What is your 'always on' pedal??

Wazmeister

Epsilon said:

For years it was the Fulltone OCD - gain down very low with volume up high. Recently the Timmy replaced it, using similar settings. I almost never play completely clean, and as someone above put it, the Timmy just adds a tiny bit of hair to the sound that brings some life to the tone. If I'm playing a strat my compressor (Wampler Ego) is almost always on as well.

I guess for most of us, our ‘always on’ sound is based on a little bit oh hair, or a bit of warmth or a touch of compression.

And after years and years of spending, I have found the Greer Lightspeed to be awesome at this. It is incredibly neutral, and you can match unity volume with no colouration and then adjust accordingly. Superb.

breakthemachinefx

Had a DS-1 since the year dot and its always on...albeit slightly lower these days.

builttospill

Boss SD-2, crunch channel, level set fairly high, drive set low, tone 11/12, produces a lovely sparkly, light crunch through a PRRI.

Dopesick

Way Huge Green Rhino is on about 95% of the time. Absolute clean stuff is extremely rare.

hhawkins

I love the TC Spark. It great at fattening up my basic clean tone 

MikkiMcMurderer

Exotic EP and a ZVeX SHO. And a decimator g string 2 for gain sounds 

AlexO

Xotic RC Boost. Knocked the Cali76 of my board for that little bit extra sound.

tone1

Flint Reverb, closely followed by Hudson Broadcast

lincolnblue

Neunaber Stereo Reverb. Never ever have it switched off

guitartango

Rothwell Atomic Booster

Sassafras

AMT F-1.
Makes pretty much every amp sound the way I want.