Post your dream 5-pedal board

thecolourbox

Assuming the brief means the "dream" setup is one without any restriction or practicality etc, then at the moment I'd like to go for the following. It's very changeable but the sounds in my head at the moment for my original stuff should work with these. I'm well aware that I could do all of these things with a good multi effects or could function perfectly well with a few generic Boss pedals etc but hey ho.

Assuming a Deluxe Reverb type amp.

1. MXR Dyna Comp, which some kind of mod done to make it less hissy, or something which does the Dyna Comp sound without the hiss, doesn't have to be MXR. Effectively use as a boost with some compression to even out my playing. Either to boost my drive sound into madness, or to give my clean  bit more jangle
2. Digitech Whammy DT. For the usual Whammy octave up and down stuff but also that lovely Detune chorus thing
3. Boss FZ2, or whichever one it is the Behringer Super Fuzz is a copy of
4. Origin Effects Magma 57 or Deluxe 61, I think either would be fine. Slight preference for the very low settings of the vibrato on the Magma, but the normal trem on the Deluxe sounds useful also at more choppy settings. Two pedals in one, so kind of leaves my last slot free for something other than trem, and assuming the Deluxe Reverb amp I'd have the footswitch for reverb and trem on the amp anyway right?
5. Electro Harmonix POG 2. Presets saved for the White Stripes Blue Orchid type octave stuff, but also a preset for something more organ like maybe with volume swells

Kebabkid

As a serious compromise to my current 9-pedal board, the following would work for me but recently, I've been both impressed and inspired by Andy Wood's 3-4 pedal board video and would love to move to something like that but it would probably require dual pedals or a multi-fx/modeller.

So, this minus some pedals



Keeley Compressor
Xotic EP Boost
OCD V1.4
Zoom MS-70 CDR
Keeley Halo

Grampa

Mine is currently....

1. TC Polytune
2. Keely Compressor Plus
3. PC Tim V3
4. TC SCF
5. TC Hall of Fame 2

Into 633 Dragonfly RT

Can't see any reason to change anything in the foreseeable future. 

Jota

This has been mine for the last two years so I guess I reached dream level!

Hope the MIDI switcher and the aux switch doesn't count cause there's an ClinchFX Pico-Pre underneath.

GavRichList

There you go, stretching the rules as far as possible. Pedalplayground doesn’t have the MF104M delay, so I had to use the ring mod. 

MC6 to control the ML5, MF104M, Whammy and Mercury 7. Expression pedal routed to reverb and / or delay via ML5. 

willo

GavRichList said:

There you go, stretching the rules as far as possible. Pedalplayground doesn’t have the MF104M delay, so I had to use the ring mod. 

MC6 to control the ML5, MF104M, Whammy and Mercury 7. Expression pedal routed to reverb and / or delay via ML5. 

I used to have one of those ring mods! Sold it for about what I paid for it. They've become a lot more expensive since then!

GavRichList

willo said:

GavRichList said:

There you go, stretching the rules as far as possible. Pedalplayground doesn’t have the MF104M delay, so I had to use the ring mod. 

MC6 to control the ML5, MF104M, Whammy and Mercury 7. Expression pedal routed to reverb and / or delay via ML5. 

I used to have one of those ring mods! Sold it for about what I paid for it. They've become a lot more expensive since then!

They have indeed. I’ve got the delay, and they go for daft cash 

ICBM

Boss ME-70.













Well, it does have five pedals… four footswitches and an expression pedal .

Flanging_Fred

Not really a ‘dream’ board but here”s a board of pedals I’m curious to try

Whammy V
Ibanez 850 Overdrive
T-Rex Mudhoney
Maestro Comet Chorus
Boss RV 3 Delay / Reverb

I’ve no idea quite how my interest gets piqued to try certain stuff and not others but that’s a board I’d like to try out. No doubt in 6 months that list will be completely different.

AntonHunter

Of my current pedals, I could happily do most things with:

EQD Night Wire (doing harmonic trem, phaser impressions and auto-wah)
Proco Lil Rat
Empress Germ Drive
Red Panda Particle 
EQD Disaster Transport Sr.

(Swapping the Night Wire out for an EQD Levitation for washed out shoegaze fun...)

Dream board, I'd very much like to try...

Hmmm, this is going to take some time actually, I'll come back.

Ungulate

Out of the current crowd:

Keeley Compressor +

Nordvang '83 Drive

Wampler Terraform

TC Flashback 2

EHX Oceans 11

gatheredinsong

willo said:

GavRichList said:

There you go, stretching the rules as far as possible. Pedalplayground doesn’t have the MF104M delay, so I had to use the ring mod. 

MC6 to control the ML5, MF104M, Whammy and Mercury 7. Expression pedal routed to reverb and / or delay via ML5. 

I used to have one of those ring mods! Sold it for about what I paid for it. They've become a lot more expensive since then!

Me too. I also sold an EHX 16 Second Digital Delay around the same time as the Moogerfooger. I saw one in a shop recently 

HerbieTheRadDorklift

5 Metal Zones

edenfield99

Current 5 pedalbaord

Formula B Mini Bender
Jam Pedals Tubedreamer 88
Jam Waterfall Chorus
Jam Delay Llama
Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale 

It actually has a Korg Mini Pitchblack on there but I can use a clip-on if I'm only allowed 5.

That is technically my mini(ish)-board but if I was to rearrange my pedals from my big board I would go with

Analogman Sunlion
Hudson Broadcast 24V (although this one would get switched around a lot)
Analogman ARDLX Delay
Anasounds Element 
Walrus Monument

EricTheWeary

My micro board which occasionally gets plugged in is tuner+fuzz+low gain OD+delay+delay.

So, posh versions of those! Maybe a big box delay like the RE 202 and I could have a phaser as well. 

brojangles

My actual board is

Diamond Compressor 
Boss OD-3
Mooer CE-2 clone./ Mooer Electric Mistress clone (depending on whether I'm feeling more like the Smiths or the Cure)
El Capistan 
Flint 

Covers pretty much everything I want - the harmonic trem in the Flint doubles as a sort of phaser, and El Capistan covers lo-fi sounds and messed up chorus sounds if necessary. 

digitalkettle

soma1975 said:

Miku

Miku

Miku

Vertex boost

Miku

Ridiculous...who'd have a Vertex?!!

Kalimna

Hmmm, im just starting my pedal journey, and assuming multi-fx are outside the spirit of the OP, this is my current small board : 
 Korg Tuner
Old Blood Noise - Reflector (wierd chorusy thing)
KMA - Astrospurt phaser
Thorpy - Warthog
Homebuilt stripboard Tremulus Lune tremolo.

If the tuner isnt one of the five, then either a MXR Carbon Copy or Redbeard HairySquid....

joetele

Digitech Whammy, ProCo Rat, CBA Mood, Digitech Digidelay, Earthquaker Avalanche Run

TTBZ

My current board is 5 pedals and does everything I need. But ideally I'd swap some of them for "nicer" things. Something like this would be cool

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