I've played guitar for many many years but I can say I've only gotten really serious over the past few years. And what do you know, on the same week I'm building a pedalboard Tyler uploads something like this
Boss CE-2. It just gives you anything you want from chorus pedal, main sound is just so recognizable, it makes your tone grittier while still preserving that smoothness... still the best chorus there ever was.
This may be out of left field, but my favorite pedal I own is probably an inexpensive Donner looper. It’s like a coloring book or sketch pad where you draw the outlines, then use everything else (other pedals, amp guitars) to “color” them. You can even save the “pages” to your computer. Great for ‘playing with yourself’ 😉✌🏻🎸🎶
Loopers are great. The BOSS RC-3 looper is the only looper I've owned and my favorite pedal. I just play guitar to entertain myself and with a looper you can sit down, play, and make a lot of interesting stuff without much hassle.
I did too and expected it to be utter garbage since it was half the size of a real one and didn't have a battery loupe (though I saw the contacts for it) and it did have an ac adapter in. Thing sounds amazing.
I’m going with the Source Audio Collider. Delay/Reverb from subtle to Ambient! I team it with an HX Stomp, and my back has been so happy with the simplicity.
The Stone Deaf PDF -2 will never leave my board. It's my 'always on' pedal, giving my amp a little push and giving me some precise tone shaping options. It's also great when I want to kick on some extra gain with its dirty side. I can't recommend it enough.
Digitech Whammy gen5: the best all-in-one pedal. An amazing octaver, chorus and pitch shifting machine that can make any guitar sound like a synth. A very inspirational tool. What more do you need?
@@notsop1 I believe it is. It is just like the gen4, but with a smoother pitch shift feature. It also has the chords mode in order for it to react better (when playing chords lol)
I don’t own any pedals but unironically I love the metal zone due to its kick ass tone when in the fx loop, such a surprise since you rarely see distortion in the back
@@-jank-willsonYou aren't thinking of the hm-2 either. The metal zone isn't a rat/ tube screamer hybrid. Fully gained out neither the mt-2 or the hm-2 get into the fuzz territory the rat gets into. The hm-2 gets hairy, but it's still not fuzz like the rat.
Electro-Harmonix's Metal Muff is my personal favorite distortion pedal. The way you can make it produce totally different tones with slight adjustments makes it very versatile, and it's so fun to stomp on the Top Boost switch and go nuts.
As long as you keep the Boost knob low, you can hit it just on single note passages and it's not jarring at all (a common complaint), and it actually adds a pleasant clarity. It can work in front of or in the effects loop of a lot of amps. It's the pedal that makes a Metal Zone a solid backup instead of a core tool for me. "I'm a Metal Muff Main."
I only own five pedals lol. But probably my favourite is the first I ever bought, the orange MXR phase 90. It feels like about five or six different pedals in one simple control knob. Love it.
Either the Strymon Deco because of how many sounds I have gotten out of it that I absolutely love! I bought it for the tape saturation and slapback but I am constantly finding new stuff on it. The magnetic doubling sound is so awesome. But honestly every pedal on my board is my favourite that's why it's on the board.
My Revv G3 will never leave my board. It covers so much ground for OD/Distortion. I love how tight it can be, but I put an EQD Plumes (usually on the Asym clipping setting) in front of it for extra hair if needed. It is a wonderful pairing, if I do say so myself. The Plumes will also give any OD pedals a run for their money.
My digitech Whammy pedal. It works as a great octaver, a pitch-shifter to be a down-tuned djent machine or a virtual capo, it’s a neat chorus pedal, a very versatile harmonizer and FINALLY as a cool whammy pedal. For an admittedly big asking price of $400, that’s honestly a pretty good value and it gives you something nothing else can.
MXR analog chorus or Ibanez ts9. The ts9 is just a beautiful sounding texturing agent for my cleans AND distorted sounds, and the analog chorus is such a beautiful watery sounding chorus that surprised me in so many ways when I bought it. Super versatile.
I only own one pedal, but have used three, the other two being my friends boss loop pedal and my dads Boss Tube Screamer. But my favorite has to be my red Slash Cry Baby Wah. I don’t have a lot of pedals because the amp I have has a lot of preset effects (it’s the boss katana mk ii)
I love my Way Huge Swollen Pickle (and I just like saying that too). It's a great fuzz pedal- dial it back to heavy distortion or crank it up for the perfect 60's and 70's big afro fuzz tone. Sustain so long you need a calendar to measure it. I don't use it nearly enough, but when I do it's just glorious.
My favorite pedal is this one I saw somewhere that splits your signal in 3: one goes through an clean anologue polyphonic octave up, another goes through a clean analogue polyphonic octave down, and the last stays clean. Then they are combined again into one signal which exits the pedal
rAlthough I never got deep into pedals, my first pedal was an Ibanez ts-9 overdrive.Absolutely loved that pedal.I think I'll buy another one just for the nostalgia.I mostly just use reverb and delay with otherwise clean tones that are on-board in my GTX 50,but I'm thinking the trip down memory lane might be worth a $100..
@Gene Clarke… consider the Behringer TO808. I have it sitting right next to a vintage TS-808 on my board and there is no discernible difference. Only the trip down memory lane would be $25 instead of $100.
@@alexander_winston Yeah Josh from JHS has proven that it's basically indistinguishable, you onlu want to hear a difference because it cost more. I'd recommend the bonsai because that gives you all the TS sounds for only 250$
Digitech whammy pedal, specifically the one with the drop shifter attached. that thing is so much fun on top of allowing me to drop tune my floyd rose without retuning the whole thing
Favorite pedal(s) (couldn’t choose just one obviously)🤠: 1) MR. BLACK - “double chorus” ~ it gives your sound a widening effect that feels like stereo and has that texture but with a modulation that is so lush and intense that the flavor of the tone is fresh and articulate every single time it’s clicked on. Love it. 2) EHX - “hot wax” ~ I actually don’t do backflips over the second channel of this pedal, as it is a two channel box. Its basically 2 drives in 1= the green side being the “ehx crayon” (my favorite drive pedal ever), the red side being the “hot tubes”. Both channels sound awesome but the crayon has this charisma and understated texture that is just so original sounding and unique to the person playing through it. Love it love it. And finally 3) *a pedal I’ve never owned actually……the BOSS “super phaser” ~ this pedal, essentially, is Mike Einziger’s (Incubus) go-to phaser pedal al a tracks like “pardon me” and “are u in?”--It’s just amazing, chewy, lush, and gritty. A perfect blend of originality and classic phaser goodness. It’s just great musical fun. Love it love it love it. That’s all I got! Rock on brother! 🤘🏼😎🔥🔥
MXR 10 Band (active) Equalizer... wow, you can boost your amp gain, and control everything in terms of 'thickness' of your sound, 'humbuck' a single coil, etc.
My all time favorite is my Boss Re-20 Space Echo! Through it my tones just go on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on....
My favourite pedal for now is the TC Electronic Quintessence harmoniser. It works so smoothly and sounds great. It's like to have a one or even two spare guitar players in your band😁
My favorite pedal is the Friedman BE-OD. It does a pretty good job of emulating a BE100. It is my go to OD pedal. The only thing with it is that it isn’t super versatile, as I basically only does 1 thing (massive overdrive), but it does it so well that it doesn’t really have to do anything else.
One of my favourite pedals that I have is definitely my Boss OD-1X, it was one of the first pedals that I received and is my go-to overdrive/distortion pedal and plus it just gets the job done, but second to that is my EHX Big Muff Pi since I’m a big Pink Floyd/Smashing Pumpkins fan and I’ve always wanted a fuzz pedal, so that one is my go-to for a “heavier”, thicker-sounding guitar tone (Plus it was the first pedal I bought with my own money a couple years ago, also because my band and I were doing a Pumpkins song at the time so I wanted to sound closer to the record)
EVH phase 90 It was my first pedal, and it’s the easiest to use and instantly brings up that EVH sound. I suck at dialing in pedals and never get much out of overdrives or delays or all those fancy digital pedals. Give me the simple little red striped box and I’m happy.
The Walrus Audio Slö is a permanent resident on my pedal board. I like to layer it with other reverbs as well for some really out of this world sounds. The Digitech Polara Reverberation is another really amazing reverb that I absolutely love.
@@dustinadair7893 If you ever remember it please come back and comment it lol, I'm thinking of buying a good klone pedal and had almost settled for the tumnus, but after your comment I'm gonna have to do just a bit more research of the one you mentioned plus hopefully you remember the name of the other lol
My Walrus Julia is such an inspiration machine and it's my favorite by far, but one type of pedal I think is really underrated is acoustic simulators. Even if you're not going for an actual acoustic sound, they're so good at bringing out trebly sparkle with single coils and get such a unique vibe. Really great if you want a particularly bright and jangly guitar element/texture to pop out in a mix.
I hear ya on both accounts. I bought the Julianna, does vibrato great too. I don't have an acoustic simulator pedal, but I have an amp head that has a built in acoustic mode (modeled on the boss pedal). I'll use that with a semi-hollow and it sounds incredible.
My absolute favorite pedal is also the first one I ever bought, a Behringer Bass Overdrive. I also love the silly glitchiness of my Sonicake Wave Crush.
My favorite pedals are the Walrus Audio Julia (Chorus), Ground Control audio Amaterasu (Treble boost) and Danelectro Reel Echo (Delay). The last one is crazy in the way one of my guitar hero uses it (Mike Einziger), it’s super glitchy when you move the time slider with repeats about 1 o’clock, See also the solo to incubus’ “Pistola”. I also love the PH-3 too, Mike is such a rad guitarist.
Rat 2 is my favorite dirt distortion pedal. Big Muff is a close second overall. Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz is crazy awesome!!! From the super aggressive speaker blowing killer attack to the more merciful sound from dialing it down, it is amazing great rockin’ sound.
If I had to pick one of the pedals I've owned over the years, I'd have to say the Boss PH2 Super Phaser. My wife picked it out at a music store because I was looking for a pedal that made my guitar sound like the sound is expanding and contracting in a very subtle yet apparent way and I achieved that sound with minimal setting of the pedal. I don't use it all the time, but used very tastefully, the Phaser sound is very beautiful to say the least
When I started playing the electric guitar, I didn't know anything about pedals or how they work, how to use them, how to arrange them. My father bought me a Zoom G1Next pedal along with my guitar and it had plenty of effects. I mostly used it for distortion and everything sounded great to my inexperienced ears. Anyway, at some point I thought of giving up on music, I recorded some stuff meanwhile but it was all in low quality without actual knowledge of how guitar effects or even mixing works, I was about 17 years old. At that time, a local theatre asked me to perform live music at an ancient theatre along with the play and I was so excited but broke at the same time so I had to work with what I had. I found out that the Zoom G1Next could emulate some satisfying pad sounds and it really inspired me to keep playing. I know it's not the best pedal for that job, but it really came in handy the time I needed it most. Therefore it's my favourite guitar pedal because if it wasn't for it, I would have given up on music.
I don't have a lot of pedals or experience with a lot of Different effects, but my favorite has to be the strymon timeline. It is such a versatile pedal and I can literally spend hours just playing the same notes and Messing with the settings. I know that this is not at all what most people are looking for in a pedal, but I love it! :)
My Fav Guitar Pedal: Klirrton Lichtbringer V2 Limited Edition 2 channel Clean Boost with optional Fixed EQ on the second Channel. Very Subtle EQ, but the enhancement on the Sound is insane!
Currently, I love my new Earthquaker Devices Hizumitas, awesome fuzz that sounds great on all of my amp tones. I'm getting the Afterneath soon, can't wait to jam that one!
I have about 12 favorites that I could go into, but my Maxon RTO700 can hang with a Centaur for way less. Of note, a Boss Blues Driver is the best budget version of that "tool." One of the 12 favorites I would recomend to literally every guitarist of any style that has regular band practices and/or especially shows: An unpowered A/B switch "backwards" at the front of your chain with your main and a backup that sounds close enough both plugged into it. Always having an understudy guitar at the ready means that you could even break a string in the middle of a song and still make a suave transition to a solid finish. And you get to finish the practice or show without the awkward pause of restringing the main or setting up the backup to take over.
My apology, I don’t know your first name but in response I like the ME-25 Boss multi effect. Pretty much covers them all but would like your advice as to what would be needed in series with this processor to enhance the sound, besides the drum buddy. Watch you uploads all the time!
Ibanez Tube Screamer is fundamental but I also have a Rat pedal, a friend custom made for me, that hits the hard rock distortion that really appeals to me.
80's TUBE SCREAMER!!! I still have mine and still use it. Most of my pedal board goes through my amp's FX loop, but I just prefer to have my tube screamer punch straight into my amp. (So yeah, even going wireless from guitar into the first pedal, I have three cords running from my board to the amp.)
Throbak Overdriver Boost. Honorable mentions: Jeff Beck Archer, Nordland ODR-C, LPD Lustre, and brand new and utterly magnificent Menatone TBIAC. Also, about 20 other OD’s, CE-1 clones…
You should be proud of yourself if I was you I'd sit down on that couch let's it all fade away and realize that your sitting in the middle of your dream all that equipment guitar amp pedals everything it's a real blessing
What I used to own... a crybaby from hell, a boss dd6, bf3, ge7. The last 2 additions before they got sold off were a catalinbread dirty little secret and a Seymour Duncan dirty deeds distortion pedal.
i have yet to find any pedal that sounds like vintage Small Clones. Modern Small Clones are close but gotta do a little modifications because usually for most pedals i say there's no difference between the new and old ones but for small clones I definitely notice maybe kind of a bass cutout that I can also hear when modifying the modern small clone to be closer to the vintage one. I have a ds1 but ive been using it less and less since my built-in boss katana DS1 sounds exactly the same to my ears 🤷
One of my favourite pedals that is really over looked and never sold many but in my guitar rig it sits beautifully and just works for me and my style and is also a great versatile pedal when stacked with all pedals. It’s the EHX Lumberjack with its Log Factor Drive is different and reacts to so many other drive/distortion pedals, it was a bargain price of £40 New in the UK, definitely the best £40 I’ve spent on any individual pedal, I love it snd I’m glad so many other guitarists seem to be haters if it cos it’s not a Klon, KOT, Timmy etc. Another great pedal I have is a NUX Tape Core Deluxe, cost £50 New in UK about 3yrs ago and works brilliantly, modelled on the Roland RE201, sounds great, built well and it’s features and parameter controls are excellent and is up there as one of my best pedals at a good budget price. You really don’t always have to spend shit loads of money on boutique pedals to get a great sounding pedal, just cos a pedal is 10 x the price of another pedal doesn’t make it that much better if better at all! Buy with your ears, if it sounds good to you and is a cheap price that’s all what matters, you shroud buy it cos you like it and don’t be put off cos decent guitarist says you need to get some much more expensive cos of its secret diodes etc
Ok. I'm getting a Slow and Iron Horse. That sound was fucking amazing. EDIT: OK that'll run me $400 before tax... So what I MEANT to say is that SOMEDAY I will be getting a Slow and Iron Horse...
The slow with the iron horse was just an insanely good tone
Can’t say enough about the Boss ds-1. The simplicity and icon can’t be beat.
The DS-1 (alongside my Boss OD-1X) was one of the first guitar pedals I got, it’s definitely great and one of my go-tos for my board
I’ve seen them go for as low as $20-$25 bucks on FB marketplace too… the disrespect 😰
Got the DS-1X......awesome
upvoted because i just got a ds-1 as my first pedal and like having confirmation bias
Just buy a rat.
I've played guitar for many many years but I can say I've only gotten really serious over the past few years. And what do you know, on the same week I'm building a pedalboard Tyler uploads something like this
Boss CE-2. It just gives you anything you want from chorus pedal, main sound is just so recognizable, it makes your tone grittier while still preserving that smoothness... still the best chorus there ever was.
This may be out of left field, but my favorite pedal I own is probably an inexpensive Donner looper. It’s like a coloring book or sketch pad where you draw the outlines, then use everything else (other pedals, amp guitars) to “color” them. You can even save the “pages” to your computer. Great for ‘playing with yourself’ 😉✌🏻🎸🎶
Loopers are great. The BOSS RC-3 looper is the only looper I've owned and my favorite pedal. I just play guitar to entertain myself and with a looper you can sit down, play, and make a lot of interesting stuff without much hassle.
The Donner looper deluxe is the sickest, most awesome underdog of looper pedals ever created. Enough said. 🤘🏼🤠
I got massive Goosebumps when you put on both of the walrus pedals.
I just picked up the slotva and it's glorious.
I bought the klon from wish and i was amazed , i use it with a lot of different pedals and just seems to make them all much better!
I did too and expected it to be utter garbage since it was half the size of a real one and didn't have a battery loupe (though I saw the contacts for it) and it did have an ac adapter in. Thing sounds amazing.
I’m going with the Source Audio Collider. Delay/Reverb from subtle to Ambient! I team it with an HX Stomp, and my back has been so happy with the simplicity.
The Stone Deaf PDF -2 will never leave my board. It's my 'always on' pedal, giving my amp a little push and giving me some precise tone shaping options. It's also great when I want to kick on some extra gain with its dirty side. I can't recommend it enough.
Such an underrated pedal. I have a V2 and two V1’s. The V1 is my always on pedal.
1.5 is also awesome tho.
Digitech Whammy gen5: the best all-in-one pedal. An amazing octaver, chorus and pitch shifting machine that can make any guitar sound like a synth. A very inspirational tool. What more do you need?
For me its this one or a bass wah, like those are the two pedals that are always in my chain
Is the gen5 a big improvement against the gen4? I have the gen4 but i might get the gen5 if its a lot better.
@@notsop1 I believe it is. It is just like the gen4, but with a smoother pitch shift feature. It also has the chords mode in order for it to react better (when playing chords lol)
@SoftserveSodium yea that's true. I never said that it can replace a synth tho. I just said it is really cool AND makes some synth-like sounds
I wouldn't mind the Whammy⁵, but my Whammy4 does the job.
I don’t own any pedals but unironically I love the metal zone due to its kick ass tone when in the fx loop, such a surprise since you rarely see distortion in the back
Honestly same but plug mine in just like a normal amp with a little distortion from the amp
“…UNIRONICALLY love…” wut?
isn't a metal zone just a rat + tube screamer combo with the eq screwed around with? Or am I thinking of the HM-2?
The Boss Metal Core is underrated too
@@-jank-willsonYou aren't thinking of the hm-2 either. The metal zone isn't a rat/ tube screamer hybrid. Fully gained out neither the mt-2 or the hm-2 get into the fuzz territory the rat gets into. The hm-2 gets hairy, but it's still not fuzz like the rat.
Electro-Harmonix's Metal Muff is my personal favorite distortion pedal. The way you can make it produce totally different tones with slight adjustments makes it very versatile, and it's so fun to stomp on the Top Boost switch and go nuts.
That was legit the first pedal I ever bought. I had so much fun with it back in the day. EZ stereotypical metal sounds.
Got the Riverside , but just got a new Oceans 13 EHV damn they have fine control, sweet spots everywhere.
A relative gave his Metal muff once but after a couple days it stoped working, my heart was definitely broken because i love it
As long as you keep the Boost knob low, you can hit it just on single note passages and it's not jarring at all (a common complaint), and it actually adds a pleasant clarity. It can work in front of or in the effects loop of a lot of amps. It's the pedal that makes a Metal Zone a solid backup instead of a core tool for me. "I'm a Metal Muff Main."
I only own five pedals lol. But probably my favourite is the first I ever bought, the orange MXR phase 90. It feels like about five or six different pedals in one simple control knob. Love it.
Glad to see some love for the La Machine! I bought the MXR Sub Machine too, I love a good octave fuzz!
Either the Strymon Deco because of how many sounds I have gotten out of it that I absolutely love! I bought it for the tape saturation and slapback but I am constantly finding new stuff on it. The magnetic doubling sound is so awesome.
But honestly every pedal on my board is my favourite that's why it's on the board.
My Revv G3 will never leave my board. It covers so much ground for OD/Distortion. I love how tight it can be, but I put an EQD Plumes (usually on the Asym clipping setting) in front of it for extra hair if needed. It is a wonderful pairing, if I do say so myself. The Plumes will also give any OD pedals a run for their money.
I recently received my Boss HM-2W Heavy Metal Waza. Love the Swedish chainsaw!
My digitech Whammy pedal.
It works as a great octaver, a pitch-shifter to be a down-tuned djent machine or a virtual capo, it’s a neat chorus pedal, a very versatile harmonizer and FINALLY as a cool whammy pedal.
For an admittedly big asking price of $400, that’s honestly a pretty good value and it gives you something nothing else can.
The de-tune chorus is so underrated. I wish there was a way to have the de-tune and the other effects at the same time
MXR analog chorus or Ibanez ts9. The ts9 is just a beautiful sounding texturing agent for my cleans AND distorted sounds, and the analog chorus is such a beautiful watery sounding chorus that surprised me in so many ways when I bought it. Super versatile.
I only own one pedal, but have used three, the other two being my friends boss loop pedal and my dads Boss Tube Screamer. But my favorite has to be my red Slash Cry Baby Wah. I don’t have a lot of pedals because the amp I have has a lot of preset effects (it’s the boss katana mk ii)
The slash crybaby is incredible! I used to have one and I miss it
I have the mk1 katana and I still think pedals are way more fun. I'm up to 21 pedals, now.
Ibanez makes the Tube Screamer, not Boss
I love my Way Huge Swollen Pickle (and I just like saying that too). It's a great fuzz pedal- dial it back to heavy distortion or crank it up for the perfect 60's and 70's big afro fuzz tone. Sustain so long you need a calendar to measure it. I don't use it nearly enough, but when I do it's just glorious.
I bought that pedal just for the meme of it, but it didn't work out on bass, so I gave it to my drummer.
He got better usage from it lol
My favorite pedal is this one I saw somewhere that splits your signal in 3: one goes through an clean anologue polyphonic octave up, another goes through a clean analogue polyphonic octave down, and the last stays clean. Then they are combined again into one signal which exits the pedal
rAlthough I never got deep into pedals, my first pedal was an Ibanez ts-9 overdrive.Absolutely loved that pedal.I think I'll buy another one just for the nostalgia.I mostly just use reverb and delay with otherwise clean tones that are on-board in my GTX 50,but I'm thinking the trip down memory lane might be worth a $100..
@Gene Clarke… consider the Behringer TO808. I have it sitting right next to a vintage TS-808 on my board and there is no discernible difference. Only the trip down memory lane would be $25 instead of $100.
@@alexander_winston Yeah Josh from JHS has proven that it's basically indistinguishable, you onlu want to hear a difference because it cost more. I'd recommend the bonsai because that gives you all the TS sounds for only 250$
haha just got my first pedal as a ts9 for my 16th birthday, can't believe how much fun it is
Currently my fav is definitely the Jam Pedals Rattler. Sounds absolutely fantastic.
Digitech whammy pedal, specifically the one with the drop shifter attached. that thing is so much fun on top of allowing me to drop tune my floyd rose without retuning the whole thing
Favorite pedal(s) (couldn’t choose just one obviously)🤠:
1) MR. BLACK - “double chorus”
~ it gives your sound a widening effect that feels like stereo and has that texture but with a modulation that is so lush and intense that the flavor of the tone is fresh and articulate every single time it’s clicked on. Love it.
2) EHX - “hot wax”
~ I actually don’t do backflips over the second channel of this pedal, as it is a two channel box. Its basically 2 drives in 1= the green side being the “ehx crayon” (my favorite drive pedal ever), the red side being the “hot tubes”.
Both channels sound awesome but the crayon has this charisma and understated texture that is just so original sounding and unique to the person playing through it. Love it love it.
And finally 3) *a pedal I’ve never owned actually……the BOSS “super phaser”
~ this pedal, essentially, is Mike Einziger’s (Incubus) go-to phaser pedal al a tracks like “pardon me” and “are u in?”--It’s just amazing, chewy, lush, and gritty. A perfect blend of originality and classic phaser goodness. It’s just great musical fun. Love it love it love it.
That’s all I got! Rock on brother! 🤘🏼😎🔥🔥
MXR 10 Band (active) Equalizer... wow, you can boost your amp gain, and control everything in terms of 'thickness' of your sound, 'humbuck' a single coil, etc.
VERY good for high quality tube amps.
You should do a classical guitar vid
My all time favorite is my Boss Re-20 Space Echo! Through it my tones just go on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on....
@5:52 I need to understand how the Epiphone broadway and the pedal combo work so well together!
My favourite pedal for now is the TC Electronic Quintessence harmoniser. It works so smoothly and sounds great. It's like to have a one or even two spare guitar players in your band😁
My favorite pedal is the Friedman BE-OD. It does a pretty good job of emulating a BE100. It is my go to OD pedal. The only thing with it is that it isn’t super versatile, as I basically only does 1 thing (massive overdrive), but it does it so well that it doesn’t really have to do anything else.
i absolutely LOVE my death metal digitech pedal. absolutely magnificent
In the ones that I actually own, probably the BD-2. Classic but completely nuts!
My favourite MIW vid. Need the Petrucci wah bigtime baby. Yeah!
One of my favourite pedals that I have is definitely my Boss OD-1X, it was one of the first pedals that I received and is my go-to overdrive/distortion pedal and plus it just gets the job done, but second to that is my EHX Big Muff Pi since I’m a big Pink Floyd/Smashing Pumpkins fan and I’ve always wanted a fuzz pedal, so that one is my go-to for a “heavier”, thicker-sounding guitar tone (Plus it was the first pedal I bought with my own money a couple years ago, also because my band and I were doing a Pumpkins song at the time so I wanted to sound closer to the record)
EVH phase 90
It was my first pedal, and it’s the easiest to use and instantly brings up that EVH sound. I suck at dialing in pedals and never get much out of overdrives or delays or all those fancy digital pedals. Give me the simple little red striped box and I’m happy.
The Walrus Audio Slö is a permanent resident on my pedal board. I like to layer it with other reverbs as well for some really out of this world sounds. The Digitech Polara Reverberation is another really amazing reverb that I absolutely love.
I'm gonna buy a Boss PH-3 because of this video. That thing sounded wild as hell and I feel like I could find a cool way to use it.
Still my MXR-90 I bought in '75. Nostalgia for me.
I love a lot of pedals, but I’d have to say my “desert island” pedal would be the BOSS Tera Echo (TE-2). No other pedal sounds like it.
Klon is great but also perfectly cloned, particularly Wampler Tumnus. And the Deluxe version really is next level.
Tumnus is pretty close but there were 2 others I found that were closer. One is the RYRA Klone and I can’t remember the name of the other one
@@dustinadair7893 If you ever remember it please come back and comment it lol, I'm thinking of buying a good klone pedal and had almost settled for the tumnus, but after your comment I'm gonna have to do just a bit more research of the one you mentioned plus hopefully you remember the name of the other lol
I’ve owned the KTR and the Tumnus, and I have no concerns about using the timnus as a klon style on my gig board
Love my Tumnus Deluxe but recently just got the Sarno Music Solutions Earth Drive and it plays so well with my strat. My new favorite drive
My Walrus Julia is such an inspiration machine and it's my favorite by far, but one type of pedal I think is really underrated is acoustic simulators. Even if you're not going for an actual acoustic sound, they're so good at bringing out trebly sparkle with single coils and get such a unique vibe. Really great if you want a particularly bright and jangly guitar element/texture to pop out in a mix.
I hear ya on both accounts. I bought the Julianna, does vibrato great too. I don't have an acoustic simulator pedal, but I have an amp head that has a built in acoustic mode (modeled on the boss pedal). I'll use that with a semi-hollow and it sounds incredible.
My absolute favorite pedal is also the first one I ever bought, a Behringer Bass Overdrive. I also love the silly glitchiness of my Sonicake Wave Crush.
My favorite pedals are the Walrus Audio Julia (Chorus), Ground Control audio Amaterasu (Treble boost) and Danelectro Reel Echo (Delay).
The last one is crazy in the way one of my guitar hero uses it (Mike Einziger), it’s super glitchy when you move the time slider with repeats about 1 o’clock,
See also the solo to incubus’ “Pistola”.
I also love the PH-3 too, Mike is such a rad guitarist.
Rat 2 is my favorite dirt distortion pedal.
Big Muff is a close second overall.
Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz is crazy awesome!!!
From the super aggressive speaker blowing killer attack to the more merciful sound from dialing it down, it is amazing great rockin’ sound.
ProCo Rat2 FTW!
The riff at 11:05 sounds like a Frusciante riff, it's so beautiful
MXR Sub Machine. Having a pedal that's a fuzz with a sub octave knob, octave up switch, and a button for shifting in or out of phase is amazing
My favorite...so far.. is the clone clon you turned me on to for $27.50. Absolutely the best OD I've ever played through.
My God that tone at about 6min and 10 seconds I NEED THAT
If I had to pick one of the pedals I've owned over the years, I'd have to say the Boss PH2 Super Phaser. My wife picked it out at a music store because I was looking for a pedal that made my guitar sound like the sound is expanding and contracting in a very subtle yet apparent way and I achieved that sound with minimal setting of the pedal. I don't use it all the time, but used very tastefully, the Phaser sound is very beautiful to say the least
Mine too!! Well, one of 3 favs…❤️🔥🤘🏼😎👍🏼
You are an incredible guitar player, I think that it is safe to say that if i ever play like you, dreams come true and anything is possible.
Man so glad we made it on your list!!!! You rock!
When I started playing the electric guitar, I didn't know anything about pedals or how they work, how to use them, how to arrange them. My father bought me a Zoom G1Next pedal along with my guitar and it had plenty of effects. I mostly used it for distortion and everything sounded great to my inexperienced ears. Anyway, at some point I thought of giving up on music, I recorded some stuff meanwhile but it was all in low quality without actual knowledge of how guitar effects or even mixing works, I was about 17 years old. At that time, a local theatre asked me to perform live music at an ancient theatre along with the play and I was so excited but broke at the same time so I had to work with what I had. I found out that the Zoom G1Next could emulate some satisfying pad sounds and it really inspired me to keep playing. I know it's not the best pedal for that job, but it really came in handy the time I needed it most. Therefore it's my favourite guitar pedal because if it wasn't for it, I would have given up on music.
6:25 that was the most epic power chord i've ever heard
I don't have a lot of pedals or experience with a lot of Different effects, but my favorite has to be the strymon timeline. It is such a versatile pedal and I can literally spend hours just playing the same notes and Messing with the settings.
I know that this is not at all what most people are looking for in a pedal, but I love it! :)
The guitar faces at 8:45 really say it all!! 😂
My Fav Guitar Pedal: Klirrton Lichtbringer V2 Limited Edition 2 channel Clean Boost with optional Fixed EQ on the second Channel. Very Subtle EQ, but the enhancement on the Sound is insane!
Colour Box V2 is my favorite pedal on my board. I can sculpt so many different tones.
9:45 makes me nostalgic for no reason
Mxr 10 band eq completely changes everything. I know, not as exciting, but unreal.
My band used to practice in the barn too. I just loved them old days/
The Marshall blues breaker. Got it recently- it really is that good !!
I only have one pedal right now, it's the MXR Custom Badass 78' Distortion and I love it
I got the Octava right after watching this video...I agree.. it is the best octavia thus far..thanks for bringing this pedal to my attention
Currently, I love my new Earthquaker Devices Hizumitas, awesome fuzz that sounds great on all of my amp tones. I'm getting the Afterneath soon, can't wait to jam that one!
I have about 12 favorites that I could go into, but my Maxon RTO700 can hang with a Centaur for way less. Of note, a Boss Blues Driver is the best budget version of that "tool."
One of the 12 favorites I would recomend to literally every guitarist of any style that has regular band practices and/or especially shows: An unpowered A/B switch "backwards" at the front of your chain with your main and a backup that sounds close enough both plugged into it. Always having an understudy guitar at the ready means that you could even break a string in the middle of a song and still make a suave transition to a solid finish. And you get to finish the practice or show without the awkward pause of restringing the main or setting up the backup to take over.
The Walrus combo was so awesome!
My apology, I don’t know your first name but in response I like the ME-25 Boss multi effect. Pretty much covers them all but would like your advice as to what would be needed in series with this processor to enhance the sound, besides the drum buddy. Watch you uploads all the time!
Chewy... I never heard that sound described that way, but I knew exactly what sound you were referring to 😂
Ibanez Tube Screamer is fundamental but I also have a Rat pedal, a friend custom made for me, that hits the hard rock distortion that really appeals to me.
Good stuff. You have a great broadcaster's voice.
Joyo Vintage Overdrive. Quality 25 dollar pedal for a beginner performer! Also I love playing around with the DITTO looper. Never gets old...
If I only had the money I would want the Slo, and then the Ironhorse. That was sweet.
4:58 Adam heard that all the way from over there lol
That Spectrum pedal is really cool! Also, thanks for "chewy"
I LOVE my copper sound Foxcatcher and Triplegraph! such epic pedals!
80's TUBE SCREAMER!!! I still have mine and still use it. Most of my pedal board goes through my amp's FX loop, but I just prefer to have my tube screamer punch straight into my amp. (So yeah, even going wireless from guitar into the first pedal, I have three cords running from my board to the amp.)
Wampler Tumnas... finally achieved the tone I have been searching for, for 20 years.
My favorite two:
All-time - Danelectro Fab Tone
Recently - Believe it or not, Joyo California Sound
I absolutely love the Horizon Devices Precision Drive. Haven’t messed around with a TON of different pedals but I do love this one
Walrus Audio Fathom. Just the best and most versitile reverb pedal I've ever used or heard
Mt tuner (TC Electronics PolyTune 3) is the pedal I use the most and wouldn't want to live without.
Honestly my favorite pedal is my Caline orca chorus pedal …. Budget pedal with the best chorus sounds I’ve ever heard
Throbak Overdriver Boost.
Honorable mentions: Jeff Beck Archer, Nordland ODR-C, LPD Lustre, and brand new and utterly magnificent Menatone TBIAC. Also, about 20 other OD’s, CE-1 clones…
I'd say my favorite pedal I ever owned was an Arion Tubulator... wish I still had mine from High School
5:00 *Adam Neely intensifies*
my pedal would be the Big Muff I made... but I just got a deucetone Rat and it might be my new favorite pedal!
The thumbnail cracked me up it's the 7 armed man!
You should be proud of yourself if I was you I'd sit down on that couch let's it all fade away and realize that your sitting in the middle of your dream all that equipment guitar amp pedals everything it's a real blessing
What I used to own... a crybaby from hell, a boss dd6, bf3, ge7. The last 2 additions before they got sold off were a catalinbread dirty little secret and a Seymour Duncan dirty deeds distortion pedal.
Something about the Boss SD-1 can't be beat. Also, Holy Grail Reverb pedals are no joke
The DS-1 Distortion and DD-5 Digital Delay by Boss stay in my rotation. The DS-1 is just easy.
i have yet to find any pedal that sounds like vintage Small Clones. Modern Small Clones are close but gotta do a little modifications because usually for most pedals i say there's no difference between the new and old ones but for small clones I definitely notice maybe kind of a bass cutout that I can also hear when modifying the modern small clone to be closer to the vintage one. I have a ds1 but ive been using it less and less since my built-in boss katana DS1 sounds exactly the same to my ears 🤷
One of my favourite pedals that is really over looked and never sold many but in my guitar rig it sits beautifully and just works for me and my style and is also a great versatile pedal when stacked with all pedals. It’s the EHX Lumberjack with its Log Factor Drive is different and reacts to so many other drive/distortion pedals, it was a bargain price of £40 New in the UK, definitely the best £40 I’ve spent on any individual pedal, I love it snd I’m glad so many other guitarists seem to be haters if it cos it’s not a Klon, KOT, Timmy etc.
Another great pedal I have is a NUX Tape Core Deluxe, cost £50 New in UK about 3yrs ago and works brilliantly, modelled on the Roland RE201, sounds great, built well and it’s features and parameter controls are excellent and is up there as one of my best pedals at a good budget price. You really don’t always have to spend shit loads of money on boutique pedals to get a great sounding pedal, just cos a pedal is 10 x the price of another pedal doesn’t make it that much better if better at all! Buy with your ears, if it sounds good to you and is a cheap price that’s all what matters, you shroud buy it cos you like it and don’t be put off cos decent guitarist says you need to get some much more expensive cos of its secret diodes etc
Lerxst by-tor Alex lifeson signature pedal, cause it’s perfect for rhythm chords and strong leads
Ok. I'm getting a Slow and Iron Horse. That sound was fucking amazing.
EDIT: OK that'll run me $400 before tax... So what I MEANT to say is that SOMEDAY I will be getting a Slow and Iron Horse...
WOW! The white custom strat!!!
The neunaber sound was sooo goood
The Walrus Slö was brilliant and true, even better with the Ironhorse. My kind of sound!
…”I’m kind of a more is more guy… “… Love this statement. We are brothers in arms for life!