Hello.
About a year ago I was a frequently visiting and participating member of the forum, but I moved country, leaving behind all my gear at home. I recently purchased a Squire Jazzmaster, and have a potential jam session lined up.
As someone who used to use alot of boutique effects (and still has a pedalboard of them at home), I'm kinda excited at the opportunity/excuse to start fresh and try out some new stuff.
I'm mainly looking for mass-market pedals which people think are great. I really enjoy boutique pedals but with the concept I may eventually have to move, the concept of selling mass-market pedals seems to be easier, without incurring such a big loss.
I'm mainly looking for a decent OD, modulation (chorus / pitch shifting) and a delay. Any recommendations? I play indie rock / shoegaze, main influences being Interpol, Radiohead, Secret Machines, Wilco and Tame Impala. I'm mostly likely going to be renting various tube amps (hopefully), probably Fenders.
Apologies for the vagueness of the post. My current inclination is to build an all Boss/EHX board, but if anyone has any alternatives, that would be great.
Comments
CE-2 / CE-2W
DD-7 / RE-20 / DD-20 / DD-500
All excellent choices, depending on budget/features required.
Boss BD2
Boss SD1
Proco Rat 2
EHX Deluxe Big Muff
DOD Carcosa
Boss TR2 / EHX Stereo Pulsar (tremolo)
Line 6 Echo Park (discontinued)
Line 6 M5
Zoom MS-70CDR +1
Zoom G3
Biyang 'tonefancier' ( aka Akai 'professional' series) - mostly analogue effects, including a CE2 clone
Some of the Joyo stuff
Mooer stuff?
p.s.
oh, and used Visual Sound v2 series and v3/Truetone series pedals.
Effects for Me & my Monkey YouTube channel Facebook Fretboard's "resident pedal supremo" - mgaw
It didnt. Many were left wanting, imho
Boss BD2 - Digitech Nautila - EHX Pitchfork - EHX Canyon.
So far I've not had a chance to try them out, but briefly playing them through a DI setup it sounded good!
My rational for going back to a more simple setup was that I realised that I was spend vast amounts of money on a single pedal, whereby the intricacies and nuances of it would be lost on an audience. I don't think an audience member will be able to tell the difference between a BOSS delay or a boutique one. I think they can tell the difference between a "good" or "bad" sound, however, that is fundamentally rooted in the song itself IMO anyway.
Having said that, pedals that are truly unique like the Count to Five offer really fascinating sounds which seem to be only reproducible with VST plugins. My only issue with these more unique effects is their reproducibility live. I also love my Eightytape Limbo 2 and Caroline Guitar Company Meteore. Properly lovely sounds with them.
I think there's alot of ground to be covered with old BOSS pedals however. The BOSS PS-3 is one of my favourite pedals ever. The amount of sounds you can get out of it, I'd quite possibly need three!
Boss just seems to be the nostalgic choice for the older generation. (no offence :-) (I dont think your are that old???))
but for me you can get a nicer offering on all 3 off those boss pedals you have listed for similar or lower prices.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/43745/the-definitive-pedal-collection/p1
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.