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What's a pedal that's on your board that you don't *need* in any way shape or form but it makes the world a better place knowing it's on your board?

Please avoid discussing the terms "essential", "need" etc because fuck that.

Raptio. Totally don't need it for writing. But I use it a ton to make riffs glitch and weird. If I flipped it tomorrow my songs wouldn't suffer, but damn I love it.

BYOC 5 knob compressor, I barely even use it and I don't reeeeally notice if it's on or off

But it's mainly there for sentimental value, it was the first "real" pedal I built, plus my girlfriend painted the enclosure for me when we first started dating over three years ago.


I tried having it off my board, but it just didn't feel right

DBA Reverberation Machine, I always need super saturated reverb with regular reverb.

Micro Pog and Micro Qtron.

This is making me think of crappy pedals that I'm keeping around but after reading all the responses, mine is probably Organizer. Sometimes I have to play a bit differently to get it to work. I like the octaves and the lag pretty high up so its fairly present and I have to work with it. It's definitely something I could do without but I like it

Anything that isn't my Black Forest.

I haven't taken my wah pedal out of the pedal box in probably years now, but I can't see myself getting rid of it. A wah seems like a thing a guitarist should always have, just in case.

friendship wrote:I haven't taken my wah pedal out of the pedal box in probably years now, but I can't see myself getting rid of it. A wah seems like a thing a guitarist should always have, just in case.

Get that thing out and play it dude. Wah pedals are fucking awesome. They are my 2nd favorite pedal. Fuzz is no 1 of course.

KaosCill8r wrote:

friendship wrote:I haven't taken my wah pedal out of the pedal box in probably years now, but I can't see myself getting rid of it. A wah seems like a thing a guitarist should always have, just in case.

Get that thing out and play it dude. Wah pedals are fucking awesome. They are my 2nd favorite pedal. Fuzz is no 1 of course.

Right? I need to revisit it, when it was regular on my board it was mostly for 70s funk, wock-a-choo shit. These days I would probably use it as a stationary filter.

that moment when you realize you don't have any unessential pedals on your board cause it's so small...

weed_killer wrote:that moment when you realize you don't have any unessential pedals on your board cause it's so small...

That's how I'm living. 3 dirts only. They're all essential. But they all do the same thing too.

neonblack wrote:Raptio. Totally don't need it for writing. But I use it a ton to make riffs glitch and weird. If I flipped it tomorrow my songs wouldn't suffer, but damn I love it.

Yes. I don't see it as unessential, though.

Goodbye 24
I don't "need" it there, it's mostly for atmospherics that I could technically do without, but by god I'll cut you if you try to remove it. I get more "what's that awesome sound?" comments from that pedal than any other.

Blowing Up is my utility pedal.