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Pedalboard / 077

Peter Buck

Buck's sparse 1984 live setup used one rack-format analog multi-effects system with a remote floor controller.

Board
Reckoning-era single-unit rig
Context
R.E.M. live rig
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 3 cited sources
Order
Source-described
Scope
Touring-period rig
Routing
Switchable effects loops
Audited
Signal
1 unit · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Reckoning-era single-unit rig

Contemporary single-unit inventory - active modules undocumented

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Source-described order · Switchable effects loops

Musician's July 1984 equipment sidebar reports one live effect and prints its name as "Ibanez VE400." No such production model matches the described period system; the contemporary UE-400 review documents the compressor, phaser, overdrive and combined flanger/stereo-chorus architecture, so the entry resolves the magazine's model typo to UE-400 while preserving the misprint as an alias. The source does not say which modules were active or how Insta-Patch ordered them. Buck recalled in 2016 that he used no pedals until "probably '85"; that approximate memory differs by only months from the contemporary report, so this board is anchored narrowly to July 1984 and is not projected backward onto the Murmur recordings.

Cited sources

  1. MusicianRapid Ear Movement
  2. ReverbReverb Interview: Peter Buck of R.E.M.
  3. Electronics & Music Maker archive at Mu:zinesIbanez Multi-Effects: The UE400