I've gone pedal mad....

BintyTwanger77

My brain can't take any more...and the some of the responses of my last thread have confirmed to me that, yes, I've been overGAS'ing like an eejit. So, helpful though, this forum is, I'm going to stop bothering you so often with my eejit questions, spend less time on forums and overquestioning what pedals I want need and...actually get my head into playing/composing and out of what gear I might want or need one week then not the next.

I have a good friend who works in a guitar shop who's going to sell some pedals for me for a decent sum, I'll cancel some preorders, and stop hurting my own head overthinking what combinations of pedals I need and just f***ing play.

I've already recently had this feeling, and posted about it here, the feeling went, then I bought more stuff, and the GAS came back, so I need to stop being daft with my 1st World bloody problems and concentrate on playing. As I've already said...

Please say I'm not the only one who's been through this stage?

Heartfeltdawn

Yep. Just play. Limitations with gear mean you have to come up with interesting ways of sounding good.

DesVegas

Thank you

BintyTwanger77

DesVegas;989450" said:

Thank you

For....?

MrSwanson

I've just sold loads of pedals i don't need and use and bought an new amp

Can see the collection building up again though...

DesVegas

BintyTwanger77;989458" said:

[quote="DesVegas;989450"]Thank you

For....?
[/quote]

Showing us we are not alone with our passion for pedals

Wazmeister

Ive had 3 years or so of obsession.., and now (with the Fx8) ive been released

xSkarloey

You sound a bit hard on yourself.

Yes play the gear you have. Fret some notes with your fingers rather than fret in the mind about purchases.

But remember, part of the fun with what we do is trying and buying new gear. So long as the GASsing is in proportion to playing you'll be right.

BintyTwanger77

DesVegas;989546" said:

[quote="BintyTwanger77;989458"][quote="DesVegas;989450"]Thank you

For....?
[/quote]

Showing us we are not alone with our passion for pedals

[/quote]

No, you're very much not alone there.

BintyTwanger77

@Skarloey Wise words, yes maybe I've been too hard on myself, but I do think I've been tying myself in knots buying pedals unnecessarily.

BintyTwanger77

@Wazmeister I've read a lot about the Fx8, it looks fairly daunting.

meltedbuzzbox

I think we all go there at one point. 

but you have twigged that the most important thing is to play and thats good :-)

BintyTwanger77

@meltedbuzzbox Yep, it seems blindingly obvious and yet it's so easy to forget that it's all about technique and enjoying playing, not seeing how many different delays you can cram on a Nano +

meltedbuzzbox

its whatever works for you mate.

I just know personally I think you can get more variation in the way you play the guitar with different rhythms and scales/flavours over mushing up noise with a lot of pedals. 

Dont get me wrong though, I love a good pedal :-)

If I still smoked weed I dare say I would have some great sessions dribbling away with copious amounts of delay and flanger

Cabicular

BT
You should enter the monthly competitions for solo of the month riff of the month and raw riff of the month
I find they are a great motivator into producing even a short bit of music
Everyone is very supportive and it's not all about technical ability (well it is for me but I don't win when I do that . )
Nothing like a deadline to get your arse into gear

Winny_Pooh

Just try as many as you can, buy and sell. Then stick with what you like.
Try the basic food groups like: fuzz face, rat, ts9, big muff, guvnor, see what you like & then try the higher class versions later.

frankus

I don't obsess over the details of the pedals I've got, as long as there's enough of a horde that I can strip naked and pretend to be Smaug, laying on them, I don't mind..

that reminds me I've a few I want to sell...

english_bob

frankus said:

I don't obsess over the details of the pedals I've got, as long as there's enough of a horde that I can strip naked and pretend to be Smaug, laying on them, I don't mind..

that reminds me I've a few I want to sell...

I'm not buying them unless you can assure me they've been thoroughly cleaned after your Smaug antics.

BintyTwanger77

I've never tried the naked Smaug test...yet...clearly missing out.

Gassage

No. I've always been a 'no effects; plug into the amp and forget about it' man.

BintyTwanger77

@Gassage That's very easy when you have a lovely Twin Reverb to plug straight into.