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Alternative rock

Jonny Greenwood

Radiohead, 1993 to 2001

A board built for interruption rather than for tone. The ShredMaster is on for a few bars at a time and off the rest, and the Whammy is used for texture and noise rather than for playing melodies.

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The chain

Shown in conventional signal order rather than the order the sources list them, so it reads the way it would be wired: guitar on the left, amp on the right.

  1. 1
    Drive / fuzzNo photo available

    Marshall ShredMaster

    Drive / fuzz

    A 90s high-gain box kicked in for the explosive sections and off again immediately.

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  2. 2
    Pitch / octaveNo photo available

    DigiTech Whammy

    Pitch / octave

    Used for noise, dive bombs and octave textures rather than as a harmoniser.

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    ModulationNo photo available

    Demeter Tremulator

    Modulation

    The stuttering tremolo on the quieter, more mechanical parts.

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    ModulationNo photo available

    Electro-Harmonix Small Stone

    Modulation

    A phaser used wide and slow, closer to a warble than a sweep.

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Documented on

  • Pablo Honey

    album · 1993

    • Creep

    The three dead-stop chugs before the chorus are the ShredMaster arriving and nothing else.

  • The Bends

    album · 1995

    • Just
    • My Iron Lung
    • Planet Telex

  • OK Computer

    album · 1997

    • Paranoid Android
    • Airbag
    • Let Down

Editorial gear history, assembled from interviews, rig rundowns, live photography and liner notes. Jonny Greenwood is not affiliated with Gear Avail and nothing here is an endorsement. Rigs change between tours and between takes, so this one is scoped to 1993 to 2001 rather than presented as a career-long setup. In most cases what is documented is that a pedal was on the board during those sessions or that tour, not that it is audible on a specific bar of a specific take.