What Effect Do You Leave On All The Time?

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Is there one effect that you just don't turn off? For me, that would be the BBE Sonic Stomp. I just think everything sounds better with that one on.
 
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My amps sound best with no FX. I use them sparingly for when they're absolutely necessary.
 
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Unless I'm doing heavy riffing, I almost always have a Univibe on to some degree.
 
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For a couple years I always had a graphic EQ pedal on to shape my tone and boost gain a bit. That band fell apart and ever since I have been just amp 99% of the time. It was really good for the hard & heavy stuff though.
 
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For the longest time I didn't have one...

My board is built around a loop master clean / dirty / channel switcher where I have separate loops for the clean and dirty channels of my Marshall Jubilees. I run the dirty side completely dry ~90% of the time, but my clean loop has an always-on Boss FRV-1 Fender Reverb. It isn't set super wet (mixer & dwell 9 o'clock, tone 12 o'clock) but I like having the little bit extra on a clean tone.
 
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...an always-on Boss FRV-1 Fender Reverb.

That’s a great reverb — one of the splashiest, sproingiest spring reverb emulations I’ve played through.
 
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What Effect Do You Leave On All The Time?

None, really. If I can imagine my sound using a certain pedal, I can imagine my sound without it. My pedal lineup is fluid, constantly changing, infinitely possible. Nothing is permanent.
 
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I have to have reverb, either from an amp or a multi-effects. But I won't buy a conventional amp without it.
 
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That’s a great reverb — one of the splashiest, sproingiest spring reverb emulations I’ve played through.

Mine's a bit beat up, but I found it on Reverb for $70 before the market went crazy. Typical prices on the used market aren't worth it these days; why pay ~$180 for a FRV-1 when you can get a Strymon Flint for $250?
 
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That’s a great reverb — one of the splashiest, sproingiest spring reverb emulations I’ve played through.

More so than Holy Grail???


But yes - if I had two pick an always, Reverb on 3

Delay a close second. But not always....
 
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Keeley compressor.

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The Pinchie-Squealie... cuz ya never know when inspiration hits.
 
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Dimension chorus. It just make things sound better, and fits perfectly into whatever the gain level is.

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I just completed a solo guitar project where a looper was on and overdubbing the entire time, for a series of 15 minute pieces. The looper's feedback was at about 80% so stuff I played immediately started fading away, so as I played, the loop kept changing over time.
 
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I'll almost always have reverb going. In the rare cases that there's no reverb, there's delay.

While I like effects, there are no others that I'd leave on all the time.
 
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For me it's reverb. It's always on unless we're doing an AC/DC song and then my amp is completely dry.
 
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Usually some sort of reverb for space, especially when running direct.
 
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For my cleaner tone I play in one of my bands -I use a Greer Lightspeed compressor at the very front, and XOtic EP booster and the end -both always on.

For dirty tone for a different band -an Archer Klon into an MXR Modified OD Custom Badass always on.
 
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