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Keith Richards

Richards' small 1981 effects inventory paired an orange Phase 100 with the large green MXR analog delay.

Board
North American tour effects
Context
The Rolling Stones 1981 North American tour
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 3 cited sources
Order
Reconstructed
Scope
Touring-period rig
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
2 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

North American tour effects

Artist-described touring inventory - signal order reconstructed

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Reconstructed order · Serial path

In the original 1983 Guitar Player interview, Richards identifies an MXR analog delay on a few 1981 tour numbers and names the phaser used for Beast of Burden as the MXR Phase 100. He does not publish a floor layout, cable trace or evidence that both effects were active together; the display therefore uses the conventional phaser-before-delay order and is marked reconstructed. Reverb independently associates the same two vintage MXR models with Stones sounds but does not establish the tour layout. This snapshot is deliberately not generalized across Richards' career: in 2015 he said that any required stage effects could be operated from behind the stage because he no longer wanted pedals underfoot.

Cited sources

  1. Guitar PlayerKeith Richards: The Guitar Player Interview, 1983
  2. ReverbPotent Pairings: The Sound of the Rolling Stones
  3. Guitar WorldKeith Richards: Why I Won't Use Pedals Onstage and Six More Keef Facts