# Roger McGuinn Guitar Rig 2025: Full Gear List & Setup

> Roger McGuinn's touring twelve-string goes to the venue's soundboard with no floor compressor and no stage effects in the path.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/roger-mcguinn/touring-direct-path-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 | Roger McGuinn |
| Board | Touring direct path |
| Date | 2025-11-27 — November 2025 touring setup (day precision) |
| Context | Roger McGuinn solo touring rig |
| Scope | Core signal path |
| Signal path | Direct · Guitar to amplifier |
| Routing | Not applicable |
| Unit evidence | Documented |
| Order evidence | Not applicable |
| Status | Artist-described direct stage path |
| Audited | 2026-07-18 |
| Sources | 2 |

Roger McGuinn's touring twelve-string goes to the venue's soundboard with no floor compressor and no stage effects in the path.

## Signal chain

**Order evidence — Not applicable.** No floor effects to order.

No pedals are documented in this signal path.

## Reconstruction note

McGuinn told Guitar World that he owns and uses a JangleBox at home but cannot use it on the road because electrical interference produces hum; onstage he goes through the soundboard. His 2017 Vintage Guitar interview independently establishes a compression-only philosophy and says the Rickenbacker sounds better without the phase shifter he once toured. The home JangleBox, historical phase shifter and studio compressors are therefore excluded from this dated live snapshot.

## Questions

### Did Roger McGuinn use effects pedals in 2025?

No effects pedals are documented in this path. The archive records the guitar going straight into the amplifier, so the sound comes from the instrument, the amp and the player's hands.

### When and where was this guitar rig used?

November 2025 touring setup. Roger McGuinn solo touring rig. This is the core signal path documented for that period, not a career-wide gear list.

### How does the archive know what was on this guitar rig?

2 cited sources, listed above with the date each was read, including Guitar World, Vintage Guitar. Among them 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. [Roger McGuinn on his stolen Rickenbacker, signature guitars and life in guitars](https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/roger-mcguinn-stolen-rickenbacker-ovation-life-in-guitars) — Guitar World (Primary source · interview), published 2025-11-27, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `guitar-world-andrew-daly-mcguinn-2025`
2. [Roger McGuinn](https://www.vintageguitar.com/30052/roger-mcguinn/) — Vintage Guitar (Primary source · interview), published 2017-01-01, accessed 2026-07-18, independent group `vintage-guitar-greg-prato-mcguinn-2017`

## Related pages

- Every documented board by Roger McGuinn: [Roger McGuinn board history](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/roger-mcguinn/)
- Previous board in archive order: [Robin Trower — Four-effect touring board](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/robin-trower/premier-guitar-board-2018/)
- Next board in archive order: [Ron Asheton — Early Stooges fuzz-and-wah core](https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ron-asheton/early-stooges-fuzz-wah-1968/)