How many pedals is too many pedals?

[Catalyst77]

In line with the resurgance in pedal board posts:

I'm redisgning my Pedal Board and have a wobo looper on the way; which will let me combine different combinations of pedals.

But I'm a bit OCD with the ol' pedals; at the moment its looking like having about 18 pedals on it.

Is that too much? (its certainly bloody heavy)

How many pedals do you guys tend to have on your boards? and do you ever crave the expansive sonic landscape or live in the land of pedal contentment?

[indysmith]

i have two. I'm thinking of downsizing though...

[Will]

2 also. Well one pedal, and a rack EQ; but if I didn't have that, it would be a pedal. They are both always on, and no pedalboard, just sit on the amp.

Soon to be an OD1 replica :D

[Mr Ed]

I currently have 8 I think but two of them are true bypass loopers... and in the near future I'll be adding 3/4 more.

[hamfist]

There is no such thing as too many pedals.  Although you can definately have your signal going through too many at one time, negatively affect your tone.
   Sounds like you are going to be sorting things out in TB loopers anyway, so you'll have that side of things covered.
  Personally, I have 13 pedals on my board, although 3 of those are TB switch/loop pedals.   You're right about the whole thing starting to get heavy though. My flightcased pedalboard weighs at least as much as my AC30 head (which itself weighs a ton !)

[Mr Ed]

Same here, my board weights the same as my JCM900 but it's worth it, I use every single pedal I have and that's the key for me - if you really use them all in your own music then why shouldn't you? If you just have them for the sake of it then it's kinda lame.

[jules666]

have 1 myself - a boss noise gate. All I have ever needed to be honest.

[MrBump]

How many pedals is too many?

It's too many when you need to use your third leg to access them...

[CUBE]

i have 8 , but will eithe add or take away , if i findsome thing that does what i need it to do better.

[Catalyst77]

How many pedals is too many?

It's too many when you need to use your third leg to access them...

I think too many is when your board doesnt fit length ways in your car!

[Slarty]

If you can deal with tone suckage and use them all then the sky is the limit :-)

I have 8 but got fed up of tap dancing.  Its a shame cos I love modulation and delay on the clean channel.  But then trying to turn them off when switching to dirt became too much hassle.

Its all about phasers for me, think I will just have them and an OD :)

[jibidy]

Seems that theres no such thing as too many as long as you can lift it to and throw your car/transport without getting a hernia.

[psy]

I used to use about 5...  Distortion, EQ, Flanger, Chorus & Wah.  But even that was too much hassle for me so I took the easy option & switched a multi-FX board.

[Jonny]

Seems that theres no such thing as too many as long as you can lift it to and throw your car/transport without getting a hernia.

I can't throw a car let alone getting a hernia doing it. PDT_006

[Catalyst77]

If you can deal with tone suckage and use them all then the sky is the limit :-)

I have 8 but got fed up of tap dancing.  Its a shame cos I love modulation and delay on the clean channel.  But then trying to turn them off when switching to dirt became too much hassle.

Its all about phasers for me, think I will just have them and an OD :)

Well mine are mainly true bypass, plus im sticking in the wobo looper programer ; so i dont have to hopscotch or suffer from tone loss/need buffer etc.

i.e. i can go from clean with chorus and delay to distortion with eq and flange, at the press of one glorious stomp.

I have been down the Multi FX loop (Genex 3) but the sound was terrible and there was always a delay between switching.

Plus a couple of times it would switch on stage when I didn't press nothin!

invariably it always ended up on that one (of many) useless preprogrammed sounds thats supposed to immitate and alien rectal probe + infiniate crescendo volume repeats!