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Pete Cornish custom pedal board/ recording sessions 1993-94
- this board was originally made as a backup for the 1987-89 rig and later used by Phil Manzanera in 2006.

MXR Dynacomp
Pete Cornish SS-2
Electro Harmonix Big Muff (1973 “Ram’s Head”)
Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress
Boss CE-2 Chrous
Boss DD-2 Delay

additional effects for recording sessions 1993-94
- seen as single stompboxes during the sessions.

Boss CS-2
Sovtek Big Muff (“Civil War”)
ProCo RAT II
Chandler Tube Driver
Pete Cornish Soft Sustain (“SS-1″)
Univox Uni-Vibe
Demeter Tremulator
Digitech Whammy pedal
Heil Talk Box (Keep Talking recording sessions)
Zoom multi effect (Keep Talking recording sessions)
E-Bow

Note: David also used stand alone pedals for the sessions, both Cornish pedals and others. This to ensure a minimal signal loss and also because his boards may not have included the effects he wanted to use. David is also seen using the Cornish Wall studio board during the recording sessions.

- David, Rick, Nick and Bob Ezrin during a jam session prior to the recording of the Division Bell album in 1993. David’s using his 1983 ‘57 red Strat with a handful of pedals (see list above) into a Fender Bassman and a Hiwatt SA212.

stompboxes, tour 1994
- ontop of the racks
all effects are controlled by the Bob Bradshaw midi pedalboard

Guitars

1. Boss CS-2 compressor
2. ProCo RAT II
3. Pete Cornish P-2 (labeled “Big Muff”)
4. Boss GE-7 graphic EQ (for RAT)
5. MXR Dynacomp (script logo)
6. Ibanez CP-9 compressor
7. Boss MZ-2 Digital Metalizer
8. Chandler Tube Driver
- settings may not apply

Guitars

1. Pete Cornish Soft Sustain
2. Sovtek Big Muff (“Civil War”)
3. Chandler Tube Driver
4. Boss GE-7 graphic EQ (treble & bass boost)
5. Boss GE-7 graphic EQ (bass boost)
6. Boss GE-7 graphic EQ (mid boost)
- settings may not apply

Jim Dunlop/Heil Talk Box

stompbox signal flow;
Boss CS-2/ MXR Dynacomp/ Ibanez CP-9/ Digitech Whammy/ Boss MZ-2/
Pete Cornish P-2/ Tube Driver #1 (clean boost)/ RAT with Boss GE-7/
Pete Cornish SS-2 with Boss GE-7/ Sovtek Big Muff/ Tube Driver #2 (overdrive)/- into rack #1

Note: The rack described below features a Boss CE-2 chorus, which were on for most of David’s tones in addition to a second CE-2 that was lined with the left channel output with Hiwatts.

Guitars

effect racks

rack 1 (right) – pictured above
1. Furman PL-8 power conditioner and light controller
- used only for lighting the rack
2. TC Electronics TC-2290 Digital Delay
- main delay unit
3. Uni-Vibe (modified for rack)
4. DigiTech ISP-33B Super Harmony pitch shifter
- controlled with a customized Ernie Ball pedal
5. Lexicon PCM-70 digital effects processor
- multi tap delay for Binson effects
6. MXR Digital Delay System II
(ventilation grill)
7. Phil Taylor rack unit with customized effects (left to right)
- Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress
- Boss CE2 chorus (labeled mono chorus)
- Demeter Tremulator tremolo
- Boss CE2 chorus (labeled left chorus)
8. Dynacord CLS-222 Leslie simulator
(ventilation grill)
9. Samson UR-5 UHF Dual wireless reciever
10. Peterson R450 Strobe tuner

rack 2 (left)
Furman PL-8 power conditioner and light controller
- used only for lighting the rack
Pete Cornish routing system
Pete Cornish Acoustic Preamp with D.I.
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Alembic F-2B tube preamp
Peterson R450 Strobe tuner
EMO Power Distribution System

Guitars

- A graphic illustration of the Pete Cornish switching system.
- thanks to Frédéric Peynet for the illustration.

A deeper look into…

General effect facts
- Pete Cornish modified most of David’s effects for both correct level and impedance matching. He also included several custom features for improved tone and usability, – such as changing capacitors to hight temperature, low leakage, types and changing transistors and resistors to low noise types.
- All effects has specially designed separate power supplies to prevent currant interferance.
- The Boss GE-7 EQs are modified by Cornish to give a flatter response at “0″ and a better overall signal.
- The Ernie Ball volume pedal is modified with a 10k pot to reduce high end signal loss.
- The Cornish Soft Sustain is an early version of the current SS-2 including a Boss GE-7 EQ with the sliders ontop of the box. This feature was never used.

Please visit The Tone From Heaven for more info on each effect.

Guitars

- David’s stage setup during the Division Bell tour. Notice the Doppola, Marshall and WEM speakers in the back. In the left lower corner you can just spot the Heil Talk Box, used on Keep Talking.

Pete Cornish and Bradshaw systems
David’s system was built to be as userfriendly as possible with the cleanest possible audio signal, using only quality components to eliminate hums and RF interferance. The Pete Cornish routing system in the left rack, is basically 24 send/returns controlled via the Bradshaw footboard, which was modified by Cornish (same board as used in 1987-90). It had individual on/off switches for all send/returns and a microprocessor which calls up presets from the rack units.