Headcount of your dirt pedals - what is an abnormal amount?

marooned

A stupid amount….

Around 60 Dam boxes 
10 or so Tym dirt boxes
6 Thorpy 
and around 30ish various fuzz/od/dist from various manufacturers.


I think I have a problem

Revolutions

Hmm. It was a fun reason to do this. But now not only do I feel a bit embarrassed about the collection, I want to buy loads more based on everyone else’s list  

oh, + a BJFE Honey Bee. Should probably sell some of these.

18 drives
(forgot about Analogman Prince of Tone & Mooer black secret that are hiding on my other board)


9 fuzzes


4 boosts

slacker

Oh and the ones I've sold

Big cheese
Ts10
Bluesbeaker
Ds1
Little Big muff
Lpb1
Graphic Fuzz
Menatone tbiac 
Blackstone
Dod250
Zen drive
Fd2 mosfet

stickyfiddle

@Revolutions glad it’s not just me… 

I’m like a magpie with ADHD

Revolutions

stickyfiddle said:

@Revolutions glad it’s not just me… 

I’m like a magpie with ADHD

I’m like an autistic man having a midlife crisis with ADHD. Oh, wait… 

Revolutions

stickyfiddle said:

These two in particular remind me that I’m in good company on this board. I hate it when pedals sneak away & hide in boxes or cupboards. I start to feel really good that I’ve only got my 2 boards & a few others lying about  

Revolutions

slacker said:

Back to abnormal bordering on obsessive

King of tone
Prince of tone 
Beano boost
Sunface bc108
Dirty boy geranium boy
Klon
Bad cat siamese drive 
Full drive fm 
Stonedeaf pd2
Double rock 
Wooly mammoth
Fuzz factory 
Bliss factory 
Rastop super divider

Pretty damn incredible list here. Is your plan to collect the best boutique pedals of the last 20 years? Nothing wrong with that at all.

MrSwanson

I have a spreadsheet tracking, sad I know  I'm closing in on 40 including a couple more on the way....

pluckbuddy

We. Have. Problems. 

DoctorX

ODR1 30th anniversary (2 of these)

Barber gain changer

Lightspeed 

Klon replica

BB preamp (for sale)

Cogmeister

80’s RAT

90’s Marshall Shredmaster

MXR Super Badass distortion 

Pigdog Space Face (NKT275 fuzz face)

Jerms mk1 

Sola Sound mk 1.5

Sola Sound mk iv l’esprit blanc

Thorpy Tacit Blue

Pigdog Dirty Mac (2 knob version)

D*A*M Drag’n’fly 

Skreddy Lunar Module (for sale)

Pigdog P73 (rams head muff)

Thorpy old timer (for sale)

EHX rams head

EHX green Russian 

Automatone preamp mk II

Maxon OD9 pro+

slacker

Revolutions said:

slacker said:

Back to abnormal bordering on obsessive

King of tone
Prince of tone 
Beano boost
Sunface bc108
Dirty boy geranium boy
Klon
Bad cat siamese drive 
Full drive fm 
Stonedeaf pd2
Double rock 
Wooly mammoth
Fuzz factory 
Bliss factory 
Rastop super divider

Pretty damn incredible list here. Is your plan to collect the best boutique pedals of the last 20 years? Nothing wrong with that at all.

I started in 2000 with a Fuzz factory and kept going. I bought the ridiculous stuff 2007/2008 before prices went mad. I've got 5 electric guitars and 4 amps so pedals it is. I've only got 3 reverb pedals but watch this space.

personalnadir

Hamstead Comet
JSA Landscape Fuzz
Bigfoot Engineering King Fuzz
Empress Distortion 
Tate FX BMB overdrive
Tate FX Antares 
Caline The Big Orange
Vox Straight 6
T68 Morricone
Fredric Effects Grumbly Wolf
Fredric Effects Blue Monarch
Bigfoot Engineering Thunder Pup

I’d quite like to buy more

chromatuna

Maybe I’m the dirt atypical one with a grand total of …. 3

Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin - RAT
Lovepedal OD11 - kinda Timmy
Fuzzdog Bluesbreaker tweaked by me - probs my fave

Perennially disappointed by dirt pedals but would like to try a Nordland ODR one day

oh, tell I lie I also have Blackstar HT- Dual which is a direct to power amp backup kind of thing

ElectricXII

I don't have a "collection" as I'm not the collector type. My gigging pedalboard has the following dirt pedals, which do pretty much everything I need:

Fuzz Face Mini Germanium
Crowther Hot Cake clone. which I built from a kit and preferred to the real thing which I sold
Paul Cochrane Timmy V3
EHX LPB-1

 Occasionally I buy something different, find I don't need it, and sell it on.

Unless you need lots of subtlely different flavours of dirt, say for a recording setup, I would consider more than 6 dirt pedals to be excessive.

We're all different and there's no right or wrong.

Kurtis

Think I've got three name ones but several DIY ones some in different states of completion. 

GoFish

Not as many as some, no doubt. And no real high end collections. A couple of distortions, ten or so ODs and, er, dozens of fuzz pedals. They are mostly budget and mostly different from each other so that's something I guess?

LionAquaLooper

GoFish said:

Not as many as some, no doubt. And no real high end collections. A couple of distortions, ten or so ODs and, er, dozens of fuzz pedals. They are mostly budget and mostly different from each other so that's something I guess?

You're too humble. You're the only person so far to use the word "dozens" to quantify the number of one type of dirt pedal that you own  

HAL9000

TimmyO said:

"1" seems to be the abnormal number 

In that case I have an abnormal number of overdrives - a Catalinbread Formula 55. To be honest I could live perfectly well without it and let the amp and the  guitar’s volume control do the work.

guitargeek62

I might have one or two more hiding somewhere, but:

- Way Huge Chalky (Saucy) Box
- Way Huge (Red) Geisha Drive
- Warm Audio Centavo
- Orange Amps Fur Coat
- Behringer SF-300
- Boss DS-1 40th Anniv.
- ProCo RAT2 (1989)
- ProCo RAT2 (1992)
- Digitech Bad Monkey
- Funny Little Boxes Skeleton Key


9’s acceptable, methinks? There’s only 3 on my board though…

*edit* 10 - I forgot one

stickyfiddle

MrSwanson said:

I have a spreadsheet tracking, sad I know  I'm closing in on 40 including a couple more on the way....

I have a spreadsheet with tabs for guitars, amps, pedals, pickups, neck dimensions, all sorts…

i thought maybe peppers wouldn’t want to see that but maybe I was wrong!