Name an effect pedal that inspired you to write/record a new song or a cover...

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MkIII Renegade

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.....simply from being in love with sound.

I'll go first:

Boss OC-3 Super Octave: I plug my guitar into the bass input use Drive mode for the biggest, deepest, wooliest (or is that none more wooly?), creamiest tone imaginable through the Lead channel of my Boogie on lowish gain. Within a few days of having it, I recorded my instrumental version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and eventually Prince's "Temptation", which has some of his baddest freakin' guitar playing ever.

Boss DD-20 Giga Delay: Inspired by Warped Mode to record a sprawling version of Hendrix's "Who Knows" from Band of Gypsies. Later used Tape mode for Floyd's Astronomy Domine. Although this pedal has 20 different modes, I only usually about 4 of them. Also used on many originals for the soaring lead tone I love in Analog and Standard (Digital) Modes. I've since moved on to the t.c. electronic NOVA Delay, but still use the Boss sometimes.

What are some pedals/effects units that have inspired you?
 
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Effects don't really inspire me. I write music with clean or dirty guitar and then decide to add effects later to help build soundscapes and/or give added depth or dimension to a sound.
 
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I had been using compressor -> volume pedal -> Delay/Reverb for ambient soundscape stuff (solo). When I got the Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus, I set it with speed and depth high to simulate a Leslie and added it to the rest of the chain to do organ/key/pad like swells on at least three of our songs.
 
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Two.

Years ago when I got my first CHORUS...a DOD 460 (?). Very inspiring. Wrote several songs...listened to a lot of Andy Summers.

And my first DELAY, a Rocktron Short-Timer. It gave me more of a finished, polished sound. Barely turned it off for 6 months.

Bill
 
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Line 6 Uber Metal

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The song didn't come entirely from it but I got a polyphonic octave generator after being interested in the triple octaved sound in "Blue Orchid" by The White Stripes. I added a snakey, ascending, triple-octaved lead to the verses of a song called "Hi-Tech, Low Life" from our second album. I also got a balalaika (3 string Russian guitar) and came up with something which I also added to the song and it came out pretty well.
 
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I've written and released hours of music based on looping pedals.
 
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I found this first riff playing around with my MXR Micro Flange and it turned into a song.

 
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I have a love/hate relationship with my Boss DC-2, because it doesn't have enough headroom not to distort (forget about using it in the fx loop!), but it has the nicest chorus sound I know. Somehow writing things comes a lot easier when it is turned on…
 
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Beer$ said:
The song didn't come entirely from it but I got a polyphonic octave generator after being interested in the triple octaved sound in "Blue Orchid" by The White Stripes. I added a snakey, ascending, triple-octaved lead to the verses of a song called "Hi-Tech, Low Life" from our second album. I also got a balalaika (3 string Russian guitar) and came up with something which I also added to the song and it came out pretty well.
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Cool. The true poly thing is one frontier I haven't explored. I've watched demos on the various EHX polygen pedals, but haven't gotten around to getting one yet...I definitely think I could get some ideas going with one.
 
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MXR Blue Box. I have difficulty making things over-intricate/complex, and the Blue Box prevents me from doing that. Makes very simple things sound epic, that I would not have thought of doing otherwise... I can then "tone it down" and remove the Blue Box.
 
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Silence Kid said:
MXR Blue Box. I have difficulty making things over-intricate/complex, and the Blue Box prevents me from doing that. Makes very simple things sound epic, that I would not have thought of doing otherwise... I can then "tone it down" and remove the Blue Box.
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Thats a cool box. So much you can so with just the BB and various types of distortion.
 
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Late one Saturday night, not long after I got my Bad Horsie 2, I was playing around and kinda felt my way into "The Crush of Love". I'd owned a couple different wahs and tried that tune before, but I'd never felt like I was doing anything right or even coming close to the tone. I wish I'd recorded it, but I've always wondered what was wrong with me as a guitarist that I needed a Bad Horsie in order to sound even a little like Joe Satriani with a Crybaby or a Vox or whatever he used.
 
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The modulated delay on my DL8
Makes me wanna play jazzy cool blues riffs
Jerry knows of which I speak
 
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Earthquakes devices transmisser modulated reverb into boss space echo pedal and I have been inspired to write a few shoegazey songs, that have yet to be recorded.
 
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I just wrote some spacey jazz with my fulltone tape tube echo.
 
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