Garage rock

Jack White

The White Stripes, 2001 to 2007

A board chosen for constraint. Cheap guitar, one huge fuzz, and an octave-down pedal doing the job a bass player would otherwise do, which is how two people made records that sound like four.

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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
TunerNo photo available
Boss TU-2 Tuner
Tuner
Front of the chain, and the mute for the dead stops.
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2
Drive / fuzzNo photo available
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
Drive / fuzz
The USA reissue, and effectively the band's second instrument.
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3
Drive / fuzzNo photo available
MXR Micro Amp
Drive / fuzz
A clean volume lift into the amp for solos.
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4
Pitch / octaveNo photo available
DigiTech Whammy WH-4
Pitch / octave
Set an octave down for the Seven Nation Army riff, which is a guitar and not a bass.
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Documented on

White Blood Cells
album · 2001
- Fell in Love with a Girl
- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Elephant
album · 2003
- Seven Nation Army
- Ball and Biscuit
The Seven Nation Army riff is a semi-acoustic through the Whammy set an octave down. There is no bass on the record.

Editorial gear history, assembled from interviews, rig rundowns, live photography and liner notes. Jack White 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 2001 to 2007 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.

The chain

Documented on

White Blood Cells

Elephant