Zakk Wylde on Amps & FX:

[Amp Mad Scientist]

Philosophy is:
If the amp you have does not sound good without effects, get another amp.

Start with a good sounding amp, and add the effects last.
The emphasis is to establish a solid foundation, then build upon that.

I decided a long time ago to avoid dependence on effects pedals. Concentrate on guitar as the central focus.

 

[Inspector #20]

Philosophy is:
If the amp you have does not sound good without effects, get another amp.

Start with a good sounding amp, and add the effects last.
The emphasis is to establish a solid foundation, then build upon that.

I decided a long time ago to avoid dependence on effects pedals. Concentrate on guitar as the central focus.

For me, I require FX to give me a tone I cannot get from any standard amp.

 

[Ramo]

"Bare Minimum" means the smallest number that gives you the sounds that you need. If you are missing something that you need then you have too few.

This is my pedals, when I use my amp only thing is on is od in front rest i get it from amp.

in FX I have delay for solos and chorus for clean parts and i tc mini spark for boost solos. Because sone reason when FX is on sound drops low in terms of vol, for band practice i use friedman be od and boos sd 1. Its all on same board as i dont want to mack about with 2 board.

Its kind of 2 rig on one board

when i practice i use second rig ( be od and boos sd1) so i dont power 100w marshalls.

 

[Inspector #20]

I see a Zacky model in there....

 

[gball]

Agree 100%!!!!

I only wish I knew more about how to properly use pedals...like, for example, I can never quite get the delay I want from my DD-3...but I have heard others pull it off...

Try a DD-7 or DD-8. I know they seem on the surface to just be the same thing with more features but I have found that they sound quite different. I have a DD-7 on one of my pedalboards and the analog mode sounds remarkably like the DM-2W I have on another board, plus it can do any digital delay or reverb sound.

For me, I require FX to give me a tone I cannot get from any standard amp.

Yup. To me that's the whole point of them. Straight into the amp is fine and can be a lot of fun, but it's just too limiting and in the end there are not any sounds we haven't all heard a million times. Pedals give a player freedom to create something nobody has heard before, or, sometimes, just enhance what they have.

 

[Inspector #20]

Try a DD-7 or DD-8. I know they seem on the surface to just be the same thing with more features but I have found that they sound quite different. I have a DD-7 on one of my pedalboards and the analog mode sounds remarkably like the DM-2W I have on another board, plus it can do any digital delay or reverb sound.



Yup. To me that's the whole point of them. Straight into the amp is fine and can be a lot of fun, but it's just too limiting and in the end there are not any sounds we haven't all heard a million times. Pedals give a player freedom to create something nobody has heard before, or, sometimes, just enhance what they have.

I have a delay signature recorded that I want to replicate.

 

[Inspector #20]

Try a DD-7 or DD-8. I know they seem on the surface to just be the same thing with more features but I have found that they sound quite different. I have a DD-7 on one of my pedalboards and the analog mode sounds remarkably like the DM-2W I have on another board, plus it can do any digital delay or reverb sound.



Yup. To me that's the whole point of them. Straight into the amp is fine and can be a lot of fun, but it's just too limiting and in the end there are not any sounds we haven't all heard a million times. Pedals give a player freedom to create something nobody has heard before, or, sometimes, just enhance what they have.

I bought an RV6, and it's a good pedal, but I'm kicking myself for not going DD-7/DD-8.

 

[Clockworkmike]

Philosophy is:
If the amp you have does not sound good without effects, get another amp.

Start with a good sounding amp, and add the effects last.
The emphasis is to establish a solid foundation, then build upon that.

I decided a long time ago to avoid dependence on effects pedals. Concentrate on guitar as the central focus.

Everything i do mainly, is just the amp and the guitar, at least 90% of the time. There are occasions where i use an overdrive on the clean channel for a different sound or sometimes on a gainier channel to tighten it up just with the volume up and gain off on the pedal. Beyond that, i occasionally use a processor for something entirely different, like a spacy delay or chorus. Never mess with amp modeling anymore