what's your favourite pedals and why?

[Daemon Barbeque]

MXR 10 band EQ and Ibanez WD7 wah.The most twweakable combo.
And i dig Line6 rotomachine alot!Need to get one soon.
Whammy is cool choice ,but i mostly use 1 octave higher.that's all.

[Crazy_Joe]

My Monte Allums modded SD-1, the best lead boost i could ever ask for, it makes solos sound so much better and they cut through so well.

[Twinfan]

My top two are:

ZVEX Box of Rock ( a JTM 45 in a box ).  Used at home into a clean amp - did someone say Angus????



Twisted Transistor Treble Twister ( built by Heavier Than Hell here on the forum  :) ).  Used live into my Klipps for a LOUD 'DC tone.

[Mr Ed]

Well, I'll only speak of my own pedals because they're the ones which I have experience with in a practical way:

1. Dunlop Crybaby From Hell: Amazingly versatile wah, built to last and sounds amazing.

2. Boss DD-2: Technically a digital delay but as close to analogue as you can get without the expense. The sound quality is brilliant, a lovely warm sounding delay and it doesn't need to be packed with unneccessary features like reverse and warp because it's a straight up delay pedal.

3. Line6 Echo Park: I'm not usually a fan of modelling gear but I tell you what, this shut me up seriously when I tried it. The tap tempo function is sublime and that's what I use it for mainly on-stage, so I don't have to mess around with my DD-2.

They're probably the main ones but I love each and every one of my pedals.

[Fourth Feline]

My favourite is the Barber 'Tone Press'. It is ( as you probably know ) a clean booster with blendable compression. It is usually advertised as the reverse, ( i.e. a compressor with blend control ) - but I like the way that it 'optimises' single coils . It is subtle and therefore is one of those pedals that best shows it's qualities when you switch it off and then realise what it had been doing for you as a "talent booster" - especially when playing fingerstyle.


You can completely 'dial out' the compression and just get a nice clean boost.

For 50's style/sound, I like my Dan-Electro "Tape Echo" after the Tone Press. The Danelectro is not boutique quality, but it does the job.


I am interested in your recommended overdrives - and will be reading  with interest, but there are three main reasons I'm more of a blendable compressor ( if anything ) guy:

1) I play mostly clean.

2) I like to leave out the effects if I can ( except reverb )

3) I have a Laney LH50R - II which gives me enough 'old school' gain on it's hot channel for my needs ...

F.F.

[TomW]

MXR 10 band EQ and Ibanez WD7 wah.The most twweakable combo.

+1 the mxr 10 band eq is a great eq pedal.

[maliciousteve]

Keeley Modded TS9-DX Flexi 4 x 12
Boss Super Chorus
Metal Muff
Digitech Digidelay
Boss NS-2

[Johnny Mac]

An HBE Dos Mos. I use it with my strat into a clean amp to just break it up slightly. It sounds great.

I've got a HBE Power Screamer too but i don't use it as i prefer the amps distortion/overdrive.

Did use a cry baby a lot but it's worn out after 15 odd years, so use a Ibanez weeping demon wah now.

[Elliot]

I rationalised my board over the weekend to things I use:

Award Session JD10 MKII pre-amp - has true tone buffer to clean out the rest  of the pedals, set as a great clean boost - click a red switch and you have awesome distortion - my fave, even if it isn't cool.

HBE CPR compressor

Ibanez WD7 Weeping Demon Wah

HBE Powerscreamer - set as a Tubescreamer

HBE Big D - set as a distortion

Pro-Tone Lithium Chorus - I didn't use it for a while because it had a funny radio frequency sound - I later found that the battery snap had become loose as was causing the trouble.  Remove, this is a lush chorus with loads of mojo.

TR2 Tremolo - with the Harmony Central snipped capacitor mod (which works wonders)

Dano PBJ Delay - I only use slap back and this one sounds good to my ears

Digitech Digiverb - which does its job acceptably well.

I also just modded an Ibanez TS7 with an Monte Allums kit - I like it alot and i'm thinking of putting it place of the HBEs.  Trouble is - the HBEs are expensive and the TS7 is a cheap ebay project and my snobbery is winning at the moment.

[indysmith]

loads of folk on here use weeping demons - can somebody give me a mini review? I've been looking at wahs lately and i really don't know what i want

[pagan7]

DigiTech GNX3000 guitar workstation.
It has all my fave pedals in there including the whammy and tube screamer plus some sensational amp and cab models....a real tone monster only let down by some of the delays but I fixed that by going stereo out into a Line6 Echo Park
As MrEd says the Echo Park has some brilliant echo effects, though I still miss my old Watkins Copycat tape echo and ColorSound Fuzz/Wah/Swell...sold em years ago and regretted it ever since.

[matteo]

have to say digitech hendrix signature pedal! you gan get some crazy tones with it :twisted:

but its the only pedal i got but its so versatile i dont even know what half the controls are! sounds awesome though

[Mr Ed]

As MrEd says the Echo Park has some brilliant echo effects, though I still miss my old Watkins Copycat tape echo and ColorSound Fuzz/Wah/Swell...sold em years ago and regretted it ever since.

I tell you what, I was so impressed by the Echo Park (especially the analog model) that I bought the Space Chorus pedal too. Yet to actually try it out - waiting for my new pedalboard to arrive - but I'm very, very excited!!

[HTH AMPS]

My top two are:

ZVEX Box of Rock ( a JTM 45 in a box ).  Used at home into a clean amp - did someone say Angus????



Twisted Transistor Treble Twister ( built by Heavier Than Hell here on the forum  :) ).  Used live into my Klipps for a LOUD 'DC tone.

cheers mate, the cheque is in the mail    :lol:

[HTH AMPS]

my faves...

* MI Audio Crunchbox - if you want a Marshall tone in a box, buy one of these.

* my own 'Bigger Beard' pedal - fuzz nirvana (hey, a little self publicity can't harm right, heh)

 :twisted: