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Board To Death! Ep. 30 – Olivia Jean

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Olivia Jean has a very streamlined board where pedals are chosen after lots of trial and error. Using her gear night after night in a live setting allows for utilitarian features to stand out, and only the ones that are "just right" survive.

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Board To Death! Ep. 29 – Mark Arm & Steve Turner (Mudhoney)

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Mark and Steve decided to sit down and divulge pedal set-ups for this episode of Board To Death! Classic circuits that were around when they started their first bands are still in the mix, but modern updates promoting reliability definitely don’t hurt.

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Board To Death: Ep 26 - Josh Merry (Sweet Spirit)

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Sweet Spirit is a thought provoking rock band from Austin Texas that has about one billion members. Josh Merry is one of them, and plays guitar. He agreed to give us a tour of his JAM PACKED pedal board in this episode of Board To Death!

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Board to Death Ep. 24 - Broken Social Scene

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Brendan Canning and Andrew Whiteman give us a look at a portion of their effects arsenal while on-stage with Broken Social Scene in this tag-team episode of Board to Death.

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Board to Death Ep. 20 – Matt McJunkins (A Perfect Circle, The Beta Machine)

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In this episode of Board to Death, Matt McJunkins shares his philosophy when it comes to using effects for different purposes, and what is sweet enough to be in his chain.

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Board to Death Ep. 18 - Nels Cline (Wilco, the Nels Cline Quartet)

Aaron Rogers

Nels has multiple pedalboards, but today we’re looking at “the big one,” which is actually two small pedalboards stacked neatly inside a Pelican case to save space, because this is New York City, folks…

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Board To Death Ep. 17: Takeshi (Boris)

Aaron Rogers

“I want [the audience] to use all of their five senses. Forget about the daily life,” says guitarist/bassist Takeshi. To aid our forgetfulness, Takeshi plays through a monolithic array of Sunn and Orange amplifiers plus a pedalboard stuffed to capacity with boutique fuzz pedals, one-off noisemakers, Afterneath, Bit Commander, and Palisades.

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Board To Death Ep 16: Justin Pearson & Joey Karam (the Locust, Dead Cross, One Day As A Lion)

Aaron Rogers

“It’s not musical and I like that,” says Justin Pearson.

For more than a decade Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Retox, Head Wound City) and Joey Karam (One Day as a Lion) have attacked eardrums and melted faces with their deconstructed avant-grindcore assault as members of the Locust. We recently met up with Justin and Joey at an undisclosed Los Angeles locale to concoct some Plague Soundscapes of our own…

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