Small rig ideas

What styles of music do you play?

If you like your amp's overdrive and reverb, seems like a distortion would be the most important for grunge. If you like fuzz, you'll probably need one of those. I'd say delay is important too. After that, you might get a wild card for some type of modulation or something? Or does the tuner take that spot?

My vote would be chorus. Get some of that sweet Nirvana grunge tones and it pairs well with distortion/fuzz in my opinion.

what's the budget?

additionally I'm glad I'm not a millennial, you guys have it tough with vintage pricing on junk

Indie / grunge / rock. Stuck in the 90s / early 2000s!

As you should be! ;)

in the 90s we used whatever cheap shit we found at pawn shops

can you even buy a practice amp for that these days? sheesh.... I guess you could get a used pod HD500? So 90s, you probably WANT like an 800 or 900 or a twin.... but you have an amp... you might want a DS1 or a rat or a muff or something truly fuzzy like a tonebender, you'll want a chorus, the small stone's fine...and maybe, just maybe a delay, carbon copy or a TC flashbak maybe.... you have a guitar right? just kidding.... mxr phase 90 and ehxmistress are ine add ons, not the ebst but the standard.... mooer makes clones for cheap, I think they make a good rat too for distortion and faux fuzz.... for your style a compressor's not a must but the dynacomp is fine, it takes flack, its fine.... you don't need anything fancy like the keely or that sldie rig thing that's a fake 1176 studio compressor in a stomp, that's silly, its a guitar

I don't remember the 90s as being entirely effects driven unless you were in my bloody valentine or the smashing pumpkins.... it was mainly ripping amps and dirt boxes....

everyone had a wah wah back then, even me, and I hate wah wah.... we all ahd morely wahs with dirt on them as I recall because they were cheap, hard to break and you got a crappy mxr distortion+ type circuit built in,,,, then alter I got a vox wah, still 90s but later.... grunge era I definitely had a morely wah with a distortion built in and no other effects for a bit until I got like a tubescreamer, Ibanez chorus and DOD distortion. Boss BF2 flanger came right around then, that or an FL9 by ibanez is a good ebet that'll do chorus as well as flange and can go between the police and nirvana easily.... everyone had a chorus pedal back then though, everyone.... only the crustiest punks did not use chorus but they probably HAD a chorus pedal at home

everyone had lots of used DOD pedals then too (because they were under $40 used unlike boss pedals), all sorts, just pick one with a weird name and buy that one on ebay and you're good.... the dumber the name the better. Dumb doesn't have to mean gonkulator, it could also be like 'american metal' that's a dumb name where its dumb because you know the effect will be dumb... or ibanez made an 'industrial distortion' LOL. You want to find something like that for a full flashback!

can you even buy a practice amp for that these days? sheesh.... I guess you could get a used pod HD500? So 90s, you probably WANT like an 800 or 900 or a twin.... but you have an amp... you might want a DS1 or a rat or a muff or something truly fuzzy like a tonebender, you'll want a chorus, the small stone's fine...and maybe, just maybe a delay, carbon copy or a TC flashbak maybe.... you have a guitar right? just kidding.... mxr phase 90 and ehxmistress are ine add ons, not the ebst but the standard.... mooer makes clones for cheap, I think they make a good rat too for distortion and faux fuzz.... for your style a compressor's not a must but the dynacomp is fine, it takes flack, its fine.... you don't need anything fancy like the keely or that sldie rig thing that's a fake 1176 studio compressor in a stomp, that's silly, its a guitar

I don't remember the 90s as being entirely effects driven unless you were in my bloody valentine or the smashing pumpkins.... it was mainly ripping amps and dirt boxes....

everyone had a wah wah back then, even me, and I hate wah wah.... we all ahd morely wahs with dirt on them as I recall because they were cheap, hard to break and you got a crappy mxr distortion+ type circuit built in,,,, then alter I got a vox wah, still 90s but later.... grunge era I definitely had a morely wah with a distortion built in and no other effects for a bit until I got like a tubescreamer, Ibanez chorus and DOD distortion. Boss BF2 flanger came right around then, that or an FL9 by ibanez is a good ebet that'll do chorus as well as flange and can go between the police and nirvana easily.... everyone had a chorus pedal back then though, everyone.... only the crustiest punks did not use chorus but they probably HAD a chorus pedal at home

everyone had lots of used DOD pedals then too (because they were under $40 used unlike boss pedals), all sorts, just pick one with a weird name and buy that one on ebay and you're good.... the dumber the name the better. Dumb doesn't have to mean gonkulator, it could also be like 'american metal' that's a dumb name where its dumb because you know the effect will be dumb... or ibanez made an 'industrial distortion' LOL. You want to find something like that for a full flashback!

In other words, you’re fine with some form of distortion and a delay. If you’re already content with your amp’s overdrive and you’re not looking for a distortion box or fuzz box, you’re pretty much set. Some kind of modulatory effect is optional (chorus/flange if headed in the Nirvana direction), as is wah (which was not very prominent in the late 90s/early 2000s). However, your following includes RHCP and Pearl Jam, so perhaps wah is a good idea, as is some form of chorus.

You make a good point, so may have to up the budget. Just don't let my wife know......

On the other hand, I thought I wanted a wah once. I nearly went for Electro-Harmonix’s Next Step Crying Tone. I ultimately decided against it because I didn’t see myself using the wah a lot. Would you be? Same the chorus. If you’re not going to use it, don’t buy it.

In other words, you’re fine with some form of distortion and a delay. If you’re already content with your amp’s overdrive and you’re not looking for a distortion box or fuzz box, you’re pretty much set. Some kind of modulatory effect is optional

I think its actually mandatory to get chorus or flanging, phasers are less mandatory.... everyone had a chorus at the time or a flanger they set as a chorus and occassionally set to make jet plane noises for one little part of a song which usually met with blank stares at the YMCA where all these bands would inevitably play their first show

so i think he NEEDS a stupidly heavy distortion or fuzz, maybe even a big muff (cringe), a small clone nano or boss bf2, electric mistress, FL9 etc, a basic delay just in case.... maybe, just maybe a wah wah.... and it can't be a fancy one because there were only like 3 or 4 options at the time and the store would only have 2.

optional wild card effect would be any unpopular DOD design with a dumb name....

another cool option would be instead of a chorus get one of the double tracking pedals, I love the one I have, its like a doubled 90s studio guitar sound instantly although it works best with 2 amps

I want to be clear that between like 1985 and 1995 chorus pedals would just turn up with your effects, every guitarist would go to sleep one night with a morely wah wah in their sock drawer and when they woke up there would be an ibanez or dod chorus next to it....

My only DOD from the 90s was actually called "Grunge"...

My only DOD from the 90s was actually called "Grunge"...

oh yeah, when the american metal (or one of those 80s metal pedals, the american might be the one that's got a slap back after the distortion all the time LOL) stopped selling they changed it a bit and branded it grunge for the new decade LOL they sold a lot of those.... it had the butt and face controls, what did they even do?

it ahd the butt and face controls, what did they even do?

If I’m not mistaken, “Butt” was a bass control and “Face” was a treble control.