How many/much guitar effects do you use on a regular basis??

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How many/much guitar effects do you use?

  • I'm a purist, just the sound of the guitar and amp.

    Votes: 24 22.0%

  • I use a few pedals and that's it. (distortion and reverb are pretty much all I need)

    Votes: 37 33.9%

  • I use pedals, but I have many. (5 or more used at the same time)

    Votes: 26 23.9%

  • I use an effects processor.

    Votes: 9 8.3%

  • I use an amp modeler with pedals for effects.

    Votes: 6 5.5%

  • I use an effects processor and an amp modeler.

    Votes: 7 6.4%
  • Total voters
    109
Some of the most legendary tones of all time utilized distortion, fuzz, or od pedals: Hendrix, SRV, et al. Brad Paisley has monster tone and uses all kinds of pedals.

For me I just try to keep an open mind and use whatever seems to work in a given context.

That said, I have gone throught lots and lots of pedals to arrive at my "keepers". Lots of crappy pedals out there, but some really killer stuff too.

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Reverb is KING!!

Just the basics...

Dunlop Original Cry Baby Wah
MXR dyna comp
Danelectro Cool Cat chorus
Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde Ultimate Overdrive

...through either a Fender Super Reverb or a Carvin Valvemaster 100 with a generous helping of my #1 favorite affect, reverb.

Oh yeah, I've got an RP100 for experimenting with, but wouldn't use it live.
 
well, I have this peavey transfex with a nice bunch of effects in it. but most of the time I don't use any of them. compressor and / or delays now and then, but thats all. ok, reverb & tremolo for surf-sounds.

we should kind of link the results of the poll to the question "do you think expensive guitars are worth their price?"...
 
Aaron Cheney said:
Some of the most legendary tones of all time utilized distortion, fuzz, or od pedals: Hendrix, SRV, et al. Brad Paisley has monster tone and uses all kinds of pedals.

For me I just try to keep an open mind and use whatever seems to work in a given context.

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I agree.

I mean, I love the sound of plugging straight into my HIWATT dimed, and I really like the sound of the lead channel of my Peavey Classic 50, but some distortion pedals sound really good in front of the Peavey and my Fender Twin as well.

It just depends on the song and the type of vibe I'm after.

Nothing wrong with using pedals, and there's nothing wrong with not using pedals. And no one's better than anyone else because they do or don't.

Do whatever makes you happy.
 
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it has been my experience that most pedals SUCK your real tube tone out the window. i use a maxon analog delay for special occasions.
 
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Lately Ive been traveling light on gigs, Strat or Tele into ernie ball volume pedal into my Fender Deluxe. :D Pedal board (when I break it out) has Boss Harmonist, Boss DD-6 digital delay, Boss tremelo pedal (older style), and Digitech Delay set to slapback. Volume pedal alway straight into amp, never through effects loop.
At home its straight from volume pedal to Peavey Classic 20, great little practice/ recording tube amp!
 
Gibson SG Standard------>Dunlop Cry Baby Original Wah Wah-------->Boss DS-1----->Boss BF-2-------->Peavey Mace

I like having a nice little pedal bored. I love rocking the wah for solos, the DS-1 for nasty sounding fuzz ball parts (i like to suprise people from going to a nice crisp crunch tone to all out hell with one step :D ), then I end it with my BF-2 for breakdowns and random stuff. I always have the amp's reverb on and I use the amp's phaser at times for recording. I know how people always talk about using the guitar's volume to control the overdrive of the amp but I find that lowering the guitar's volume knob takes away a lot of top end. I like my chimmy open strings! Whatever I like what I've got and I'm sticking to it.
 
Custum built guitar (by me and my dad :D ), Fernandes LP copy, or my dad's '73 strat (Ohhhhh so sweet.....) ---------> pedals, if I use them at all, are EH NYC Big Muff, EH Small Clone Chorus, Boss DS-1, DOD Flashback Fuzz (fun little pedal) -------> Crate Vintage Club 50 (all tube, but still Crate. Not half bad, though.)

Looking to add a Keeley TS-9 or TS-808, (not sure which yet, I think that they are pretty close to each other) and a tremolo.
 
Actually, I play mostly acoustic guitar. ;)

As for electric, it goes up and down. Lately, it's mostly straight into the amp, but here are some that get some use:
- Blackbox Oxygen compressor
- Prescription Electronics Germ (mostly as a clean buffer)
- Blackstone Appliances MOSFET Overdrive (not so much now that I'm back to dirty rather than clean amps)
- ProCo Rat II with Keeley Three-Way mod (I've had this Rat for nearly 20 years... it's my ONE permanent pedal)
- Rocktron Short Timer delay
- EH Holy Grail reverb

Last time I was really into electric with effects, I generally used the following:
- the Germ (mostly as overdrive)
- the Rat (or a Maxon Distortion Master for a while before Keeley fixed the Rat)
- Danelectro Dan-O-Wah
- MXR Flanger (vintage pre-LED)
- Arion analog delay
- DeltaLab Echotron 4096 digital delay (set to four seconds delay, always on, faded in and out)

The primary guitar and amp during this period has been a Gibson Blueshawk with Dimarzio Virtual P90 pickups, and a Trace-Elliot Velocette tube amp. These two provide a fat, sensitive tone and character... everything else is just seasoning. I could get by happily and do my thing with just this guitar and amp.
 
I don't usually use more the 3 effects at a time, not counting the Volume Pedal. Usually just use the HotBox and the Valverb.

guitars ---->

some combination of Matchless HotBox/Boss CE-2 Compressor/DBX 266 Compressor/Boss Chorus/Peavey Valverb/Ball Volume Pedal/Dunlap Wah ---->

Fender Champ (tweed circuit)/Super Champ/Matchless SC-30/Ampeg B15N
 
either im crazy or i hear something different than everyone else but every pedal ive ever used has spoiled my tone. its robbed my tube amps warmth and complex harmonics.

i gave up and only go GUITAR>CHORD>TUBE AMP

everything else is done with my hands.

pure tone heaven
 
BYOC Fuzz for use on some rythmns and all leads.

DG Stomp amp modeler and multi effect pedal.

amp modeler OFF
compression never
chorus never
flanger never
phaser Occasionally
rotary speaker Occasionally
tremolo sometimes
analog delay never
tape echo occasionally
verb pedal or amp Nope
wah sometimes
volume pedal sometimes
 
I'm using:

MXR Dime Distortion - Mostly just the tone button and "eq" part but sometimes I actually click the botton, not very often though

Ibanez SoundTank Flanger - I don't think I ever turn it off.

Dunlop Original Crybaby and Mister Crybaby - Use them both constantly

I use the reverb on my Fender Dynatouch Stage 1000, and back and forth between the trem/vibrato and delay on the amp too.

I'm working on a DIY pedal project for a Green Ringer and Phase 90, hope to have them finished and working soon. Only other thing I would add would be a decent delay and a comp. can't make up my mind on them though.
 
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