How many effects to you generally have on at any given time?

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How many effects to you generally have on at any given time?

Post by Chankgeez »

Not looking for which specific effects they usually are.

Although, you're more than welcome to share that info & anything else you wanna say.

I'm just interested in terms of sheer numbers.

I would say "three" would be the number of my pedals frequently on at the same time.
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I usually have a maximum of 3-4, but my pedalboard is going to be a lot bigger soon, so who knows
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depends on song.. 1-5 a lot of the time.. I have a recording I'm putting out soon though where the bass sound is everything on my board on..
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Re: How many effects to you generally have on at any given t

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it's not uncommon for me to have on a boost, overdrive, fuzz, three reverbs, two delays, and a chorus at once. usually it's 2-5 pedals.
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Between 1 and 4.
Mostly OD,Fuzz, Wah and Delay.
I leave my OD on all the time though.
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Almost always 2, 3 or 4
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3 almost always. 2 are always on with the 3rd one being different depeding on what I'm doing but still on. Generally it never gets higher then 4 or 5 though.
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2-6
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Pretty much always at least two or three, up to like six or more I guess.
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i have two pedals always on, and often have four going. the most pedals i had going was eight, the feedback was barely controllable oscilations. it RAWKED Brah.
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Re: How many effects to you generally have on at any given t

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4-7 for my "rhythm tone" , and 1-4 for... like.. everything else.... but I've got a few things coming in, so we'll see.
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usually two. 3 at most. i only play with smaller boards though.
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Sometimes all of them (6 on this newer board) for a wash of sound, but usually 3-4 at most (chorus vibrato+phaser+tremolo+delay).
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Fuzz almost always on, I've take to cleaning up with my volume knob. But it can be anywhere from one to four effects on with the wah included now. Usually if the wah is on I'll leave the flanger off, though, just so it doesn't get too noisy.
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Re: How many effects to you generally have on at any given t

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Almost always at least 5: Boost, two fuzzes, delay and verb.
When I'm playing something clean: two delays, verb, a couple mod pedals (ring mod, phase, etc.)
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