# Eric Gales Pedalboard 2023: Full Gear & Pedal List > The 2023 Eric Gales pedalboard, pedal by pedal: GLXD6+ Wireless, CAE Wah, Whammy 5, Brute Drive and 5 more. Signal-chain order, settings and cited sources. - Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eric-gales/crown-tour-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 | Eric Gales | | Board | Crown touring board | | Date | 2023-03-01 — March 2023 (month precision) | | Context | Nashville Rig Rundown | | Scope | Exact board snapshot | | Signal path | 9 units · Guitar to amplifier | | Routing | Serial path | | Unit evidence | Documented | | Order evidence | Source-described | | Status | Documented rig · published signal order | | Audited | 2026-07-18 | | Sources | 2 | Eric Gales's 2023 Crown touring board runs nine units: a Shure GLX-D6+ wireless, a CAE wah, a Whammy 5, then four gain voices — Brute Drive, Raw Dawg, Colossus Fuzz and a Hendrix Octavio — plus an always-on Boost DLA delay and an RC-5 looper. ## Signal chain **Order evidence — Source-described.** A source states the sequence. `Guitar → GLXD6+ Wireless → CAE Wah → Whammy 5 → Brute Drive → Raw Dawg Overdrive → Colossus Fuzz → Hendrix Octavio Fuzz → Boost DLA → RC-5 Loop Station → amplifier` | # | Unit | Role | Zone | Unit evidence | Position evidence | Catalog page | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | GLXD6+ Wireless | Receives Gales’s guitar signal before it reaches any expression or gain effect. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/glxd6-wireless/ | | 2 | CAE Wah (Gold finish) | The first expression effect in Gales’s documented 2023 chain. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/cae-wah/ | | 3 | Whammy 5 | Provides expression-controlled pitch shifts before the complete drive and fuzz section. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/digitech-whammy/ | | 4 | Brute Drive | Begins Gales’s four-pedal drive and fuzz sequence with two levels of overdrive. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/brute-drive/ | | 5 | Raw Dawg Overdrive | Adds a focused second drive voice before the two fuzz pedals. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/raw-dawg-overdrive/ | | 6 | Colossus Fuzz | Supplies the first dedicated fuzz voice in Gales’s 2023 chain. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/colossus-fuzz/ | | 7 | Hendrix Octavio Fuzz | Ends the gain section with a pronounced upper octave before delay and looping. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/hendrix-octavio-fuzz/ | | 8 | Boost DLA | Gales keeps this single delay active after the complete drive section. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/boost-dla/ | | 9 | RC-5 Loop Station | Closes the 2023 board, capturing the fully processed signal after delay. | — | Documented | Documented | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/rc-5-loop-station/ | ## Reconstruction note Premier Guitar published the complete order from the wireless receiver through the RC-5. This view follows that described signal path. ## Questions ### What pedals did Eric Gales use in 2023? This dated entry lists 9 units: GLXD6+ Wireless, CAE Wah, Whammy 5, Brute Drive, Raw Dawg Overdrive, Colossus Fuzz, Hendrix Octavio Fuzz, Boost DLA, RC-5 Loop Station. 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 Eric Gales's pedals in? A cited source states the order: Guitar → GLXD6+ Wireless → CAE Wah → Whammy 5 → Brute Drive → Raw Dawg Overdrive → Colossus Fuzz → Hendrix Octavio Fuzz → Boost DLA → RC-5 Loop Station → amplifier. ### Is this Eric Gales's full guitar rig? No. This dated entry covers 9 units in the effects path, not every piece of gear Eric Gales 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 2023. Nashville Rig Rundown. 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, Guitar World. Among them a rig rundown and an interview. The units are recorded as documented equipment, and the page was last audited on 2026-07-18. ## Sources 2 cited sources across 2 independent groups. Two sources sharing an independent group report the same observation and count once. 1. [Rig Rundown: Eric Gales 2023](https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/eric-gales-2023) — Premier Guitar (Primary source · rig-rundown), published 2023-03-29, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `premier-guitar-gales-2023` 2. [Eric Gales on the rig used for Crown](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/eric-gales-blues-rock-hendrix-crown) — Guitar World (Primary source · interview), published 2022-06-30, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `guitar-world-gales-crown-interview` ## Related pages - Every documented board by Eric Gales: [Eric Gales board history](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eric-gales/) - [Madison Cunningham — Ace tour board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/madison-cunningham/ace-tour-board-2026/): shares RC-5 Loop Station, DigiTech Whammy - [David Gilmour — PULSE / Division Bell rig](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/david-gilmour/pulse-division-bell-rig-1994/): shares DigiTech Whammy - [Ed O'Brien — Earth tour ten-loop board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ed-o-brien/earth-tour-loop-board-2020/): shares DigiTech Whammy - [Jack White — White Stripes octave-and-fuzz board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/jack-white/white-stripes-board-2005/): shares DigiTech Whammy - [Kevin Shields — Reunion tour three-board switching system](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/kevin-shields/reunion-tour-three-board-system-2008/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Looping, Pitch & Synth, Filter & EQ, Delay & Echo, Gain) - [Jonny Greenwood — Two-amplifier Radiohead board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/jonny-greenwood/radiohead-lyon-board-2016/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Looping, Pitch & Synth, Routing & Control, Filter & EQ, Delay & Echo, Gain) - Previous board in archive order: [Eric Clapton — Cream-era floor rig](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eric-clapton/cream-era-1967/) - Next board in archive order: [Eric Johnson — Home-practice double-loop board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eric-johnson/home-practice-double-loop-board-2022/)