On their latest Chicago tour stop, Wet Leg’s Hester Chambers and Josh Mobaraki stopped by the Reverb studio to dig into the gear shaping their Live ’25 setup—from Floyd Rose experiments and plasma fuzz tones to a DIY Mellotron that barely stays in tune.
Chamber’s currently cannot put down her Kramer Jersey Star, which is the heart of her rig, with longtime pedalboard staples like the Hoof, Sea Machine, and Supermoon rounding things out. "I love a dry tone so much," she says, "but there’s something about chorus that feels kind of safe for me."
New to the mix is the Plasma Coil, which, as Mobaraki puts it, literally turns voltage into plasma. Elsewhere, Josh goes into detail about his modular tape-based synth contraption—equal parts genius and chaos. "It breaks over time," he laughs, "but you can wobble the tapes as they play. It’s great."
For both, tone is about intuition over theory. "Getting better doesn’t mean learning all the modes," Chambers says. "It’s about finding what feels cool—and trusting your bandmates to tell you when it works."
Watch the full session above to hear the duo’s rigs in action—and catch a few attempted dive bombs along the way.