Sophie's Choice

[ErikH]

With my current board, I’d have to go with the DM-2w. I don’t have a lot and that one I could get away without in any band other than the worship group. Gotta have delay there. But, I’m not using my big board right now anyway and I can’t remove anything from the Fly Rig.

[Blille]

With my current board, I’d have to go with the DM-2w. I don’t have a lot and that one I could get away without in any band other than the worship group. Gotta have delay there. But, I’m not using my big board right now anyway and I can’t remove anything from the Fly Rig.

And the fly rig delay is quite nice imho.

[Securb]

Maybe my compressor, which is a very mild 'always on' one.

So now you are just messing with me aren't you?

[ErikH]

And the fly rig delay is quite nice imho.

Yes, it is. The tap tempo is great and the mod feature adds a nice mild chorus effect.

[Mincer]

I could use the Fly Rig as my only rig. The distortion is a little intense for me, but I could get used to it.

[dave74]

Have you tried the Earthquaker Devices Plumes?

No but I sure hear good things about them. On the other hand I've seen several on local or nearby craigslist ads, which doesn't always mean they're uneventful, sometimes just that there are a lot of them out there.

[AdrianSD]

Having just got the new black 40th-A SD-1 a couple months back I'll say this;

I like the fact it barely changes the tone with the knob set to around noon, and even if you set it anywhere between 9:00 and 3:00 it's fairly clear in comparison to the way most screamers add more midrange hump/character to the tone. It juices the feel and ease-of-play without changing the EQ curve as much. More of a broad gentle hump.

What I don't like is that it lacks output when ran in the clean-boost settings or close to them. (0-gain, level-max) With just a bit more output it would be one of the best overdrives for clean-boosting an already saturated amp that you don't want to change too much with the boost.

Yeah, I've actually found it sounds best in an overdriven amp with drive at 8:00. Needs maybe just a little bit more output.

[Sirion]

A Boss SD-1 is the only pedal I am using at present (to drive my SC20C). It sounds better than the BD-2 I bought some time back, but I suppose that one would do the same thing, so I can do without the SD.

[Securb]

Eventide H9. -I only use it for 2 songs.

No way in hell I could get by without mine.

[Metalman_666]

I'd pull my FullDrive 2 MOSFET. It's a beautiful blue and sounds amazing goosing my amp in a loud, live setting,

But I find the FatBoost 3 livens up the dynamics, and gets things nice n' greasy without the blatant mid hump

[Liam1963]

My Source Audio Gemini Chorus, love the effect, but could sacrifice it if I had to...

[formula73]

Wah.

[Aceman]

I could use the Fly Rig as my only rig. The distortion is a little intense for me, but I could get used to it.

Yes - that's nice, but can you REMOVE it from the board!

[ErikH]

Tech 21 really needs to make a Fly Rig with a U.S. Metal as the distortion.

Check out the Paul Landers signature Fly Rig. There's more distortion there than anyone should need.

[LLL]

Several years ago I got rid of a lot of pedals (15 or so) that were, quite frankly, the typical impulse buys.

And focused on getting stomps that had an important purpose/utility or ones that I would unquestionably use a lot.

So nowadays -

Probably my MXR CAE Line Driver/Boost.

I got it for the utilitarian aspects (good buffer and clean boost in one).