Bands you love that have "tame" pedalboards

[dub]

a boost and an octave fuzz are pretty much all you ever need,...


the vines? fuuuuck....

[theavondon]

I was showing this girl The Vines first two albums and she asked what pedals Craig used. I laughed and said a Boss Metal Zone. I thought about how most bands I listen to keep a heavy or at least "ILF Worthy" pedalboard. And I found it funny that The Vines studio work has a lot of layering/effects but live he just has a metalzone for distortion and maybe another boss modulation pedal.

Now obviously any pedal can be used to create a proper sound...

What are some bands you love but were surprised they had such a simple or maybe even sub par board/rig?

wwwwwaaaaaaaait wait wait wait.......you know a girl that asked about pedals??????

Yeah, hold on here. No way!

[raginreggie]

One of my friend's band Sydonia has an amazing studio sound, but live the guitarists use Bugera heads with crappy ebay cabs and cheap-arse Behringer multi effects
As a bit of a pedal snob, this disgusts me, but they are still able to produce a very decent live sound, I just have to force myself not to look at the gear

[Jero]

The Ventures

[futuresailors]

The Ventures

[Big Mon]

Tony Iommi: Treble booster>Laney
Thurston Moore: Sovtek Muff,Rat,Maestro Wah,Phase 90,t.c. electronics chorus/flange
Cream-era Clapton: Tobne knob rolled back on a Les Paul or SG>Marshall

[Gearmond]

i'm pretty sure Nicole of mr. Gnome just uses a boss OS-2, distortion, and something i forgot, and two loopers (i'd discount them)

Sonny Sharrock was mostly straight up amp toenz if i remember.

Townshend just rocked the superfuzz for the majority of the 70's, and even recently basically just used a dynacomp and an OD-1.

GBV was straight up amp toenz when i saw 'em in oberlin.

[Companda]

I don't believe Victor Villarreal (Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Ghosts and Vodka, Noyes) or Sam Zurick (Joan of Arc, Make Believe) used any effects, with the possible exception to an overdrive/distortion.

[Ghost Hip]

I suppose this band could also be about bands you love that don't use any fuzz or effects at all. I love Noah and the Whale and early Violent Femmes.

I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure Jawbreaker has a simple set up.

wwwwwaaaaaaaait wait wait wait.......you know a girl that asked about pedals??????

Yes.

[theavondon]

I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure Jawbreaker has a simple set up.

Pretty sure it was mostly JCM 800.

[Bellyheart]

When I saw Lightning Bolt Gibson had a Boss Blues Driver (for the record I think it's amazing), Boss Overdrive, and Boss ODB-3 and a Whammy 4.

[adrianlee]

fugazi

HELLLOOOOOO.

Distortion +

Not sure what else.

[Ghost Hip]

When I saw Lightning Bolt Gibson had a Boss Blues Driver (for the record I think it's amazing), Boss Overdrive, and Boss ODB-3 and a Whammy 4.

One band I played with called The Templetons used a Blues Driver and borrowed my amp for a show... made me take my amp home and tweak with it to get the huge fat sludgey fuzz they got out of it.

[Derelict78]

my guitarist uses a blues driver sounds rad pushing tubes

[mauerkraut]

fugazi

+1!!!!!

Never have seen more than a Distortion + on stage. And the old Korg plug in tuners with pitch pipe option. I've read in studio though they used any and everything they could get their hands on.