# Eddie 9V Guitar Rig 2023: Full Gear List & Setup > Eddie 9V dropped his old multi-pedal setup for the Capricorn tours: an Esquire, one cable and a loud amp making all the overdrive. No pedals in the path. - Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eddie-9v/capricorn-era-direct-rig-2023/ - 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 | Eddie 9V | | Board | No-pedal Capricorn-era live path | | Date | 2023-03-27 — March 2023 (day precision) | | Context | Capricorn touring period | | Scope | Core signal path | | Signal path | Direct · Guitar to amplifier | | Routing | Not applicable | | Unit evidence | Documented | | Order evidence | Not applicable | | Status | Artist-described direct path · independently corroborated | | Audited | 2026-08-03 | | Sources | 3 | Eddie 9V dropped his old multi-pedal setup for the Capricorn tours: an Esquire, one cable and a loud amp making all the overdrive. No pedals in the path. ## Signal chain **Order evidence — Not applicable.** No floor effects to order. No pedals are documented in this signal path. ## Reconstruction note Guitar World records Eddie 9V's March 2023 setup as a Custom Shop Esquire directly into a 1980s 50-watt Music Man. Blues Blast independently documents the same transition from four guitars and many effects to two guitars, a cable and the Music Man, with no pedal unless a 50-watt amp needs help breaking up. Guitar Player later confirms the governing approach with a cable into a cranked '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue and identifies an Origin Effects Magma57 only as a small-room exception. Because this snapshot represents his preferred direct rig rather than that conditional fallback, no pedal is inserted into the path. ## Questions ### Did Eddie 9V use effects pedals in 2023? No effects pedals are documented in this path. The archive records the guitar going straight into the amplifier, so the sound comes from the instrument, the amp and the player's hands. ### When and where was this guitar rig used? March 2023. Capricorn touring period. This is the core signal path documented for that period, not a career-wide gear list. ### How does the archive know what was on this guitar rig? 3 cited sources, listed above with the date each was read, including Guitar World, Blues Blast Magazine, Guitar Player. Among them an interview. The units are recorded as documented equipment, and the page was last audited on 2026-08-03. ## Sources 3 cited sources across 2 independent groups. Two sources sharing an independent group report the same observation and count once. 1. [Eddie 9V: One thing I learned from the great blues players](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/eddie-9v-capricorn-interview) — Guitar World (Primary source · interview), published 2023-03-27, accessed 2026-08-03, independent group `future-plc-eddie-9v-2023` 2. [Featured Interview: Eddie 9V](https://www.bluesblastmagazine.com/featured-interview-eddie-9v/) — Blues Blast Magazine (Primary source · interview), accessed 2026-08-03, independent group `blues-blast-eddie-9v` 3. [Eddie 9V shares the advice that made him a blues-rock guitar star](https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/eddie-9v-guitar-player-tips) — Guitar Player (Primary source · interview), published 2023-09-19, accessed 2026-08-03, independent group `future-plc-eddie-9v-2023` ## Related pages - Every documented board by Eddie 9V: [Eddie 9V board history](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eddie-9v/) - Previous board in archive order: [Ed O'Brien — Earth tour ten-loop board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ed-o-brien/earth-tour-loop-board-2020/) - Next board in archive order: [Eddie Hazel — Maggot Brain performance effects](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eddie-hazel/maggot-brain-session-effects-1970/)