Start your pedalboard from scratch...

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:00 pm

I've been thinking about this as most of my pedals are back in the UK and it has made me find what I really miss or need.
So if you were to lose your pedalboard and had to start again, what would you buy? What do you really need? Which pedals would you buy again and which would you do without?

For me I would probably go pretty stripped down and buy these:

- Zoom Multistomp 100-BT - this could replace most of my pedals as there are few that I use all the time.
- AMT WH-1 Wah
- Catalinbread FN5 - this is the pedal I miss most and would buy again.

I think I'd actually be happy with that...leaves a lot of pedals I figure I could do without!

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:29 pm

I'd have to replace my mbm rams head muff & fn5 dual pedal. I could probably leave the rest if I was honest

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:55 pm

I could whittle down to this if I wanted to...

Boss RV3
Fulltone OCD
Electro Harmonix LPB-1
Boss CS3
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Pedals I own that I could quite happily live without...

Boss RC2
Electro Harmonix Micro Pog
Fredrics Effects Superfuzz
Tech 21 Sansamp GT2
??? Korg Pitchblack

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:20 pm

I tend to be very minimal now, but I'd be very upset if I didn't have my 1st run saltbooster. That has been the one constant since I arrived here. I keep meaning to buy another one as backup, it'd have to be the same spec too (flat response switch)

I'd grab another polytune, blows my old tu-2 out the water. Plus really liking my phase 45 again.

Keep thinking about wah, hate my vox as it's been a funny bugger since I got it.

At very minimum it'd be

Saltbooster
Polytune

And maybe add
Dunlop Cantrell wah
Phase 45

Simon · Post by **Simon** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:40 pm

EHX SMMw/H
Turbo RAT
Ernie Ball VP JNR
Korg Pitchblack
TC Electronics Hall of Fame Reverb

Everything else I could probably do without. I've accumulated pedals over the past few years that if I was offered them again I'd probably not bother. Not because I don't like them, more just that I struggle to find a function for them with the music I'm currently playing. For instance, I've just been given a brand spanking new T Rex Replica delay pedal from T Rex as my old one was broken. I've played with it a couple of times just at home and I can't really see where I would use it in a live set up now. The problem is that I'm a hoarder and I find it quite difficult to just let go of pedals. Unless it's something I've bought on a complete whim then I'll tend to hold onto it for a while. I've currently got 3 delay pedals but I think I'd only ever replace the SMMw/H if I had to for whatever reason.

I say all that but I'm currently thinking about building a bigger pedal board to accomodate some of the things that won't fit on my current board!!

Simon · Post by **Simon** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:43 pm

I also have my Orange Rocker 30 sitting at home getting absolutely no use whatsoever. Other than when I'm testing things out at home or if I'm practicing (which is rare)

I would absolutely love to be in a band where I could just turn up and rock the fuck out, as it were, without any pedals. Just me, my guitar and that amp. Sadly I don't have the skills to be in such a band, or the means to transport the big bugger around.

I haven't got the heart to sell it. Simply because I know that I wouldn't get back anywhere near the amount I paid for it originally. I know what I had to go through to buy it and it doesn't seem worth selling on for a few hundred quid

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:46 pm

As far as must haves:

I'd need some kind of tuner, probably a Korg DT10 as i've used one for the last 5 years or so.
A low to mid gain OD/Dist - a Boss Blues Driver would do, mine has the Monte Allums mod but I could make do with a stock version.
A mid to high gain OD/Dist - I use a modded Boss Metal Zone

To be honest, I could probably make do with just those although I have a load more pedals on my board - Boss Hyper Fuzz, 2 x Boss Line Selectors, Flanger, Vibrato, Tremolo and a Delay.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:14 pm

Simon wrote:The problem is that I'm a hoarder and I find it quite difficult to just let go of pedals. Unless it's something I've bought on a complete whim then I'll tend to hold onto it for a while.

this.

if i had to start from scratch (say i joined another band and was looking for a reasonably flexible setup) i'd go with an OCD, a distortion-esque thing (Empress Fuzz probably) and maybe a SMMwH. that would see me through most shenanigans i can think of.

obviously if i lost my current guitar pedalboard i'd be keen to replace it more or less as it is, because i have some quite specific requirements at the moment.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:21 pm

If I lost my stuff and had to replace I'd just go about getting another Boss Heavy Metal and a tuner.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:22 pm

I sold all my pedals at the start of the summer and went with a Zoom G3 and a MBM clone of a blackstone mosfet overdrive. I'd probably go for the same again, I'd like an Alesis Nanoverb 2 though.

jumbledupthinking · Post by **jumbledupthinking** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:40 pm

Currently own the following:
TC Polytune
Fredric Klone
OCD clone
Boss SD-1 (c6 snip-mod)
EHX Black Russian Muff
EXH Holy Grail Plus
Belcat Tremolo
Akai E2 Headrush

Of these, would buy again:
TC Polytune
Fredric Klone

Would most likely end up purchasing another delay of some description (maybe finally pony up for a Deluxe Memory Man) & some sort of reverb, but I seem to have accumulated a few dirt pedals that I don't use all that much in the grand scheme of things (even the klone that I would buy again is used more as a clean boost than anything!)

Paradigmforcosmos · Post by **Paradigmforcosmos** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:44 pm

I own the following pedals:
Muff with tone wicker
Memory Boy
Rat 2
Behringer super Fuzz
Boss dd-5.
Danelectro Dady O overdrive.

Neither of my pedals are irreplaceable nor hold much in terms of sentimental value to me. But I would proably get another memory boy since I really like delay pedals. For a new overdrive I would buy the made by Mike dreambox and some sort of swooch sound, maybe an electric mistress.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:02 pm

I'd just buy a Multi FX, probably one of them Zoom jobbies. Never mind the mojo, i'm all about consolidating space and convenience these days.

*Edit* On the hoarder comments, i must have over 40 pedals in the house, but when i do use my board there are only ever 4 on there at a time.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:04 pm

Saltbooster. Everything else is a nice luxury.

Then the MBMOCDDLS.

plaidbeer · Post by **plaidbeer** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:38 am

I could probably just get by with the DT-10BK tuner, OD-3, and an M9 with an expression pedal for the M9.

Otherwise, it would be the tuner, OD-3 (which I just bought for a second time---love it), Growler (friend's od/distortion/boost) DelayLab, and Dimension Reverb.

Benmurray85 · Post by **Benmurray85** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:46 am

if i had to scale it back itd have to be dwarfcraft internet and shiva and my deluxe memory man. everything else is fluff, neccesary fluff but fluff all the same

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:05 am

I've scaled things back massively at the beginning of last summer. Sold a travel trunk full of pedals I never used. I realized most of them were just novelty noise maker effects and I decided I'd rather have a new washer and dryer instead.

I'm down to this, strapped onto a Pedaltrain Mini and powered by a Godlyke Power-all:

- TC Electronics Polytune
- ProCo Rat 2
- Blackout Effectors Musket V.1
- MXR Carbon Copy

I use this as both a bass and guitar rig.

I still have a few effects stowed away like an old Witeface Rat and pair of Russian Muffs that I'll probably just bring back home from the reharsal space because they're just too brittle and tired to be stomped on every night, anymore.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:56 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:Saltbooster. Everything else is a nice luxury.

Then the MBMOCDDLS.

I've been thinking about this overnight. I use my Grumbly Wolf quite a lot as my basic overdrive sound, so that would probably be pretty necessary too. It sort of surprised me this way, to be honest. I bought it for crazy ring modultarey sounds and saw the overdrive as an extra that I probably didn't need. I use it without the switch turned off more than on.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:54 pm

I'm very happy with the board I've been using for the last few years so I'd replace the lot... dano cool cat chorus + drive, boss HM-2 + DD-3 and flanger... oh and a tuner of some sort.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:52 pm

Now that iKmultimedia has a Bluetooth midi board I might just the iPad with Amplitube. I quit taking my small pedaltrain when I starting using the iPad.

I would need my Boss Tu2/3 tuner, MBM pedals(Fuzzface, Saltbreaker/Booster, CW Big Muff), EHX Small Clone/Nano Chorus, EHX Wiggler(Vibrato/Tremolo) unless my amp has Vibrato, and EHX POG2.