EarthQuaker Devices' Instagram recently flagged up its excellent episode of Show Us Your Junk on with the late Steve Albini taking EQD founder Jamie Stillman around his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago five year ago. As you'd expect it's funny and insightful in equal measures - especially when Albini reveals he's kept the pedals he's collected over the years that he's deemed to be significantly less than stellar.
It's not surprising the hugely respected engineer would keep pedals that fall so short of expectation – you never know when you might need them in the studio for some leftfield sound texture. But it's hard to see how some of them would even have that unintended usability. Albini's run-through is unsurprisingly amusing, including a pair of pedals he picked up in Japan during the late '80s that he still feels were a complete waste of money.
