Worm, a Fulltone Mini DejaVibe
2, an EBS OctaBass pedal that
I’ve had forever, and a bunch of
Strymon stuff—the Brigadier
delay, the Ola chorus/vibrato, the
Orbit flanger, and the BlueSky
Reverberator. Those pedals are all
over the new album. I’ve also got
a Dunlop wah that they custom
made for me to recreate some earlier sounds I’d made.” [Dunlop’s
Bryan Kehoe expounds: “Ler was
having problems matching the
sound on ‘Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers.’ He was using
two wahs, one for ‘Tweekers’
and one for a regular wah sound.
I told him we could put both
sounds into one wah. We spent
a couple of days dialing in the
‘Tweeker’ sound on a Dimebag
signature wah and an EQ, then
we customized a Custom Audio
Electronics MC404 wah to match
that ‘Tweekers’ sound and added
a switch to click into the other
LaLonde onstage with his new Fender American Deluxe Strat at the 2011 Soundwave Festival in Sydney, Australia.
Photo by Cassandra Hannagan
