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Trey Anastasio

Phish, 1994 onward

Two Tube Screamers back to back, which sounds like a mistake and is not. Stacking two moderate gain stages gives far more sustain and far less fizz than turning one of them up, and a jam band needs notes that hold.

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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
    CompressorNo photo available

    Ross Compressor

    Compressor

    In front of the drives, evening out the picking over very long improvised passages.

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  2. 2

    Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer

    Drive / fuzz

    Two of them in series, each set moderately, which is how the sustain gets that long without turning to mush.

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    Boss BF-2 Flanger

    Modulation

    Wide sweeps on the more psychedelic sections.

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    Line 6 DL4

    Delay

    Looping and reverse, used to build a bed and then play over it.

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Documented on

  • A Live One

    Live album · 1995

    • You Enjoy Myself
    • Tweezer

  • Billy Breathes

    album · 1996

    • Free
    • Character Zero

Editorial gear history, assembled from interviews, rig rundowns, live photography and liner notes. Trey Anastasio 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 1994 onward 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.