Noel Gallagher knows perfectly well that his guitar-playing fans want a look at his pedalboard for the Oasis reunion tour. And now he’s given us all the privilege on his Instagram.
“Should anybody be interested…” he writes. What follows are a pair of photos showing both his board and a backline of Marshall and Hiwatt combos.
His pedals include some familiar go-to stompboxes, along with a few that are now discontinued and/or rare.
From left to right, the board includes:
ZVEX Lo-Fi Loop Junky (three units)
Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb / Delay
Empress Effects Echosystem
SIB! Echodrive distortion
Strymon El Capistan
TC Electronic Polytune 3 guitar tuner
Boss Digital Delay (possibly his DD-5, as spotted on his board ages ago at Knebworth 1996)
Pete Cornish SS-2 Soft Sustain 2
Strymon Timeline
BSM Model OR Finest Treble Booster
Keeley Compressor Plus
Kingsley Page Tube Boost
Dunlop Cry Baby Mini
According to the legends on the ZVEX pedals, they’re each assigned to (from top to bottom) the songs “D’You Know What I Mean?,” “Champagne Supernova” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Star / Bring It on Down.”
Among the boutique units are the rare SIB! Echodrive, which boasts a 12AX7 tube, and the BSM Treble Booster, a pedal fashioned after the Colorsound Power Boost that David Gilmour used in his Pink Floyd years. BSM head Bernd C. Meiser passed away in 2024, and the company is no more. Here’s hoping Noel takes good care of that stomp box while on the road.
As Gallagher revealed on That Pedal Show in 2023, the Cornish SS-2 once belonged to Paul Stacey, the guitarist/producer who has served a number of purposes with Oasis and Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
The amps include a pair of Marshall SV20C Studio Vintage combos and two Hiwatt Custom 50s.
In addition, Gallagher has taken a number of his favorite electric guitars on the road for the tour. Among them are his 1960s red-finished Gibson ES-355 semihollow with a Bigsby and a new black Gibson Les Paul with a Murphy Lab aged body, aged hardware, P90 pickups and Les Paul Custom-style binding with a non-bound headstock.
Lee Bartram, head of Marketing & Cultural Influence EMEA at Gibson, posted a close-up of the model to his Instagram page shortly before the Oasis tour got underway this past July 4.
