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A better way of putting it would be that technique is all and that good tone is in the fingers, so if you have that, you can sound good without high-end pedals...but what's wrong with having both?
When I practise, a good chunk of the time is spent playing straight into the amp. But there's nothing wrong with adding some high-end pedals if you are happy to pay for them.
If they cost a lot then so be it, there's anything wrong with that.
I think some people have trouble justifying buying expensive gear if they're not gigging or recording.
It's quite fun finding out though.
It's also worth pointing out that being anti-rip-off-pedals is quite different from being anti-pedals entirely. And that being anti-rip-off-pedals is not the same thing as being anti-all-expensive-pedals.
I remember a good while back on TGP one of the UG forum regulars posted in a thread about goop, where he listed the pedals where goop had been used to hide original circuits versus the pedals where goop had been used to hide cloning. It was a little facetious, and I suspect there are a few more examples of where goop was used to hide originality, but I think the gist of his argument was fundamentally sound- in the "Hiding originality" section he had: Klon Centaur. Needless to say, the other column wasn't anywhere near as short.
Ironically enough its often the high-end digital pedals that are both original and actually impossible to find a cheap alternative for.
Personally I am a believer in "spend no more than you need to". For distortions, that maxes out at about £50 for me. For tremolo, its a lot, lot more. YMMV.
I don't have a huge pedalboard but I do have some pedals on there that probably qualify as 'high end' (Cornish) as well as 'budget' (Mooer). I'll try anything that's built well and sounds good and if I have the cash I have a wider choice. But I've turned up for shows with my gear and have been pretty much ridiculed by the blues purists...Obviously at the end of the night the Squiers and Blackstars are loaded into the various Mercedes' & BMW's.
I simply don't want to spend that much on a single pedal.
I only abide digital for delay and reverb effects.
Wampler stuff is really meh.
Effects for Me & my Monkey YouTube channel Facebook Fretboard's "resident pedal supremo" - mgaw
I've got an amazing digital chorus/phaser pedal that Ibanez made. It's not classic sounding but has some excellent, truly bit crushing sounds that make your guitar sound like a tuned set of springs.
Writing off all digital beyond delay and reverb seems a little short sighted. Surely best to judge each effect on its merits/usefulness?
I've yet to encounter a digital dirt or modulation pedal that sounds better than analogue, so I stick to analogue pedals for those types of effects.
I have a small digital multi-fx unit (not an H9) but that's only for practical purposes to achieve more unusual effects that I don't have dedicated stand-alone pedals for.
Effects for Me & my Monkey YouTube channel Facebook Fretboard's "resident pedal supremo" - mgaw
I've always been a fairly minimalistic player, have only just added a delay to my board after about 8 years of just having my amp dry all the time!
Let's just reject these bullshit concepts of purity, and just ask if it sound good.
Why? Mainly insecurity, I suspect. Deep down there's just this little nagging doubt that they may be wrong. And because they are the kind of people who need certainty, that makes them very uncomfortable. The threatening notion that someone who disagrees with them may be right has to be squashed, very aggressively if necessary.
And unfortunately message boards where people share opinions will always tend to attract more than it's fair share of these types.
There's probably a decent case to be made that high end pedals don't represent value for money, the first and obvious piece of evidence being the number of superlative players who are happy with run of the mill brands (although it's equally true to say many great players are high-end pedal junkies). i somewhat tend to that view myself, but I'm not going to turn evangelical about it. If you think it's worth paying extra for high end, it's your prerogative. And you may even be right.