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Location: Yucaipa, California | For those of you who use such things, what pedals do you normally use?
I'm only using a Boss Chorus and an ElectroHarmonix POG... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I got four Danelectro FAB pedals and a Zoom G1X multi-effects processor with expression pedal...
I don't use any of them! But I got 'em if I ever need 'em... |
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Location: big island | zoom A2.1u
works well with direct recording (USB) to the computer also. has a built-in entry-level drum machine and built-in tuner. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Acoustic board in this order:
Fender tuner
Trace SMX compressor
Jacques Overdrive (used very sparingly, but still used)
Keeley Blues Driver (primarily as a boost)
Zoom A2.1u
XLR out from the Zoom to the house board, and a 1/4" out to the AAD Cub which I use as a supplemental monitor. For one or two songs played about every three months, I'll add a Cry Baby wah on the front end of the board.
Other stuff on the 'lectric pedal board. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I use boss chorus, compressor, E.Q., and tuner pedals along with an Aphex Acoustic Exciter / D.I.
I use the compressor and the E.Q. mainly for fingerstyle stuff (or my feeble attempts at it). |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Oops, forgot. If I'm playing out solo, I'll add a Boss RC20XL loop machine between the board and the amp. |
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Location: Jet City | I gots ta try me one of them there loop pedals.
I want something I can lay 2 parts down one by one in a live setting then play over.
Would that RC20XL do that?
1. Strum a rhythm for a measure, keep it going
2. Pick a pseudo bass line (but with a guitar) over part 1, then keep 'em both going
3. Do a lead over those 2 parts.
Easy to do live? |
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Location: Vermont USA | Digitech Bad Monkey, Delay, Phase. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Damon67 said:
I gots ta try me one of them there loop pedals.
I want something I can lay 2 parts down one by one in a live setting then play over.
Would that RC20XL do that?
1. Strum a rhythm for a measure, keep it going
2. Pick a pseudo bass line (but with a guitar) over part 1, then keep 'em both going
3. Do a lead over those 2 parts.
Easy to do live?
Easy for her:
KT Tunstall |
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Location: GA USA | I sold all my analog DOD pedals a while back and bought a Digitech RP200 multi unit. Used it quite a bit but now I've stopped. With the Deacon or the Viper, it's hard to beat the nekkid sound of the guitar.
With the acoustic, I may add a little chorus or reverb from the amp, or not. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Damon, that is exactly what I do. I'll lay down a rhythm track, then a second or double rhythm track, then the melody line, then I'll either double the melody, play a counter melody or noodle live on top of the melody. Works great, eats up a lot of time, and the patrons love it. I bought this unit after watching Kaki King use the very same model. The downside is that I can't easily move into and out of tempo changes, and I have to end the songs rather abruptly, but I just stop playing, let the tracks take over and fade the the volume to nothing. A three second stomp erases everything and you're ready to repeat the process for the next number. There are other models available, both more expensive and less expensive, than the Boss RC20. Something will fit your budget. For solo instrumental performances, it is a must. |
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Location: Delaware | I use a Fishman AFX Chorus for the gituar, TC Helicon Voicelive harmonizer for the vocals. |
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| I've been trying to remember the pedals that Robert Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Django, Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow, Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Doc Watson, Peter Green and Martin Taylor used.
I'll post them if I remember. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | All I use now (for acoustic) is a Yamaha Magicstomp AG. I want to get a looper too, as I like to make drum noises on my Adamaii. |
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| original Yamaha AG stomp and exp pedal for the a/e guitars
Digitech RPX400 for the electrics
just a tad bit of chorus when playing through the GB Shen |
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Location: Utah | DOD Compressor and Digitech Bad Monkey tube distortion. The Toneworks PX4 (digital multi-effects) gets fairly regular use with the electric but not the acoustic guitars. |
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Location: North Carolina | Old Zoom 504 for a touch of chorus and verb.
Just don't like to lug a bunch of crap. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Matt Smith recommended a Trace Elliot SMX dual stage compression pedal during the Amelia workshop. These things are not all that readily available, so if you're in the mood, there's one on the bay. The posting says that the 18v power supply is not included, but they also come up now and then as well. . . .
Trace Elliot SMX Compressor |
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Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming | I've got one of the old Zoom 504's, too. It still does the job for chorus and reverb for me. I also have a Digitech Multi-Chorus stomp. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Electric Guitar:
None, just amp reverb, or on board distortion for my papoose. (I'm considering moving into the 21sth century and getting some sort of line 6 device, though I keep trying pedal after pedal and just going back to nothing)
Acoustic Guitar:
Alesis 6fx. A nice mixer with a mutlitude of effects.
I guess if I didn't use the Alesis, I'd use a Sans Amp, a Boss Reverb, the POG, aphex exciter and a visual sound route 66 ompression / overdrive. Or maybe the line 6 POD. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Since my amp doesn't have built-in reverb, all I have is a Line 6 Verbzilla.
It suits my needs. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Well, I've had a rethink about pedals since I got two for free and one at a ridiculously low price ...
For electric guitar
Tele copy > planet pedal tuner > BBE Green Screamer > BBE Soul Vibe > Yamaha JX30 combo with reverb. I'm thinking about getting something like an exciter. Will post more later. |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | 
** Tascam MP3-GT1 Guitar Trainer (headphone preamp with tons of built in effects)
EHx Deluxe Electric Mistriss (original ~1977)
* Tom Scholz Rockman Soloist (~1985)
Ibanez Mostorion
EHx Bad Stone Phase Shifter (~1977)
* DOD TR3R Delay-Sampler/Stereo Chorus/Distortion
** Used constantly
* Used frequently
Yes... most of it is REALLY old! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...very nice.
I recently added four new Boss pedals: Boss BD-1 Blues Driver, Boss Distortion-1, Boss DD-3 Digital Delay and a Boss NS-2 Soise Suppressor.... as well as the nice new Radial Bigshot ABY Switch I got from Saint Al.... all very cool. Surely too cool for me! |
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| All of that for a banjo?? :eek: :eek: |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...yup
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | MORLEY wah , the Cry -baby that has " disappeared " has still not been replaced , am considering a Tube -screamer , but which one ?...
otherwise some of the FX on the amp. ,..I like to fiddle with the Bigsby on my Jazzbox too.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Does a 2 button on/off switch count? I can't remember what the other button is for. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | That button is for when you reach the age where you're not quite sure if you just sat down to play or if you've just finished. Just hit it - it really doesn't do anything but you're glad you've hit it anyway. |
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Location: Chicago | After trying a dozen I've settled on one: the Boss AD3 acouctic guitar chorus + reverb. Durable and a no-brainer (perfect for gigging).
I now practice obsessively with the Boss RC-2 loop station: lay down some chords or a part of a tune and woodshed away! |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I use a Line 6 Pod X3 Live (grrrreat for electric and acoustic) and a Digitech Vocalist Live 4 for solo work.
The Pod can do about anything I want it to do and the Vocalist is FUN! When I demo'ed it for a fellow gear-head he said, "Bill, you've gotten a ton of stuff that I thought was cool, but that's the 1st thing that made me look at you and wonder, 'Can I outrun him?'". |
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Location: Indiana, USA | My bass pedals are:
Korg Pitchblack tuner > Fulltone Bass-Drive > Foxrox Octron > Devi Ever Year of the Rat. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Acoustic: Zoom A2.1u (I am also planning to by a loop system)
Electric: Line6 PODXTLive
Bass: Line6 BassPODXTLive |
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Location: NW Washington State | Here's my sophisticated setup from this morning. For some reason my wife wants me to remove this stuff from the den before Christmas...
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Location: GA USA | Kool! One of those fancy strobe lanterns. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Well, I tried an exciter, and it left me aggrivated. It only helped my low end, and added hiss to the high end. These are great for bass, but are lacking for electric guitar. Or at least for me ...
So the electric rig remains Warmoth Tele copy > planet pedal tuner > BBE Green Screamer > BBE Soul Vibe > Yamaha JX30 combo with reverb.
Now I'm thinking about a delay pedal. Two on the radar are the BBE two timer and the line 6 echo park. Also thinking about the EVH holy stain, but that's in the catagory of weird distortion. I don't know how useful it would be.
You guys have any recommendations about delay pedals? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | And I was just about to ask if anyone was using the line 6 pod XT live. I know a couple of guys using them, and they swear by them. And now they have the newer version (X3 Live) that has a looper built in. |
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Location: Tampa Bay area, FL | I use the Line6 M13...mostly for compression, chorus, phase, delay & reverb and of course, the looper! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I really like the POD XT. Mine broke :(. If you have the patience to dial in the tone, they're great. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Acoustic I use nothing.
On Electric
I Use Danelectro pedels.
Peperoni
Hash Browns
T-Bone
French Toast
Pastrami
Milk Shake
Blt
Chichen Salad
Tuna Melt
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French Fries
in 2 pedel boards
Played through a Fender Twin |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | originally posted by Trader Jim:
And I was just about to ask if anyone was using the line 6 pod XT live. I know a couple of guys using them, and they swear by them. And now they have the newer version (X3 Live) that has a looper built in. I love my X3 Live. It has great patches included for electrics, basses and acoustics. There are also thousands of patches you can download from their online library, then use their Gearbox app to dial in the sound you want. The X3 live even has a mic input and vocal effects, though I prefer my VocalistLive 4 for that. Now that I think about it I out to be able to run the VL4's output to the input on the X3.
I've got some experimenting to do. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Tak DI box. |
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So, What Effects Pedals do you use?