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Pedalboard / 048

Pete Townshend

Townshend's custom board reduced the electric path to a compressor, early overdrive and digital delay, all removed from their original boxes and integrated by Pete Cornish.

Board
Farewell tour Cornish three-circuit board
Context
Fenway Park, Boston
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 2 cited sources
Order
Reconstructed
Scope
Exact board snapshot
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
3 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Farewell tour Cornish three-circuit board

Tech-opened board - order reconstructed

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Reconstructed order · Serial path

Tech Simon Law opens the 2025 system and identifies the three effect circuits inside the custom Cornish board. Townshend independently named the same compressor, OD-1 and T-Rex delay in 2010, demonstrating unusually long continuity. Neither source publishes the internal wire order, so the conventional compression, drive and delay sequence is marked reconstructed. The upstream three-way split, buffer, power supply, utility switching and duplicate backup board are omitted.

Cited sources

  1. Premier GuitarThe Who Rig Rundown
  2. Premier GuitarPete Townshend: On Guitar-Smashing Regrets, Stylistic Evolution, and Becoming a Gear Aficionado