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

Fez

11 but 12 if you include the HX 1 I bought about 3 weeks back.
Thorpy, Fallout cloud, Peacekeeper & Gunshot.
Boss Sd1 & Ds1
BYOC Brit overdrive
Mad Prof LGW
Dod Blues screamer
Mini Tube screamer
Laney loudpedal
Behringer TS clone came free with Total Guitar sub.

rze99

Wow. I just don't get why so many

I use very few, I use natural distortion of the amp with attenuators, roll off volume for cleaner and then boost or dirt pedal and boost for dirtier.

Klon Clone (v rarely in use)
Hot Cake (rarely used and typically only with with the vintage AC-30
BB Preamp (used quite lot as "extra dirt")
Caline Blue Sky (used a lot for soloing)
Paisley Drive (as a low gain bit of extra dirt and currently on long term loan to a mate who seems to have permanently adopted it)

Unit67 is used for always on bit of compresser, bit of boost, eg and touch of rangemaster, but not used for dirt
I also have two American Sound pedals but they get used rarely when I can;t take my own amps

slacker

https://i.imgur.com/NLOrlcC.jpeg

octatonic

Oh shit- this is just what I can remember.

Analogman KOT x 3
Kingsley Page
Klon KTR
Ibanez TS10
Ibanez TS9
Ibanez TS808
Walrus Jupiter
Earthquaker Palisades
Big Muff NYC x 2
Big Muff Russian x 3
Big Muff Triangle x 3
Big Muff Russian Mini
Boss SD1 Waza
BK Butler Tube Driver
Friedman Fuzz Fiend
Emma Stinkbug
Marshall Guvnor
Danelectro Fabtone
Danelectro Daddyo
Reeves 2n2Face
Hermida Zendrive
Hudson Broadcast
Hudson Sidewinder
Thorpy Tacit Blue
Thorpy Veteran
Thorpy Peacekeeper
Thorpy Fallout Cloud
Proco Rat
Fulltone OCD

Corvus

Weehbo JCM unused, thats going to the classifieds some time.

Foxrox CCH fuzz is used, got a cheapo but good germ fuzz and Octafuzz both not on a board.

So one fuzz and amp dirt here.

Kebabkid

Those shown in bold are still with me - I usually like to have 3 flavours of overdrive in the Low, Medium and High gain range on my board and where possible, I like to be able to stack the Low and Medium gain ones.

Boss SD-1 (modded)
Brunetti Super Lead Plexi
Carl Martin PlexiTone (up for sale)
Catalinbread Forumla 55
Fulltone OCD V.1
Fulldrive 1
Gigsounds Distorter
Hermida Unimos
Hermida Zendrive
JHS AT
JHS AT+
JRAD GTO
JRAD The Dude
Keeley-modded Plus Ibanez TS808
Kingtone Duellist
Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive
Liquid Sunshine
Mad Professor Bluebird Overdrive
Nobels ODR-1
Proco Rat
Sinvertek N5
Wampler Belle
Wampler Pinnacle
Way Huge Pork Loin
Xotic AC, RC & BB
 

NelsonP

Oh good, it seems that I'm perfectly normal, maybe slightly below average at 11 (!)

Ibanez TS mini
EP Booster
EHX Green Russian Big Muff
Jeds peds Tonebender
Dunlop Fuzz Face mini
Nobels ODR-1 mini
Boss SD1
Boss DS1
Boss BD2-W
Proco Rat
JHS Notaklon 

normula1

TC Nova Drive (x2)
TC MojoMojo
TC Dark Matter
Mosky Golden Horse
Boss OD2
EHX East River Drive
EHX Soul Food
Mad Professor Super Black
FuzzDog Enlightened Overdrive (Zendrive clone)
TC Spark Boost (x2) do these count?

stickyfiddle

@Kebabkid don't even start me on the stuff I've tried and sold..!! 

stickyfiddle

rze99 said:

Wow. I just don't get why so many

I use very few, I use natural distortion of the amp with attenuators, roll off volume for cleaner and then boost or dirt pedal and boost for dirtier.

Klon Clone (v rarely in use)
Hot Cake (rarely used and typically only with with the vintage AC-30
BB Preamp (used quite lot as "extra dirt")
Caline Blue Sky (used a lot for soloing)
Paisley Drive (as a low gain bit of extra dirt and currently on long term loan to a mate who seems to have permanently adopted it)

Unit67 is used for always on bit of compresser, bit of boost, eg and touch of rangemaster, but not used for dirt
I also have two American Sound pedals but they get used rarely when I can;t take my own amps

Because they sound and feel different, particularly in combination with each other. 

If you don't use multi channel amps, or amp distortion at all then it's good to have a few different flavours you can call upon. It's well worth noting all the rational players I know who have a bunch of dirts usually only have 2 or max 3 on a board at any given time

Revolutions

^ ok, this is a great benchmark.

”very few” = 8 drive pedals 

fastonebaz

1 x maxon808

That is all. 

JezWynd

Four overdrives (and one of those is listed in the classifieds atm) and one fuzz. My relationship with drive pedals is that I usually think they sound better once they're turned off. Exceptions to this are the low gain side of Boss SD-2 which I use for an enhanced clean sound and the Wampler Lightspeed which does sound like real valve amp drive but requires that I crank the gain on my compressor to make it trigger.

Brio

Keeley Mk3, Dane Mk2, Chase Bros Condor HiFi, Landlord Hairy Tongue, Joyo King of Kings, plus Tonex and GT1000 Core.

tone1

I’m currently in possession of 5

1. Original Marshall Guv’nor
2. Lovepedal Les Lius 
3. Hudson 999
4. Re-Housed Palmer Solid Metal 
5. J.Rocket Archer select (for sale) 

octatonic

rze99 said:

Wow. I just don't get why so many

I use very few, I use natural distortion of the amp with attenuators, roll off volume for cleaner and then boost or dirt pedal and boost for dirtier.

Klon Clone (v rarely in use)
Hot Cake (rarely used and typically only with with the vintage AC-30
BB Preamp (used quite lot as "extra dirt")
Caline Blue Sky (used a lot for soloing)
Paisley Drive (as a low gain bit of extra dirt and currently on long term loan to a mate who seems to have permanently adopted it)

Unit67 is used for always on bit of compresser, bit of boost, eg and touch of rangemaster, but not used for dirt
I also have two American Sound pedals but they get used rarely when I can;t take my own amps

35 years of playing- it is 1 to 2 a year.
That isn't that much.
I just don't sell very often.

Nerine

Can I count all the overdrives in my FM9? Or should I GTFO? 

26.2

Always on the board: Barber GC, Analogman TS

Often on the board: Keeley Red Dirt, OCD, Duke of Tone, Carl Martin AC-Tone, Hotcake

Sometimes on the board: Boss BC2, Green Russian Big Muff, TS-808, Caline Pure Sky, Behringer Superfuzz 

That’s 12- a couple could go, but I might try a klon-style again soon. 

26.2

26.2 said:

Always on the board: Barber GC, Analogman TS

Often on the board: Keeley Red Dirt, OCD, Duke of Tone, Carl Martin AC-Tone, Hotcake

Sometimes on the board: Boss BC2, Green Russian Big Muff, TS-808, Caline Pure Sky, Behringer Superfuzz 

That’s 12- a couple could go, but I might try a klon-style again soon. 

Forgot Rat - that’s 13. 

Blueingreen

Not that many, I've never been much of a pedals guy.  I've never owned a pedalboard.

I currently have an HXFX which is all I've used recently.

Before that a FlyRig 5.

I have a Line 6 M9 which has dirt options but I never used it for that.

I have 3 individual dirt pedals

Boss DS 1: this is ancient, bought in the 80s.  I never liked it, rarely used it and it hasn't had a functioning battery in it for decades.

BB Preamp and Lovepedal Amp 11.  I bought these around the same time a few years ago with the plan of gigging with them plus the M9, or just a delay pedal.  I think I used that set up twice before I decided that the FlyRig was a simpler solution for the gigs I was doing and sounded just as good.