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Pete Cornish custom pedal board and additional effects, recording sessions
- This board is dated February 1979. Effects listed as in chain.

Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (BC109)
- modified with a tone circuit
Electro Harmonix Big Muff (1973 “Ram’s Head”)
Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress
MXR Dynacomp
MXR Phase 90
Pete Cornish (ST-2) Treble and Bass Booster
Pete Cornish custom vibrato pedal
Pete Cornish custom volume pedal

MXR Digital Delay System I

Note: The board had two inputs with a selector switch, two send/returns (one for delays), master bypass switch and three outputs with individual mute switches.

Guitars

- The Pete Cornish board used during the Wall recording sessions.

Pete Cornish custom pedal board and additional effects, tour 1980-81
- This board is dated January 1976. Effects listed as in chain.

Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (BC109)
Electro Harmonix Big Muff (1973 “Ram’s Head”)
MXR Phase 90
Electro Harmonix Small Stone
Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress
Pete Cornish (ST-2) Treble and Bass Boost
Cry Baby wah wah
MXR Dynacomp
Pete Cornish Tone pedal
Pete Cornish volume pedal
(send/return for delays)
MXR Noise Gate/Line Driver

MXR Digital Delay System I
Boss CE-2 Chorus (added via send/return in ‘80)
Conn Strobo tuners

Note: The board had two inputs with a selector witch, a tuner feed (Conn Strobo Tuner) and three outputs for each amp with individual selector switches.
There were two Boss CE-2 chorus pedals lying next to the board. These might have been used to create a stereo effect with one pedal assigned to each Hiwatt.

Pete Cornish “mini” pedal board (front stage) 1980-’81

Electro Harmonix Big Muff (1973 “Ram’s Head”)
Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress
Pete Cornish custom volume pedal
(send return to MXR DDL)

Note: The board had a single input, a send/return of delays, a master bypass and two outputs.

Guitars

- David’s main stage board, an updated version of the Pete Cornish Animals board. Notice the addition of the Boss CE-2 to the right.

Guitars

- David’s front stage board. This mini-board was used for the performances in front of the wall during the second half of the show. There’s a customized volume pedal (Cry Baby chassis) and controls for an Electric Mistress (left) and a Big Muff (right). Footswitches left to right: volume on/off (volume pedal), effects on/off bypass, flanger (Electric Mistress), Muff (Big Muff), spare (send/return), out 1, echo (send/return to MXR DDL), out 2 (Hiwatt). Outputs on the right (top to bottom): output 2, return, spare, send, strobo, input. The board also had a switch for the MXR DDL lying where the white tape is.
(picture used with kind permission from Bruno)

A deeper look into…

Pete Cornish pedal boards
David had three different pedal boards for The Wall. Pete Cornish made him a new board for the recording sessions and the mini board (used while playing infront of the wall during the second part of the show). David’s main board for the show was an updated version of the Animals board. It had two inputs for each guitar and three outputs for each of his amps. The signal is fed into the board and divided into a Conn Strobo Tuner and a master bypass. The main signal is then fed through a filter that equalizes the input/output volume to avoid any signal loss and match all effects.
- The Cry Baby wah wah had a custom made reverse switch to reverse the input/output connection for “seagull/Echoes” effects. - see Meddle for more
- The Fuzz Face was fitted with a tone circuit to smooth the fuzz.
- The PC Custom Tone pedal was a modified Cry Baby chassis with a Telecaster tone circuit.

Read more about the main board in this indebth article.

Electro Harmonix Big Muff
David’s main distortion unit from 1977 to present. Read more…

Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress
David’s main flanger unit from 1977-94. Read more…

MXR Digital Delay
This digital delay unit replaced David’s Binson Echorec. He stated that he was tired of cleaning the Binson and needed something more reliable. The MXR has controls for delay time, sweep/frequency and level as well as programming.