Why use pedals?

Hattigol

There was quite a lot of delay between the original post and his follow-up. Surely that falls foul of your rules?

meltedbuzzbox

Edge of break up and a strat...

Man thats an original approach to playing, especially with an exceptionally rare guitar. You must sound so unique

Sassafras

And you've got the nerve to call yourself Rocker!!!

EricTheWeary

Sassafras said:

And you've got the nerve to call yourself Rocker!!!

Well he named himself after the Thin Lizzy song featuring Eric Bell who, err, had a tone bender and a delay between guitar and amp...oh dear...

RaymondLin

I fail to understand how more pedals = sound like others.

Mathematically it just doesn’t compute.

chotu495

I don’t like the sound of clean guitar into amp with absolutely no effects. 

I do like reverb and delay, so I have no choice.

joetele

Crutch? Jesus Christ. 

Broaden your mind. You've completely missed one of the many points of using pedals. 

Sassafras

Following Rocker's advice, I've removed the pedals from my piano.
He's right, the purity of sound from it now is a thing of beauty.

BintyTwanger77

Ah, the “sweeping generalisation/ridiculous statement for clicks/attention” dollar, that’s a strong dollar... 

Didn’t seem like the OP really wanted a reasoned discussion that can be had about pedals, when you might need to use them, when straight into the amp works, etc. Talking about using pedals as a “crutch”, and everything else about the original posting (on the FX forum of all places) just seems like a deliberate trigger for an argument, and hey look, it worked! You trolled us! Well done, they’ll name streets in your honour for this I’m sure.

I hope you can find a truly original sound with a Strat, an amp, and no pedals. No, really. Good luck with that...

JezWynd

Hattigol said:

There was quite a lot of delay between the original post and his follow-up. Surely that falls foul of your rules?

The chorus of disapproval filled out the interval nicely though.

Keefy

Hattigol said:

There was quite a lot of delay between the original post and his follow-up. Surely that falls foul of your rules?

I did a quick check of the rules to see if there was anything about ‘hand grenades’, i.e. starting a contentious thread and then walking away to a safe distance to watch the fun. I couldn’t find anything, but Rule 1 (from which all the other rules flow) is ‘Don’t be a dick’. I’ll second that.

menamestom

If you play lots of different sized venues I find a few different gain stages from pedals pretty essential.  With volumes lowering over the years and so many different venue sizes I always feel I need the versatility, especially using non-MV single channel amps.

That’s just gain though.  The other side of it is now pedals allow guitar to stray away from the old cliches with new sounds coming from innovative makers.
Not everybody wants to stick to classic guitar sounds and synths, delays, mods and verbs can take the core sound to new and fresh territory.

menamestom

Oh and yeah, just think how good the Edge could have been without his ‘crutches’

https://youtu.be/H8dZwXnMrRU

Philtre

is this a shit-post? Move on.

Sassafras

I removed the pedals from my bicycle, can't say it's improved its performance. Quite the opposite, in fact.

drofluf

Sassafras said:

I removed the pedals from my bicycle, can't say it's improved its performance. Quite the opposite, in fact.

It’s not about the bike...

  

soma1975

Sassafras said:

I removed the pedals from my bicycle, can't say it's improved its performance. Quite the opposite, in fact.

But now at least you don't ride the same as everyone else.

Hattigol

Sassafras said:

I removed the pedals from my bicycle, can't say it's improved its performance. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Maybe so. But you will inevitably now have your own 'unique' style when riding it...

Edit: sorry @soma1975 you pipped me!

WiresDreamDisasters

<looks at a universe of pedals>
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THESE MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE SOMEONE ELSE!



<looks at fingers touching a fretboard>

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OMG I AM SO ORIGINALS!

WiresDreamDisasters

BintyTwanger77 said:

Ah, the “sweeping generalisation/ridiculous statement for clicks/attention” dollar, that’s a strong dollar... 

Nice Bill Hicks reference!