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aholidayatthesea wrote:I've got some extra pedals that I've been using to play sometimes so I don't have to bring my whole board. Started as a way to use less pedals. Now it's becoming an excuse to buy more extra pedals.

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These days, I think I could strip down to a tuner, Wave Cannon and Kilobyte and be more than fine.

With a clean amp, I'd need two dirts, a chorus, flanger, and delay.
With a dirty amp, I need a decent guitar and a flanger.
Bass is light dirt and a compressor.

WayToHip wrote:With a clean amp, I'd need two dirts, a chorus, flanger, and delay.
With a dirty amp, I need a decent guitar and a flanger.
Bass is light dirt and a compressor.

Why does the dirty amp make make up for no chorus/delay?

Honestly dude, my chain is basically GTR > mtl.asm Your and You're > Fuck overdrive > amp. Sometimes I'll throw in some weirder pedals, but everything else I can pretty much do in the box with a few button presses, My favorite dirt is even all digital now (shout out to the Unfiltered Audio Indent!)

i find it really dependent on the project or application. in my last sort of proper band i just let the madness consume me and used like 20-ish pedals and it never felt like too much.
right now i max out at 3 (dirge compressor > '86 rat > sometimes verb or flanger > amp). (the amp has to be totally clean and solid state or i will throw a tantrum though)
there have also been projects that didn't come to fruition where i was playing like a shitty guitar > cranked elements > tuner > marshall halfstack for example and the set up felt very complete.
i have to say, after you've experienced having/using/lugging around a shit-ton of gear, there's something very calming about being able to get by with a very minimal set up

I think the issue is that we were a two piece doing more improvised noise oriented stuff with heavy parts and now we're a band with structure and songs, and I'm so used to just throwing effects at a part to make it work. What I'm playing now is both more technical and more straightforward if that makes sense, and dealing with a ton of pedals is just a hassle.

I think Waltdog and I are in the same headspace on this.

Once I get my new head that will have good gain dirt I technically won't 'need' any pedals but I like having options of varying intensity dirts because I have no set definition of perfect tone. Plus my main band is space rock and we incorporate all sorts of space noises so I like pushing the limits of my roll as a bassist. It's cool when peoples' minds are blown when they realize half those crazy sounds are coming from me

Harmonic Percolator
Pretty Years
Thomas/Vox Wah
EHX PolyFlange/PolyChorus/Echoflanger
EHX DMM

With those 5 special boxes I can adapt to most any borrowed rig imaginable and find my own noisy boy aesthetic

I never success writing actual songs with more than dirt (1-2), reverb, sometimes delay. Currently I have extras option s of these things on my board as a new project gets going, but I'll definitely strip down to just tuner, two dirt pedals, a reverb, and a delay pedal once we get a set together. For me and "my sound" anything more gets old and inevitably feels out of place.

Depends on the band/project:
But with my main rocknroll band I could do a gig with a Rat and a delay which could oscillate. And a tuner. Would miss reverb and trenger on some parts, but in a worst case scenario (my pedalboard is missing) I could still do a gig with said pedals.

I have been trying to use less with the band over the years. The last show I played was EGC > RE501 > JMP, with tuner on top of the amp and only the echo footswitch on the floor. Worked great, used the RE501 with the input cranked for gain, set the neck pickup lower on the volume and switched pickups for slight/heavy dirtiness. New band may end up going EGC > EP3 > JMP. Master volume mod on the amp so I can crank the preamp tubes a bit, sounds a lot better after trying a dozen different tubes in V1 to start, now working on V2/3, but it will always sound much better with volume too. Pedalwise, I could not function without a looper in my life, even if not using in a band context. My board hasn't been put together in 2 years and nothing wants to Tetris on there properly now, yet don't want to spend the money on a new board or proper power supply because ultimately I want to use less. I feel like I could replapse any minute.

Think I've said this several times over the years, but I could strip down to LAL 88 > Raptio > AD-9, and still do almost everything I generally do. I have a pretty stripped down setup to begin with, though. I like having another oscillating fuzz besides the 88 on the board, for added variety and for running other stuff into. I also have the Goodbye 24 on the board, but use it seldomly, mostly for spaced out pitch stuff that is more like extra spice than actually adding to the music I make. I currently use the AD4096 on the board instead of the AD-9, because of the ease of momentary oscillation, but I guess I could get the AD-9 modded to do that as well.

After getting off on the wrong foot with the Box of Rock, I find I can use it and it alone (into a clean amp) and get a full range of sounds I want, particularly with a two-humbucker/four-knob guitar. I do miss the fuzz for more extreme sounds but in terms of bare necessities, that's enough at the minute.

I realized sometime late last year that if I'm playing guitar or bass, I'm going to be playing some shitty screamo/hardcore. I realized playing bass live that basically no effects actually carry over well on a bass except for the Ct5, but I don't have many uses for that. Might think about swapping out the PS-3 for a Phaser or something, but maybe I should find people to play with first.

Now my guitar set up is:

Melx Fuzz 2 -> PS-3 -> RV-3 -> R.Attack -> In Limbo II -> Tuner

Bass is:

Unknown Muff variant or something (haven't gotten this far) -> Tuner