One trick ponies

[Errant Tiger]

Well, not exactly. I'm thinking of pedals with multiple settings/features that you keep around only (or mostly) for one particular one. Examples from my own board:

Obscura: reverse delay
Canyon': shimmer
Mel9: flute (and strings, I guess)
Mercury 7: pitch down
Arion AD-10: I pretty much only keep it on the board because it sounds rad when I tweak the rate knob back and forth while feeding back.

IMHO, these are all great pedals (thought I just flipped the M7), and I guess there's nothing WRONG with having a bunch of settings I never use - it's not like they take up any more space - but I have this weird efficiency thing that kicks in every so often. And also I keep wondering if there's SOMETHING ELSE that can do THAT only with more settings I use.

Does anyone else get like this'?

[Schlatte]

Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

[Errant Tiger]

Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

Same here - and because I much prefer my Phase 95, I don't keep the Boss on the board, which means I never even use it for that. See my post on B/S/T for details

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh I have the 'I could be more efficient' impulse all the time. I try to fight it but I've sold a bunch of things over the years for this exact reason. I don't think I currently have anything around that I feel that way about because I've felt guilty and sold them all

[Schlatte]

Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

Same here - and because I much prefer my Phase 95, I don't keep the Boss on the board, which means I never even use it for that. See my post on B/S/T for details

oh well, I just got a Digitech Hyperphase for ultra cheap on the local classifieds to get some more stepped phaser sounds going. Maybe next time

[whoismarykelly]

I use multiple Boss PS5s for the trem arm and flutter effects. No standard pitch shifting whatsoever.

[ognoy]

I use my RV-3 for reverb only. Does that count?

[UglyCasanova]

Other than fuzz, I guess my BitQuest is the closest I get as it stays in the reverb mode about 90% of the time. It's been my main reverb forever and will probably stay that way. It just works for me.

[goroth]

You know who else just works for me?

[friendship]

[coldbrightsunlight]

Woooooooooooooo

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

Maybe it's a career injury, having worked as a UNIX programmer, but I prefer my pedals to do one thing, and do it well. E.g. if there were a Boss PS-3 mode 7 pedal, I would greatly prefer that to the PS-3. I like having extreme options though, so if I had a pedal that did Digitech Digiverb's gated mode only, but with an extremely long decay or whatever, that would be more interesting to me than the Digiverb.

[frigid midget]

Most of the stuff on my board is kinda 'set and forget', but of the top of my head the ones that I hardly ever use in more than one way:

DE-7: A drony infinite controlled oscillation setting.
FZ-2: aside from a tiny bit of tone tweaking when I switch gtr/amp, it just lives with the gain cranked in mode 2.
Dod Octaplus: carefully dialed in so that it adds enough noticable low octave without making the lousy tracking too annoying.

A couple ones I used to have, and sold because they were one trick ponies, dispite the fact that those tricks were awesome and unique:
PS-3 for mode 7, and DD-5 for the reverse mode. Also: Crowther Hotcake. it shines at mid and low gain settings, but gets muddy as hell with the gain past 1 o' clock.

[frigid midget]

Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

Same here - and because I much prefer my Phase 95, I don't keep the Boss on the board, which means I never even use it for that. See my post on B/S/T for details

oh well, I just got a Digitech Hyperphase for ultra cheap on the local classifieds to get some more stepped phaser sounds going. Maybe next time

Sorry to derail the thread here for a minute, I just had to ask, cause I'm torn between a PH-3 (purely for the step mode) and a phase 90 or 95 (lush and chewy at low speeds).

I'm guessing the Hyper Phase won't do a stellar job mimmikcing phase 90 tones? My board space and budget won't allow 2 phasers on my board, and it'd also be overkill for an effect I don't use constantly.

Also, anyone tried a step phaser effect inti the fx loop of a delay pedal? In my head it sounds sick, but I can't seem to find any good clips to confirm it

Cheers.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Never actually had a phase 90 but no while it sounds pretty nice, I don't really think it nails that sound from what I've heard from other people using phase 90s. depends how picky you are haha