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vizviz Frets: 10681
edited July 2020 in FX
If you were advising someone starting an FX collection who wanted to go back to the very source and capture the essence that defines each effect category, what’s your definitive effects pedals list? I'm updating the list as we go; currently it looks like this:

Tuner: Boss TU2
Wah: Dunlop Crybaby
Overdrive: Ibanez Tubescreamer
Distortion: Boss DS1 or ProCo RAT
Fuzz: Fuzzface
Sustain: EHX Big Muff
Phaser: MXR Phase 90 Script 1970s
Compressor: MXR Dyna Comp
Noise gate: ISP Decimator
Chorus: Boss CE1
Flanger: EHX Electric Mistress
Analogue delay: EHX Deluxe Memory Man
Digital delay: Boss DD3
Pitch shifter: Digitech Whammy 1
Ring modulator: Moogerfooger
Harmonizer: Eventide 3000
Reverb: TC Hall of Fame


Correct?
Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30881
    Distortion: Rat
    Chrous Boss CE1
    Flanger: EHX EM
    COmp MXR DC.
    Boost- Colorsound PB


    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • d8md8m Frets: 2434
    Tuner: boss TU-2

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  • spacecadetspacecadet Frets: 671
    Chorus - CE-2
    Delay - Memory Man
    Flanger - Electric Mistress
    Trem - Tremulator
    Reverb - Hall Of Fame

    Above list is about what I would go for but would swap the DS-1 for a Rat.
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 26925
    edited June 2015
    Rat 
    TS808
    DS1
    Phase 90
    Small Clone
    Memory Man or Space Echo (bit spenny, that one!)

    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • juansolojuansolo Frets: 1773
    viz said:
    If you were advising someone starting an FX collection who wanted to go back to the original vintage roots or most important source for each effect category, what would you recommend? For me it would have to include: 

    Not sure what it would be for chorus, delay, flanger, etc.
    Chorus - CE2
    Delay - DMM
    Flanger - ADA
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  • vizviz Frets: 10681
    I'm going to update my original post with some suggestions that are indisputable (imo ;) )
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • guitargeek62guitargeek62 Frets: 4130
    You voided your own question with the reverb suggestion.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30881
    You cannot possibly disagree with CE1 and suggest the Ce2 in its place.

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • vizviz Frets: 10681
    The CE2 has more provenance, no? And yes, Hall of fame might be too modern but I'm not up on reverb. A spring in the amp might be better.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30881
    viz said:
    The CE2 has more provenance, no? And yes, Hall of fame might be too modern but I'm not up on reverb. A spring in the amp might be better.
    No way. Sorry.

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • vizviz Frets: 10681
    No prob lol
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • meltedbuzzboxmeltedbuzzbox Frets: 10339
    Gassage said:
    You cannot possibly disagree with CE1 and suggest the Ce2 in its place.
    Small Clone for the win
    The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
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  • LewLew Frets: 1657
    I wonder if in some dark corner of the internet the same question is being asked on a thimble forum. Just thinking out loud....

    Hmmmm...

    Fuzzface
    JMI Tonebender mk2
    Tri Muff
    Rams head Muff
    Marshall Supafuzz

    Wait... what was the question?
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  • vizviz Frets: 10681
    That's where I got the idea from. http://www.thesewingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61736&highlight=Thimble
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • HeartfeltdawnHeartfeltdawn Frets: 22107
    edited June 2015
    Gassage said:
    You cannot possibly disagree with CE1 and suggest the Ce2 in its place.
    The CE-1 was designed for keyboards hence the low input impedance and the treble isn't processed properly. It sounds warmer than the CE-2 because it's zapping the top end. I had the pleasure of borrowing one and comparing it to the early period JC-120 I had at the time: the JC-120 absolutely killed the CE-1.   

    The CE-2 sounds brighter because it's actually designed for guitar inputs. The later period JC-120's with the black corner edge protectors had some chorus circuit evolution and sound more like the CE-2 than the CE-1. All the stuff I've seen of the Smiths on Youtube going back to 1986 shows Johnny Marr was using the later period JC-120 and has been quoted as saying the blue CE-2 was his pedal of choice (there is also evidence that he used the CE-1 when recording the first album). For the Cure, I've seen later period JC-120 and JC-160 amps so a different chorus sound to the CE-1.

    So the CE-1 might have been the inspiration but the CE-2 for me is more of the definitive Boss chorus sound. 



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  • guitarfishbayguitarfishbay Frets: 7959
    TU3, SD1, DD20 or DD7, Decimator, Dunlop volume pedal. Essentially, exactly what I have.
    Music
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  • samzadgansamzadgan Frets: 1471
    edited June 2015
    Boss sd1
    Rat/Ross
    Big Muff/FZ2
    Phase 90
    Crybaby
    Roland space echo
    My fuzz demo's: https://www.instagram.com/sketchyfuzzies/
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  • vizviz Frets: 10681
    edited June 2015
    Well that wasn't as difficult as I thought it was going to be, thanks. Now, what about guitar and amp.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • samzadgansamzadgan Frets: 1471
    SG P90's into Hiwatt DR103
    SG P90's into Laney Klipp
    LP into Matamp (or Matamp made Orange OR120)
    Flying V/Explorer into Marshall JCM800

    My fuzz demo's: https://www.instagram.com/sketchyfuzzies/
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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7484
    viz;670451" said:
    Well that wasn't as difficult as I thought it was going to be, thanks. Now, what about guitar and amp.
    Tele or strat and a Marshall jtm45/100 init.
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