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Page 1 of 2 Omar Rodríguez-López is the composer, lead guitarist and producer for the progressive rock group The Mars Volta and the former guitarist for the post-hardcore outfit At the Drive-In.
This guy has a pretty extensive guitar rig. He has a ton of effects pedals!
Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez's guitar rig.
 Click the gear images for more info & specs at Musician's Friend
Guitars
- Ibanez ORM1 Signature guitars
- Ibanez AX120 Custom Model with .012 gauge strings.
- Ibanez JTK2 Jet King Custom Model
 
- Gibson SG
 
- Fender Telecaster
 
- Fender Jaguar
 
- Fender Mustang
Amps and Cabinets
Uses a single Orange Rockerverb combo in 2011
- Orange AD140HTC guitar amplifier heads (multiple, Orange color, 140watt) (AD30 pic below)
- 4x12 Orange Cabinets
- Vox AC30 (used a lot on Octahedron)
- Harmony 2x12 and Supro Thunderbolt and 1606 combos (used before the Oranges)
Effects and More
Omar had a greatly reduced pedal setup in 2011. The following pedals were seen on his 2011 board:
- Ibanez WH10 Wah pedal
- Line 6 M9 Effects board
- Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy
- MXR Phase 90
- Boss DD-5 Delay pedal
- Line 6 DL-4 Delay pedal
- Boss HR-2 Harmonist pedal
- MXR Micro Amp pedal
- Ibanez Tone-Lok TC7 Chorus pedal
Here are some of the other pedals that have been seen in Omar's collection:
- ADA Flanger
- ADA Final Phase
- BOSS CE-3 Chorus
- BOSS PH-3 Phaser
- BOSS RV-5 Reverb
- BOSS TU-2 Tuner and TU-12 tuner
- Boss Super Shifter PS-5
- BOSS LS-2 Line Selector
- BOSS VT-1 Voice Tranceformer
- Boss Vibrato
- Danelectro DJ13 French Toast Octave Distortion Pedal
- Digitech Whammy IV
- Digitech WH-1 Whammy
- Digitech Synth Wah
- Digitech Multi Chorus
- Doepfer A-100 Modular Synthesizer Units
- Dunlop 105Q Crybaby Bass Wah
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
- Electro-Harmonix Poly Chorus
- Electro-Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe
- Electro-Harmonix Small Stone
- Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
- Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer
- Electro-Harmonix POG
- Electro-Harmonix HOG
- Ernie Ball Wah pedal
- Fulltone Ultimate Octave
- Fulltone Tube Tape Echo
- Ibanez DE7 Delay
- Ibanez SB7 Bass Synthesizer
- Ibanez PM7 Phase Modulator
- Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flanger
- Ibanez DCF10 Chorus Flanger
- Ibanez WF10 Fuzz Wah
- Guyatone MD-3 Digital Delay
- Guyatone TD-X Tube Echo
- H.B.E. ComPressor Retro
- Korg KP2 Kaoss Pad
- Korg KP3 Kaoss Pad
- Koolus Modulator (Live 2007)
- Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler
- Line 6 MM-4 Modulation Modeler
- Line 6 DM-4 Distortion Modeler
- Line 6 M13
- Maestro Phase Shifter PS-1A
- Maxon Rotary Phaser
- Menatone Pleasure Trem 5000 (used on Teflon)
- Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator
- Moogerfooger MF-105 MuRF
- Mutron III
- MXR Stereo Chorus
- Pefftronics SB-101 Super Rand-O-Matic
- Prescription Electronics Experience
- Roland RE-101, RE-201, and RE-301 Space Echoes
- Xotic Robotalk
- zvex Super Hard-On (SHO)
- zvex Fuzz Probe
Strings and Picks
- Ernie Ball guitar strings gauges .013 to .056 with wound 3rd
- Dunlop Tortex Orange picks (.60mm)
Go to the next page for awesome pictures of Omar's Guitar Rig
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Comments
On the recording, I believe it's the Xotic Robotalk. However, I don't know if he's had that one in his live-rig for a while and I think that's because you can emulate the pedal with the Line 6 FM4 Filter Mod. Now that he's replaced most of his board with the Line 6 M9, my assumption is that he can emulate the effect with that (unless they have stopped playing it live, which it's TMV, they always mix things up ;)
You can check Youtube for some videos of the Robotalk
Additionally, you can get a very similar effect with the Zvex Seek Wah
Not sure exactly what he used on the recording, but that effect can be found in Line 6 POD Farm/Gearbox modeling software and on PODxt/POD X3 devices as the 'Random S&H' modulation effect.
Rick
they are made by seymour duncan, you can get them in any guitar shop (or online store) that stocks SD pickups. good luck on your quest for a perfect guitar tone :)
Super thanks i will check it out :)
And btw what is a '59 pup and were can i buy it (probably good bad question)
I sure do! It's a Modded to sh$t Ibanez AX120 with a Symour duncan Jb. Jr. If your going to buy one i recommend just getting the ORM1 and chucking a Little '59 pup in it for those TMV tones.
It works for me :)
let me know what ya mean and i will find out.
its good to see some one finally bothered to make a list with pictures. and i think he uses more effects on stage now because i can see his bigg muff there and he uses that all the time.
ps maybe you could have some info on his amps
he has four 140htc (i think) orange amps with the paint flaked off.
and two 4x12 orange cabinet.