What Effect Do You Leave On All The Time?

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This thread inspired me to dig out my compressor from the back of the closet, hook 'er up, dial it in pretty low and leave it on for the evening. I get why some people would keep this effect on all the time. I think it's going back on my board.
 
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GuitarStv said:
This thread inspired me to dig out my compressor from the back of the closet, hook 'er up, dial it in pretty low and leave it on for the evening. I get why some people would keep this effect on all the time. I think it's going back on my board.
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I don't leave it on, but the first effect in my 'clean' loop is a MIJ Boss CS-3.
 
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GuitarStv said:
This thread inspired me to dig out my compressor from the back of the closet, hook 'er up, dial it in pretty low and leave it on for the evening. I get why some people would keep this effect on all the time. I think it's going back on my board.
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It just makes arpeggios and phrases so smooth and tasty -a good one still allows for dynamics too.
 
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The Suck Pedal seems to be stuck in the on position for me.
 
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Mincer said:
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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I don't even think of reverb as an effect because I have never owned an amp without it, the same way I don't think of volume or treble as effects! So I guess that is my absolutely 100% always on effect.
 
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ISP Decimator too.

Also, I don't really turn my Boss SD-1 off either.
 
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I got a EH oceans 11 a few months back and the pedal does a lot of cool sounds but the dripy fender reverb setting is pretty dang close.
 
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When I was still playing in a band, and not just my apartment, it was a Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive Mod, set as a clean boost.
 
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Reverb is my effect. I love it. You can do so much with it, it's really the only effect I need. I love how you can use it to shape the mood and atmosphere of a guitar tone (and as a result , the song) , and get dramatic results with such a "subtle" effect. As opposed to something like a chorus or wah which is a very obvious, in your face type of effect. I used to have a huge pedal board. But learned a couple years ago the power of tone shaping through reverbs and have barely used any other effects since.

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Always on things: noise gate/suppressor, reverb.

Tend towards gobs of gain, whether from amp or OD/boost/fuzz/rangemaster/compressor or all of the above... But no fixed approach, varies with the sound I'm chasing at the moment.

Lately, I am having trouble turning off the Digitech Freqout. Ridiculously fun for low volume feedback/sustain, though it gets more believable with higher volume, where it blends into real feedback. Set right, I only want it off for clean. Very fun for psychedelic fuzz freakouts and Barracuda-style alien harmonic feedback. Would not have gotten it but for absurd sale, as at list it's too close to the price of a Sustainiac Stealth Pro. So very glad I did, though!
 
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I can imagine the monstrosity of the tone sucking you get with BBE Sonic on the whole time...lol. My 482i has been soleley a decoration on my rack for almost 5 years now, filling up an empty space.

For me, it's gotta be chorus, distortion, and either delay or reverb.
 
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Obsessive Compulsive said:
I can imagine the monstrosity of the tone sucking you get with BBE Sonic on the whole time...lol. My 482i has been soleley a decoration on my rack for almost 5 years now, filling up an empty space..
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Yeah, I have the same experience -it's a tone sucker in my experience, you hear some initial exciting harmonic content that distracts you initially form all that you've lost in the mids and lows.
 
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Obsessive Compulsive said:
I can imagine the monstrosity of the tone sucking you get with BBE Sonic on the whole time...lol. My 482i has been soleley a decoration on my rack for almost 5 years now, filling up an empty space.

For me, it's gotta be chorus, distortion, and either delay or reverb.
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NegativeEase said:
Yeah, I have the same experience -it's a tone sucker in my experience, you hear some initial exciting harmonic content that distracts you initially form all that you've lost in the mids and lows.
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IME Sonic Maximizers are easy to sell to everyone that hasn't figured out how awful they sound.
 
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