My pedalboard looks empty

My pedalboard now look empty. only have a tuner and overdrive on there now. Trading in 4 of my pedals, a Seymour Duncan JB and a Squier Bullet strat plus shitty fender gib bag. Hoping to get around £200-£250 at the most from the local pawn shop because they are easy to haggle a good deal with. That should hopefully be enough to boost my savings to get me a decent second hand Laney vc30 or maybe even a Vox AC30 then after I plan on getting a Made in Japan Boss HM-2 from the 80s for around£80-£100 because those old made in japn boss pedals hold their value well. I may oneday part with my Ibanez art120. Maybe I should, it is a limited edition silverburst but now has passive pickups rather than the actives that was in there because they died and I mean died, not just the batteries going, everything went. I'll slap the original tuners and new set of strings on and try getting around £225 for it. I think Jim is right and I should part with some gear also think my fiance will be happy to see some clutter in our bedroom go. If I can get around £425 maybe even more if I can find other junk around the house to trade in. I have a hotrail but no longer have the case thing it came in but alwell, I'll just cut the leads and part with it. I'll be happy and get a good used amp with my £250 I will have next week.

I'm going to try being better with my gear purchases in the future and go for good stuff that will hold value and stuff I will be more willing to keep

Some of those older pedals are pretty cool, and hold their value. I'm thinking especially dunlops like the wah from the 70s (i think), some boss are good from the 80s, stuff like that. I also like MXR alot, and digitech and Korg make a few decent things. I'm about to get alot of flak on this, but I have never actually had a pedal board. I have one or two that I use occasionally. I've got 2 Line6 SS W/ built in effects, a marshall 150w head with three or four channel footswich that came with it, and built in effects. And I just bought a cheap Blackstar through Musicians friend, just to try it out, effects plus pedal. Don't get me wrong, I've tried a few pedals I really like and every other guitarist I know uses boards, so I am the odd man out. Haha

I get that you can probably squeeze more sound/different tones and such out of the pedals. Did you make your own pedal board or did you buy one already put together somewhere?

Nothing wrong with not owning a pedal board. I don't use mine often with my line 6 practice amp as it doesn't take pedals well. When I get a new amp in about 2 weeks I will start building my board up. I'm thinking I may get a compressor as the first pedal in my chain after the tuner which will go into a wah, then a digitech CM-2 then a HM-2 and then maybe a boost pedal and then into a phase 100, a chorus and then finally a reverb and delay and have done with that. I never owned a pedalboard until christmas as I never needed one but now I want to expand my pedals. I want the amp to be the soul of my tone and the pedals to give me extra stuff I want for different applications. At the moment I have got really into system of a down and also as a result doing a lot of stuff in Drop C rather than E standard that I'm used to.

My pedalboard is made by Harley Benton who are Thomann.de own guitar, pedals etc brand

Absolutely not, nothing wrong with that at all! I know a few of those models you named, but not a huge pedal knowledge base for me, if I am being honest here. I know all the effects obviously. I use alot of delay and distortion w/ compression, and occasionally I will use a little flange, volume pedal very rarely, and sometimes a little bit octave. Oh the wah is great too but I've gotten away from that style largely. I wish I could get a pedal board honestly, probably would improve my versatility, I would think. I may get a pedal or two here in the near future, but my guitar-purchasing addiction is beginning to spiral out of control haha. Btw SOAD is a really unique, cool band. I love their attitude and creative guitar parts as well as their intelligent lyrics. I used to be really into them in high school.

I usually play in Standard E, again, after having been really into C and C# in college, and even more so ability to mess with the more basic drop D.

But ah so it was like custom done or something? I'm not familiar with the website/company name.. sorry, again, fairly amateur knowledge regarding some pedals, and NO knowledge whatsoever of the actual boards.

Also your right, hoping Blackstar will take a pedal or two better than the Line 6 amp combos/heads..

I'm selling my line 6, and crapper pedals this week then hopefully journeying to Andertons in the next few months maybe. The land of dreams...

I'm gonna try out some tone city mini pedals (A riot clone, and a nice OD, either the vox one, or the klone), and of course the boss ph3/bf3, and digitech x series phaser/flanger pedals I've been rambling on about since October, but still haven't chosen one to buy, or bought it.

I could do with a cheap EQ, or comp as well, I have a friend whose gonna give me his joyo comp at some point, but apparently it does jacksh*t.

UGH DUDE... I came across Andertons, Chapman guitars and freakin Rob Chapman recently and I'm in love with his videos haha. Im jealous as hell tho how is Andertons? You have probably met the owner there of Anderton if you've been (ik the UK is bigger than us yanks think) but have you met that Rob Chapman fellow? We have Guitar center here but its GARBAGE, freakin kids come in and blare Smoke on the Water, Iron Man, and AC/DC... sheesh. The employees also..

Yeah for all that stuff I just use like 2 line 6 x2 of them or 1 of my dads vintage fender tube combo amps to practice in my bedroom. Full stack marshall w/ AVT150 "tube state" ( please don't hate on it.. :/ )in my basement, having it converted into a makeshift recording studio/jam room. And join the club on the rambling (doing so right nowww) and searching reviews, asking people, etc. regarding which $50 or $100 pedal to buy... I think its a guitarist /musician thing haha.

Eq I never had a problem with I duno, I have a good ear too but I am pleased with most marshall equip, Mesa, 5150s, and I've heard some decent Krank(??) and Custom stuff is great too but I'm broke, Line 6 is awesome cuz I grew up on CRATE but haven't seen them in a while, not the ones I grew up with at least haha. Like I said trying a Blackstar, arrives tomorrow, as per Chappers advice.. Anything SS. Like, I'll do tube if I'm stickin to classic rock and oldies, but I'm just a LOUD, SS full stack with the distortion and compression cranked uncomfortablly high, no effects usually. Well with that actually some Chorus and a sprinkle of delay.

Joyo? Jeez I'm really feeling like an amateur on here now..

Quick addition, when I thought about it, I was looking for Bea (Dorje guitarist) equipment, and thats how I found EquipBoard. Google Search.

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What are you trying to achieve with the EQ? I've never understood why people use a EQ pedal when they have a tone stack on the amp. Why do people use them? I guess you can dial in specific frequencies how you want them but for me it just over complicates things.

Ever considered the BF-2 flanger? They sound great especially modded. I'm thinking I need a compressor, well more want over need just so when I am playing clean i can keep certain parts at the same volume like finger picking/hybrid pick, which I am very bad at may I add! I like changing my pick attack to affect dynamics which a compressor kills but I could use it for some things I do. What compressor you thinking of other than the joyo? I'm sure it does affect the dynamics and sustain but maybe its just subtle?

I've never been actually, I live hours away from it, up in the north. English guitar shops sound so much better than your US crap, mainly coz there isn't really one big chain. We have dawsons, and guitarguitar, I guess, but they aren't that big.

I've been a gear head for 2.5 years now, and in that time I no pretty much every pedal brand there is, and most guitar, and amps, as well as loads of useless knowledge about all sorts of guitar stuff, you'll get it coming soon. Joyo are a cheap Chinese make, like a lot of brands today, but idk if you get much of that stuff over the pond. We have so much Chinese shit it's incredible.

Oh ok I understand. Yeah our stores are crap, Guitar Center, Walmart(kill me pls).. but we make the best stuff (Fender Gibson pedals idk everything), you are mostly correct, unfortunately. I think I may have heard of joyo but never saw one until i googled it after you mentioned.

Brother, we started the whole getting too much Chinese crap, its ridiculous. I bought a cheap chinese PRS copy, but looks and plays great (I've said this in another thread so I won't elaborate). Bottom line, is their stuff has gotten better since the 70s, or so I have heard. I wont buy much stuff from China usually but lately I don't mind, really.

Gearhead since before I played guitar.. learned how to tweak amp/pedal knobs at age 3 or 4, dad would play guitar and I'd just mess with it. But thanks for your response, let me know if you ever get to Andertons and what you think or whatever sir.

if your pedalboard is empty its a good thing, it means you can get down to business and play some guitar instead of practicing your tap dancing moves

EQs are useful to shape your signal before its distorted so you can accentuate certain harmonic ranges. If you have a cathode follower tonestack amp with a master volume with a master like the JCM800 and yo get all your amp OD from the preamp tubes then the EQ is shaping an already distorted signal. A lot of 80s guys and metal people use an EQ to shape what frewuencies of the guitar their marshalls distort. Its not exactly how I do things, but YMMV... although the 60s and 70s treble boosters are a primitive version of this approach, slamming a treble or upper mid EQ boost into the first stage of your amp and then fine tuning with the tonestack once you shape the distortion character....

Gearhead since before I played guitar.. learned how to tweak amp/pedal knobs at age 3 or 4, dad would play guitar and I'd just mess with it.

that's what my 2 year-old mostly does.... he strums occasionally while I fret too... I did that with my dad's guitars when I was his age.... Lucian is 3rd generation now, damn!

My twp year old does it too. Loves changing the settings on my amp and pedals and she loves to turn my amp up to full volume when I'm out of the room so it makes me jump when I turn it on. She also loves getting a pick when I play and strumming so I just fret a few chords and she loves it. I think she has claimed my Epiphone now though

check your controls when you get back.... Lucian's new thing is flipping the power switch on the ac4 which is really bad for it. Ugh!

I'm starting to remember now. The other day she put it really loud and our neighbour who is horrible, really really nasty women, she was going mad about us because we closed the fire door that she props open so I just played it nearly maxed out, was extremely fun! I do try to avoid doing that too much though

I agree. I do want to get a HM-2 and a few decent modulation effects though and leave it at that. I think I'll just get the HM-2, Phase 100 and the Digitech hardwire stereo chorus and maybe a Clyde wah and just leave it at that and see how I get on. If i feel a reverb is needed and a delay then I'll get one. If I can cut down my pedals enough I'll trade my pedal board for a smaller one.

Is this a good price for my effects? £90-£115 considering the local guitar store only offered £60 tops depending on condition I consider this a good offer. I did a online valuation sent them pictures etc and said about any faults, chips to paint etc. The DS-1 has a loose jack which I aint told them but I'm gunna tighten that later on when I pop the back off, it doesn't affect the pedal. My Ibanez they said they would need to see in person as it pretty hard to come by in silver burst where it was a 1 year limited run. I have asked for way more than I know it is worth to be a dick and that way I'll get offered more than if I was realistic. I did it with all my pedals too

I am so done with indicidual pedals other than my 1 OD I got back recently for solo boosts if I wanna go that route.... I put a bid on a POD HD500X again. I was cheap about it, but if I win I am getting everything integrated in my rig thru that with presets. Unless its ounds shitty, but my understanding is that it sounds very good, particularly if you are not leaning on the amp and cab models.

I like and hate pedals. I hate the tap dancing but like the options that are most of the time unnecessary. Maybe I'll just have a od and a distortion and gor modulation just a chorus and a phaser. No tap dancing that way for me. Get a looper and just have them controlled easily and quickly.

So I got £100 for my pedals. My fiancée wants to keep the strat because she wants to strip it and do art work on it. My jb is on ebay now and I can't find the hot rail. I'm taking the Ibanez to be pawned tomorrow for around £150-£200. I am at some point going to pawn my amp and foot controller and go ampless till the 27th (my birthday)

She has no idea how much backbreaking labor and stinky, semi-toxic dust and/or fumes she's in for stripping a polyesther or polyurethane finish... that's cute she wants to do that, but your 2 options are sanding and toxic chemicals like aircraft paint stripper.... if she wants to paint a strat body, just buy an unfinished one from one of the billion guys on ebay making them. It'll be cheaper, safer and easier than stripping the one you have.

why don't you just get an amp and play some shows plugged straight in and then make up your mind... or at least see what kinda sounds you need and can't get while you are working on tunes at band rehearsal... yeah, I just bid on a POD, but I am thinking of having it for side-man and cover band work so I can make presets for paying gigs (also I keep getting invited to audition for the house band for a certain NBC program modelled on star search/American idol and I will need to be able to produce a wider, more modern palette of sounds particularly with delay if I show up to audition for next season)... but if I were thinking of gigging with my own original music again I would not add anything to my rig. When I am not gigging I do not want a ton of stuff hooked up, I just want to play. And for gigging purposes, the simpler the better! More stuff is more potential malfunctions. Plus the POD will be a good headphone solution to practice while Lucian is asleep, even when he sleeps in my bed (sometimes its nice having a snuggle toddler next to you, but when he goes down at a normal Toddler hour it kinda sucks being pinned to the bed with him, being extra quiet, until its MY bed time). I can just toss some cans on and keep an eye on him, the pod glows so I can even have all the light out.

Do less shopping, play more gigs! You are a father of 2, but you are NOT a single Dad like me. The courts cut my ex out in th short term unless she comes and visits Lucian in county and she won't do that, nor does she pay child support so I am literally the sole parent, breadwinner, etc. If I had a wife in the picture I would have a designated band day every weekend. As it stands I am already pimping my folks and aunts and unces to babysit while I'm working some of the week and Lucian really wants to spend time with me on the weekend to boot. but if things were a little different, Liam... there would be a Daddy Rock 'n Roll day to play with a band. It sounds like you have a little more leeway! Get gigging, UK Dad. Gigging. Gear is about gigs and making records. Never forget that.