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Well, not exactly. I'm thinking of pedals with multiple settings/features that you keep around only (or mostly) for one particular one. Examples from my own board:

Obscura: reverse delay
Canyon': shimmer
Mel9: flute (and strings, I guess)
Mercury 7: pitch down
Arion AD-10: I pretty much only keep it on the board because it sounds rad when I tweak the rate knob back and forth while feeding back.

IMHO, these are all great pedals (thought I just flipped the M7), and I guess there's nothing WRONG with having a bunch of settings I never use - it's not like they take up any more space - but I have this weird efficiency thing that kicks in every so often. And also I keep wondering if there's SOMETHING ELSE that can do THAT only with more settings I use.

Does anyone else get like this'?

Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

Schlatte wrote:Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

Same here - and because I much prefer my Phase 95, I don't keep the Boss on the board, which means I never even use it for that. See my post on B/S/T for details

Oh I have the 'I could be more efficient' impulse all the time. I try to fight it but I've sold a bunch of things over the years for this exact reason. I don't think I currently have anything around that I feel that way about because I've felt guilty and sold them all

Errant Tiger wrote:

Schlatte wrote:Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

Same here - and because I much prefer my Phase 95, I don't keep the Boss on the board, which means I never even use it for that. See my post on B/S/T for details

oh well, I just got a Digitech Hyperphase for ultra cheap on the local classifieds to get some more stepped phaser sounds going. Maybe next time

I use multiple Boss PS5s for the trem arm and flutter effects. No standard pitch shifting whatsoever.

I use my RV-3 for reverb only. Does that count?

Other than fuzz, I guess my BitQuest is the closest I get as it stays in the reverb mode about 90% of the time. It's been my main reverb forever and will probably stay that way. It just works for me.

You know who else just works for me?

Woooooooooooooo

Maybe it's a career injury, having worked as a UNIX programmer, but I prefer my pedals to do one thing, and do it well. E.g. if there were a Boss PS-3 mode 7 pedal, I would greatly prefer that to the PS-3. I like having extreme options though, so if I had a pedal that did Digitech Digiverb's gated mode only, but with an extremely long decay or whatever, that would be more interesting to me than the Digiverb.

Most of the stuff on my board is kinda 'set and forget', but of the top of my head the ones that I hardly ever use in more than one way:

DE-7: A drony infinite controlled oscillation setting.
FZ-2: aside from a tiny bit of tone tweaking when I switch gtr/amp, it just lives with the gain cranked in mode 2.
Dod Octaplus: carefully dialed in so that it adds enough noticable low octave without making the lousy tracking too annoying.

A couple ones I used to have, and sold because they were one trick ponies, dispite the fact that those tricks were awesome and unique:
PS-3 for mode 7, and DD-5 for the reverse mode. Also: Crowther Hotcake. it shines at mid and low gain settings, but gets muddy as hell with the gain past 1 o' clock.

Schlatte wrote:

Errant Tiger wrote:

Schlatte wrote:Boss PH-3 exclusively for stepped phasing, I don't care for the other functions.

Same here - and because I much prefer my Phase 95, I don't keep the Boss on the board, which means I never even use it for that. See my post on B/S/T for details

oh well, I just got a Digitech Hyperphase for ultra cheap on the local classifieds to get some more stepped phaser sounds going. Maybe next time

Sorry to derail the thread here for a minute, I just had to ask, cause I'm torn between a PH-3 (purely for the step mode) and a phase 90 or 95 (lush and chewy at low speeds).

I'm guessing the Hyper Phase won't do a stellar job mimmikcing phase 90 tones? My board space and budget won't allow 2 phasers on my board, and it'd also be overkill for an effect I don't use constantly.

Also, anyone tried a step phaser effect inti the fx loop of a delay pedal? In my head it sounds sick, but I can't seem to find any good clips to confirm it

Cheers.

Never actually had a phase 90 but no while it sounds pretty nice, I don't really think it nails that sound from what I've heard from other people using phase 90s. depends how picky you are haha