The one that switches my Traynor YCV 40's drive channel on.
I can actually live w/o pedals if I've got guitar, cable, amp.
It's a plus if I have amp w/ reverb, drive channel, ext. cab.
Peterson Strobostomp
I pick a moon dog.
The one that switches my Traynor YCV 40's drive channel on.
I can actually live w/o pedals if I've got guitar, cable, amp.
It's a plus if I have amp w/ reverb, drive channel, ext. cab.
Guitars
Wilburn Versatare, '52 FrankenTele(Fender licensed parts), Fender USA Roadhouse Strat, Fender USA Standard B-bender Telecaster, Agile AL 3000 w/ WCR pickups, Ibanez MIJ V300 Acoustic, Squier Precision Bass,
Amps
Ceriatone Overtone Special, Musicman 212 Sixty-Five, Fender Blues Jr., Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Reverb, Traynor YCV-40 WR Anniversary w/ matching 1x12 ext. cab, Epiphone SoCal 50w head w/ matching 4x12 cab (Lady Luck speakers), Avatar 2x12 semi-open back cab w/ Celestion speakers
Pedals
Digitech Bad Monkey, Digitech Jamman, DVM's ZYS, Goodrich volume pedal
Definetly my BOSS DS-1 Great distortion sounds
Hey Guys
My pedal would be my Eric Clapton Crossroads pedal ay. Or a Boss BD-2 Blues Driver (don't have one but have heard one)
Cheers
GREENMACHINE
Music Teach's You Everything School Can't!
"Guitars sing through the heart and soul alone but need you to put the feeling and passion into the music." Cavell Clearwater (GREENMACHINE)
GUITARS: Sunburst Fender VG Strat Maple Neck, Gibson Custom B.B. King Lucille, Zebra Wood Ibanez EW Series Acoustic.
PEDALS: Eric Clapton Crossroads Effects Pedal, Behringer Hellbabe Wah, Boss ME-70
AMP: Randall RG200G
I do not have the the one I could not live without yet....It is definitely not the Boss DS-1 as I find it to be pretty thin, and surely not the Danelectro Fab Tone...altho there is some usable fuzz in that one....and the RP80 well to me that thing is a joke....
I am interested in modding my DS-1, buying a Bad Monkey and a Screamin Blues and I HAVE to get my hands on a good Crybaby or Morley Bad Horsie Wah pedal.
Guitars: 2002 Les Paul Studio Limited Color's Edition | 2004 Greg Bennett Avion Les Paul Copy | S101 Telecaster project | 2004 Washburn D46 Acoustic
Amplification: Epiphone Valve Jr. Head and Cabinet | VOX AD30VT
Effects: Rocktron Delay | BBE Free Fuzz | Big Muff Pi | Boss Flanger | Bad Monkey | Jekyll and Hyde | Cry Baby Wah | Boss EQ | Behrenger TU300 Tuner |
Number 2: Boss RC-2 Looper.
The drum samples helps me work on my timing.
Being able to record rythym with the drum samples & solo over that or record lead & play rythym over that is indispesible.
If you don't have a looper with drum tracks, then screw all those dirt boxes & flange-a-ma-delay-o-whirls, they might be a delightful obsession, but I submit that your priorities are out'ta whack.
That is unlesss your timing is already impeccable &/or you play with others every week.
I pick a moon dog.
This belongs is the "What is the second pedal you can't live without?" thread.Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Since I only have two, I can answer both threads in one post.
Damn, I only have two and I'm not sure if one is classified as a pedal.
Anyway, at this stage I would have to say my Jamman is my number one pedal. As noted by a couple people here, it is a great tool to have when playing by myself (not "with"). It's a great timing tool and also gives me a better feel for the components of a song.
Of course that leaves my Vox VFS2 as my #2. although I really liked the added dimension it offers when practicing/playing with someone else.
Mark
* Loud is good, good is better!
Boss ME-50. Over 60 effects and more without the hassle of the pedal chain board I used to deal with.
Here, it's set up as I use it most: as a headphone practice 'amp' (it also takes an Aux Input to play along with....drum machine, cd, whatever...) that's simultaneously going into my amp and in stereo to 2 channels of my mixer & in-turn, recorder. The 2-button switch to the right is a $20 Behringer AB200 A-B-Y switch that I use instead of falling for Boss's excuse to buy 2 of their $25 FS-5U momentary latching switches (still need the $6 stereo Y/insert cable) to switch the ME-50 up & down it's 10 Patch Banks to flip between 30 Presets I've customized for various electric and acoustic/electric guitars.
There's also an ME50B for Bass. Either usually sells new for about $299US and they came out this past year with a scaled down version, the ME-20, that sells for $100 less.
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AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
Wings,
I like the ME-50. They can be picked up at a good price if you watch e-bay enough to stick one. I went to the Boss site and did some reading up on it and it isn't a bad deal. How would you rate the effects some of the better pedals you've heard or owned?
Mark
* Loud is good, good is better!
Strum,
Compared to others I've had or heard? Well, I'll have to apoligize first to the rest of the Fretters for dragging this thread a little off-topic by going into a quick 'review' here of the unit...
The 22 different Overdrives & Distortions include 11 faithful working versions of 5 of Boss's Biggies - my favorite being the 2 I had, the OD-1 & BD-2 (BluesDriver) - and very decent 'models' of 6 others, including the Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS-808, 'the Greenie') I'd had in my board. All better than the MXR Distortion+, which was my 4th of that breed.
From what I've seen in this thread and in Fretters' sigs, or with DVM's rig, I don't think I'm alone in saying that there's no single Overdrive or Distortion pedal that's a be-all end-all if you use different guitars (single coil loaded vs HB's, for instance) and/or amps. What's nice about the ME-50 is the OD/DiS section is you can, to a degree, combine the effects of 2 or 3 of the 11 OD/Dist units with what amounts to 11 preset combos of them.
The Mono & Stereo Chourses and Delays are on a par with Boss's big guy multis of those devices, maybe giving up just a bit of fine adjustment control. The Reverbs are decent, and independent of the Delay section.
The Expression Pedal is a little tricky because it doesn't have the 'travel width', particularly of a Cry Baby Wah; you need to be 'light on the foot'. So those who use a Wah 'extensively' may not dig it. For that touchiness reason, too, I prefer, still, to use my old Goodrich photocell Volume Pedal after this, and while the onboard Tuner is pretty good in pinch, I still count on my Boss TU-12H for crtical tuning.
I traded my 30 yr-old board loaded with 'vintage' stuff, some pretty beat up (stomp boxes, right?): the Cry Baby and those 4 Distortion pedals, plus an old Ross Flanger, an MXR Stereo Phaser, MXR Stereo Chorus and MXR DynaComp Compressor and a Boss NoiseGate, a power supply and all the little cables and patchjacks for this, even up. All I had to buy was the PSA-120 AC Adapter (it also runs on 6 AA's if you need it to).
I feel like I got everything I had in that board, or at least used alot, plus I got a Harmonizer, an Octaver pedal, and more.
The biggest advantage? a lot less signal degradation and invitation to interfereence & noise from all that daisy-chaining. One plug in, one plug out.
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AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
I have to change my original pedal choice from the modded TS9 to the Dah Voodoo Man's Zonkin Yellow Screamer. Everything else now just completely sucks...except for the Tonebone Hot British.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
I use my modified CS-3 the most.
Second is my modified SD-1 in symmetrical distortion mode.
Guitars (All Lefty): Fender MIM Wine Red Telecaster
Washburn D10SCELHBK
Greg Bennett (Samick) Avion AV3/LH/CS
Franken-Strat (Maple Neck / Black Body & Pickguard / 2-Point Tremolo / GFS Alnico Single-coil Pups / Gold Hardware)
2 Fullerton Standard Strats; Sunburst w/ GFS Overwound P'ups and Black w/ GFS Lil Killer Rail 'Buckers
Fullerton Deluxe Dreadnought
Amp: Blackheart BH1HS Killer Ant Half Stack (Bitmo Ant Eater Kit)
Crate V18-112 (Goodsell RGM Speaker / Accutronics Tank / Switch R4 - R10 Mod)
Pignose G40V (Jensen MOD Speaker / DC Heater Mod / Pentode:Triode Switch)
Fender Champion 30 Reverb (Accutronics Tank / Jensen MOD Speaker)
Speaker Cab: Lopo 1x12 Tweed Convertible w/ Eminence GB128 Speaker
Pedals: Korg ToneWorks AX1000G, AX5G, & AmpworksG Modeling Signal Processors
Boss DS-1 (Rectifier Tri-Gain Plus Mod); CS-3 (Opto Plus Mod); SD-1 Super (GT Mod); GE-7 (Plus Mod)
Fender PT-100 Tuner
E.H. Big Muff Pi (US)
S.D. Pickup Booster
Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flanger
Alesis NanoVerb
ART Tube MP Studio (OPA2604 Op Amps) (On Champion 30)
Behringer NR100 & OD100
Boss TU-2 (on account of my tin ear)
The rest of the pedals come and go.
The liver is bad, it must be punished.
snoglobe
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2007 Gibson BJA LP Junior
2007 Gibson SG Standard
2006 Fender Classic Players Series 60's Stratocaster
2005 Fender Highway 1 Telecaster
Danelectro U2 RI
Aria More or Less Paul (80's LP clone with Gibson pups and guts)
MIJ Squier Stratocaster (early 80's with 2005 Am Stnd pups and guts)
If I were to choose one pedal it would be my Fulltone Fulldrive II. Od and gain pedal. Actually all of my Fulltone pedals are the cats ***. The OCD, the Mini deja vibe are also amazing. I have recently purchased a Boss DD20 Giga Delay and we shall see how it fits in.
The Blues is alright!
Guitars: 1968 Gibson SG, 2005 Gibson SG Standard, 2006 Gibson LP Classic Gold top, 2004 Epiphone Elitist LP Custom, 1996 Gibson Les Paul Standard. 2001 Epiphone Sheraton II, 2007 Epiphone G400.
Fender Strats: 1996 Fender 68 Reissue CIJ, 2008 Squier CV 50s, 2009 Squier CV 50s Tele Butterescotch Blonde
Amps: Blues Junior Special edition Jensen in Brown Tolex with Wheat front, 65 Deluxe Reverb reissue,1970 Sonax reverb by Traynor, Avatar Custom 2/12 Cabinet with Eminence Legend V1216 speakers,
2008 DSL100 Marshall Amp , Fender Super Champ XD,Fender Vibro Champ XD
Effects and Pedals: Fulltone Fulldrive II, Fulltone OCD, Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe, Fulltone Fat Boost, Dunlop Crybaby Wah, Boss DS1, Boss DD20 Giga Delay, Boss TU2 tuner, Boss BD2, Ibanez TS9 Tube screamer, Zoom 505. Radial tonebone hot british.
Similar to a ts 808?
oh oh
GAs
Don't Be flat, don't be sharp, be natural.
Ibanez TS-9. No it's not modded and it sounds fantastic. Just yesterday we rehearsed and the Marshall JTM45 and the TS-9 are big friends that deliver some really mean sounds. This pedal does a great job and I have been using it for more than 10 years right now. I was at a point where I thought that I do not want that sound no more, but with the new amph this pedal remained my number one.
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Fulltone Fulldrive II. A very close second, the Fulltone OCD.
The Blues is alright!
Guitars: 1968 Gibson SG, 2005 Gibson SG Standard, 2006 Gibson LP Classic Gold top, 2004 Epiphone Elitist LP Custom, 1996 Gibson Les Paul Standard. 2001 Epiphone Sheraton II, 2007 Epiphone G400.
Fender Strats: 1996 Fender 68 Reissue CIJ, 2008 Squier CV 50s, 2009 Squier CV 50s Tele Butterescotch Blonde
Amps: Blues Junior Special edition Jensen in Brown Tolex with Wheat front, 65 Deluxe Reverb reissue,1970 Sonax reverb by Traynor, Avatar Custom 2/12 Cabinet with Eminence Legend V1216 speakers,
2008 DSL100 Marshall Amp , Fender Super Champ XD,Fender Vibro Champ XD
Effects and Pedals: Fulltone Fulldrive II, Fulltone OCD, Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe, Fulltone Fat Boost, Dunlop Crybaby Wah, Boss DS1, Boss DD20 Giga Delay, Boss TU2 tuner, Boss BD2, Ibanez TS9 Tube screamer, Zoom 505. Radial tonebone hot british.
vintage tube screamers x2
white signed #125 steve vai bad horsie2 wah
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