Chris BuckPedalboard, 2024
Chris Buck's 2024 Nashville rig links two Schmidt Array boards through a GigRig G3: a Cry Baby wah, six overdrives including the King of Tone and ThorpyFX Electric Lightning, a Cali76 compressor and four echoes, from the Echorec to a Boss RE-202.
Dual Schmidt Array touring system
Order evidence: A source states the sequence
Inside the rig · 17 units
Pedal roles & evidence
How each unit fits Chris Buck's 2024 setup. Board-specific roles and the evidence behind each identification and position.
Source-described orderIdentity and position are evidenced separately. Reconstructed positions are not observed connections.
Filter & EQ
Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
Front of amp
Role in this rig
Creates the manual vocal filter sweep before the gain and routing system.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
ThorpyFX Electric Lightning
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Provides a broad foundational drive voice with a separately available level and gain lift.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Routing & Control
29 Pedals EUNA
Integrated board
Role in this rig
Stabilizes loading and restores high-frequency detail before the remaining gain stages.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
Mythos Golden Fleece
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Supplies the responsive, edge-of-breakup fuzz voice and stacks into overdrives.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
Mythos Mjolnir
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Adds focused midrange and gain, particularly when paired with the Small Speaker drive.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
Mythos Air Lane Drive
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Adds another distinct low-to-medium-gain texture between the Mjolnir and BlackBox.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
Snouse BlackBox Overdrive 2
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Provides articulate low-to-medium gain and a stacking partner for the King of Tone.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
Great Eastern FX Small Speaker Overdrive
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Introduces a narrower, characterful drive texture before the broader gain stages.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
Analog Man King of Tone
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Delivers the principal open overdrive and combines with fuzz or the BlackBox for heavier sounds.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Dynamics
Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Shapes dynamics after the drive section while preserving pick attack through parallel blend.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Reverb & Ambience
Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Provides the main long plate or hall ambience, with spring reverb available as a fallback.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Gain
Keeley Katana Clean Boost
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Raises signal level after compression and before modulation and delays.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Modulation
Mooer Trelicopter
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Creates the deliberately abrupt, choppy tremolo pulse.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Delay & Echo
Catalinbread Echorec
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Provides patterned repeats and the rhythmic character of a magnetic-drum echo.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Multi-effects & Modeling
Line 6 HX Stomp XL
Integrated board
Role in this rig
Hosts utility and time-based sounds that would otherwise require several separate pedals.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Delay & Echo
Universal Audio Starlight Echo Station
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Provides programmable analogue, tape and precision delay voices in the later board.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Delay & Echo
Boss RE-202 Space Echo
Switched loop
Role in this rig
Supplies spacious tape-style repeats, ambience and performance effects such as hold or ramping.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Documented
Documented equipment · Documented order · Switchable effects loops
Premier Guitar's on-camera rundown supplies the pedal sequence represented here, while the accompanying board footage verifies the inventory. The G3 switches the individual loops, so the drawn line expresses loop order rather than every simultaneously active pedal. The G3 control surface and Schmidt Array patch infrastructure are omitted as non-tonal routing hardware. MusicRadar's 2022 first-person interview independently confirms the recurring core and makes clear that this is a later snapshot, not a timeless board.
Cited sources
MethodologyQuestions about Chris Buck's 2024 pedalboard
- What pedals did Chris Buck use in 2024?
- This dated entry lists 17 units: Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, ThorpyFX Electric Lightning, 29 Pedals EUNA, Mythos Golden Fleece, Mythos Mjolnir, Mythos Air Lane Drive, Snouse BlackBox Overdrive 2, Great Eastern FX Small Speaker Overdrive, Analog Man King of Tone, Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe, Universal Audio Golden Reverberator, Keeley Katana Clean Boost, Mooer Trelicopter, Catalinbread Echorec, Line 6 HX Stomp XL, Universal Audio Starlight Echo Station, Boss RE-202 Space Echo. 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 Chris Buck's pedals in?
- A cited source states the order. See the diagram and routing notes for the separate paths and any unconfirmed connections.
- Is this Chris Buck's full guitar rig?
- No. This dated entry covers 17 units in the effects path, not every piece of gear Chris Buck 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?
- July 31, 2024. The Basement East, Nashville. This is one dated setup as documented, not a career-wide gear list.
- How does the archive know what was on this pedalboard?
- 2 cited sources, listed above with the date each was read, including Premier Guitar, MusicRadar. Among them a rig rundown and an interview. The units are recorded as documented equipment, and the page was last audited on 2026-08-03.