Favourite Pedal Manufacturers? 3 Max!

kjdowd · March 2016

Obviously this is of purely historic interest to me now, immersed as I am in the world of modellers and multi-fx. But if I ever were to buy another pedal, I believe I could just about get by with pedals from only the following (in fact, I'd go further and say I like pretty much every pedal they have ever produced):

Lovepedal

Analogman

Free The Tone

@Thorpyfx might knock one of them off as the range increases.

What would your choices be if you could have pedals from max 3 manufacturers and no others.

@Gassage - I think I could probably guess at least one of yours...

shady · March 2016

At my level of playing and what I'm happy with on my board right now I'd have to go Boss, EHX and Ibanez. Plenty of range for wierdness and noise at sensible prices.

John_P · March 2016

Putting fractal to one side ;-)

1 Boss - I have a board of early 80s boss pedals.

2 Ibanez - if I was making a new board I'd love another cs9 ch and try the new mini ts but I'm not sure I've found an ibanez higher gain pedal I liked.

3 Either Free the tone or Analogman, I could make a very nice board sticking to either one.

mgaw · March 2016

Kingsley

VL Effects

Trombetta

think they are all fantastic at what they do...Thorpy FX just pipped as i find the others seem to suit my bluesy style a little better and PTD stuff is just unique

Drew_TNBD · March 2016

Boss
Digitech
MXR

Everyone else sucks, especially the smaller boutique companies.

Jaded · March 2016

Boss

MXR - cheating a little bit with that as by extension you'd have access to the Dunlop stuff.

Electro-Harmonix

If I can't get everything I need from those 3 then it's probably not needed. I'd probably miss some of the other brands I have on my board but I'd be able to get more than close enough.

KKJale · March 2016

I'd quite fancy a supermarket trolley dash around the warehouses of...

Catalinbread (I've got two)

Wampler (they do a nice mix, another one-brand-if-you-had-to company)

Then it gets tricky... I couldn't quite make a board out of MXR/Boss that I'd be happy with. Maybe Mad Professor... if Basic Audio did verb/delay, I'd be tempted. I'd miss my Trombetta and Tremulator, but hey ho.