When you’ve ever listened to The Battle On Medication, you’ve most likely guessed that frontman and guitarist Adam Granduciel likes his results pedals. However you solely need to broach the subject with him for a second earlier than it turns into obvious that he doesn’t similar to pedals – he loves pedals.

“I get up each morning desirous about what’s on my pedalboard,” he explains. “And I’ve so many pedalboards all over the place. I really like that feeling of if you plug into one and simply assume, ‘Oh, that’s superb!’”

The splendidly dense, effected soundscapes that Granduciel has crafted to Grammy Successful-success throughout The Battle On Medication’ discography can also be notable for a way closely he leans not into the fashionable world of boutique results, however the everyman excellence of the standard Boss pedal. Certainly, such is his love of Boss pedals, once we meet up with him backstage on the 2026 NAMM Present, he’s about to be honoured by Boss with a lifetime achievement award for his enduring and abiding love of the model’s pedals – each new and outdated. It was a topic he was very eager to speak extra about…

When did you first change into conscious of Boss pedals?

“I really feel like, earlier than even getting my very own guitar, I used to be conscious of Boss, as a result of any image you’d see after I began enjoying, of any band, on the ground you’d see like, yellow sq., purple sq., purple sq.… y’know?

“Round this time, my good friend Jeff’s dad, he had a purple Washburn, a Boss RT digital results system and an enormous Peavey or no matter. And he inspired me to play it. And the primary time I performed it, I couldn’t imagine what I had skilled. All this refrain and distortion! So from the primary time I performed, I used to be similar to I’ve bought to get that sound. So I believe fairly shortly I used to be conscious of the gear that was making these issues.

“I believe I bought my very own guitar possibly a yr later, and I purchased Boss Flanger, and I borrowed somebody’s DS-1. After which you know the way it’s, another person has another Boss pedal and so that you plug into that and it’s superb.

“And multi-effects have been large then too – they usually had an expression pedal! Man, I needed a kind of. However my mother was like, No, that’s too many! Simply get one! So I bought a flanger and possibly a wah. Boss is simply a kind of issues that’s synonymous with electrical guitar enjoying for me.”

Clearly you might use something at this level, what’s it about Boss pedals that retains you sticking with them?

“The sounds are simply the very best. I like an authentic 70s refrain, after which there’s an 80s one I exploit on a regular basis, the pink Digital Dimension pedal, which I exploit on keyboards, guitar, and for re-amping. After which there’s the Sluggish Gear, which I exploit on a regular basis, and the Dynamic Filter, which is like an auto-wah – there’s so many.

“Boss stuff, it’s all extremely simple to determine the best way to use. I used to be simply considering that as a result of, [Adam starts playing around with a Roland drum machine on the desk in front of him] I can get this cooking in like, 9 seconds, and it’s all simply very intuitive. And that’s simply the identical with the Boss pedal. It simply is sensible instantly, what you’re doing with it, yeah? And it’s at all times simply been essentially the most dependable factor, you recognize? Even the Boss tuner. If it’s not a Boss tuner, I don’t actually belief it!”

You’re a guitar participant who makes use of results in such an concerned however thought-about method, why do you’re keen on them a lot?

“I’m not a guitar participant who can simply plug straight right into a Marshall and that’s all I want – that’s not how I bought into guitar. I’ve at all times been extra into enjoying with like, delay and reverb. Or being like, ‘Oh, what does this modulation do?’ My type is about discovering textures and methods to specific myself with a guitar that feels prefer it’s an extension of my voice.”

Has that at all times been the case?

“Even after I began recording myself, it was on a Boss recorder that had all the results sounds constructed into it. So I had a mic, and I’d simply plug the mic into the enter and play the acoustic and thru the headphones, it might sound like a rock guitar!

“You possibly can add all of the shit to it, and begin developing with worlds, you recognize? And it was a method of recording that, for me, was method cooler than, like a cassette four-track, as a result of I didn’t have a lot gear. It was similar to a guitar and recorder, actually.”

You could nonetheless love the experimental aspect of pedals too…

“I’ve one rig at residence that’s similar to, seven refrain pedals with a wah on the finish! Simply to be like, ‘Perhaps this could possibly be one thing cool’. After which the studio, there’s all these completely different boards round. And at all times if I get bored, or the engineer’s like doing a combination, I’ll simply begin constructing a board! You realize, get the Twin Lock! I don’t know, at this level, it’s only a lifestyle, you recognize?”

Is that experimentation possibly turning into a brand new The Battle On Medication album?

“Yeah I’m nearly accomplished making a document, and we’re near the top. I needed to do one thing that’s not completely different, essentially, when it comes to the best way it sounds, however one thing that’s attempting to get again to the primary couple of data I made.

“So it’s mainly totally do-it-yourself. I imply, folks at all times joke as a result of I’m like, ‘I wish to make a do-it-yourself document’. They usually come to my home and my studio is like, classic API and all my Neve stuff… they usually’re like, ‘It is a do-it-yourself document?!’

“However the one method I may do that document is that if I had on a regular basis and the entry to have the ability to do it the best way I need. So, it’s coming alongside, however I simply work on it on a regular basis. It nonetheless seems like a band, however there’s all types of stuff.”

Are there any new pedals which might be closely that includes on the brand new document?

“It’s at all times comparable ones, just like the Digital Dimension. I did get a Bi-Section lately, a classic one, so I put that on the whole lot! I traded an entire bunch of stuff to a child for a Bi-Section!”

Lastly then, should you may solely have one Boss pedal, which one would it not be?

“Oh, the Digital Dimension from the 80s. I put it on the whole lot. It’s often at all times on. I’ll have one at one setting and one other one after a special setting. It simply provides a glassiness. It’s not like a wobbly refrain, it’s like a really high-end shimmer. It simply has one thing. It’s solely 4 knobs, you recognize – however generally all of them are all the best way up!”