stuboy1980's forum posts 9

You guys are cracking me up. I am going to get myself a different pedal tuner (boss or digitech) I think I am just going to stick with the two drive pedals I have for now (the boss and Fulltone). The Fulltone has the ability to basically be my boost pedal and I will keep the amp with a bit of drive on it. Then I will keep the Tc flashback on there for the basic delay, and I can then stick the Akai head rush on for tape echo. Lastly the holy grail will provide the most religious of reverbs. That's a whole lot of tones there, but not "overkill". You're right, the followers of Christ may not be ready for a surge or ungodly fuzz that J Mascis himself would quiver at.

Pedals, as fun as they often are always have something you don't like about them. The Zvex stuff does seem very popular, although I don't know if that means it is good. The fuzz factory looks like an interesting pedal, but one for a particular kid of sound. Ideally I would like to learn how to build my own pedals and create something of my own. I find myself reading about amps and pedals way more than guitars. Once you find a couple of nice playing guitars you kind of stop looking, or maybe that's just me? Yes, was born in 1980.

My Strat has the two stock single could and is fitted with a dimarzio humbucker pickup. It has such a warm, smooth sound even at high gain. It has over taken my 20 yr old tele for sure. I traded a beautiful Epihone Sunburst Dot for it (a guitar that would never stay in tune). The Strat has a weird matte finish in an off white color. It definitely does better with drive pedal through the Vox. The tele has been noisy as hell, with lots of weird sounds when high gain pedals kick in. It just isn't as smooth. Strangely enough it sounds like it has more bite when I use my a/b pedal and play it through my 10 watt solid state amp with the Son of Hyde.

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I haven't had any bad experience with Boss, they just don't have much character, and I have noticed they get noisier over time (must be the buffers as you said). I definitely prefer my Vox's clean tone to most other amps I've played, but yeah, it may be hard to get that particular crunchier Marshall gain with a pedal through it. I'm thinking of ditching the OD 3, Son of Hyde, and my Akai Headrush. Maybe I should get the Box of Rock. Those Zvex pedals appeal to me as the would fit well in my narrow board. Thanks for all your knowledge guys ; )

Here is a recent version of the board, I am booting the giant Akai pedal off in favor of the Box Holy Grail.

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Great advice guys. It's weird with guitar pedals because I had never used a ton of them, but in the last couple of years I have been playing more and have gone through a boatload. I actually had a soul food and I loved it, problem I did find is that it is more like a really nice boost pedal, and does not have enough grit. The KOT is a good shout, as is the box of rock. It seems like the more expensive pedals are the ones that stay on pedalboards, and the rest get sold and upgraded at some point. I have just recently got the vox and it is a great little amp. Before that I always had solid state, so it is a major upgrade.

I think with the rat a lot depends what amp and guitar you are using it with. Between the 80s rat and turbo rat I owned I actually preferred the tone of the turbo. In the end though it just didn't have enough bite for me. With the deucetone you can at least dial in the dual tones to have at your disposal. I know the guy from the yeah yeah yeahs uses one and he has a cool guitar sound. I have never seen it in a guitar store so have not played it. But yeah, certain amps the rat probably sounds good (not through my Vox!), and I also though it sounded much better with my strat than Tele.

The Od 3 I kept on because it has a much brighter sound than the Fulldrive. The main problem i have with Boss is their pedals seem noisey when activated. It's definitely not a keeper by any means. The holy grail I just got, and it replaced a Digitech digiverb. As far as sound, I like fairly crunchy, Marshall style distortion for louder playing, and when I play cleaner usually just reverb and delay. I hate the sound of modulation in certain delays. I play in my church band, so I don't really need any crazy/experimental effects right now (the feedback looper serves that purpose).

Good-Fulldrive 3, Boss Od 3, Boss OS2, Marshall Jackhammer, Joyo Crunch Distortion (MI audio crunch box clone), Anything by wampler, Ehx soul food (could use more gain and it would be perfect).

Bad- Little big muff (the worst volume drop on any pedal I have owned, tone far from great also), DS 1 (far too brittle), Rat pedals (owned 80s whiteface and turbo rat, way overrated pedal IMHO), Boss Dyna Drive (just, bland), Boss Sd 1 (same, no mid range either).

Need some opinions on here. I have a relatively small pedalboard (pedaltrain metro 20) and would like to keep it that way. However, I would like to know if I should ditch any of these and add in something else to my sound (maybe a phaser or octaver)? What do you guys think?

Current board

Boss Od 3> Fulltone Fulldrive 3> Saturnworks Deluxe Feedback Looper>Tc Electronic Flashback Delay> Ehx Holy Grail (big box)> Behringer Tu 300 (obvious contender, but hey, it works!).

Extra, not currently on my board: Akai E2 Head Rush, Visual Sound Son of Hyde.

Guitars are Fender MIM strat and Fender MIM Tele, into a Vox Night Train Combo.