Re: finally weaned myself off pedals.
I go back and forth on the whole pedal thing. I sell them off, I but new ones...or sometimes the same type I sold off when I miss a certain sound. When I'm practicing at home I almost always plug straight in. While I like the sounds of delay, wah, tremolo and flanger sometimes I usually only want clean, kinda dirty, and raunchy. These I can get by turning the amp up a fair but and adjusting my guitar's volume control.