What's the 1 pedal you cannot live without?

[tot_Ou_tard]

Peterson Strobostomp

[oldguy]

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.

[pes_laul]

Definetly my BOSS DS-1 Great distortion sounds

[GREENMACHINE]

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

[Kazz]

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.

[tot_Ou_tard]

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.

[Spudman***]

Number 2: Boss RC-2 Looper.

This belongs is the "What is the second pedal you can't live without?" thread.

[just strum]

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.

[wingsdad]

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.

[just strum]

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?

[wingsdad]

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.

[Spudman***]

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.

[WackyT]

I use my modified CS-3 the most.
Second is my modified SD-1 in symmetrical distortion mode.

[snoglobe]

Boss TU-2 (on account of my tin ear)

The rest of the pedals come and go.

[ZMAN]

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.

[Bomber]

Similar to a ts 808?

oh oh
GAs

[Jimi75]

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.

[ZMAN]

Fulltone Fulldrive II. A very close second, the Fulltone OCD.

[mrmudcat]

vintage tube screamers x2

white signed #125 steve vai bad horsie2 wah