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Moustache_Bash wrote:

Baxandall wrote:I remember Buzzo talking about using Boss because he could be anywhere on tour and replace it.

I honestly don't understand how he uses the ODB-3. It always sounds so tinny and scooped when I use it. Boutique vs. Mass aside, that pedal just sounds like shit.

Based on taste, you can probably disregard my post in your other thread because I love the ODB-3!

Haha, different strokes for different folks.

A lot of boutique pedals aren't really that much more than the big 3 Boss, MXR, EHX. Look at the Algal Bloom, one of the most praised fuzzes here for $129 from PGS. Swollen Pickle that's been mentioned in this thread several times, $129 at PGS. Sure there's Behringer, Joyo and some of those others like that that you can get for dirt cheap but there are brands like Strymon, Eventide that cost < $300-$400 and up.

Back when I was younger, all my rig consisted of was a ds-1, a wah and a big muff. Easily the best its sounded, I would so tour with that setup in a heartbeat.

In the $50 used pedal range, you're going to be at the mercy of your local market.

I'd probably just use the reverb in the amp (saving the $50 from that for something else), whatever fuzz I could find for $50 that worked and was mean (the Joyo Voodoo/Ultimate Octave is decent for what it is, I've had one since they were $29), delay I'd just forgo the looper/verb and buy a used Digi TimeBender and say "done for now."

The looper at $50 realistically isn't going to happen, nor is a decent verb. For my uses, I can coax convincing 'plex and Space Echo out of a Timebender plus wacko sounds, and that's important to me more than a verb or looper in that price range.

And yea, the Fender SS stuff has always been serviceable if you were going to use pedals.

Digiverb is a pretty decent verb you can get for cheep cheep

for $50 I mean

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My board is all Boss/MXR/EH except for my White Light (and Pitchblack, but that doesn't really count). I'm on the wrong forum, oops.

I mean...you get what you pay for. I'd rather have one good pedal than ten shitty ones. Not saying that Boss is bad, but you'd never catch me using a fucking Joyo. That shit just creams shit to me.

I buy boooteeek because I like the quality of everything about the pedals.

Touring musicians use cheap pedals because they are cheap asses.

im a snob so i only use expensive and rare pedals cause im so lush and prefer to live a life of luxxxury

unless they magically invent a cheap lovetone meatball ill switch

jwar wrote:
Touring musicians use cheap pedals because they are cheap asses.

Somebody's never been on tour before. Basically, extensive touring is a pretty good way to break all of your equipment. So, if you like something, touring with it is probably not a good plan. Unless you're crazy, or you absolutely have to have that sound. Ain't nothing to do with being cheap.

This, coming from the guy that toured with a board of mostly ILF effects. But, also, on that tour, my amp ate it. So, point still stands.

theavondon wrote:

jwar wrote:
Touring musicians use cheap pedals because they are cheap asses.

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Somebody's never been on tour before. Basically, extensive touring is a pretty good way to break all of your equipment. So, if you like something, touring with it is probably not a good plan. Unless you're crazy, or you absolutely have to have that sound. Ain't nothing to do with being cheap.

This, coming from the guy that toured with a board of mostly ILF effects. But, also, on that tour, my amp ate it. So, point still stands.

Ben does gigs with all his shit, look at his board? What the fuck are you guys doing to your pedals that could destroy them??

I mean, I get that they may get scuffed up and stuff like that, but destroyed? How? Broken how? Are you throwing your board in the air when your mid solo or pouring beer directly onto it? There are rock stars that use boutique stuff that has survived a fuck ton more tours than anyone on this site (no offense meant). I'm just saying, I don't get how it could get fucked so bad.

You're right, I'm not a gigging musician and if I were most band wouldn't want me to bring pedals because I'm a bass player. God forbid I use fuzz...grumble

maybe the shows are at houses/play on the floor spaces, with people drinking. put gear in that environment long enough (3 days to a month+?) and your odds of having an accident go up. I haven't toured though \(-_-)/

maybe they're edge and just bring the mosh \(-_-)/

watchyourscrew wrote:maybe the shows are at houses/play on the floor spaces, with people drinking. put gear in that environment long enough (3 days to a month+?) and your odds of having an accident go up. I haven't toured though \(-_-)/

Yeah, it's basically this. Weeks upon weeks of this. I gig three times a week locally with all of my expensive shit, and everything is fine. But, tour, I leave anything over $150 at home.