Pete Cornish custom FX board

Andy Summers had a Pete Cornish custom-made effects board the late 70s, which he used for much of The Police's career for cueing effects both live and in the studio. The pedalboard was assembled from removing the shells of pedals and rewiring them together into a larger unit.

His pedalboard was enclosed with the following pedals:
 * Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress flanger
 * MXR M-101 Phase 90 phaser
 * MXR M-102 Dyna-Comp compressor
 * MXR M-104 Distortion+ (referred to as "MXR Fuzz")
 * MXR MX-118 Analog Delay
 * Musitronics Mu-Tron III envelope follower

Gear history
Pete Cornish constructed the original pedalboard in January 1979 over the course of six weeks, removing the shells of pedals, wiring them together and integrating them in the board.

Cornish has kindly granted permission for use of his original routing order exclusively on this website:

Guitar> PC LD-1 (Line Driver)> MXR DYNA COMP> PC NB-3 (Linear Boost)> MXR Distortion Plus> PC NG-2 (fuzz)> Post fuzz Send/Return>

MXR PH90 (Phase 90)> PC NB-3 (Linear Boost)> [Electro-Harmonix] Electric Mistress> PC NB-3 (Linear Boost)> Post Phase Send/Return> Mutron III> Echoplex Send/Return> Master FX bypass switch> PC LD-1> Volume Send/Return (Schaller F121 volume pedal)> Master Mute (Amps ON)>  PC NB-3 (Linear Boost)> Master Volume> Output select A/B> Output Link (A+B)> two isolated outputs to Marshall amps (As current PC AC 3 Way splitter).

(Note: all the PC [Pete Cornish] products mentioned in the routing order are the current names of the devices that have the same specification as the original parts of the pedalboard, but weren't yet available as separate units at the time)

However, Andy didn't get on with the Pete Cornish fuzz, so in May 1979 Cornish replaced it with the MXR Analog Delay pedal.

Live, all the effects would be routed into a Roland Space Echo before coming back into the board, and the board itself had an overall power switch. This enabled Summers to turn off the pedalboard while playing, cue the effects he needed and bring them all in at once by hitting the switch.

In 1983, Andy Summers had his Pete Cornish setup revised with a set of racks and two pedalboards for the Synchronicity tour.