What are your favourite pedals?

[SimpleSi]

My turn:

I'm saying Timmy as well, one of the best overdrives I've used, better than hotcakes or tube screamer. Colours tone subtly and makes a valve amp warm up.

Strymon Big Sky, the best money ever spent on reverb units, mainly for the bloomy and ethereal verbs, my flint is close second.

Last pedal, vox big bad wah. The Satriani wah, it's been great for years, lots of tone options, a sweet boost and the sweep is changeable on the fly with your feet.

There are so many pedals I've loved but those are the 3 I couldn't ever go without.

[hamo]

All good points Ben. Can I ask you WET guys, what would I be losing if I grabbed a mono rather than a stereo one?

MattH, I see you have a mono WET, how do you find it?

The mono WET is locked to just being a WET. The stereo version can be programmed over USB, and it can become any one of the neunaber pedals - WET Reverb, Chroma Chorus, Echelon Delay, Seraphim Shimmer, Infinity Hold.

If you buy a new one, the Stereo V2 pedals, then you can add an ExP which is a little pedal sized controller which lets you save 8 presets from any of the available sounds. It turns it in to a super cool little multi fx box.

Oh right, wow, that's quite a bit more for the money.

[jeremyb]

Stereo wet is the bomb, I have the shimmer software loaded on mine so the center knob can give me no shimmer and normal reverb or different levels of shimmer, really handy!

[Vince]

Did I? Because that's not at all what it does.

Yeah, you did, but it was ages ago and perhaps I misunderstood some of what you said (diplomatic old Vince) No biggie.

[bender]

Did I? Because that's not at all what it does.

Yeah, you did, but it was ages ago and perhaps I misunderstood some of what you said (diplomatic old Vince) No biggie.

Hmmm... misunderstanding most likely. I've been using Aphex exciters in one form or another since about 1997. What they actually do is add harmonic content in parallel with your original signal- kind of like subtle, frequency-limited (ie filtered) distortion blended behind your clean tone. It has the effect of boosting the lows and/or the highs in a really tasteful way.

[MattH]

MattH, I see you have a mono WET, how do you find it?

Brilliant. I know the Stereo has a bunch of other features, but I've just found over the years that the simpler the pedal, the longer it stays on my board. Also, whilst I play with two amps at home, I only tend to gig one, so the stereo feature is pointless at the mo.

The mono wet has two dials - one for length of delay and one for mix. It's incredible the range of options that gives you.

I just like having pedals on my board that sound immense but are easy to drive. One or two knobs and a switch is enough.

It's a live thing. The band I play in never play the same set twice. I'm constantly changing up the sound according to the venue or adapting to whether or not we're playing as a trio or a duo, so presets don't really work.

I've been through all the really high end, complex stuff and just found that you can get some cool effects by exploring how your gear works together. Putting a trem with a delay makes the sound seem like it's coming from everywhere. Playing through an overdrive on the bridge pickup gives a much more mid-rangey, bitey attack. A clean, bridge pickup, hard trem sounds electronic.

Having said that, I'm still kind of gassing for a Flint!

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[SimonHirst]

I'd have to go with the mid-switch Hotcakes. They just sound slightly different to the current ones. I don't think I'd say 'better' or 'worse', it's just a sound that works better for me. It's responsible for about 90% of my sound live, and then it stacks with a Tubescreamer. Sounds great. Although apparently Timmy's are better......
As many have stated already, there's a reason Boss sell so many pedals. I have a particular penchant for the earlier versions, BF-2 etc, and especially the RV-3.

[Delayman]

Yes I had a hotcake with the switch for years, and then traded it. When I bought a newer one (three knob) I didn't like it. But I could never tell if the pedal was different or I (and my gear) had just moved on. It wasn't terrible but it had a fizziness at higher OD settings that I didn't remember. I concluded it must play better with some setups better than others, as AC30 owners seem to rave about them.

[Eruera]

Boss CE-2 is just amazing

[HackSaw]

Seeing as a few people have mentioned it, this SD-1 has appeared on trademe...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrume ... 659788.htm

[Slowy]

Seeing as a few people have mentioned it, this SD-1 has appeared on trademe...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrume ... 659788.htm

Not original.
Just saying.

[hamo]

Seeing as a few people have mentioned it, this SD-1 has appeared on trademe...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrume ... 659788.htm

Not original.
Just saying.

And they're only about a hand shandy new, so he's pretty much adding a mod tax at that price.

[fuzziebro]

apparently the 2 knob hotcake used a 741 chip whereas the 3 knob uses a jfet tl071...

I'm a fan of the 2 knob hotcake w 741 chip...

[hamo]

Got the Prymaxe Vintage newsletter, 15% off pedals, so I thought I'd price an SD-1 from them. Pedal price came to $42 USD, but when I went to add the shipping, they wanted $115 USD. To ship A PEDAL. A Boss sized pedal. Local retailers have nothing to fear from these guys, I feel.

[Molly]

Not long back I sold a Boss OD1 that I'd had for decades. It was battered but worked fine. I liked it but after all those years just wanted a different 'colour' if you know what I mean?

Saw it on ebay.com a few months later for nearly three times the $100 or so I'd sold it for. Listing was very comprehensive and went on about a 'black chip' or some such. Oh well, I guess I let something go that was worth keeping.... :arse: