What should I do with all these goddamn pedals?

[Quiet Things]

And before you smartasses chime in, no I will not give them to you guys.

This post is inspired by two things:

A) Starting May 30th, I'll be house-sitting for a friend for about a week, and I'm taking all my pedals and junk over there to fuck around with/keep me occupied.

B) My band is currently in a state of torpor; we've added a couple people and we're fiddling with our genre compass and basically have no idea what the fuck we're doing, so my pedal board is not required to be in any particular state.

Perfect time to rearrange, right? Right.

I love rearranging my board, it's a very zen thing for me. But I thought I'd change up the format this time, and relinquish control to ya'll. The idea is to let other people come up with setups I may not otherwise think of, and hopefully there will be happy accidents abound!

There really aren't any 'rules', persay. I generally prefer larger boards, but that in no way means I'm against something smaller and less complicated.

Hopefully this idea isn't a huge flop and I don't end up feeling like an idiot. Without further ado, the ~list~:

Fuzz/Distortion

Boss DS-1
DOD Death Metal
DOD Tube
DOD Supra
DOD Hard Rock
EHX Black Box Big Muff
Way Huge Swollen Pickle MKII
Zvex Fuzz Factory

Modulation/Delay/Etc

Boss PS-3
EQD Rainbow Machine
EHX Memory Boy
Freakshow Effects Digilog Delay
MXR Carbon Copy
EQD Dispatch Master
EHX Freeze
TC Electronics Ditto
DOD EQ

Utility Pedals

Morley ABC
Pigtronix Keymaster
Digitech Metal Master (I hate this pedal as an effect, but I've used it as a signal splitter a million times, since it has two outs.)

I think that's everything I have available to me, though I'll have to run by the space and see if there's anything else laying around.

Anything ya'll post, I'll try. I'm hoping I get a decent amount of suggestions, cause I think this is a great way to try new things I wouldn't think of otherwise.

[OddKnowledge]

Ok, I've given it some thought and here is what i would do

TC Electronics Ditto<-- EHX Freeze<-- EQD Dispatch Master<-- EQD Rainbow Machine<-- EHX Memory Boy<-- Zvex Fuzz Factory<-- Boss PS-3<-- MXR Carbon Copy<-- DOD Tube<-- Big Muff (or Swollen Pickle)

[01010111]

I think I would do this: freeze>hard rock>fuzz factory>ps3>carbon copy>(either the swollen pickle or the black big muff)>memory boy>digilog>ditto

[dubkitty]

just for the screaming fuck of it:

probably the PS-3 first because pitch shifters are fussy
DS-1 (or Death Metal if You Really Want to Hurt Me)
Black Muff
Fuzz Factory
(Freeze could go here)
one of the delays
Rainbow Machine ("less magic, please"--Just Nick)
Dispatch Master
(or Freeze could go here)
another delay
Ditto.

if i was going to use the EQ i'd put it after the looper so you could do extreme MBV/Boards of Canada EQ squishing on the loops. and if you want to get complicated like i'd do, use the Keymaster to run the looper + EQ on a separate channel so you can Kev the fuck out of the loop and play over it with normal EQ. i like having longer delay times on delays later in the chain because you can get all kinds of weird rhythm permutations with a short delay time into a longer time.

[D.o.S.]

And before you smartasses chime in, no I will not give them to you guys.

how did you know?

[devideva]

i'll sell you my friend's ass for a couple of them, you pay shipping.
his ass, almost mint condition, let me know. i'll send him parcel post
I think at his weight it's a whole palette, so expensive yes, but once you receive him
do whatever you like, just don't kill him.

[dubkitty]

ask if his life is an open book; if the answer is "yes," send him Book Rate.

[Mudfuzz]

Boss DS-1
Boss PS-3
DOD Death Metal
EHX Memory Boy
DOD Tube
Freakshow Effects Digilog Delay
DOD Supra
MXR Carbon Copy
DOD Hard Rock
EHX Freeze
EHX Black Box Big Muff
TC Electronics Ditto
Way Huge Swollen Pickle MKII
EQD Rainbow Machine
Zvex Fuzz Factory
DOD EQ

[kbit]

PS-3 -> Dispatch Master -> Swollen Pickle-> Freeze -> Fuzz Factory -> Rainbow Machine -> Digilog -> Carbon Copy -> Ditto -> EQ

Drone. Process. Manipulate. Solace.