what is the single most fun effect?

mark_jwedge · May 2014

In a similar vein to the 'if you could only use one pedal' thread, what are peoples opinions on the single most fun effect? Unlike the other post I'm not taking about what is the one pedal essential to your sound but rather the most fun, for pure abandon!

Mine has to be fuzz. Tried fuzz a long time ago and hated it, I don't think I had been playing long enough to know how to work with the particular quirks of fuzz. Came back to it about 18 months ago and am now obsessed with it! Have been through endless varieties and types since. The whole fuzz and guitar volume interaction is hours of fun, plus the occasional moment of gated, glitchy sonic mayhem!

Alnico · May 2014

Same answer....

TC Electronic Mojo Mojo

I just bought the Spark Booster yesterday though and that is a very close second in terms of fun

Gassage · May 2014

Easy- a wireless radio transmitter that shares the same frequency band as your other guitarist or bass player.

Hours of endless fun....

JCA2550 · May 2014

Yep Fuzz, but you have to find the right one. A decent Fuzz Face derived design can be brilliant fun to use, sound astonishingly good with the right set-up, will respond really well to the volume and tone controls on a guitar but can also be very temperamental and finicky to power and to fit in with other pedals and wireless systems.

chrispy108 · May 2014

I love the Seek Wah and Ooh Wah models on my Zoom G3.

mark_jwedge · May 2014

JCA2550;236697" said:
Yep Fuzz, but you have to find the right one. A decent Fuzz Face derived design can be brilliant fun to use, sound astonishingly good with the right set-up, will respond really well to the volume and tone controls on a guitar but can also be very temperamental and finicky to power and to fit in with other pedals and wireless systems.

I think this is the problem I had with fuzz before. I now have a brilliant germanium fuzzface with nkt 275s made by forge effects on this forum. I use a bright onion looper to keep all my other pedals out of the way and power it with a virtual battery from thegigrig.

ICBM · May 2014

Loop sampler.

JCA2550 · May 2014

I love Germanium FF styled pedals. I had 2 Cornell First Fuzz pedals, which were the best sounding NKT 275 FF types I've ever tried, but the original switches proved unreliable, they didn't like being powered by anything other than an internal battery and required constant tweaking when used in gig situations. I'm currently using a Mooer Grey Faze which has addressed almost all of these issues and is in a potent tiny package

Big Muff type designs are very different beasts but also fantastic in their own way.

xSkarloey · May 2014

Any delay that self-oscillates.

I can get all the usual usable sounds, then put it on the edge of feedback and I get some nice background swashes of sounds. Turn it up all the way and it's like the War of the Worlds.

LastMantra · May 2014

At the moment I'm having a lot of fun with an old Boss ME-8.

Or my EHX Flanger Hoax.

I just googled Flanger Hoax and it seems the units have more than doubled in price since I got mine. :-?

All of the above though...a FF, wah, DMM, loop sampler...I could handle just that. Sooooo many tones! \m/

ThePrettyDamned · May 2014

Fuzz factory, or a looper if you're good with them (I'm not, sadly).

tone1 · May 2014

Couldn't live without reverb ( sorry Gearmandude)

JohnPerry · May 2014

The single most fun effect ever is sticking a vocal mic into a Boss pitch shifter. This destroyed several rehearsals through helpless mirth back in the 80s