simon_j_dodd's Pedalboard

I bought my CH-1 from a buddy in high school almost thirty years ago. It has been absolutely rock solid ever since and I continue to use it at every opportunity. To me, this is the chorus sound.

The Donner Mod Square does nothing very well but it does several things well enough. I use chorus enough that I have my favorite chorus pedal on my board, and in a perfect world, I'd have a phaser, a flanger, a tremolo, and a Leslie simulator, too. But I use those effects much less often—a few times each in a gig. (I use a flanger once in an average gig, for eight bars.) It would be hard to justify so large an expansion of the board for such infrequent use. Enter the Donner Mod Square! It packs good-enough-for-gigging-work effects into a tiny frame. It's not winning any awards, but it ably fills a vital niche and I would replace it if it failed.

This is for you if you're a gigging musician who needs or likes that 12-string sound here and there but either can't bring a real 12-string to every show or, what's worse, would need a double-neck because you're switching between 6 and 12 mid-song. Pair it with a chorus pedal and you have a decent facsimile of the real thing. The Mosaic is unforgiving of tuning problems, and it will never sound as good as the real thing—obviously. But it tracks near-perfectly and for practicality, it's very hard to beat.

My go-to for medium gain sounds, the Guv'nor excels at giving humbuckers a big, warm rock n' roll tone.