Pedals, do you not use any?

Grunfeld

I love, absolutely love the moments when the sound changes from being up close, immediate and solid to <click> a vast cavern of springy reverb.  Or <click> a second guitar echoing the line I've just played, so I can play against it. 

I like the guitar-into-amp sound; that's most of the gig.  But I love the way you can do those other things and that's why I run a small board. 

thebreeze

I've come to the conclusion that if the amp is good enough I don't really need pedals.  I bought a very early Tone King Imperial - the trem and reverb are superb and adding any pedal to the clean just takes the edge off the sparkly, bouncy tone.  If I need to push the drive I use an Exotic BB which sounds fine, especially with humbuckers.  When I want to use mainly a driven sound (which is unusual for me) I tend to crank the Rift5 as I like the pushed tweed sound for that and again pedals can't really better what is there already.  Having said all that I tend to play the kind of classic rock, rock 'n roll and blues stuff so it suits this kind of approach.  I'm not closed to pedals and different soundscapes and if I had the discipline and the time I'd definitely  experiment a bit more. 

DiscoStu

I'm a Guitar>Amp kinda guy. Always have been.
I have a few pedals and multiFX but I've always struggled getting them all set up, especially the multi. I feel more 'connected' going direct to amp, no colouring to hide the mistakes!
I keep meaning to get my head round my effects. It's on my to-do list with a million other things.

Danielsguitars

i don't own any pedals, can't be bothered and never had loads of cash, homemade 18watt plexi with power scaling or 36 watt that's about it, i like to use volumes and tones 

Tweed will be next i think

Paul_C

No pedals for me either.*















*may not be true.

viz

Jackobean said:

Pedals are for the weak.

Lol. Post of the month and we’re only on day 1!

thegummy

Wazmeister said:

Can believe Im saying this... NO !

Everything sorted through the Kemper.

What's the setup with the 4 speakers and cab?

dindude

Wazmeister said:

Can believe Im saying this... NO !

Everything sorted through the Kemper.

Is your Carr just a Kemper stand these days Waz?

thomasross20

Only when I gig and even then it's rare. Only "functional" - e.g. boost, distortion, tuner etc. 

Funkfingers

With a mk1 Blackstar HT-5 mini stack, I add a BOSS FRV-1 reverb pedal in the send/return loop. Then, for recording purposes, I switch the effect off again. D'oh!

Some times, I chuck together random combinations of pedals in an attempt to stumble upon an interesting pseudo-original sound. Occasionally, it works out well. More often, it yields something clever but completely unusable in any musical context.

In short, the older I get, the less I lean on effect pedals.

normula1

I've a few drive pedals that I almost never twesk and use a TC GMajor2 for everything else apart from Neo Instruments Vent for Leslie. The pedal I use most though is a TC Ditto looper for noodling along with myself.

Snags

With what I do I'd be lost without the option for delay, and either drive or footswitchable channels.  The rest is just bells and whistles, but comes in handy.

UnclePsychosis

There's loads that I don't use.

Don't use a TS9
Don't use reverb
Don't use strymon... 

Ahem. Sorry. :-D

axisus

I've never gone for pedals. I add reverb and delay on sounds with my Axe FX though, but never turn them on and off, they are just 'there' with some sounds.

Lestratcaster

The only one I use is a TS9, if you count a TU-2 and an ISP decimator as the others then that's it. Main sound is from the amp.

Sporky

Jackobean said:

Pedals are for the weak.

Amps are for the weakend? 

Jonathanthomas83

Wazmeister said:

Can believe Im saying this... NO !

Everything sorted through the Kemper.

Beautiful and simple.

I don't use any either. Kemper does it all. I have a Big Muff just in case, but that's up for sale too.

TTBZ

I've always used amp distortion so had no real use for pedals other than a boost for heavier stuff and EQ in the fx loop for solo boosts. Now I'm ampless I'll probably pick up a cheap RAT-flavoured pedal so I can get a decent version of my sound without relying on specific amps as I can just plug into any rehearsal room amp if needed. I sometimes use a bit of delay and fuzz as "unsubtle special effects" but apart from that I'm not arsed about modulation and such. Might get a crazy reverb one day for those ambient and shoegaze moments.

Zoolooter

Talisman plate reverb, that's it. I only have that because my head doesn't have reverb. 

Although I would like to try a decent spring reverb pedal.

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

90% of the time it's amp only (it has an excellent onboard reverb). Recently the covers band I'm in has started trying out a couple of heavier/grungier tracks so I've invested in a higher gain pedal just to get a bit more filth, and I use a GE-7 for solo boosts. Just acquired a used Korg Pitchblack tuner too. 

Total cost of pedals on my board - £95.