Which Pedal?

Catmandue

Catmandue

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Just curious to see if there are any particular pedals you guys always seem to use on your boards or stacking, etc., which ever way you fine folks may make use of your effects stomp boxes. Two which I'm always seem to be pulling back out are the Dunlop CAE MC 404 wah and the Wampler Tumnus Deluxe. I also love the tone of any Rat through a Marshall. I like the You Dirty Rat very much also. You guys and gals are aware I have a boat load of pedals. When I first got into guitar I had no idea of how crazy I would get in my later years with effects.
 
Always On: Polytune Mini, Mini Ego Compressor, Micro Hush
Sometimes On: Tumnus Mini, DB+ Boost

Whether it's into the JCM2000 or OR15, I dig this setup.

Now, for bass, I'm infatuated with the new Q Strip. I'm using that (HPF and LPF "On")
with the Zoom MS-60b: minor compression from the 160Comp, and a very light touch
of reverb. Check out the Tech 21 Q Strip. Parametric EQ for guitar and bass.
 
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No present input here, if I own a pedal it usually sits in the box on a shelf any more. When I used to play in bands and gig, if memory serves me, I generally had a phasor, a chorus, an analog delay, a wah pedal, and a noise gate (and something to tune with/to). Once in a while an eq pedal or maybe a compressor maybe. At the moment I'm very patiently waiting to come across a reverb, tremolo, and wah pedal.
 
I leave my setup, errr , set up and swap some things in and out.
What seems to never leave is a Donner tuner, a RAT2, Soul Food and or Dano Daddy 'O, and a Biyang RV-1 Reverb.
And I always have my home brew A/B/Y at the end usually as a mute.
Those get used the most and I try to focus on practice and not chasing tonz - but its gotta sound alright or I dont feel right.

I still swap in and or use cheapy compressor, delay, tremolo, phaser, chorus with plans to know them better.

I just got a cheapy Dano EQ but havent fooled with it much; again using my time to play and practice.

I have a cheapy Korg multi effect; I want to fool with the wah and / or leaving the wah on in different EQ positions.
 
I have a few that are always on my 'board. It's easy to over use a wah so we won't count that (though it's always there). In front of the 4 hole 50 Watter there's a Rangemaster type treble booster (OC44 transistor) & a RAT clone. For use with a strat I did have an "always on" TS9 clone set conservatively, but that has made way for a (Syscokid recommended) BYOC 5 knob compressor that is again, always on with a strat (& tele). Thanks for the recommendation Sysco, this is a fantastic pedal.
For higher gain stuff I switch to another amp (JCM800 clone, modified with added triode) that has an MXR M109 6 band EQ in front of it & an MXR analog chorus & carbon copy bright in the loop. Of all the other pedals like fuzz's (I have several), dirt boxes etc that get moved on & off the board, the one that is most often "on it" is the BYOC Phase Royalle, another really good pedal. Ok, rant over. Cheers
 
Catmandue said:
Now Ivan has me all curious about the 5 knob BYOC compressor.
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It's BYOC's take on the old Ross grey compressor pedal, but they really take it to a whole new level without compromising the original circuit. Controls are Sustain, Attack, Ratio (wet/dry mix), Level & Tone, which are pretty self explanatory. BYOC have put the circuit in parallel with the dry signal so the ratio control goes from 100% dry to 100% wet. The level control (depending on compression setting) can boost the signal above unity quite well & I use this to push the front end of the amp. The tone control makes use of a high pass filter in the original circuit, so isn't an "add on" so much. It can be used to dial in high end jangle, though I dial it back some. The amp I use it with is a tube rectified 50 watt Marshall clone so is capable of compressing enough. As such I have it set to add just a tiny bit of punch, more to fatten the signal & drive the channel jumpered (for Strat) front end of the amp. The result is a more natural or organic tone than the minimally set TS9 gave. The pedal is capable of compressing quite a lot though. Cheers
 
The threads and talk about pedals on TTR has me thinking back to what I used to use and it just came to memory that I was a big fan of Fuzz's over "distortion", "overdrive", "pre-amp", pedals. I had a really cool wah with built in fuzz that had a switch to choose between a lower chug'n fuzz and a more normal fuzz - can't remember for the life of me what brand/model it was. I think I got it from my older brother.
 
Drumoid said:
I had a really cool wah with built in fuzz that had a switch to choose between a lower chug'n fuzz and a more normal fuzz - can't remember for the life of me what brand/model it was. I think I got it from my older brother.
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Years ago I had a Roland AD50 Double Beat Fuzz/wah. Big old dinosaur of a thing. The Fuzz section had 3 position rotary switch that selected between a thick bassy Fuzz, a normal Fuzz & a thin, sharp high treble fuzz. It was a silicon job that could produce a devestating wall of fuzz & stacks of gain. The wah, while not excellent was very useable. That pedal served me well for 15~20 years before some lowlife stole it after a gig. I see from stompbox forums that people still seek this pedal on the bay & such, & the fuzz section is still popular among pedal builders. Cheers
 
I've had a couple of similar (ish) sounding EHX Fuzz's - both could make a lot of different loud noises! The first one has a lot more going on than the second, but they both work great, and I suspect are pretty standard circuits.

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ivan H said:
Years ago I had a Roland AD50 Double Beat Fuzz/wah. Big old dinosaur of a thing. The Fuzz section had 3 position rotary switch that selected between a thick bassy Fuzz, a normal Fuzz & a thin, sharp high treble fuzz. It was a silicon job that could produce a devestating wall of fuzz & stacks of gain. The wah, while not excellent was very useable. That pedal served me well for 15~20 years before some lowlife stole it after a gig. I see from stompbox forums that people still seek this pedal on the bay & such, & the fuzz section is still popular among pedal builders. Cheers
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I'd love to find another old one. I remember having two wah fuzz's now. One I did get from my brother that had a foot push button to kick it in and out. The other I got from the Music Workshops box in the back. It was like, take him to the back and let him dig thru 'the box'. Ya, I was a poor boy and a couple of them (especially Jerry, I believe his name was), new it. I think they had mercy on the poor boy hippy that came in out of their shop from time to time - lol...
 
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