Favorite Type of Effects Pedal

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Flanger. There's some cool sounds to be had with a good flanger.

Overdrive. There's so many flavors out there. It's almost overload. Since I got an OCD, I haven't had the need or desire to look at another.

Delay. A little delay can go a long way. So many uses for it.

I like a nice wah too. Now if I could just keep mine working. It might be time for a new one.
 
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I'll always use some form of OD, Distortion, Boost to push my Marshall over the edge and some tape delay (with the modulation increased for some chorus like tones when needed).
With my Boogie, a delay is basically enough as it has plenty of gain. Plus, I can bypass the graphic EQ and get a mid boost when needed.
 
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Some type of dirt pedal, a wah pedal, and some type of thick and dense chorus or a lighter flanger.
 
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Toss-up between distortion and overdrive.. although a distortion can act as an overdrive with the right settings. Overdrive can't become a distortion. :D
 
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It depends on the amp. If I can get enough drive from the amp, it's tremolo. If the amp has tremolo already, then it's Delay. If it's a super clean amp, it's a light, tweed style OD.
 
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PFDarkside said:
What's your favorite?
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I haven't tried any besides the one that I'm using currently, which is a Joyo Sweet Baby. It's a Mad Professor Sweet Honey clone, so that's really the only circuit I'm familiar with. I'm happy with the clone for now, it gets the job done and sounds good with pretty much anything. I played the Mad Professor version at a shop once, and I couldn't hear a huge difference, at least in that setting. I probably wont spend money on either it or the Bearfoot Honey Bee any time soon.

I'd like to try the Wampler Tweed '57; because, I feel like if I were to spend real money on one, that would be it.
 
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Reverb, unless the amp I'm using already has a nice spring box, if I've got Reverb onboard then I'd have to go with Delay? Although I did just get a new Swell G Drive, it's completely changed the way I think about subtle tube driven Over Drive pedals? I always thought of them as more of a novelty pedal? Like the VOX pedals with the 12AX7 tubes that you can take out & the pedal still sounds & works just fine? This one is definitely different, it really seems to make everything sound, better? No matter what guitar and amp combo I stick behind it, but that's probably just because it's new? Give me a week and I won't be able to live without delay again!!!
 
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Wah. No question. It's a completely other dimension of expression; it exists in a plane that's perpendicular to most of the parameters we usually think of in terms of playing. It is, itself, a thing that is played -- not merely a device that is turned on. You play it the way you would a string bend, a slide, a finger vibrato, or a trem.

My favorite thing to do with it is impart subtle accents on slow lead lines. (Just like Santana, only not good.)
 
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Bad santana..?
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Little Pigbacon said:
Wah. No question. It's a completely other dimension of expression; it exists in a plane that's perpendicular to most of the parameters we usually think of in terms of playing. It is, itself, a thing that is played -- not merely a device that is turned on. You play it the way you would a string bend, a slide, a finger vibrato, or a trem.

My favorite thing to do with it is impart subtle accents on slow lead lines. (Just like Santana, only not good.)
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Well said. Wahs are fickle beasties though... noisy, prone to mechanical failure, ergonomically uncomfortable - and yet still the most essential electric guitar pedal. It surprises me that in 5 decades or so, no one has really improved on the basic design.
 
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Ever since I got my first delay pedal I've been a big devotee of them. There's just so much neat stuff you can do with a really good delay unit.

Even a basic delay takes guitar sounds into this 3-D space in a way I really like. These days I really like my Duncan Deja Vu delay. It has just about everything I want in a delay pedal with nothing I don't need. I like the flavor knob on the more Analog side with a little modulation thrown in.
 
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if i could only have one pedal, itd be timmy.
 
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