Fundamental Stomp Boxes.......

[ez_willis]

Which stomp box or boxes are integral to your setup, and what style are you playing?

[c7sus]

I play "bake-rock".

I wouldn't say any one pedal is do-or-die. They're just fun and cool. & I use either a Rivera Quiana 2-12 55w or a modded Leslie I just picked up. Or sometimes a VC6Q through the monitors with digital outboard FX.

Here's what currently on the floor and in the rack:

Vintage Mutron Octive Divider

Vintage Mutron III

MoogerFooger 102 Ring Modulator

MoogerFooger 104 SD Analog Delay

Moog CP-251 control voltage processor/mixer

4- Moog expression pedals for use with the MoogerFoogers

KLON Centaur Overdrive This really is a great piece. It's the one thing I find myself using all the time. I've run Moog Voyager, Roland JV1010, run it into the Leslie, put a P-Bass through it. Everything sounds bigger and badder with it.

So I guess there is ONE pedal......

Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe

Geoffrey Tease RMC3 wah. Very cool too. Lot's of quack!

Ernie Ball VP Jr. volume pedal.

Vintage MXR 10-band EQ

Leslie control pedal. That's a must-have item there!!!

Rivera FS-7

Roland SDE 1000

Lexicon MPX1




Also rans.......

80's Morley Pro Flanger and Rotating Wah. The rotating sound on that one is pretty bad, but the wah is very cool. I restored it. Got that one off Ebay was DOA.

Check out the MoogerFoogers if you want something different. Control voltages are fun and you can change all the main parameters of any of their pedals on the fly. Increasing/decreasing the delay time on the 104 does pitch bending. You can also adjust the Mix and Feedback. The Ring Modulator sounds good on electric keyboard samples and can do some very weird stuff with guitar. Not all of it very musical.

What I really want is a pitch > trigger/gate/control voltage pedal from Moog so I can plug my guitar into my Voyager and play true analog synth with a guitar. THAT would be my ultimate rig.

www.bigbriar.com

[andydeedpoll]

that must look like one pretty awesome setup!

the little devil on my shoulder keeps telling me i should get the the Moog Ring Modulator. the little angel on the other shoulder backs hiim up :P so expensive though, and i'm not sure how much i'd use it - i wish Danelectro or Boss or someone made a cheap version, that would let me see how much i would actually use it before forking out... it'd be something to keep/have, and i'm sure i'd find a use for it. the Murf thing looks fairly crazy too!

my three most important pedals are a Boss DS-1, Digitech Bad Monkey Toob Overdrive and a Small Stone Phaser. a Delay, in the form of a T.C. Electronic M300 is also fairly crucial at points. i'm playing ambient-ish rock stuff. it's all fun

Andy

[perceive]

My most abused/used pedals are:

Maxon AD-999 .... almost on all the time.. I use it instead of verb.

Tube Driver - nice boost

Big Muff Pi - what can I say? This is my gain stage to hell

I also use the uni-vibe a bit but not as much as I'd have thought.

[Codmate]

I play loungy jazzy rocky stuff.
My sounds range from Marc Ribot type things to Dave Gilmour type things (so - a pretty wide range of sounds).

Boss TU-2 - nice and easy tuning reference

Ibanez TS-9 - good 'spanky' crunch with the strat.
Round smooth overdrive with the LP.

ProCo Deucetone RAT - a vast array of sounds and more gain than I could ever use (especially with the TS9 on in front!). It's taken me a year to learn how to get good sounds from it.

Boss DD3 - a great standby for making anything sound huge.

And of course, the control pedal for my amp's sweet sweet tremolo (Fender Custom Vibrolux Reverb)!

When I have a bigger pedal board I plan to add an EH Small-Stone.

[ZoSo58LP]

i play mainly funkrock..hmm..i'd say my 535Q wah and whammy..actually thats all i use for guitar, and bass i just run into a dod envelope filter before my head..hmm!

[Tadpui]

I play classic and modern rock, and my absolute most used pedal is my Boss CS-3, hands-down, bar none, not even close. I use it like an overdrive pedal, to drive a lightly-overdriven tube amp into more saturation and sensitivity.

I'm looking to upgrade to a Electro Harmonix Blackfinger, but I'm not sure if I can expect the same sustain that the Boss yields.

[Anfontan]

My pedals are a Boss Harmonist, which I use more as a really thick chorus effect for fat leads or a 12 string simulator, a Boss tremolo for vintage vibe on slow tunes, Boss DD-6 digital delay for outrageously weird echos and backwards simulations, and a Digitech delay for slapback stuff. All these in the effects loop and a Ernie Ball volume pedal to the front end of the amp.

[hixmix]

I never got into collecting stomp boxes although if I did I could see myself easily carried away. Lots of neat little toys out there.

I've just been using multi-fx. The first one I got was the rackmount Ensoniq DP-4. I just picked up a Yamaha Magicstomp II, which are being blown out at a really good price right now, a few weeks ago. I'm not into coloring my sound all that much but these two boxes have really hi quality effects that suit me fine.

[cephus]

I use a rat box and an old ibanez digital delay set for slapback. Sometimes I turn off the delay.

Wire-tied to the pedal board are also a Distortion+, an old ibanez digital delay/flanger and a crybaby. Usually, I just skip them and plug directly into the ratbox, so I guess I carry them around mostly for ballast. I used an amp for a while that had "Tremelo" and it was kinda cool every once in a while. I don't use much in the way of effects to color my sound. I use the distortion+ with the Rat, which can get me a nice scratchy van haleny tone. It works better on my strat's quarter pounder bridge pickup than the jag pickup in my main guitar, but it's nice to have it in case I run out steam.

I play rock and roll. My tone is as clean as possible with just enough distortion for some sustain. I play alot of rhythm, so the delay needs to be subtle or it loads it up.

Gee, I forgot. I have a boss volume pedal that is really important. We mix from the stage mostly and I need to be able to back down the volume sometimes.

[heroics321]

I play a lot of indie rock with some blues and prog rock influences. I've got one of those new BBE trebble boosts, only one knob but I can't live without it now. After that is an Ibanez phaser, then in my effects loop I have an old Ibanez bass chorus, a Danelectro reel echo, an Ibanez delay, and a Boss tremolo. I'm really into running two delays at the same time... one with a kind of slow/medium repeat setting into one with a quicker setting on the verge of feedback. I'll probably grow tired of it, but that's the nature of pedals. Next on the list is either a Boss Gigga delay or the Line 6 FM-4 and an expression pedal.

[legionserial]

Boss Digital Delay
Boss Flanger
Jim Dunlop Cry Baby

[mop93]

Small Clone
Marshall Guv'nor
DOD Grunge
Tube Screamer
Boss Delay
King Vox Wah
A small Digitech multi-efect I got for free.

I play punk, classic rock, blues and metal.

[boogieman481]

I play mainly classic rock and classic rockish stuff.
Not big on effects though...
Boss Super Chorus..... Rarely used..
Boss DD3 Delay.... I think I use it on one song right now...
Rocktron Banshee (Talk Box) This is fun... but currently only using it on a few covers
Dunlop Zach Wylde Cry Baby... Sounds great on solos...not used for much else...
And of course my Marshall TSL 100.... and the drive and reverb that came with it...

[espskully]

Boss Tuner, Boss Blues Driver, Weeping Demon Wah (Ibanez) and Boss Delay.

Rock, blues, country, metal, Salsa Metal, funk, Americana.

[iwantmypie]

My most used pedal is my amp I normally just use my pedals for solos or breakdowns or something along those line. I run into a Dunlop Crybaby mod with true bypass, Boss DS-1 for extra gain, Boss BF-2 set to a "jet" type sound, Boss TU-2 because the lights are purrrrrty, and a DIY A/B box so I can switch between my amp's channles cus finding an original switch for my amp is impossible. Oh yeah my amp is a Peavey Mace 2X12 combo. I can get all sorts of tones from classic rock to jazzy to grungy. Nice and simple.

[apl]

Pedals are the crack of GAS. That's why I'm looking at the PODxt Live. It's got a bazillion pedal sims, and you can use just that section of the pedalboard.

[metalhead28]

I use a few other pedals, but the only ones that are integral to my setup would be:

MXR Wylde overdrive
Digitech Delay

My style is primarily metal or hard rock.

[cephus]

Don't you find, with the multi-effect units like the pod or whatever, that you spend all your time clicking through the patches and playing a little lick and then skipping to the next one? I find that it is more satisfying to get some old stompbox with 2 or 3 or 4 knobs on it and tweak a sweet sound out of it. The multis may be more than capable, but they just don't seem as inspiring to me.

Plus, the GAS crack reference: when you are buying stompboxes, you can pay just a bit and get your high from the new toy, and then go back again a few days later and get your fix again buying another one. But then again, how many junky warblers can you have in your signal chain before your tone starts to sound like marconi broadcast?

[gcapel]

I'm more into alternative and classic alternative.

So, it is esential to have a good chorus pedal. In my case it's a Boss CE-2 with the Keeley hifi mod. I can do andy summers all day long with that thing.

It is also important for my taste to have a delay pedal. I use two different effects for this. First the Boss DD-5. i got a good one. I've heard others that don't sound the same. I need to get the analogman hi cut mod for it. It is stereo and has some extra bells and whistles on it.

I also use a Digitech DSP Artist rack processor. It was made in early 90's. It's probably the only thing I will ever own from digitech. It is loaded with some useful and nonuseful effects. The great thing about this beast is that you can configure algarythems. Mix the effects differently (stereo panning, levels, etc..) The delays, reverbs, chorus, autopanning, and harmonizing are the effects that really shine in this unit. This thing is aslo a preamp. It has two 12ax7's in the thing. DI recording is excellant only with solo's IMO. Crystal clear.

For tunning I have the boss stomp tuner (cant' remember the model #).

I built a true bypass looper for all my effects, because of the bypass buffer circuits in the boss and the digitech effects.

[apl]

Originally Posted by cephus

Don't you find, with the multi-effect units like the pod or whatever, that you spend all your time clicking through the patches and playing a little lick and then skipping to the next one? I find that it is more satisfying to get some old stompbox with 2 or 3 or 4 knobs on it and tweak a sweet sound out of it. The multis may be more than capable, but they just don't seem as inspiring to me.

I understand, but I don't play out, I record. So when I'm working on a new song, I'd like the ability to access a variety of tones. When I do the rare jamming with someone, I usually have a clean and dirty channel and that's about it.

Originally Posted by boo

Plus, the GAS crack reference: when you are buying stompboxes, you can pay just a bit and get your high from the new toy, and then go back again a few days later and get your fix again buying another one. But then again, how many junky warblers can you have in your signal chain before your tone starts to sound like marconi broadcast?

The PODxt Live is $400 new, probably $300 used. How many sweet pedals can you get for that?

[apl]

And I forgot to say modelers take a lot of tweaking.

[cephus]

Originally Posted by APL

The PODxt Live is $400 new, probably $300 used. How many sweet pedals can you get for that?

Hell, I don't know. Some of those crappy Danelectro pedals are like $30 or something aren't they? I have heard some people say they are fun enough to quell the GAS pang.

No doubt the sweetest pedals among internet posters cost $300 easily. I just don't often agree with $$$$=

[Creamyapples1]

Most used pedal I have is the 4 button switch for my amp. Other than that my board has a Dunlop Mister Crybaby, Dunlop Orginal Crybaby, Ibanez Flanger Soundtank, MXR Dime Distortion, and a slot left open for my darn Green Ringer/Phase 90 DIY project whenever I get the time to finish it.

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by cephus

Don't you find, with the multi-effect units like the pod or whatever, that you spend all your time clicking through the patches and playing a little lick and then skipping to the next one? I find that it is more satisfying to get some old stompbox with 2 or 3 or 4 knobs on it and tweak a sweet sound out of it. The multis may be more than capable, but they just don't seem as inspiring to me.

True...but it's a double-edged sword. multi-fx aren't generally as tweakable on the fly as pedals, but once a patch is set up, it's a click away....the delay, reverb, distortion etc. all in one patch.