David Byrne's Pedalboard: Talking Effects Pedals

David Byrne, lead singer for the Talking Heads, may not be the first person you think of when pedalboards come to mind. But many of the Talking Heads hits in the early 1980s were built around unusual rhythm patterns punctuated by Bryne's inventive and textural guitar playing. The songs "Burning Down the House" on the album Speaking in Tongues and "And She Was" from Little Creatures are prime examples of David Byrne's proficiency as a solid rhythm guitarist. While Byrne, like many pop musicians in the 1980s, occasionally relied upon a Roland GR-300 Guitar Synthesizer in the recording studio, the core of Byrne's tone is his 1962 Fender Stratocaster and the following effects:

• a MXR Dynacomp - also a favored pedal of Charlie Sexton of the Arc Angels;
  
• a MXR Distortion + -capable of some serious distorted tones as the distortion knob, as demonstrated by Randy Rhodes;
  
• a Boss BF-2 Flanger;
  
• a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay;
  
• an AMS RMX 16 Reverb - this classic rack mounted reverb unit was often controlled off-stage by the Talking Heads' sound technician in response to Byrne's guitar playing;
  
• a Roland 501 Space/Chorus Echo.

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