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

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Considering the stereo chain, good god.

And the multifx. Good god.

4-5 is typical.

But ...says it all to eb honest.....

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1 to 4. (3 is my best number).
Normaly less is the best for me, but some sound need up to 4.
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Yeah, I think 3 seems best for me too.

Sometimes it can be anywhere from 2-5. I usually have to be wanting some kinda crazy sound to be using any more than 5.
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Digging the Mr. Yuck sticker scrambler, we have literally thousands of those stickers stockpiled at my office
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Scrambler needed that to make it complete, I think every ugly octave fuzz should have a warning on it.
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Adoom wrote:Wicked. Very wicked.

I want to get a Sleepdrone or something to use the board as an instrument. Loops are cool for that, but more... you know. Stuff.


me too. i have a feeling i could get to like the Pulsemonger very much.
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I feel like a bitch, but like...one. Two tops. Three of its the end if that song and I stepped on the tuner.
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Two or three average. Between one to five though realistically.

A dirt, maybe another dirt, maybe boost, a modulation or delay, or both, reverb. Some combination of those.
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theavondon wrote:I feel like a bitch, but like...one. Two tops. Three of its the end if that song and I stepped on the tuner.



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I do have a song with an outro where all I do is leave on an oscillating fuzz and turn on/off other pedals and fuck with the guitar's volume knob in rhythm with the song. No actual playing but it drives that whole part of the song.
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At any given time? One.

More than often up to four, when playing the bass but if I'm doing pedalcore, it's not stopping there.
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Pretty much always just one at a time these days...sometimes adding a wah to that one.
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Never less than one, rarely more 3. Always something to push the input of my amp, and I usually have some nice thick reverb mixed in as well. Sometimes I kick on the Malekko Vibrato to shake things up. When I'm feeling crazy, I use a compressor, the POG2 and the Malekko to simulate a Mellotron.
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I usually keep a reverb on at all times and mess with the depth with my foot. About half of the time, I use my amp's overdrive, but not much. And about half the time, I use some type of mod. And then some others here or there. No more than four unless I'm having fun :D
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