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Randy Rhoads

Rhoads' integrated touring board ran volume, wah and an always-on Distortion+ into ten-band EQ, flanger and stereo chorus.

Board
Custom touring pedalboard
Context
Diary of a Madman tour
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 3 cited sources
Order
Source-described
Scope
Exact board snapshot
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
6 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Custom touring pedalboard

Artist-described inventory with published signal-flow diagram

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Source-described order · Serial path

Rhoads named the live board's effects at his February 2, 1982 clinic and stated that the Distortion+ stayed on. The published historical rig diagram supplies the six-device audio order shown here and identifies Pete Holmes as the custom board builder; the Dunlop team later inspected the preserved board with the Rhoads family and verified the original Distortion+. The clinic transcription contains an additional unqualified "a chorus" before "MXR stereo chorus"; because the diagram shows only the MXR unit, no duplicate chorus is invented. The board also switched external echo and occasional delay units, but the diagram presents mutually exclusive Korg/Roland and MXR/Yamaha alternatives rather than one fixed dated unit, so those outboard choices are excluded from this exact core flow.

Cited sources

  1. Guitar WorldLearn Randy Rhoads' warm-up exercises and more in this complete 1982 guitar clinic
  2. full in bloomRandy Rhoads' Guitar Rig Rundown, Gear, Amps, Pedals/Pedalboard, Guitars
  3. Dunlop ManufacturingRandy Rhoads MXR Distortion+