3 pedal challenge!

Re: 3 pedal challenge!

Aceman said:
You are going to have to play the following gigs: A metal gig, a rock gig, a blues gig, and a jazz gig.

You may have one two channel amp and three pedals to do ALL gigs.

FOr simplicity - lets assume the amp is a MArshall DSL 401 or a Fender Hotrod Deville.

What THREE pedals do you take and how do you use them?
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Guitar - http://www.chapmanguitars.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Chapman-27.jpg <--- Chapman Tele

* Keeley Compressor (4 knob model)

* EHX DMM (old Big Box model)

* Pigtronix Polysaturator ...or... EHX Metal Muff (both are great for metal, but very underrated for Hard Rock)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRUf3WNFs - Polysaturator


Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
 
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Rob Option: Egnater Tweaker for the amp, MXR Classic Overdrive in front, tc electronic Alter Ego delay & Arena reverb in the loop...
 
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Guitar: My PRS SE Singlecut Korina
Amp: The Fender
Pedals: EH Metal Muff w/ Top Boost, Boss BF-2 Flanger, and a Tuner.
 
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I'd take:

The Marshall

1. Tuner (Doesn't matter if your tone is rad if your guitar is out of tune haha!)
2. Maxon OD808 (boosting for metal tones, and used on clean channel for blues tones, gain off as slight clean boost for jazz tones)
3. Boss DM delay (for leads, and maybe for some stuff on jazz)

my trusty les paul
 
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Funnily enough, minus a second delay pedal I would put forward my main gig rig!

Laney Lionheart 20h with a Boss TU2 tuner, MXR GT-OD, and MXR Carbon Copy. Whilst the Lionheart wouldn't be my no.1 choice for metal, boosted with the od will do just fine, and jazz/blues it will do all day long.
 
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A tuner, a Rat, because it's easiest pedal to go from blues to metal. Both those amps have reverb, so that's really all I'd need, but I might add a clean boost or screamer for some less compressed sounds on the blues gig.
 
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I would take the Fender amp

1. Vise Grip compressor. I cannot rave enough about this pedal. I have had lots of compressors... this is the best most versatile musical awesome pedal! I would use this as an always one, for my jazz gig, and then use it as a clean boost at different levels for the blues and metal gig. It can do some sertious gain boosting, so it works great to stack with an OD pedal and/or distorted tube channel.

2. Timmy (or better yet the 805...but I don't own it YET) This would be the classic tube screamer slot, but I really like the Timmy. I have tried the 805 and think it would be better in this context though, since it is more versatile. The 805 CAN do the low gain, cleanish thing really well, AND can do the higher gain with the mid bump as well... and all the flavors in between. The Timmy has the great natural sound... but that is pretty much it. Either would work for me.

3. EQD Dispatch Master. Yes this seems like cheating since I get a reverb and delay... and it is sort of... but really this pedal is an always on pedal for me. It sounds amazing, and I leave it mixed low as ambiance. It is one of the special pedals that just works SO well. Yes, I can use it as up to a 2 second delay pedal, or a slap back pedal, or JUST reverb. And the reverb can be small or cavernous. Of course, I can also set it to super ambiance settings... and get coooool sounds. A great flexible pedal that never has a bad sound in it.

I think along with a gain channel, I would be well covered for any of those gigs.
 
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Wah -> Visual Sound H2O -> SD 808-> Marshall

535Q wah for versatility. The Visual Sound pedals do two different things. In the case of the H2O I would have chorus and delay. With the 808, I have a good OD that can do metal well as well as a nice blues break up.

The key to do this type of thing is knowing how to work the knobs on the pedals and amps. You don't go to the jazz gig with gig with anything but a clean amp and maybe a slight drive. With the rock having a slightly dirty amp with the over drive can actually give a third channel so to speak. You can have a mid gain and then throw the over drive on to get even more break up.
 
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Re: 3 pedal challenge!

Can I do mine over? Can I? Can I?

Okay:

(i) Bad Horsie 2
(ii) Fulltone OCD (either into a clean channel or hot-rodding a Marshall crunch)
(iii) that chorus/flanger thing

WWTWD?

(What would Tuesday Weld do?)
 
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Yeah I already answered but I have a recent obsession with a pedal build I just finished, so here's the updated one:

(1) tuner
(2) madbean flabulanche and/or proco rat board (always on) in the same enclosure as a wah circuit (so it works like a combo preamp/wah) - but without all of those massive vintage correct parts (with metal film resistors and low profile caps you could easily fit a wah pedal plus inductor and a distortion/booster in those massive wah housings)
(3) madbean dirt baby

Okay I think that will about do it... I can do a decent phaser imitation with the wah pedal and the dirt baby can handle all other modulation.
 
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If it had to be either of those amps then the Hot Rod, a wampler plextortion/pinnacle/triple wreck dpending on the definition of metal band, a wah and a delay (TC Flashbackx4 or Strymon) thats assuming a tuner doesn't count. I'm assuming we aren't limited in what guitars we can use but if we were only to chose one I'd grab a tele or a HSS strat. If we could choose any amp I'd choose something thats preamp was based on a bassman on the clean channel and a plexi/jcm800 on the drive channel and then I would replace the wampler pedal with a fulldrive or something similar.

I think the gneres are too broad for this to be a challenge.

What about three bands:
a neo-psych band in which you're the only guitarist
A black metal band
An 80s glam metal band who mainly plays power ballads.
 
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