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Re: Nothing doing today so had my own pedal fest with a sad realisation.......
I'm another one who has a drawer full of pedals, and I think I have nine on my board, PLUS...a pedal board for my acoustic.
It does get to be insane, and while I have 10 too many, seems like there's 15 that I want.
I can't say I've given up on dirt boxes, but I have rarely used the Real Tube 901 on my pedalboard since I bought my first Mesa amp--back around 1995. The RT worked great with the vintage Fenders and Marshalls to give me a thick, singing lead tone, but the Mesa just does it so much better. And some would say that the Mesa's clean tones don't stack up against the Fenders', but in a band context, this has never been an issue for me.
But even with the three channels of the Mark IIIs, IV, and now my new V, I can certainly argue that I need a nasty fuzz of some sort (thinking about the EH Satisfaction), and a pedal that would give me a more Marshally crunch. I bought a used CM Plexidrive because I liked the demos, but I haven't really played with it yet. And, it is a BIG pedal, and it will take up a lot of real estate on my limited board. So perhaps there is a better choice.
Somehow, I wound up with three chorus pedals--and I like them all. My fav is my old DOD FX-60, but the Boss CE-3 is the one currently on my board, and it does very well. And then I picked up a Hardwire Stereo Chorus--I think this is what I'm eventually going to wind up with, but there is a lot to play with in this pedal, it seems very versatile. And there are a VOX Clyde McCoy and a Crybaby Classic wahs, but neither has replaced my old Thomas Organ Crybaby.
And delay? Heck, four years ago I didn't even own a delay pedal, and now I've got seven of them: a FAB, two DD-3s, DD-20, Short-Timer, BBE Two-Timer, Echo Park--insane! And I don't really have a need for long delay times, either. I guess I got to just sit down and do some tinkering and experimenting--a process I find a bit tedious at best. I've become an old-fogey who doesn't like change, but these pedals work well for me; I don't want to change, just to be changing
And I hate selling stuff. Plus, I really like having backups available--caa-caa happens; someone could always try to walk away with a pedalboard. And I had one go up in smoke at festival where the power was wonky. Fortunately, the Furman sacrificed itself and saved my pedals.
So, I don't know what the answer is to all of this. I have the nine pedals on my board, and most of these would now be considered "vintage"--I've acquired them over many years. While I have all these pedals on the board, I also make it a point to not over use them--there's a couple that might only get used two to four times in a four-hour gig. So I could say that my pedal philosophy is to have a lot of pedals and use them sparingly.
Bill
I'm another one who has a drawer full of pedals, and I think I have nine on my board, PLUS...a pedal board for my acoustic.
It does get to be insane, and while I have 10 too many, seems like there's 15 that I want.I can't say I've given up on dirt boxes, but I have rarely used the Real Tube 901 on my pedalboard since I bought my first Mesa amp--back around 1995. The RT worked great with the vintage Fenders and Marshalls to give me a thick, singing lead tone, but the Mesa just does it so much better. And some would say that the Mesa's clean tones don't stack up against the Fenders', but in a band context, this has never been an issue for me.
But even with the three channels of the Mark IIIs, IV, and now my new V, I can certainly argue that I need a nasty fuzz of some sort (thinking about the EH Satisfaction), and a pedal that would give me a more Marshally crunch. I bought a used CM Plexidrive because I liked the demos, but I haven't really played with it yet. And, it is a BIG pedal, and it will take up a lot of real estate on my limited board. So perhaps there is a better choice.
Somehow, I wound up with three chorus pedals--and I like them all. My fav is my old DOD FX-60, but the Boss CE-3 is the one currently on my board, and it does very well. And then I picked up a Hardwire Stereo Chorus--I think this is what I'm eventually going to wind up with, but there is a lot to play with in this pedal, it seems very versatile. And there are a VOX Clyde McCoy and a Crybaby Classic wahs, but neither has replaced my old Thomas Organ Crybaby.
And delay? Heck, four years ago I didn't even own a delay pedal, and now I've got seven of them: a FAB, two DD-3s, DD-20, Short-Timer, BBE Two-Timer, Echo Park--insane! And I don't really have a need for long delay times, either. I guess I got to just sit down and do some tinkering and experimenting--a process I find a bit tedious at best. I've become an old-fogey who doesn't like change, but these pedals work well for me; I don't want to change, just to be changing
And I hate selling stuff. Plus, I really like having backups available--caa-caa happens; someone could always try to walk away with a pedalboard. And I had one go up in smoke at festival where the power was wonky. Fortunately, the Furman sacrificed itself and saved my pedals.
So, I don't know what the answer is to all of this. I have the nine pedals on my board, and most of these would now be considered "vintage"--I've acquired them over many years. While I have all these pedals on the board, I also make it a point to not over use them--there's a couple that might only get used two to four times in a four-hour gig. So I could say that my pedal philosophy is to have a lot of pedals and use them sparingly.
Bill
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