Michiya Haruhata

Michiya Haruhata is a guitarist who uses several Free The Tone pedals and control units on his board. Free The Tone's artist page for Haruhata covers his pedalboard and touring rig across several years, listing the individual pedals he uses and how his switching system is configured.

Michiya Haruhata's gear

The 2025 pedalboard

As of January 2025, Haruhata's pedalboard carried six effects pedals¹:

The Free The Tone units cover overdrive duties, with the ODL-1 and SILKY GROOVE joined by the DOD Looking Glass and the Soldano Super Lead Overdrive. The two Strymon pedals handle modulation and reverb: the Mobius is a multi-effects modulation pedal and the BigSky a reverb pedal¹.

The 2022 pedalboard and control system

A December 2022 entry on the same artist page describes an earlier board. At its right edge sat the Free The Tone EFS-3, an expansion footswitch for the company's ARC-4 controller, with a tc electronic PolyTune tuner above it¹.

The ARC-4 served as the board's central controller.

The ARC-4 controlled the effects loop on/off, latch control on/off, control of MIDI devices via MIDI signals, and output selection, all from one unit. The MUTE switch was at that time assigned to the ARC-4's boost on/off function¹.

The 2022 touring rig

For the "TUBE LIVE AROUND SPECIAL 2022 Reunion" shows in November 2022, Haruhata's rig included the Free The Tone PA-1QA preamp, whose programs were switched by the MIDI functions of the Free The Tone ARC-3¹.

The 2026 tour rig

In June 2026, Free The Tone's artist page reported that Haruhata's current tour uses the Fender Tone Master PRO, with a line system sending his guitar signal to the PA.