bigger of the two fuzzes and never names it. The unit is the black-panel KingTone miniFUZZ V2, identified from the chassis itself: the oversized numbered volume dial meant to be turned with a foot, the Si/Ge type switch, the Fat/Zonk/Vintage voicing switch and the bias indicator above the fuzz control. The Guitar World interview published in the same year independently names a KingTone miniFUZZ among the fuzz pedals Posen was working with, which agrees with that reading. No source names the pedal on this board, so it stands as visually identified rather than documented.
- **5. TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay:** The gear tour names a TC Electronic Flashback and leaves the format open. A Flashback in the mini enclosure, three black knobs and no type selector on the face, is on the board in the Tapestry Music rig rundown filmed four months earlier, which is the basis for the format here. It is carried forward as probable rather than settled, because that rundown also shows a green KingTone Duellist and a black PolyTune 3 that the 2026 chapter list never mentions: the board demonstrably changed between the two dates, so what was on it in November 2025 does not establish what was on it in March 2026. Whether the unit is the original Flashback Mini or the Flashback 2 Mini is not established either; both share the three-knob face.

## Reconstruction note

Posen walked this board himself on camera backstage in Utrecht, and the gear tour's chapter list names each unit at its own timestamp. That establishes what is on the board, not the order it runs in: the walk is physical, and no source publishes a signal map for it, so the sequence here follows the archive's reconstruction convention with drive and fuzz first, the delays behind them and the reverb last. The Keeley Hydra is placed at the end because it is the board's reverb, even though the tremolo it also carries would ordinarily sit ahead of the delays; one enclosure can only occupy one position. The drive is introduced as a Source Audio overdrive built as an R.J. Ronquillo signature. Source Audio publishes no such pedal and the only R.J. Ronquillo signature overdrive in existence is the Mythos SusMaryOsep!, so the unit is identified as the Mythos and the brand in the chapter list is taken as an error; the revision it is on is not established. The two fuzzes are introduced only as an octave fuzz and a bigger one, and neither is named. Both are KingTone and both are identified from their own chassis: the octave fuzz is the Octaland, which Posen also carried on the 2021 Goodwood board, and the bigger one is the black-panel miniFUZZ V2. The Guitar World interview of the same year names both models among the fuzzes he was working with, which agrees with that reading, but no source names either on this board. The Morningstar MC3 and the Barn3 aux switch are on the board and are omitted from the tonal signal line, because neither passes audio - the same treatment the 2021 Goodwood board gives its Morningstar MC8. The Guitar World interview two months later is cited for the Eventide H9 and the Chase Bliss Thermae, which it confirms independently in the same year; its remaining gear list describes the Bannatyne studio sessions rather than this board. The Flashback's format is the one loose end. The gear tour names the pedal without saying which one, and the mini enclosure recorded here comes from the Tapestry Music rig rundown filmed in Vancouver four months earlier. That rundown is cited for nothing else, because the rig on it is not this one: it carries a green KingTone Duellist and a black PolyTune 3 that the 2026 chapter list never mentions, which makes the November 2025 setup a board in its own right rather than evidence for this one.

## Questions

### What pedals did Ariel Posen use in 2026?

This dated entry lists 7 units: SusMaryOsep!, Octaland, miniFUZZ V2, Thermae, TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay, H9 Harmonizer, Hydra Stereo Reverb & Tremolo. This is the recorded inventory, not a claim that every connection or model identification is confirmed; see the evidence and routing notes.

### What order were Ariel Posen's pedals in?

The complete order is reconstructed, not observed. The layout follows the cited routing constraints and the archive's signal-chain convention where the sources are silent: Guitar → SusMaryOsep! → Octaland → miniFUZZ V2 → Thermae → TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay → H9 Harmonizer → Hydra Stereo Reverb & Tremolo → amplifier.

### Is this Ariel Posen's full guitar rig?

No. This dated entry covers 7 units in the effects path, not every piece of gear Ariel Posen owned or used. Floor pedals, rack units and routing devices are included only where recorded; omitted equipment and uncertain connections are explained in the notes. It is not a complete or current rig inventory.

### When and where was this pedalboard used?

March 27, 2026. Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht. This is one dated setup as documented, not a career-wide gear list.

### How does the archive know what was on this pedalboard?

3 cited sources, listed above with the date each was read, including Gitaarmannen, Guitar World, Tapestry Music. Among them a rig rundown and an interview. The units are recorded as documented equipment, and the page was last audited on 2026-09-01.

## Sources

3 cited sources across 3 independent groups. Two sources sharing an independent group report the same observation and count once.

1. [Ariel Posen's Gear Tour: "A good amp is all you need"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xere1FMEI0) — Ed Struijlaart, Gitaarmannen (Primary source · rig-rundown), published 2026-03-27, accessed 2026-09-01, independent group `gitaarmannen-ariel-posen-2026`. Filmed backstage at Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht. Posen walks his own touring board on camera and the published chapter list names each unit at its own timestamp, from 13:05 where the pedalboard section begins to the fuzzes at 18:23. The walk is physical rather than a description of signal flow, so it establishes the inventory and not the order.
2. [Guitar tone gourmand Ariel Posen spills the secrets to his sound](https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/ariel-posen-on-the-tone-secrets-behind-bannatyne) — David Mead, Guitar World (Primary source · interview), published 2026-06-11, accessed 2026-09-01, independent group `guitar-world-ariel-posen-bannatyne-2026`. First published in Guitarist. Posen lists the gear used to record Bannatyne, which is a studio inventory and not this touring board: he names a pedalboard plus "a pile of other pedals". It is cited here because it independently confirms the Eventide H9 and the Chase Bliss Thermae in the same year, and because it names the fuzz pedals of the period, which the touring board's own source leaves unidentified.
3. [Ariel Posen - Rig It, Gig It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkWU6C1Zt-c) — Tapestry Music (Primary source · rig-rundown), published 2025-11-10, accessed 2026-09-01, independent group `tapestry-music-ariel-posen-2025`. Filmed at the Fox Cabaret in Vancouver, with an on-camera look at the rig four months before the Utrecht board. It is cited on this board for one thing only, the Flashback's format. The rig it shows is not identical: a green KingTone Duellist and a black PolyTune 3 are on it, and neither appears in the 2026 gear tour's chapter list, so the November 2025 setup is a candidate for a board entry of its own rather than evidence for this one.

## Related pages

- Every documented board by Ariel Posen: [Ariel Posen board history](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ariel-posen/)
- [Ariel Posen — Goodwood studio and travel board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ariel-posen/goodwood-studio-board-2021/): shares Hydra Stereo Reverb & Tremolo, Octaland, Thermae
- [Josh Smith — Spaceship board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/josh-smith/spaceship-board-2021/): shares TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay
- [Chris Buck — Cardinal Black touring system](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/chris-buck/cardinal-black-touring-board-2022/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Multi-effects & Modeling, Reverb & Ambience, Delay & Echo, Gain)
- [Stephen Stills — CSN show-day effects box](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/stephen-stills/csn-show-day-effects-box-2012/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Reverb & Ambience, Delay & Echo, Gain)
- [Dann Huff — Home-studio working board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/dann-huff/home-studio-board-2025/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Multi-effects & Modeling, Reverb & Ambience, Delay & Echo, Gain)
- [Rhett Shull — Mastermind experimental board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/rhett-shull/mastermind-board-2024/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Multi-effects & Modeling, Reverb & Ambience, Delay & Echo, Gain)
- Previous board in archive order: [Angus Young — Hells Bells overdub and solo path](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/angus-young/back-in-black-1980/)
- Next board in archive order: [Ariel Posen — Goodwood studio and travel board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ariel-posen/goodwood-studio-board-2021/)