Big Pedals or Little Pedals?!

[letsgocoyote]

Sometimes it seems like you should just rack up four mxr sized effects on a PT nano and let rip... But then sometimes it feels like you should be caught up in a mess of coilies stitchin together some real landmines like deluxe memory dudes and Dallas arbiters and just going full skirt about the matter

How does one deal with this duality? Is this just one of natures eternal quandaries?

[Inconuucl]

I only like bigger pedals if they have the feature set to match. I'm not going to spend half my board harboring a standard big muff because if has "big box mojo."

[neonblack]

I want a bazz fuss in a big muff enclosure.

[Dandolin]

I only like bigger pedals if they have the feature set to match. I'm not going to spend half my board harboring a standard big muff because if has "big box mojo."

Not even if that big box could be harboring tone Smurfs? Like a whole village worth?

I like huge pedals for when I'm doing a gig that calls for fewer, relatively simpler or at least more retro fx. I gave up on having a do-all board long ago. I like pedals to be smaller within reason when I'm trying to do complicated stuff with routing and I'm doing a lot of automating.

So basically I guess it's not much different than: fickle/as the mood strikes me.

I have been known to annoy bandmates with my gear fickleness. I look at it as keeping the creative juices flowing through resolving standard musical situations with novel means--I like to McGyver the chorus....

They look at it as laying waste to all their well-laid, well-rehearsed plans. I'm annoying I'm sure. But I like the flex most in bandmates *and* gigs. AFAIC, if ya ain't gonna fly by the seat of your pants, why play live at all. But then again, I don't really play the most tooth-grindingly complex music....

So I guess I'm saying size doesn't matter so much; it's the motion of the ocean.

[kbit]

Im looking at doing a custom build soon and I want it in a giant enclosure because fuck it man, it looks dope. Also three footswitches need space.

[letsgocoyote]

[Monarch]

Enormously big pedals.

[Zeus]

Bigger is always better!

I have no idea how people who have tons of small pedals don't constantly hit everything at once by accident. Maybe I just have clumsy feet but it's the last thing I'd want to worry about in the middle of a song.

[PeteeBee]

I don't really care about the size but I think pedals look better all together tight, which does make them way harder to stomp when they're tiny. I am considering making a little looper to put bottom row so I don't have to think about it. Only trick is I can't figure out how to make it do what I want without going full on gig-rig, and I definitely don't want or need that.

[SoaringTortoise]

Having been raised in the absence of technology there is no duality, just big boxes. Big rusty boxes with three knobs or less and dried up leaky battery goo inside.

[The_Active_Conundrum]

Holy shit! perfect!


I <3 BIG pedals. I have two pedal boards for a reason. GOT to take up that real estate. I've always wanted a biggermuff....where it has same relative proportions but 18 inches long ....make it dwarf all other muffs.

I want a pedal that takes up a whole board and only has like 3-5 knobs on it. Huge knobs of course.

[UglyCasanova]

Got to love them all, big and small!



That Incinerator though...

[Eivind August]

Big pedals, loads of knobs, a thousand switches. Only then can I chase the gods of oscillation through time and space.

[onyxrhino]

I prefer big pedals aesthetically.

[Jwar]

I honestly could care less. If the sound is big, it deserves big regardless of the actual circuit size IMO.

I hate 1590a pedals though and won't buy them. That's too small.