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I was thinking about this the other day and I'm not sure I could actually pare my setup down to just two pedals (I started at one; no dice). Assuming all your other stuff is basically what you'd want, ie an excellent guitar, great amp (which might make it easier to not necessarily pick out a distortion at all) what two pedals would you take? And why?

Multieffects are allowed, I guess.

if the amp has some good distortion, i would get a hazarai because of all the sounds i can get from it, and having a looper is nice to, and and behringer super fuzz or a foxx tone machine copy, just because i like having a massive distortion and then pushing it more with a octave fuzz

Fuzzhugger Algal Bloom, Empress VM Superdelay.

I can get great dirt out of my amp as is but I'll never get that wide range + velcro fuzz that is essential to my sound out of it.
I love reverb but I've found that a good op-amp style analog delay (echo) can be setup as a surrogate reverb, sometimes but never the other way around.

** Maybe a Dano Spring King with the delay mod...

I changed my mind, i would prefer a boss ps3 or whammy to a octave fuzz, i can still do octave stuff and this way i have more sounds available.
I guess i could also just get an m9, but i wasn't that impressed with the one i tried...

DS-1
Small Clone

Boss TU2
CC Drive

Everything else is gloss

You Dirty Rat--I've come to appreciate its versatility the more I've tweaked it.

Nova Repeater--I use delay quite a bit and the fact that you can have modulation on top of any delay mode you choose is a huge plus. Almost chose the Magicstomp in place of the Repeater, but I have a rack unit that can cover that ground.

If I only get two I guess realistically it would be the DC Internet because of it's versatility from an angry boost to a full brutal attack of noise aaaannndd dunno, the Verbzilla/RV600. I really like reverb and they offer alot of options.

Thought about this for a while and my answer came as a bit of a surprise even to me!
Assuming that I can keep my guitar in tune in some way (have polytune) on my iPhone, then at the moment:

MXR Script Phase 90
Morley Bad Horsie Wah

Weird

-Big Muff
-some type of Boost/OD

ekwatts wrote:Multieffects are allowed, I guess.

Now, I'm not allowing myself multieffects because my answer just becomes "M13 LOL", so... Foxx Tone Machine and Utility Perkolator. This took some boiling down, but the Foxx gives me kerrazy octave fuzz plus great girthy seventies fuzz, the Perk gives me a great boost, overdrive and distortion, plus it does batshit crazy things to the signal from the tonemachine. From a purely theoretical point of view, I'd go for a fuzz and a trem, but I'd use the trem on my vibrochamp in this setup.

Impossible.
Fuzz God II...and AD202 or Deluxe Memory Man.

Morley Power Wah and Boss CE-3 for me.

Basically any wah or chorus. I could go without pedals though - theyre just for added 'effect'

My orange squeezer-ish pedal and The Internet. Though could easily do with out any at all.

ECT and memory boy

Maxx chorus, and Boss DD3 as my amp overdrives well...

I could go down to just my ufo fuzz. it's basically two pedals in one anyway. would be happy and have considered it allot.

Opamp Muff and a good phaser.

If the gig is full PA, A/B box between Twin Reverb and Pro Jr, with The Twin super clean and Pro just breaking up. Everything else can be sorted with a big of volume and tone control tweaking. In fact this would be the idea set up for me.

Fulltone OCD and EHX Memory Toy (although could upgrade to Memory Man seeing as the will be space on the board lol)