Dream pedalboard

Hi,

I'm currently planning my pedalboard, and I need some of your guys help. I would use this set up for rock 1. I can't decide if I want the Strymon Sunset or the T-rex Moller II. Both similar pedals, just wanted your opinions on them 2. Volume pedal? Is it worth it for things like swells, and adjusting? Or is it mostly unhelpful? 3. Wah? It seems to be one of those pedals you really need it when you need it, but it's mostly unhelpful. Is it worth having on the board for interetsing solos + incase I need it? Bear in mind I have other modulation on more board.

Cool thanks

I can only speeak about wah. Unless you are really great at the wah wah then leave it off. First off there is so much that goes into amtching a wah to your guitar, amp, other pedals and the style of music. These days there are so many options its dizzying. Secondly using the wah pedal is easy but using it well is not you may think yo're killin' it, but man, msot people who sue the wah on solos imaprticular are really not doing anything special although tis good for covering mistakes. And finally, apart from Hendrix, Slash, Beck and sometimes Page (usually not though) most of the rock soloing greats are not regular wah users. I am not a huge EVH fan, but the guy never leaned on wah for solos, he would use a phaser for a similar presence lift and feeling of motion, you know? So you have yourself some other modualtion? unless you're a wah god go the EVH route when you want some sweep. You enver hear Dean rom STP go for the wah wah and that guy's like a modern guitar solo expert. Just my .02 on the wah question. I steer clear ofw ah live ebcause i am not very good at it and I am doubly bad if i do any improvisation, my whole feel for where to sweep gets thrown off. I can pratice up and make it happen, but why bother? Its not part of my style and refusing to sue it helps me stand out and sound more like me.

Okay thats interesting thanks

and most wahs are enormous, though there are now the dunlop minis if you want that flavor. but generally expect to eat up a ton of pedalbaord real estate for a few riffs here and there. If you're into the cocked wah thing like Mic Ronson then these days you can just score an EHX Cock Fight and go smaller and cheaper. I don't really have an opinion on anything else you're talking about. I am not a huge effects guy live, or at all really though i have owned a ton of pedals and rack units over the years... just didn't use 'em much. I am all about convenience now, MIDI presets, tap tempo for time based stuff and a good clean bypass... but i let my amplifiers do most of the tonal heavy lifting, which I don't see a lot of people doing anymore outside of the high-gain, channel switcher crowd. Anything else I tell you about a dream rig will probably not work for you unless you're a guy who likes to use vintage amps turned up pretty loud.

Yup, I might have a try of the cock fight

HOTONE Soul Press. Vol/ Wah/ Exp pedal at the flick of a switch in a Boss sized enclosure.

Looks cool but I have heard bad things about hotone. Have u played one?

I own one!

This is why I 've recommended it.

The bad things link to durability, but this thing feels very stable and the rocker seems solid to me. Th evolume is adjustable, to determine whether quiet (heel) is zero or just quieter, the wah sounds as good as a crybaby and has the same amount of travel as a longer one, It has 2 x led's in the front to show when it is on.. which are better than one because you can see them under the rocker. I have not tried it as an expression pedal yet, but every thing else works just fine for me!

I loaned my Crybaby to a friend years ago and never saw it or him again. this fills that gap.

okay ill definitly give ut a try thanks

the trouble with hotone is that they don't employ any hos in the design/manufacturing process

So the Ho tone... without using any ACTUAL hos...

My god!!! Am I using an EMULATED Ho tone... or is it a Ho Emulated tone???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdB3Oyd5HtU

http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz202/samninerLa/DSC_0036.jpg

Impressive! Do you think that if I had a duel overdrive pedal, do you think I would need another drive? (eg should I have a duel drive pedal into another drive, or just have the duel drive)

PEDAL OVERLOAD

CAN'T PLAY!

Depends on your playing style. My music runs from slow dreamy drifty stuff that only needs a little tickle of drive through to high gain thrash and mosh grinds... sometimes in the same song.

I run a twin tube screamer styled overdrive pedal, a soul food Klon clone and a marshall distortion pedal and a big muff with an eq to shape their sounds between either a clean solid state amp or a relatively clean dialled marshall. I let the pedals do the talking, and can stack them in any combination.

But thats just me.....

And I can't play.

But it sounds good to my ears and does what i need it to

I can play. and play and play and do stuff with nothing... I like some echo these days, some slap or stereo tmed stuff with 2 amps.... I occassionally put drive into one amp too while th other is freaking out. But usually i can just go at it. When I put stuff in line it potentialy eats my feeling. It usually eats it actually, but I have some clear amps. Super clear. Like my matchless is so clear that its a crime to put much more than delay out front if you're giving it the nuance. Same with the pro. I can produce effects with guitar controls and hand technique to a large degree. You know I am not smack talkin'.

I 100% understand and agree with you. That is the best thing about guitar as a medium, it can be augmented in a myriad of ways.

You are like a light that shines down on a guitar and makes everything sparkle and shine in a way that is untouched by any outside sources.

I am the shadow that is cast by the light that lays across rocks and broken glass and dirty puddles.

We are not two sides of the same coin, but there is a universal currency.

And smack talk all you want... I know your cranky face is just drawn on a caring and lovable soul that just wants to help everyone and have cuddles.....

Dream pedalboard is a dangerous question with me, the last thing I need to do is accumulate more gear. Honestly, the board I have now is sort of my dream (it's on my gear photos page I believe), but I'm wanting to add a few things to it - like a decent fuzz (thinking BOSS FZ-2 HyperFuzz) and a Reverb (one of those new ones like the TC Electronics or anything else with a good plate reverb emulation since that's my favorite type to use). Mebbe a bitcrusher like a WMD Geiger Counter or a Bugbrand Bugcrusher.

Knob's Youtube channel is not helping my sickess with pedals much with all that weird stuff he has like the Rainbow Machine and the Big Sky pedals and whatnot. One of my favorites I had to sell off was an EHX Stereo PolyChorus - I loved that thing, but aside from chorus, It never really got used to it's fullest extent, and that's why I sold it. I'm also kind of lusting after the current EHX key-instrument-emulation pedals (Organs, Pianos, and Synths and whatnot) especially since they can handle polyphony properly, which is kind of surprising considering no MIDI pickup is needed.

On my current board I'm using a Digitech WH4 Whammy, into a BOSS PS-5 Super Shifter, into a Crybaby GCB95 Wah, Behringer PH-9 phaser, EHX Small Clone, Digitech Turbo Flange, then a BOSS DD-7 Digital Delay/Sampler.

nah nah, I am 5 o'clock shadow and a hangover to the guitar