Which pedal appeals to you?

samzadgan

thanks hubobulous...i need to learn these abbreviations...i only recently worked out what IIRC...its embarrasing that I'm so far behind, FFS i'm not that old!

mike_l

But what does FFS mean?

 

 

hubobulous

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JDE

For drives and delays, the fewest options the better, for me.

With mods, especially chorus, I like a depth knob, otherwise faster settings sound out of tune to me. I did use a Small Clone for about 14 years, though!

hugbot

I'd take the top one

Yes I'm only going to use one setting, but with chorus its easy to get overbearing and obnoxious, and I'd hate to have a chorus where I couldnt dial in as much/little as I needed.

ThePrettyDamned

Big trim pot problem - I asked to adjust one on a carbon copy in store, and they wouldn't let me open the pedal.

Would be nicer if it was still a trim, but accessible without taking it apart.

I have my hardwire chorus, 7 sounds? Plus rate, depth and level.

I use vintage mode. No point fiddling around - the others are great, but I immediately found a great chorus sound on vintage - why bother with the others?

I need to work out what pedal that's based on and get it. It's still intermittent problening on me.

thermionic

Back on topic (from my earlier flippant comment), I think both are too extreme. A chorus with only a rate knob would be very limited, because you'd want different depths of effect for different speeds (I tend to whack the depth up for a very slow rate for instance). Having both depth and level (i.e. wet/dry mix) on a modulation pedal seems superfluous though - so two controls are a happy medium for me.

Dave_Mc

Probably something more in the middle- enough options so it's versatile, but not enough to get confused or where it makes it too hard to dial in.

dindude

I like simple pedals, but there is a certain number per effect that is optimum for me. Phasers should be one knob for example, tremolos two knobs, and chorus should be 2, possibly three. A one knob chorus is Very limited. 

I've actually got the 5 knob blue MXR one at the top, it's a great pedal. The two EQ controls are cut only so just crank them all the way up and forget about them if you need to.

Flanging_Fred

I don't know how close the MXR analogue chorus is to the older big yellow 18v stereo chorus but that yellow brick is a weird pedal. I Always blew hot & cold with that pedal then one day I actually bothered to try it in stereo into a pair of JCM800s. Then I understood, suddenly all those knobs become much more useful. Stick a fuzz in front of it. HOLY SHIT it sounds MASSIVE! You simply can't get that with a one knobber.