Your KEEPER pedals!

[modernage]

I've whittled down my pedals to just a handful that I use all the time. Most of those pedals are "keeper pedals"......
Whetstone
Geiger Counter
El Capistan
BYOC Rat
Timmy

[J-Fuzz]

NG-2
TAFM
That's Echo Folks
Meatball
Rat
Lo-Fi Loop Junky
TBD

In all fairness, I've only ever gotten rid of two pedals: a fuzz war and a visual sound double trouble. So I guess the rest of the lot are all keepers considering I see no need in selling them.

[cloudscapes]

PDS-8000. I will always have a PDS delay on my board. I love em too much!

micro pog. I'll only replace it if a smaller one comes along.

[Gone Fission]

My big-box Rat RI is a keeper, though maybe not in absolute terms. I could sell it, I guess, but I would need to have another Rat that's at least as good. I'm hooked on the things it's great at, and there is so much else it's good at that I will always want one around. (I'm so boring -- I say Rat every time one of these threads comes around.

Even if I get a better, fancier, gives-me-massages-with-happy-endings flanger, I'm keeping my Guyatone FL-3 Micro Flanger. It sounds great, is flexible, and is tiny enough to squeeze in for another choice on hand.

I fear being premature in saying my recently purchased Yamaha Magicstomp, but I figure that no matter what other gear I add, there will always be some use for it (some algorithm, some place in a set up it fits, whatever) that makes it worth holding on to it.

[theactionindex]

TAFM
Singing Tree
Lunar Echo
Holiest Grail
TGD

I'm sure there's more pedals that when absolutely forced to, I wouldn't be able to part with them, but off the top of my head, these are an automatic "fuck no" when it comes to selling them.

[adrianlee]

DMM. Big Spider. Headrush e2.

The last two hold sentimental value. DMM just sounds beautiful.

[theavondon]

Creepy Fingers Tone Machine, because I'll never be able to afford anything CF ever again, and I use it much too often anyhow.

MAMMOTHsound MAMMOTHboost, because I'm fairly certain that dude doesn't make pedals anymore, and I have no fucking clue what it actually is, except that it has a submini Russian tube inside. And, it pushes my Sunn into the gnarliest, doomiest fuzzy tone that I just can't recreate. It's like getting the growl and hard edge from a SS Sunn but with this huge tube feel.

Everything else falls well under the "never say never" rule.

[laterallateral]

DCD Internet + Truly Beautiful Disaster in guitar rig

RAT in bass rig

The rest changes around fairly often but these guys might as well be screwed to my boards.

[Haki]

Fuck OD
Hugged UP!
Lunar Echo
Skinbender MK I

[sevenSHARPnine]

Algal Bloom
Arc Flash
Singing Tree
the various incarnations of Wolf Computers I have
CE-2
Small Clone
Singing Tree
Singing Tree

I'll also never sell my Singing Tree

[Nychthemeron]

Well, for me there's a few pedals, but if I had to whittle it down to one pedal I'd never part with...

Sonic Crayon Vibrato.

E, I've said it a thousand times, but you make a damn good pedal. It's simple with three controls, it's responsive to what you play, and the speed and depth interplay with each other, so you can have a slow, subtle bend, or a huge, seasick wave. Plus it does darken the sound a bit, which is what I like to play with.

[univalve]

I see no need in selling them.

+1
does a painter sell colours he doesn't use (currently)?

[Bassus Sanguinis]

I see no need in selling them.

+1
does a painter sell colours he doesn't use (currently)?

no, unless he's broke. ...but I agree.

[Abanoise]

'80s small box Rat
DOD Buzz Box
original Fender Blender
Dwarfcraft Shiva
Mountainking Megalith

[fetch]

RAT+PS3

Had em for almost a decade.