The one pedal you are most likely to never let go?

Petepassion

Even though it hasn’t been on my main board for a while, the DryBell Unit 67 is just brilliant. It doesn’t have the instant wow factor of some pedals like a fuzz, wah or modulation pedals, it’s more subtle, but epic at the same time.
   I normally use it in front of a drive pedal or driven amp to just fatten it up, sometimes almost into fuzz territory. The eq and treble boost functions really help to keep it in the mix. 

   I also use it at home for these purposes, then when it’s late at night, if the amps master volume is a little too sensitive, I can use this pedal to have better control of the volume.
   On top of this it’s a clean boost and sustain pedal if needed!
   This is the one pedal I doubt I will ever sell.
   What’s yours?

   

ICBM

Boss DF-2.

Petepassion

ICBM said:

Boss DF-2.

I’d never heard of that pedal.
A quick google and wow, that sounds pretty cool.
you had it long?

LionAquaLooper

Bad Monkey. Had it for ages and still so good. 

GazAus

Hotcake (since 2001)

octatonic

Hexe Revolver IV.

jellybelly

Timmy!!!

Got mine from Paul Cochrane direct almost 20 years ago. Remember I had to call him, in the US, to place the order. Was a lovely guy. Pedal has never let me down and I feel naked gigging without it.

Many overdrives have been and gone in that time, because usually I can set it down next to the Timmy and tweak and get 95% of the way there. And even then the Timmy sounds better. Can't even think of a good exception to that. 

Winny_Pooh

I used to think it was my Buffalo TD-X & Liquid Sunshine MKii, both of which I still own.

Lately (in years) it's a Kingsley Minstrel & JAM Delay Llama Xtreme.

Penn

About 30 years ago, they did a limited run of white Crybabys. Inside they are identical to the normal ones but white on the outside. I had to live like a pauper to buy it. I was young. Anyway, I still have it. I don’t use it much, but I’d never part with that. I also bought a Marshall Guv’nor a few months later. I’d keep the Crybaby over it because it would be harder to get another one.

 

Nerine

Penn said:

About 30 years ago, they did a limited run of white Crybabys. Inside they are identical to the normal ones but white on the outside. I had to live like a pauper to buy it. I was young. Anyway, I still have it. I don’t use it much, but I’d never part with that. I also bought a Marshall Guv’nor a few months later. I’d keep the Crybaby over it because it would be harder to get another one.

 

I’ve got a white Cry Baby. I didn’t buy it 30 years ago. Isn’t it a colour option? 

Penn

Nerine said:

Penn said:

About 30 years ago, they did a limited run of white Crybabys. Inside they are identical to the normal ones but white on the outside. I had to live like a pauper to buy it. I was young. Anyway, I still have it. I don’t use it much, but I’d never part with that. I also bought a Marshall Guv’nor a few months later. I’d keep the Crybaby over it because it would be harder to get another one.

 

I’ve got a white Cry Baby. I didn’t buy it 30 years ago. Isn’t it a colour option? 

I think they have done a few limited runs of the GCB95 but normally the white one is a bass wah. 

Nerine

I’ve got probably four pedals I’ll never sell. 

Keeley TS9 Mod Plus (It’s not on my board at the min, but I do seem to come back to it eventually. Quite pricey on the used market nowadays.)

MXR Classic 108 Fuzz (it’s mega. No boutique nonsense. Just a usable Fuzz Face) 

Providence DL-4 Chrono Delay (been spotted on Gilmour’s board in recent times apparently). 

Way Huge Overrated Special (not super rare, but not totally common. I have it due to the Bonamassa angle.) 

And probably the White Cry Baby above. Hehe. 

26.2

I’d say Barber Gain Changer - any guitar, any amp, it just sounds great. 

Also Strymon Timeline - it took me a whole, but once those ‘creative’ delays are part of your sound it’s hard to imagine doing without. 

Fez

My Ibanez phaser. Actually still have the original blue one I bought in the 70s

noisepolluter

Big box Deluxe Memory Man.

Keefy

noisepolluter said:

Big box Deluxe Memory Man.

On the same page here - DMM 1100TT.

ICBM

Petepassion said:

I’d never heard of that pedal.

A quick google and wow, that sounds pretty cool.
you had it long?

About 30 years. At one point I had four of them - one on each board, a spare and a broken one for parts. Just one and the parts one now, but I’ll never part with the good one.

It is very cool - it’s the best-sounding single distortion pedal I know of, and the feedbacker can be useful once you get the hang of it, even though it’s not ‘real’ feedback - it’s essentially a monophonic synth oscillator that locks onto the last frequency it hears.

Alex2678

I’ve got a Barber Ltd and it’s the only one I’ve never considered selling or swapping 

fretmeister

Penn said:

About 30 years ago, they did a limited run of white Crybabys. Inside they are identical to the normal ones but white on the outside. I had to live like a pauper to buy it. I was young. Anyway, I still have it. I don’t use it much, but I’d never part with that. I also bought a Marshall Guv’nor a few months later. I’d keep the Crybaby over it because it would be harder to get another one.

 

The bass one is white and actually seems quite popular with guitarists wanting a more guttural sound from a wah.
So if yours ever packs it in and the shell got damaged at least you could get a bass one and re-wire it.

ElectricXII

For me it's the Neo Instruments Mini Vent II. I use it as a rotary simulator, a chorus, and sometimes as a tremelo, with guitar on its own, or with an EHX C9 Organ Machine. I could gig without it, but I wouldn't want to.

Greatape

Chasetone Fuzz Fella Ge.