What effects do you use!
 

Zoom 506 II Bass effects

Its a ($59) pretty cheap multi effect pedal. It works really well, I just like to mess with the 33 different effects.It has pretty good sound, but the batteries drain really fast.
hightone amp

I use Boss pedals, the chorus ensambler and the distortion 2

Finally a post!

delay
distortion

I use the zoom 505, but i fucked it up recently so it wont work.

What do you mean, it doesn't work, I used to work with that.

Well first I started circuit bending last year and messed something up with a lack of knowledge, so I could only store one effect at a time. Then last week I got pissed and stomped on it. Now its royally fucked up. Nothings broken though so I think I can fix it.

edit: ditched the Danelectro Flange since I picked up the Poly Chorus

+ I just got

I have that danelectro pedal. Works alright for the price I paid.

Did anyone of you boys and girls allready listen to Mildred Pierce, my band????

Down the drain sounds pretty good.

thanx

wasn't there a thread about this a few weeks ago?

whatever



i hardly ever use this for my bass, mostly my guitar. pretty versatile and sounds alright for such a cheap pedal ($20!).

hmmm... down the drain is pretty cool! The rest is ok, but down the drain is your best so far.

The French Toast? Yeah I dig it, got it for a good deal. It has limited use, but it's great for harsh sounds and crazy lead/solo crap. I run it right before the Turbo Rat to get a more powerful sound used together.
edit: oh maybe you meant the flanger. Sounds good for the price, but the poly chorus flange was exactly what I wanted.

My pedal board is looking sort of barren right now, both my delays broke.

The main effects I use are a boss blues driver and an electro-harmonix frequency analyzer. I use subtle analog delay and tremolo to complete my tone. I've got an octaver for whenever I feel the need, as well as a chorus, but the music that I play in the Spectral Presence doesn't really ever need chorus, and there is only one song where I use the octave, but it is really just a songlet.

Spam?

shameless self-promotion. i love it.

Boss DD-20 Gigadelay
Zoom 303 multieffect
Cry Baby Wah

Yo Inhuman
I found a way to get a cool Ring Modulator simulation with the GigaDelay if yr interested:
Put it on the backwards setting at 30ms with the feedback and effect level all the way up. It sounds pretty weird.

Boss DS-1 Distortion
Antique Horn
Turntable

my pedal board has 5 pedals on it. The green sovtek big muff, Mister Crybaby volume wah, Boss Mega distortion, Boss Super Chorus, and Ibanez Digital delay which I may replace with the super chunky boss one

boos dd5 , mxr disrotion, crybaby . i donot use these on guitar but on a roland hpd 15

i cant afford anything

I don't like effects. Awful things. Get a delay pedal and you're a post-rock band. Get a distortion pedal and you're a metal band. Get a blues driver and you're a britpop band.

Heaven forbid anyone should learn to play their fucking guitars.

Sorry, this isn't directed at anyone here, but I know so many musicians who constantly moan that their playing isn't good enough because they don't have the right equipment. Truth is, if you can't play the instrument, you can't play the instrument, and no amount of money spent is gonna change that.

Very true Glice, about having to learn to play. I really hate it when people come on effects message boards and ask how to get a certain sound. Or people who ask what sitar effects are good. Why don't you learn how to get your guitar to sound like a sitar as much as you can by your fretting style, pick attack, as well as use of drones before you run off and buy some piece of crap flanger that says "sitar" on it.

I began learning on an acoustic than got an electric a few months later. My amp didn't have channel switching and I hated the way its overdrive sounded, so I got a blues driver.

Then awhile later when reading I came across the term ring modulation. So I decided I wanted a ring modulator just because it was so wierd. So I got one.

Then my reverb on my amp stopped working, and I needed a quick replacement, because now my sound was different. The guitar shop only had a delay, and it was impressive. So I bought it.

Then I found that screwing with the knobs made crazy noises, so I bought a broken wah to make into an expression pedal for it. But the wah worked, so I kept it a wah, and got a keyboard volume pedal instead.

And everything is history from there. I have really bad luck with delays, when I modded that one, I put it in a crappy enclosure so that a year later, I accidentally broke it getting out of bed and stepping on with full force. So I got another analog delay that just crapped out on me a few days ago, and a digital delay that was DOA.

Then I got a tremolo and an octaver because they were really good deals. My friend gave me a chorus pedal because he didn't want it anymore.

But I've gone back and forth between using pedals and not using pedals, and I think doing both things has improved my playing.

You really have to learn not just to turn your pedals on and get a sound, but how to play them and how to get your own personal sound out of them.

Hehe. It's probably a lot easier to get a sitar-type sound without any pedals, just use an open C tuning and learn some of the scales and play them on the treble strings, close to the bridge, preferably with fingerpicking but you'd get a good sound from a heavy pick.

Whoops, trade secrets out there.

What mystefies me most is how people want to get effects to sound like someone else. Fair enough for a covers band, or someone who only wants to play one bands songs, but for anyone who has even the slightest inkling that they might want to do their own stuff, it's just ridiculous.

I've had pedals, they both broke, so I play without them now, if I play electric at all. I find if I borrow a mate's pedals I can't play half of the things I like to play... I have a fuck-off amp, and that's enough for me, thanks.

I used to use a DOD TEC8 guitar effects processor, BOSS Metal Zone, Flanger, Digital Delay.

Glice you're right but you also seem to have the anti viewpoint on not using any effects however that is your decision... and basically you are implying you don't really play electric so logically you wouldn't use any effects.

I write almost everything on acoustic, that is if i'm doing non improvised, more structured composed pieces. sometimes i'll use an electric thru the clean channel on my amp (i always use clean channel anyways). and then go from there, but obviously certain styles ask for certain effects most obviously distortion (which doesn't always necessarily mean going "metal", this kinda statement usually mean you don't know how to use effects which is just an art as learning guitar playing technique).

you can do alot w/ effects most interestingly is you can extend the sound of guitar away from its original intent in an interesting way.

Yeah, I like taking a hard line on these things. I do use electric, it's just not the first thing I reach for. I have a cavacade of ideas based upon the use of the guitar as an electro-acoustic source - I can make weird sounds without relying upon someone else's circuit boards (or circuit boards at all for that matter).

Like I say, I'm not laying into anyone here, but I do think that if you want to make your guitar sound different, unique, stand out from the crowd, then you should look to what your hands are doing first and spread out from there.

Perhaps I should elaborate - say you want to play in a West African style - a lot of people would listen to the records and then attempt to emulate the style by buggering about with the amp and using maybe a reveb or a ring-mod. However, styles such as those are all about the pressure of the hands, the patterns with the left, the intricacy of the right. So, while I may not have the exact sound down pat, in looking to the mechanics of the music, I am better able to emulate the technique.

But yes, otherwise, points taken with due humility.

Boss Phase Shifter was my first pedal. Aw. I have a broken RockTek chorus pedal, and the obviously awesome MXR Blue Box.

eheh, take a read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muff

exactly, hopefully you people won't feel offended by this.

ive only got two distortion boxes. the danelectro pastrami overdrive and the boss ODB-3. i dont have a job so thats why im low, just went in for an interview today though! think i got the job, so ill defiantly have more stuff in the future

i got the scematics and im building a joystick oscillating tone generater and a optical thermin. i read about modding and tape deck for inputs and it will give you overdrive through the ying yang so ill be doing that tonight.

also the mixer im looking at getting has about 100 different effects built-in which should be fun.

im sort of a minimalist when it comes to guitar. Just my guitar and a loud old amp....

i've got a Marshalll Mode Four half stack, so i use the effects pedal with that, its here in this pic over the head, and also i use. a boss phase shifter.......like so

i use

BigMuff Sovtek
EH Frequenzy Analyzer
ProCo RAT II

and my Small Clone is broken
fuck it

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