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Posted by Flatfish on September 26, 2012 at 8:23am in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

Hi all,

just looking for a quick survey on what kinds of effects pedals some of you might use. I currently play through a cigarbox amp with guitarfuel innards and while it has pretty nice distortion and overdrive, I think a pedal would be more versatile, also some reverb would be nice...what else?

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  • Frank Carr May 18, 2016 at 8:47pm

    I mainly use a Monoprice 5w tube amp. It's essentially the same class A tube circuitry as some versions of the Fender Champ.

    For overdrive, I use either a Joyo Tai Chi or Tom's Line Dumbler.

    To get nastier sounds, I have a Biyang Fuzz Star, a clone of a Big Muff with switchable tone mods.

    For a reverb effect, I use an old 90's DOD EchoFX, an analog delay.

    I have several other pedals but these are the ones I use most of the time.

  • Cause the Blue rat May 18, 2016 at 6:01pm

    I'm a pedal junky. Love my overdrive, distortion and fuzz. all of them. Way to many of them. Best fuzzes are from Devi Ever. Distortion and overdrive is a toss between Wampler and Catalinbread. Fulltone and Electro Harmonix for modulation. And TC Electronics for their Flashback x4 and Hall of Fame. 

    I have both a nice Marshall and Fender amp. Plus a really nice GK bass amp. Pedals bring a new game and great sounds to all of them. 

  • Scott aka Farmer Ted May 18, 2016 at 2:08pm

    306552946?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024As the title says, "Morning Wood" fuzz pedal, hand made, with a mahogany body and birds eye maple top.

  • Primitive Acoustics May 18, 2016 at 1:02pm
    EHX Pitchfork,tcElectronics; Flashback delay, mojo mojo, viscous vibe, ditto looper.
    Many of the tcElectronics pedals have Toneprint technology that allows you to easily reprogram the pedal using your iPhone. You can customize the tone prints as well.
    Loopers are great fun as you can get multiple layers of sound going, you just have to be careful that you don't muddy things up too much.
    I use reverb and other effects on my Yamaha THR amp as well.
  • Iain T.S. May 18, 2016 at 11:26am

    I use a home made fuzz/distortion/overdrive/bass-boost pedal, i designed it as a fuzz, but the gain knob i build in made distortion/overdive/clean possible, i tweak teh gain a lot inbetween songs. The output is a bit bass heavy and contasts nice with my metal hubcap/traffic sign banjos, which have a brighter tone by them selves.

  • Thorsten Hinrichsen March 6, 2013 at 10:51am

    I often use

    • Electro Harmonix Dr Q Nano (envelope filter - must be placed before compression)
    • Big Crush Compressor (quite useful for selfmade instruments, evens the sound a bit and adds sustain)
    • Danelectro Transparent Overdrive (adds some sparkling crunch)
    • Behringer Ultra Tremolo (very cheap pedal, plastic housing only but it has exactly the sound I want)
    • Danelectro Wasabi Delay (very versatile pedal, tap tempo and reverse delays included)
    • Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb pedal (my amp has no reverb)

    This setup works well with coil pickups. For acoustic sounds (piezo pickups) I have a zoom A1 pedal (quite cheap and good for acoustic sounds).

    For small gigs I use a zoom 2.1u multi effect processor or a 1980s Ibanez pue5 analogue multi effect pedal with tube preamp. Or just an Electro Harmonix Nano Muff in front of an old transistor amp.

  • The Phrygian Kid March 6, 2013 at 2:48am
    They all have their place..

    But a real good amp...
    Is worth 10,000 pedals imho

    I'd also much prefer a pedal that does one thing really well to one that does a thousand..

    That said, I'm real partial to a nice digital delay, and any kinda lo-fi filters, synths filters, oscillators etc cal be real cool..
  • Vince Peterson December 8, 2012 at 4:54pm

    I recently got a "Swollen Pickle" jumbo fuzz box from "Way Huge Electronics" from Guitar Center.

    I am playing it through a cigar box amp I got from Gitty here on the forum.

    It is indeed way huge - me likey.

    It coast twice as much as the amp, but is worth it IMHO.

    http://www.guitarcenter.com/Way-Huge-Electronics-WHE401-Swollen-Pic...

    Now I'm thinking I'll try to make it look a bit more cigar boxy somehow.

    -

    • Sean Rush > Vince Peterson December 10, 2012 at 9:58pm

      Well, the Swollen Pickle is just a Big Muff, There are plenty of "cigar boxy" looking Muffs out there. I could even build one for you in a small cigar box if you'd like. I can draw a Big Muff schematic from memory.

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