Pedals With Tricks Up Their Sleeves?

['59]

I'm in high school so I don't have a lot of money. What I'm looking for are pedals that do a little more than they are supposed to.

For example, I have a Canyon Delay that I can also coax into being a more than decent reverb, a loop pedal, a bass emulator and octave pedal, an okay chorus, and a slight volume boost if you are in a pinch.

What other pedals can do neat things like this?

 

[Chistopher]

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The Klon Centaur makes an amazing buffer.

But in all seriousness, you can probably get a reasonable range of passable effects by purchasing Behringer effects. They aren't perfect by any means, but they have quite a few clones of Boss pedals for less than $30 new. That's less than $100 for a chorus, reverb, and distortion. Plus you already have a great delay, so you don't really need too much more.

 

['59]

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Don't forget tremolo and vibrato! But that leads me to another point of mine: if you could only have one, would you choose vibrato or reverb for adding "pop" to your solos, think along the lines of "Always" by Bon Jovi.

As an aside, how does a Univibe play into both this and my original question?

 

[marcboomer]

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"FOOZ"
https://www.seymourduncan.com/pedal/fooz-analog-fuzz-synth?__uuid_ref=5ba3e163276b3

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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The Catalinbread Topanga is a spring reverb emulation with an Easter egg: Present the secret handshake and it will enter a modulated reverb mode.

 

[Aceman]

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My comment - for delay, chorus, pitch, reverb and EQ....

Almost any used multi-fx will do that in spades. Get a Digitech RP-250 for ~50 dollars.

 

[ehdwuld]

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Digitech all the way
Used RP50 is under 50 bucks
RP55 gives you a USB port for recording

My GNX3000 was.150 bucks brand new some years ago

Drum loops and bass amp models
It's awesome

My Digitech DL8 delay pedal does
Loops
Reverse and/or modulated delays ( think chorus)

Joyo and Behringer make some nice starter pedals that can be had for about 25 bucks used

But if you want bang for the buck
The multieffects units are the way to go

The effects aren't great but you can audition several types of Effects and decide what you might be interested in

 

[devastone]

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Or if you can pony up ~$100 you can probably find a used Zoom G3, nice effects and very usable amp models.

 

[ehdwuld]

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Back in the late 90s
A guy I knew had one of those
I remember it buzzing constantly with a blue voodoo crate

They must have gotten better since then

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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Or if you can pony up ~$100 you can probably find a used Zoom G3, nice effects and very usable amp models.

If you’re going Zoom, might as well kick it old school.

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[Diego]

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The Line 6 DM4 Distortion Modeler is pretty damn good IMO. Can be had for oeanuts used.

 

[Mincer]

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Any great delay like the Andromeda can act like a chorus or flanger or short reverb. Long delay times can be a looper, too. Using the insert jack on the Vapor Trail allows all sorts of sonic mayhem, too.

 

[PFDarkside]

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If you’re going Zoom, might as well kick it old school.

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If that sounded half as bad as my 505 it’s a hard pass.

 

[Chistopher]

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If you’re going Zoom, might as well kick it old school.

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That one of them old poker playin' computers?

 

[Silence Kid]

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Devi Ever Rocket fuzz works as a tremolo.

 

[Jacew]

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The Klon Centaur makes an amazing buffer.

But in all seriousness, you can probably get a reasonable range of passable effects by purchasing Behringer effects. They aren't perfect by any means, but they have quite a few clones of Boss pedals for less than $30 new. That's less than $100 for a chorus, reverb, and distortion. Plus you already have a great delay, so you don't really need too much more.

Behringer pedals are awful. I just wrote in another thread about how good pedals Joyo makes, but in this case I think multi effect might be way to go for now.

 

[devastone]

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Back in the late 90s
A guy I knew had one of those
I remember it buzzing constantly with a blue voodoo crate

They must have gotten better since then

What exactly are you talking about? The Zoom G3 wasn't out in the 90s.

 

[IMENATOR]

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If you are on a budget the Zoom 70CDR is a multi FX (no overdrive or distortion) that can do lots of things. Its brother MS-50G has less FX gut you get some overdrive/distortion. If you want better sound for bit more money you can try the TrueTone H20, it is a very tweakable Chorus+Echo that can do different sounds. Very lush chorus with a long delay and feedback is a very decent ambient-ish sound, short delay for slap back, put the delay into oscillation mode along with the "detune" switch and you can get some weird trippy sounds, fast chorus is good for Leslie like jazz sounds, and the analog chorus it self sounds very nice already, as some chorus in some settings it can sound a bit flange-ish... and it sounds better than the Zoom 70CDR.

Edit: The H2O can also do Vibrato.

 

[LLL]

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"FOOZ"

 

[ehdwuld]

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What exactly are you talking about? The Zoom G3 wasn't out in the 90s.

I was referring to the Zoom brand pedal that was.out at the time
Not necessarily your pedal

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