Off Topic 6 Pedals

[TonyEVH5150]

I've been reworking alot of my gear, even my pedalboard. I'm trying to decide on which pedals HAVE to be on my board. I have two definites, a Korg Pitchblack tuner, and a Ernie Ball Wah.

To help me figure it all out, I thought I'd pose a slightly hypothetical question to the group.

If you could only have 6-8 effects pedals on your board, what would they be?

 

[ScoobySteve]

I used to be on that road, but I've recently ditched the pedal board in favor of effects processors. What I did have was:

1. Tuner
2. Wah
3. Volume Pedal
4. Overdrive (Normally a tubescreamer)
5. Chorus
6. Delay

That's about it. I'm using TC Electronics processors right now, so I sold all my pedals in favor of one singular unit.

 

[leftyguitarblue]

In no particular order...


1. Boss tuner
2. EB wah
3. Digitech Whammy Pedal
4. Krank Distortion
5. BBE Boosta Grande
6. Boss Delay
7. Boss Chorus

 

[GHWelles]

I have five, so this should be easy. My tuner is stand alone.


In order, guitar to amp:

1. Wah
2. TS-808 on all the time
3. TS-9 kick in for solos
4. BOSS DD-3 to split signal to stereo delay, dry to one amp, wet to another
5. Morely Flanger on wet line to add some modulation to the wet side.

Notice a pattern in these first three answers?......

 

[thiscalltoarms]

my tour board is alot smaller than my local show board.

1 Budda Wah
2 Korg PitchBlack Tuner
3 Fulldrive 2
4 BJFE HBOD (soon to be replaced by MP SHOD)
5 Ernie Ball Volume
6 Boss DD5 AM modded (or maybe a boss ce-2...)
7 Eventide Time Factor
8 Carbon Copy or DE7 (depends on the mood)

cutting to six, i've have to drop number 6 or 8, but i'd be grumpy. and the age old problem of the lack of my SBEQ is still a problem, but if it gets stolen I'll be grumpy as all hell every night all tour.

 

[ScoobySteve]

I have five, so this should be easy. My tuner is stand alone.


In order, guitar to amp:

1. Wah
2. TS-808 on all the time
3. TS-9 kick in for solos
4. BOSS DD-3 to split signal to stereo delay, dry to one amp, wet to another
5. Morely Flanger on wet line to add some modulation to the wet side.

Notice a pattern in these first three answers?......

I Refuse to play pedals that aren't true bypass. Kind of a pet peeve. Why get EBMM caliber tone to have it sucked by non TB pedals? Joe Bodenhamer makes a killer T808 clone that's TB. Only OD I played.

 

[DTJPPR]

1. ISP Decimator Noise Reducer
2. Delay (preferably my T.C. Nova Delay)
3. Dunlop 535Q Wah
4. Volume Pedal (preferably Ernie Ball VP Jr.)
5. Tuner
6. T.C. Nova Modulator



Though I would trade all of that in for the T.C. Electronics Nova System!

 

[Octavarius]

Well, I'm not really that much of a "pedalboard guy", but so far, I'm only using 4 or 5:

1. Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
(2. Ernie Ball Wah)
2. Analogman Chorus
3. Xotic BB Preamp/RC Booster
4. Moogerfooger 104Z Analog Delay (in the loop of a 1x12" Lonestar Classic combo)

 

[mr.b]

i recently did a similar exercise to make myself a practise rig but i made mine with 4 effects pedals plus tuner:

korg pitchblack
dunlop wah
vox satchurator
sovtek small stone
mxr carbon copy

worked a treat.

since then however, i've decided to scale down my rig so i'm selling my TC Electronics G-system and will replace it with a Nova System so i will no longer need a practise rig.

 

[ScoobySteve]

i recently did a similar exercise to make myself a practise rig but i made mine with 4 effects pedals plus tuner:

korg pitchblack
dunlop wah
vox satchurator
sovtek small stone
mxr carbon copy

worked a treat.

since then however, i've decided to scale down my rig so i'm selling my TC Electronics G-system and will replace it with a Nova System so i will no longer need a practise rig.

Nova system is similar in size to the G system isn't it? No more spill over

 

[WeeGee]

I have a pretty simple and straightforward set-up but I suppose it depends on the style of music you are playing.
Personally, I use:

• Blackstar HT-Dual (although I have been substituting a 'Rox of Bock' clone I made)
• Modded Boss EQ GE-7
• Boss Tuner
• Digitech Hardwire RV-7

That's it as along with my volume knob and my valve amp, it gives me my clean, crunch and solo sounds

 

[bkrumme]

1. EB Volume
2. Turbo-Tuner (Strobe Tuners by Sonic Research - Turbo Tuner Home Page)
3. Bad Horsie II Wah
4. Footswitch for my amp
5. Boss CH-1 Chorus
6. Boss DD-5 Delay

And if I could have one more than that, I'd probably have a Decimator or NS-2 or something like that.

As my rig stands right now, my pedalboard consists of 3 items: G-System controller, expression pedal, volume pedal.

 

[TwAn]

On my pedalboard right now:

EB Volume Pedal
EB Wah
Boss Tuner
Fulltone Fulldrive2
Visual Sound H2O (Chorus & Echo)
Fulltone Distortion Pro
Ibanez TS9DX
Ibanez Analog Delay

The Ibanez pedals and the Distortion Pro get thrown on and off, but I couldn't live without the first 5...

 

[GHWelles]

I Refuse to play pedals that aren't true bypass. Kind of a pet peeve. Why get EBMM caliber tone to have it sucked by non TB pedals? Joe Bodenhamer makes a killer T808 clone that's TB. Only OD I played.

My ts808 is true bypass Keeley mod
My wah is true bypass
Boss pedals have very good buffering
So do the tube screamers for that matter

 

[AaC]

my board right now consists of: boss compressor, stereo chorus, stereo delay, blues driver, danelectro cool cat overdrive, and then a planet waves pedal tuner and eb volume pedal that wont fit on so i just set them on the floor beside it.

 

[wolfbone07]

EB Wah
EB Volume
Fulltone Robin Trower Overdrive
Keely DS-1
TC Nova Delay
TC Stereo Chorus Flanger
Strobo-Stomp Tuner
Barber Tone Press

 

[mikeller]

My board actually has 9 pedals but I wish I could reduce that by one.

Pitchblack Tuner>Barber Tone Press Compressor>Barber Dirty Bomb>MI Audio Blues Pro>MI Audio Crunchbox>Boss Pitch Shifter>RetroSonic Phaser>Hardwire Chorus>Boss DD20

As you can see I have 3 dirt pedals. The Dirty Bomb just arrived and has replaced a Direct Drive (maybe temporarily). I wish I had one less dirt, but they are all very different even though each crosses the others territory. I play in an early 80's classic rock band and almost feel the next for 3 or 4 dirt pedals to delve into the sounds the songs need.

 

[lenny]

pick 6 hahaha

 

[TonyEVH5150]

^^^^ I'd say that would be tough to slim down to just 6 to 8 pedals. Your switching foot must get a heck of a workout on that board!!

 

[lenny]

^^^ not really just lots of dirt options....thats why i posted the pic....for me a Tubescreamer type OD isnt enough ...so i have fuzz and distortion and overdrive and a lot of fun ...its kind of addictive ...i just LOVE pedals ...i am slimming down the herd a bit now ...if they dont play well live ...then they go! hahaha

have fun in your search for dirt and tone ...i did and do!