# Lee Ranaldo Pedalboard 2009: Full Gear & Pedal List

> The 2009 Lee Ranaldo pedalboard, pedal by pedal: Moog Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator and 8 more. Signal-chain order, settings and cited sources.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/lee-ranaldo/sonic-youth-two-board-antenna-system-2009/
- 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 | Lee Ranaldo |
| Board | Two-board Antenna touring system |
| Date | 2009-01-01 — Sonic Youth touring rig, 2009 (year precision) |
| Context | Sonic Youth - The Eternal era |
| Scope | Exact board snapshot |
| Signal path | 9 units · Guitar to amplifier |
| Routing | Switchable effects loops |
| Unit evidence | Documented |
| Order evidence | Reconstructed |
| Status | Photographed exact inventory - routing partially described |
| Audited | 2026-07-18 |
| Sources | 2 |

Lee Ranaldo's 2009 Sonic Youth system uses two boards: a Moog MF-102 ring modulator, a Micro Synthesizer and an MXR Blue Box on one; a Honey Bee, Ibanez AD80, Tube Factor, Klon Centaur and DigiTech PDS 1002 on the other, plus a hand-worked Antenna Box.

## 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.

| # | Unit | Role | Zone | Unit evidence | Position evidence | Catalog page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Moog Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator | Creates metallic sidebands and modulated textures on Ranaldo's first board. | Integrated board | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/moog-moogerfooger-mf-102-ring-modulator/ |
| 2 | Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer (vintage) | Adds octave voices, square-wave fuzz and swept filtering on the first board. | Integrated board | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/electro-harmonix-micro-synthesizer-vintage/ |
| 3 | MXR M-103 Blue Box | Produces unstable two-octaves-down fuzz textures from the first pedalboard. | Integrated board | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/mxr-m-103-blue-box/ |
| 4 | BJF Electronics Honey Bee Overdrive | Supplies Ranaldo's touch-sensitive low-gain drive and pushes delay repeats into saturation. | External board loop | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/bjf-electronics-honey-bee-overdrive/ |
| 5 | Ibanez AD80 Analog Delay | Acts as Ranaldo's main delay instrument, driven into feedback while he changes delay time by hand. | External board loop | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/ibanez-ad80-analog-delay/ |
| 6 | Hughes & Kettner Tube Factor | Adds a two-stage tube-driven overdrive voice on the second board. | External board loop | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/hughes-and-kettner-tube-factor/ |
| 7 | Klon Centaur | Provides a transparent gain and level stage on Ranaldo's second board. | External board loop | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/klon-centaur/ |
| 8 | DigiTech PDS 1002 Two Second Digital Delay | Captures one-to-two-second repeats and held fragments that Ranaldo can play over. | External board loop | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/digitech-pds-1002-two-second-digital-delay/ |
| 9 | Matt Zivich Antenna Box | Routes the ring-modulated path into controllable infinite repeats for Antenna and related live textures. | Table effects chain | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/matt-zivich-antenna-box/ |

## Reconstruction note

Effects Bay preserves the 2009 board photographs and position-by-position inventory. Ranaldo's contemporary EQ Magazine interview independently confirms the AD-80, Moogerfooger, Honey Bee, Tube Factor and two-second digital delay, and describes how the AD-80 is driven into feedback as a playable instrument. The Antenna Box receives the ring-modulated side through a custom selector, but the complete inter-board cable path was not published; positions below therefore preserve physical groups rather than asserting one serial chain. The MF-102 expression pedal, custom selector and power supply are omitted because they do not process audio.

## Questions

### What pedals did Lee Ranaldo use in 2009?

This dated entry lists 9 units: Moog Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator, Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer (vintage), MXR M-103 Blue Box, BJF Electronics Honey Bee Overdrive, Ibanez AD80 Analog Delay, Hughes & Kettner Tube Factor, Klon Centaur, DigiTech PDS 1002 Two Second Digital Delay, Matt Zivich Antenna Box. 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 Lee Ranaldo'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. See the diagram and routing notes for the separate paths and any unconfirmed connections.

### Is this Lee Ranaldo's full guitar rig?

No. This dated entry covers 9 units in the effects path, not every piece of gear Lee Ranaldo 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?

Sonic Youth touring rig, 2009. Sonic Youth - The Eternal era. 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 Effects Bay, EQ Magazine. Among them a photograph 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. [Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo Pedalboard](https://www.effectsbay.com/2010/12/sonic-youths-lee-ranaldo-pedalboard/) — Effects Bay (Specialist source · photograph), published 2010-12-01, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `effects-bay-ranaldo-board-2009`
2. [Sonic Youth: The Eternal](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/EQ-Magazine/EQ-2009-08-R.pdf) — EQ Magazine (Primary source · interview), published 2009-08-01, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `eq-magazine-ranaldo-2009`

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- Every documented board by Lee Ranaldo: [Lee Ranaldo board history](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/lee-ranaldo/)
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- Previous board in archive order: [Lari Basilio — Three-stage Violet demonstration board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/lari-basilio/sweetwater-board-march-2025/)
- Next board in archive order: [Leigh Stephens — Blue Cheer fuzz-and-wah core](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/leigh-stephens/blue-cheer-fuzz-wah-core-1966-1969/)