charleshaupt
Hi all ,been collecting old pedals for some time. .My question is : when is enough enough ? Currently at 25 but still looking for the special one out there. Thanks
Johnny-B
charleshaupt wrote:
Hi all ,been collecting old pedals for some time. .My question is : when is enough enough ? Currently at 25 but still looking for the special one out there. Thanks
Just one more! ?
AlanRatcliffe
Depends on you. You're collecting, rather than using them all. So it's up to you. I've seen guys who own more Big Muff or TS variants alone than I've ever owned pedals. And they do the same for every pedal.
Aside from the rack stuff, I own one pedal (a drive) for when I'm playing the Twin. That's enough for me and I often won't even use that.
ryanguit
I dont keep more than 5 drive pedals at a time. 3 on my board. I try to keep them all 9VDC or 12VAC to minimise power supply craziness. I think a limit of 3 pedals per type. ie 3 delays, one decent analog sounding, one for pristine, one for its weird character, is reasonable. But I break even that rule.
I dont think I've gigged with more than 7 FX pedals (not counting noise suppressor/tuner/AB selector/amp channel switch or ext Tap switch)
wah
drive x2
chorus
delay x2
reverb
But Im down to 3 pedals now:
-TS pedal into
-another TS which is built into a tube OD pedal
-programmable delay.
(I know its more like 2 delays and 3 overdrives, but it looks like 3 pedals...)
Adding my wah (hardly used live tho) is the next step.
Danny-B
I had thirteen on my board at one point. I'm now down to six. It depends on what you want to achieve, really. I cut out many drive/boost pedals.
warrenpridgeon
I am trying to keep things basic... lol... plus that's about all I can afford right now...
Tuner, Delay, Distortion (I have to get most of my drive "tone" from the drive pedal because I can't push my amp enough to get it to sound just right). I'd like a sweet reverb also... and maybe a chorus... but then a flanger would also be cool... and a volume... oh and I can add my wah back on... and there you go... too many again. HAHAHA.
Right now I am down to ONE pedal... with many pedals inside it... Boss GT8. lol.
Banditman
Collecteritis is a severe addiction, so just one more as Johnny B said. ?
If I was playing with a group that did all-original material only, I'd probably have less on the board. Doing a lot of cover work means I try my best within reason to get close to the recording. Leaving off the TU-2 and AB selector like ryanguit, that leaves me with:
Crybaby from Hell (I like the tweakability of this pedal)
TS-9 (used to add a little sparkle or boost)
Eno OCD clone (replacing an old blues overdrive pedal needing repair and relegation)
Boss DS-2 (used rarely, has been a backup for the BD and may well get swapped off the board for)
Eno BMF Fuzz
Boss CH-1
MXR Phase 90
Danelectro Cool Cat Trem
Boss DD-3 delay
Fair chunk I know, and some are used pretty sparingly depending on where and what I'm playing. Sometimes I ignore the lot and play it completely straight. I'd probably add a flanger, and if I had a chunk of change doing nothing a Strymon El Capistan and Mobius would definitely be looked at. I tend to replace one for one in the form of upgrades.
netilla
I do collect pedals, especially the rarer/no longer made ones, and/or ones that you'll be a little hard pressed to reproduce, so while I have a line 6 M9 that's really handy for quick dialins, experimenting with effects I don't have, and easy portability, I also have these, some of which will make it onto my board.
Boss LS-2, CS-2, modded CS-3, modded DS-1, modded BD-2, DD-3, CE-2, DC-3, RV-3
Carl Martin Compressor
Xotic RC Booster
Wampler Euphoria
MXR Carbon Copy
Pigtronix Tremvelope
Dunlop Crybaby
So nothing too crazy, and as I go back to the old fashioned tube amp and pedals approach, I get more picky about what I want to put in front of the amp. I find, for me anyways, too much is like over seasoning, and in effect ('scuse the pun), over powering the meat & potatoes guitar & amp tone with too much spice, but pretty subjective and suspect it's also all down to personal taste.
Big-G
Netilla, if you ever decide to part with that Pigtronix Tremvelope, please let me know! I've been looking at importing one myself, but unless I put in a big order all at once (which I cannot yet afford) the shipping makes it completely beyond justification!
As for collecting pedals, I started out trying to get pedals that I could touch all bases with, and so tried to have one pedal available for each and every eventuality. I soon realised that between my wallet and my sanity, this was highly impractical. I then also started to find my 'voice' or 'sound' which I am still honing, but this meant that certain pedals just didn't cut it anymore, or that they were just not required. For example, there's no point having a flanger if you are never going to use it.
However, whilst my whittling out of pedals is removing those I do not neewd and keeping those that fulfil my 'sound', I could never call myself a collector...
This is not meant as a criticism of anyone who collects pedals, but rather my own motivation, but I cannot understand how people can collect pedals just for the sake of collecting, and never actually using them? Surely the point would be to utilise their tone, which is usually the very reason they are collectable to begin with?
Anyway, the formula 'number owned + 1 more' is a good one to use, but for me, I'm at the point of keeping it down to three drives, buffer, compressor, chorus, trem, two delays and another mod pedal (hard to explain what exactly this one is?).
Regards
G!
charleshaupt
Thanks guys for all the input,at this stage I,m just enjoying the pedals,mixing and matching different combinations of pedals ,and who knows maybe oneday I,ll hear what I,m looking for ,peace C
Shibbibilybob
I've got a drive, a boost, the drive of my amp, a delay, a vibe pedal and a wah probe (zvex wah pedal with a proximity sensing plate instead of an expression pedal...awesome pedal, but in no way a replacement for a traditional wah. Those are the ones on my board, then I have several cheaper/shittier pedals lying around that I could no longer even name.
Of the lot, I use my digitech jam man pretty frequently, and the trex replica delay from time to time...The rest have probably not seen a quarter inch jack in over a year.
To answer your question, I have way more than enough pedals now, though five years ago I had a few more, and I didn't have enough then.
*silly me, I forgot I have reverb pedal I don't use too.
briang-telkomsa-net
Who needs pedals - plug and play I say, ha ha.
Jayhell
Eish, dis rof.
I have 7 on my board and a few in the cupboard. My current live sett-up: Tu-2>LPB1>SD-1(soon to be replaced with an ENO OCD, maybe)>Little Big Muff>TR-2>BF-3>ENO Analog Delay>
In the box: Silver Dragon, crybaby, volume pedal, Ds-1 and An ME-70. The ME 70 is a great multu FX but I hate the over drives, so it's kinda redundant as I use it for Boost>Drive>Fuzz>Trem>Frange>Delay (See whats going on here?). I only use it now for it's looper and octave fx. I want sell it and the Dragon and get an octave and a looper pedal...
I always sell a drive and buy a drive, still want that ONE.
Enough is enough... and that's never enough. Go nuts. #YOLO :woohoo:
Wormwood
I have 3 and only use 1
I recon you should be happy with about 5
Distortion/overdrive
Boost
Eq
2x wet
but then maybe a looper would be cool
and some fuzz
and possibly a ring modulator for the crazy days
and
and
Norman86
Johnny B wrote:
charleshaupt wrote:
Hi all ,been collecting old pedals for some time. .My question is : when is enough enough ? Currently at 25 but still looking for the special one out there. Thanks
Just one more! ?
This!
But after finally getting the last one, thats it for me :woohoo:
Unless i can somehow get a Mr Black Eterna shimmer reverb..
Okay, so maybe just one more hey?! As above!
Nitebob
1) Blues Driver
2) Tuner
3) Compression sustainer
4) Vocalist Live 3
5) Jamman Looper
Currently cruising for Chorus, Reverb, and Delay...by Cruising I mean budgeting... :-[
Norman86
Nitebob wrote:
1) Blues Driver
2) Tuner
3) Compression sustainer
4) Vocalist Live 3
5) Jamman Looper
Currently cruising for Chorus, Reverb, and Delay...by Cruising I mean budgeting... :-[
Roy has a nice chorus available for sale...
Nitebob
Norman86 wrote:
Nitebob wrote:
1) Blues Driver
2) Tuner
3) Compression sustainer
4) Vocalist Live 3
5) Jamman Looper
Currently cruising for Chorus, Reverb, and Delay...by Cruising I mean budgeting... :-[
Roy has a nice chorus available for sale...
You see! There you go again!... ?
Nitebob
Nitebob wrote:
Norman86 wrote:
Nitebob wrote:
1) Blues Driver
2) Tuner
3) Compression sustainer
4) Vocalist Live 3
5) Jamman Looper
Currently cruising for Chorus, Reverb, and Delay...by Cruising I mean budgeting... :-[
Roy has a nice chorus available for sale...
You see! There you go again!... ?
Roy who? ?
