Pedalboard Break Down – Dave Knudson – Minus the Bear

A couple of years ago I was on a Pandora session, and stumbled across Minus the Bear, and was quite impressed. Didn’t know anything about them, but after that, I picked up a few albums. Depending on my mood these days, I either love them.. or think they’re okay. What remains consistent, is the guitar play. There is some awesome stuff happening there.

I just did a break down of Jamie Aaron of XVIII Eyes and one of the times we played with them, they were on their way to do a leg of a tour with Minus the Bear, and that put the band back on my radar. Coincidentally, Premier Guitar did a Rig Rundown on these guys during that said tour. I knew the guitars had some special things happening, but I was quite surprised at the technical work that is happening with looping on the DL4s. This is very unique, and extremely cool.

For this particular break down, I wanted to focus on Dave Knudson. This guy is impressive.

Here is the video by Premier Guitar:

Here is the break down of pedals on Dave’s board:

Line 6 DL4 Delay
Line 6 DL4 Delay
Line 6 DL4 Delay
Line 6 DL4 Delay
Boss RC-3 Loop Station
Boss RC-3 Loop Station
Barber Tone Press Compressor
Boss DD-20 GigaDelay
Ibanez TS-9 Tubescreamer
Line 6 M5 Stompbox Modeler
Zvex Box of Rock
Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer
Boss TU-3 Tuner
Dunlop GCB-95 Wah

Let me know what you think of Dave Knudson and Minus the Bear by commenting below. Also, if you notice any incorrect pedals listed above, please let me know!