# Pete Townshend Pedalboard 2025: Full Gear & Pedal List > The 2025 Pete Townshend pedalboard, pedal by pedal: Demeter Compulator, Boss OD-1 OverDrive, T-Rex Replica. Signal-chain order, settings and cited sources. - Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/pete-townshend/farewell-tour-cornish-board-2025/ - 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 | Pete Townshend | | Board | Farewell tour Cornish three-circuit board | | Date | 2025-09-24 — September 24, 2025 (day precision) | | Context | Fenway Park, Boston | | Scope | Exact board snapshot | | Signal path | 3 units · Guitar to amplifier | | Routing | Serial path | | Unit evidence | Documented | | Order evidence | Reconstructed | | Status | Tech-opened board - order reconstructed | | Audited | 2026-07-18 | | Sources | 2 | 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. ## 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. `Guitar → Demeter Compulator → Boss OD-1 OverDrive → T-Rex Replica → amplifier` | # | Unit | Role | Zone | Unit evidence | Position evidence | Catalog page | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Demeter Compulator | Evens Townshend's attack before the board's drive circuit while retaining pick dynamics. | Integrated board | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/demeter-compulator/ | | 2 | Boss OD-1 OverDrive | Provides the sustain and distortion Townshend specifically assigns to the vintage OD-1. | Integrated board | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/boss-od-1-overdrive/ | | 3 | T-Rex Replica | Adds the color and repeat texture Townshend describes without expanding the compact three-effect core. | Integrated board | Documented | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/t-rex-replica/ | ## Reconstruction note 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. ## Questions ### 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. ## Sources 2 cited sources across 2 independent groups. Two sources sharing an independent group report the same observation and count once. 1. [The Who Rig Rundown](https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/the-who-tour) — Premier Guitar (Primary source · rig-rundown), published 2025-09-24, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `premier-guitar-townshend-tech-2025` 2. [Pete Townshend: On Guitar-Smashing Regrets, Stylistic Evolution, and Becoming a Gear Aficionado](https://www.premierguitar.com/pete-townshend-on-guitar-smashing-regrets-stylistic-evolution-and-becoming-a-gear-aficionado) — Premier Guitar (Primary source · interview), published 2010-04-01, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `premier-guitar-townshend-interview-2010` ## Related pages - Every documented board by Pete Townshend: [Pete Townshend board history](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/pete-townshend/) - [Bruce Springsteen — Magic tour remote and offstage rig](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/bruce-springsteen/magic-tour-remote-and-offstage-rig-2007/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Dynamics, Delay & Echo, Gain) - [Sonny Landreth — Blacktop Run signal path](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/sonny-landreth/blacktop-run-board-2020/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Dynamics, Delay & Echo, Gain) - [Bonnie Raitt — Dig In Deep touring core](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/bonnie-raitt/dig-in-deep-touring-core-2016/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Dynamics, Gain) - [Joe Perry — Aerosmith programmable gain rack](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/joe-perry/aerosmith-programmable-gain-rack-2024/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Dynamics, Gain) - [Andy Summers — Walking on the Moon studio core path](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/andy-summers/walking-on-the-moon-studio-path/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Dynamics, Delay & Echo) - [Mateus Asato — Six-pedal travel board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/mateus-asato/six-pedal-travel-board/): no shared unit; a comparable signal path (Dynamics, Delay & Echo, Gain) - Previous board in archive order: [Pete Thorn — Musicom Lab switching board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/pete-thorn/musicomlab-switching-board-2014/) - Next board in archive order: [Peter Buck — Reckoning-era single-unit rig](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/peter-buck/reckoning-era-single-unit-rig-1984/)