Small rig ideas

so some examples of stupid dod pedals from the 90s I recommend for THAT 90s sound? the chorus, not the icebox, the older one, its great.... the hard rock distortion (tht's the one with the dellay built right in), american metal or thrash distortion and metal maniac for extra silliness (none of these sound like what you would think of as metal), the fx50 overdrive plus, fx55 distortion or even funnier the fx55b SUPRA distortion... the classic fuzz, big pig, gonkulator and meatbox.... aria branded pedals are a good choice too, they were the other bargain brand that most bands used and a lot of them aren't just nostalgic they sound legitimately good... some of these goofily named DOD pedals are actually superb at doing what they do...

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

ah,that kinda makes sense, then grunge is gain and then I forget what volume was nicknamed, I never had one, after my time....I was old enough to see that marketing gimmick as goofy and I wasn't real sure what grunge actually meant anyway apart from being a perfect descriptor for TAD and maybe kurt and courtney's famous lack of personal hygiene but not nirvana's music so much.... whereas kids a little younger thought it was cool at first.... also I think they sold a lot of the grunge units to confused parents at x-mas time who said 'grunge, I saw that word on 60 minutes'

I guess that's a good mid to late 90s pedal though, you defintiely saw a lot of them on YMCA floors as grunge went out as a thing and green day and korn came bubbling up... they were a big part of the sound of the era.... guys just repurposed them to play pop punk or metal-influenced 'hardcore'

so, to sum up:

an analog chorus or flanger is needed for sure and the ehx nano small clone is fine here, sounds good, pretty reliable.... and you might as well get a delay either an mxr carbon copy or a used boss digital delay or for a little taste of all delay types of the time buy a flashback... or for your fx loop you could go rack.... there's nothing more 90s than a yamaha spx90 or alesis quadraverb GT... I STILL have an spx90 sitting right upstairs, its great

perhaps a fuzz/distortion or some sort of overdrive/dirtyboost option, something that was actually around in the mid to late 90s will be most authentic....

maybe a wah wah, a morely, vox or crybaby will be right, that's what was around, there weren't a bunch of signature models out so a stock, off the shelf version from one of those 3 companies.

Tom, if he goes new how much has he spent at this point with a nano clone or whatsit, the NEOclone now? and howsabout a TC flashback X4? I don't know what stuff costs these days.

Some of the Danelectro Food Series pedals can go for about $50, and aren't half bad for their value/age. I've also heard good things about the "Fab" series Danelectro put out.

Also, a delay pedal might not hurt.

https://www.ehx.com/products/memory-toy/