How many pedals are off your board?

Beexter

I think I've got issues.

I've got my board down to 4 core pedals - SP Comp, Trex Moller (OD + Boost), SL Drive and Zoom MS70-CDR. This combination covers a wide variety of tones for the covers band I play in. I usually add in a fuzz/ distortion for extra drive and am going to add a EHX Superego with a Zoom MS50 in the loop to help fill out the sound and occasionally use a looper and a Wah.

However, I have more pedals off my board than on but find it hard to let any go, "just in case" .... I must have 7 fuzzes, about 12 dirt and half a dozen modulation pedals plus a couple of delays and stuff......most of them sat in a drawer 'cos you never know.....

Am I alone?

How do you learn to let them go or is it OK to hoard?

Jalapeno

Pedal hoarding is a well know sub-genus of the major affliction of GAS.

Welcome !

DesVegas

I have an MXR Smart Gate and EHX LPB-1 clean boost off my board atm but they are on stand by and will not be sold... 

i modulation so let me know which pedals you have floating around and i'll 'look after them' for you

frankus

I work on one simple rule "a pedal off a board is really a pointer that another type of board is required".

Currently:

Posh, DIY, Grunge, Mini, Loopy

I've got a few pedals floating about.. but they're headed for a board for my eldest who picked up his guitar again yesterday

meltedbuzzbox

Everything I dont use has been listed for sale with the exception of one pedal. 

But to be fair there is a cupboard in my house that is known as the pedal cupboard and at one time it was rammed full of pedals. 

Just down to 5 in there now. 

Its liberating to get rid of them all. I have even reduced my board from 14 pedals to 7.

monquixote

I really hate having stuff not in use. 

Currently I have one heavy drive which isn't in use, but would get swapped with a fuzz if I needed to use my board for rock stuff (dep gig etc).

I also have one drive which I like, but I can't see myself using and that's probably going to get sold.

stonevibe

I have around 50-60 pedals off my board at the moment.

Says a lot I reckon, but I have been collecting/trading on & off since I was a teenager and so I have amassed a horde of favourites.

meltedbuzzbox

sounds like a guy on shortscale

Beexter

meltedbuzzbox said:

sounds like a guy on shortscale

Now this is the sort of picture I need to show my wife so that she understands I'm not that bad after all! I still think I have a problem though and guess I'm going to have to be brutal with a clearout.

DesVegas

^I'll take two from the top, three from the middle and one from the bottom please Carol

mike_l

How many are off my board?

since I stripped the home board down all of them.....

digitalscream

Only two off the board at the mo, but I'm selling both of them. And possibly one that's on the board, too...

TheCount

34....ebay calling

richardhomer

None. Last unused pedal was sold about a month ago.

Drew_TNBD

At the moment I have very few pedals, which is rare for me. This is the totality of my pedal collection:

MXR Micro Amp (off the board right now)
MXR Phase 90
Boo Instruments TS808 clone (off the board right now)
Ernie Ball Vol. Jnr
Dunlop 535Q wah
Line 6 M9
Seymour Duncan Twin Tube drive pedal (it's shit, never has been on my board)
a broken Boss LS-2 (half fixed, I gave up...!)

*looks around*

Yup. That's it. Gone are the days of huge collections for me!

samzadgan

I don't like hoarding...i just don't have space either...so only 2 pedals off my board.

Grunfeld

Beexter said:

How do you learn to let them go or is it OK to hoard?

It's okay to hoard. 

I don't actually know how many I may or may not have.  So that's okay.

But there's a corner of my room, which perhaps if Tolkien's Smaug had played guitar then "The Hobbit" would have been like, set in Dagenham, Essex.  There's a corner which is about 2 feet deep in pedals.  It's a big corner. 

thisisguitar

I solved this problem by getting a second board :-)

Dave_Mc

Yeah I'm the same. I'm not sure exactly how many I have on and off, since I'm kind of trying to get my boards tidied up (that's uber-secret code for actually putting them together in the first place), but yeah. I'm the exact same.

When I think of how little I'd get for most of them, I just can't be bothered. Maybe it'd be different if I had super-boutique pedals, but a S/H joyo is hardly worth selling for the bother of parcelling it up (not to mention if something goes wrong with the sale), and that's before you consider the "What if I regret it?" angle you mentioned in the opening post of the thread...

^ THAT DOESN'T WORK, YOU JUST FILL THE SECOND BOARD AND THEN START OVER AGAIN )

p90fool

Pedals are the one thing I do hoard, simply because every new guitar or amp will have a pedal it works best with, and it could be one from the cupboard rather than a current favourite.

Just a very simple example, with a mid-heavy 1x10 Pro Jr I prefer a Bad Monkey to a Tubescreamer, with a Twin Reverb it's the opposite.

I just installed some Gold foil pickups in one guitar and now I'm digging out little-used fuzz pedals, most of which sound fantastic with them.

Unless I'm desperate for the odd fifty quid I keep them all.

viz

TheCount said:

34....ebay calling

yep, should be able to pick up a few bargains from there.