Ed's 2025 Touring Pedalboard
On the most recent episode of GigRig's ChatTGR series, Dan Steinhardt revealed the details of a new pedalboard setup for Ed. The segment on Radiohead is from 35:56-41:42, with video of a GigRig tech testing the board at 38:53-41:20. Dan also revealed that he's building a board for Colin! However, Jonny doesn't want a professionally made board, because Jonny "likes that his board doesn't work, he likes that has to kick it."
Dan has assembled Ed's boards for a decade now, and often creates different ones not only for each of Ed's projects, but also different ones for studio and touring. The new board is specifically designed for Radiohead's upcoming European tour dates. Ed has spent a month with the new setup, and last Tuesday he met with Dan and expressed how happy he is with the new sounds he's able to create with it.
The new board consists of three distinct smaller boards. As Jake explains in the video, the left board is mainly overdrives, the center board is weird ambient effects, and the right board is delay effects.
Ed has used true bypass loops since the In Rainbows era, and he's used TheGigRig switching systems since 2014 (before that he used Voodoo Labs switchers). These systems allows Ed to enable and disable any arrangement of his pedals by pressing a single switch on the controller unit. As Dan explains in the video, the G3S switcher on the primary board is the control center of the setup. It's programmed with presets designed for specific songs. The G3S ATOM on each outer board is controlled by the central G3S. So the song presets on the center G3S apply to all three pedalboards.
Ed's previous Radiohead touring board consisted of two boards, one with his core effects and one with weirder effects primarily used for newer songs. The core board featured a bunch of pedals aimed at creating the sounds of specific albums, such as a JHS Angry Charlie V2 (a modified clone of the Guvnor, used to recreate Ed's 90s tones) and a ThorpyFX Muffroom Cloud (standing in for Ed's Big Cheese fuzz).
This time, it looks like Ed is mainly using the newer effects he fell in love with while working on solo material. This applies to his drive board in particular, with a Kingley Harlot and Page at the core of his overdrive and distortion sounds. As such, it seems likely that older songs will take on a newer sound at the upcoming tour dates. In a sense, it may be reminiscent of Radiohead's Haiti Benefit show. At that concert, Radiohead played songs from across their discography using only the gear they brought to LA to record The King of Limbs.
Full details of the new boards below. For a full description of all of Ed's pedalboards since 1993, including all of Dan's builds, check out this page.
Left Board: Overdrive and Compression
Diamond Compressor (original version)
Kingsley Page V2 tube boost
Kingsley Harlot V3 tube overdrive
JHS Color Box V2 (10th Anniversary Edition)
TheGigRig G3S ATOM Switching System
Center Board: Pitch and Glitch
Sonic Research Turbo Tuner
Diamond Tremolo TRM-1 (Ed's original in custom blue)
Hologram Electronics Microcosm
Hologram Electronics Chroma Console
Gamechanger WET switch (PLUS pedal expander)
Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork +
TheGigRig G3S Switching System
Floating (left of the center board):
unknown volume/expression pedal (maybe Dunlop DVP4 with some tape)
Right Board: Delay and Looping
Boss DD-3 delay (Ed's original delay)
OTO Machines BIM 12-bit delay
Electro-Harmonix Memory Man delay (vintage big box)
Line 6 DL4 MKII delay/looper
TheGigRig G3S ATOM Switching System
