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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

DMM. Big Spider. Headrush e2.

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

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.

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.

Fuck OD
Hugged UP!
Lunar Echo
Skinbender MK I

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

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.

J-Fuzz wrote:I see no need in selling them.

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

univalve wrote:

J-Fuzz wrote: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.

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

RAT+PS3

Had em for almost a decade.