How many pedals are off your board?

mike_l

viz said:

TheCount said:

34....ebay calling

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

LOL or wisdom, or both?

stickyfiddle

Hmm, about 7 on board, and about 10 off. 

As a minimum I need to shift one wah and a couple of drives/fuzzes, but I like having them on the shelf

Dave_Mc

p90fool said:

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.

Yeah definitely. That's what I'm struggling with at the moment... it seems silly to waste a space on a board for a pedal that's 99% the same, but if it sounds slightly better with a certain amp it seems a shame to have it in the cupboard too.

TheCount

mike_l said:

viz said:

TheCount said:

34....ebay calling

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

That's the problem, can't sell em faster than I can buy them )

UnclePsychosis

Last time I had major bass gas I added up the value of all the "guitar things that I never use but are useful so best to keep them around" and realised I had about £300 of stuff lying unused just in the off chance I might need it in the future. The "only worth £15 so not worth selling" items add up mighty fast.

So I flogged it and bought my shiny new bass which gets used all the time.

Unless they're super rare you can buy them back for what you sold them for anyway.

meltedbuzzbox

UnclePsychosis said:

Last time I had major bass gas I added up the value of all the "guitar things that I never use but are useful so best to keep them around" and realised I had about £300 of stuff lying unused just in the off chance I might need it in the future. The "only worth £15 so not worth selling" items add up mighty fast.

So I flogged it and bought my shiny new bass which gets used all the time.

Unless they're super rare you can buy them back for what you sold them for anyway.

I was pretty much the same but I was closer to £3k+ in pedals and guitars :-S

Once you have 1 solid guitar/pedal it is worth more than 10 lesser ones. 

Dave_Mc

UnclePsychosis said:

Last time I had major bass gas I added up the value of all the "guitar things that I never use but are useful so best to keep them around" and realised I had about £300 of stuff lying unused just in the off chance I might need it in the future. The "only worth £15 so not worth selling" items add up mighty fast.

So I flogged it and bought my shiny new bass which gets used all the time.

Unless they're super rare you can buy them back for what you sold them for anyway.

Yeah that's true )

There's still the bother aspect, though- it takes as much time to take pics and parcel up a Joyo as it does to parcel up a Landgraff. Except you get £10 back instead of ~£200.

xSkarloey

I've got about 12 pedals. 

None cost a lot of money in the general scheme of things (i.e. all are in the sub £80 bracket). 

Three are ever-presents (flanger, delay, reverb). 

The rest come and go according to taste and need. 

There's nothing I'm GASsing for at present, but I don't feel the need to sell any, because my kids are getting older and may well get into the guitar, so they can have them. 

ThePrettyDamned

frankus;382717" said:

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

I think I love you.

This is the best idea I've heard for a long time.

dindude

I'm a pedal junky but not a hoarder, so none off the boards.

Dave_Mc

^ For the sake of full disclosure, how many boards do you have? )

Seems like you're trying to use semantics to prove you're not a hoarder. I'm not having that. My plan is to use semantics to prove I'm not a hoarder!