Single favourite effect?

kjdowd · March 2017

If you had to pick one - and only one - what would it be? I like a bit - or indeed a lot - of dirt, can spend ages cocking about with delay and absolutely love a bit of ambient reverb, but I think on balance I'd have to say tremolo. There's just something about it that changes otherwise mundane playing into something wonderful.

Emp_Fab · March 2017

Funny you should say that, as tremolo is my least favourite of all ! My favourite has to be reverb - huge deep pools of endless reverb. If you're excluding reverb as it's used everywhere, then it has to be a bit of subtle stereo chorus.

gibsongretschfan · March 2017

Spring Reverb

Slimbert · March 2017

Octave down and dry harmony. Bliss!

ThePrettyDamned · March 2017

Chorus for me. The dod FX 65 is seriously one of my favourite sounding things.

PolarityMan · March 2017

Distortion

ICBM · March 2017

Reverb, or if excluding that probably phasing.

simonk · March 2017

Univibe

DesVegas · March 2017

Tremolo is the most fun, especially before dirt with a nice sustain but I would pick a huge reverb if just had to choose one. Good question Jamie.

Teetonetal · March 2017

Tough call between reverb and delay... but I think a really good delay has it. I spend hours with my moog.

I'd love to try a binson or space echo... one day...

Jonathanthomas83 · March 2017

Delay

EricTheWeary · March 2017

My board has a tuner, boost, delay,another delay, tremolo and reverb on it so I guess delay wins.

thecolourbox · March 2017

I'll say for rock, whammy for octave up and down. For clean playing though reverb definitely

BintyTwanger77 · March 2017

Reverb.

Sassafras · March 2017

Reverb is my favourite effect with treble boosters coming in a close 2nd.

Moss · March 2017

Delay, with reverb a close second

digitalscream · March 2017

I'm not going to count distortion, because if it's not available as a pedal I'll use the amp for it. On that basis...delay, because it can elevate anything to shimmery goodness if set up right, and with subtle use it softens the edge of solos to take them from "nice" to "epic".