“I see other players with one of them on their ’boards and say, ‘You get that off of me?’ They go, ‘Yeah, as a matter of fact, I did’”: Brent Mason on his affordable secret tone weapon – and how it's become a go-to pedal for session guitarists

Brent Mason.

Hard-working session guitarist Brent Mason has singled out the one stompbox he can’t go without in the studio, having first bought one 40 years ago.

The Ohio-born country guitarist was championed in the mid-'80s by Chet Atkins, who quickly took him under his wing. He featured on Atkins’ 1985 album, Stay Tuned, and has since been credited as playing on an eye-watering number of albums, making him one of the most tireless six-string-slingers in the business.