Pete TownshendPedalboard, 2025
Pete Townshend's farewell tour board reduces the electric path to three circuits, taken out of their boxes and rebuilt by Pete Cornish: a Demeter Compulator, a Boss OD-1 overdrive and a T-Rex Replica delay.
Farewell tour Cornish three-circuit board
Order evidence: No source publishes this sequence; the order is reconstructed
Inside the rig · 3 units
Pedal roles & evidence
How each unit fits Pete Townshend's 2025 setup. Board-specific roles and the evidence behind each identification and position.
Reconstructed orderIdentity and position are evidenced separately. Reconstructed positions are not observed connections.
Dynamics
Demeter Compulator
Integrated board
Role in this rig
Evens Townshend's attack before the board's drive circuit while retaining pick dynamics.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Reconstructed
Gain
Boss OD-1 OverDrive
Integrated board
Role in this rig
Provides the sustain and distortion Townshend specifically assigns to the vintage OD-1.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Reconstructed
Delay & Echo
T-Rex Replica
Integrated board
Role in this rig
Adds the color and repeat texture Townshend describes without expanding the compact three-effect core.
- Identity
- Documented
- Position
- Reconstructed
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.
No source publishes this sequence. The units are ordered by conventional signal-chain practice, and any documented routing zone is kept as recorded.
Cited sources
MethodologyQuestions about Pete Townshend's 2025 pedalboard
- What pedals did Pete Townshend use in 2025?
- This dated entry lists 3 units: Demeter Compulator, Boss OD-1 OverDrive, T-Rex Replica. 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 Pete Townshend'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: Guitar → Demeter Compulator → Boss OD-1 OverDrive → T-Rex Replica → amplifier.
- Is this Pete Townshend's full guitar rig?
- No. This dated entry covers 3 units in the effects path, not every piece of gear Pete Townshend 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?
- September 24, 2025. Fenway Park, Boston. 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. 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.