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.
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! 🤘🏼😎🔥🔥
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
After A Tuner, my Favorite Pedal is the EQD Dispatch Master. Because when you have an Amp you mostly have Gain and other stuff, but the Dispatch Master gives every sound Hall, Delay, Room, reverb and gives HiFi quality to your sound, no matter what you are going to play, it makes everything sound High Quality even Hums.
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.
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😁
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 $100.
@@alexander_winston Yeah Josh from JHS has proven that it's basically indistinguishable, you onlu want to hear a difference because it cost more. I'd recommend the bonsai because that gives you all the TS sounds for only 250$
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
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.
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)
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.
@@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
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)
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! :)
Ditto on the Revv G3. If I had to add another "never leaves my board" pedal to the list, I would say the JHS Morning Glory. That thing sounds great with any guitar or amp, or stacked with another drive, especially with all controls set at noon.
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.
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.
Analogman King of Tone, Diamond Memory Lane Junior, and honestly the Digitech Drop. Just so handy when playing tunes in Eb and I don't want to use a capo.
TC Electronics MojoMojo. Super useful and sounds great with a variety of settings. Personally, I dime the volume, kill the drive and treat it almost more like an EQ/compressor that is always on. It makes my clean tones really pop and makes it easier to have consistent volume from clean to dirt. I run it into a Tube Screamer followed by a distortion and this setup gives me all of the levels of dirt I need. I throw a wah in front, an EQ that I use as a boost in the back along with a delay and sometimes a phase right before the delay. Really happy with this setup. The MojoMojo specifically lets me get my sound through a wide variety of amps. Great for gigs where I won't be bringing my own backline.
You play beautiful man. You have so many guitars bro just wow is all i can say. I am picking up guitar at 30 and its a lot but I am enjoying myself and having fun and not taking it overly serious. Thanks to you and other youtubers for putting these types of videos and tutorials out to help evryone. I learned a lot. I had to watch it twice, i would love to put some of my synths on those pedals lmao. I could get lost in those pedals for days. Really resisting the urge to load up my cart on sweetwater. Must resist... must be mature...
The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Deluxe is my personal favourite pedal of all time. Just the way you can use it not just as a fuzz pedal for killer grungy Smashing Pumpkins tones, but it also makes for a filthy metal distortion pedal as well. It's the very first proper guitar pedal that I've ever had since I was a little child.
Digitech used to make a drive pedal called the “bad monkey tube overdrive” pedal. yes, that’s the actual name, look it up. they haven’t made it for years but you can find used ones floating around ebay and reverb if you look. worth checking it out if you find a video of it, it’s a nice drive that isn’t too aggressive, but just strong and sweet enough to nail a sweet 70s rock tone
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 🤷
My favourite is Fender Pugilist Distortion. It's got so much range from beautiful, saturated overdrive and near fuzzy tones to nice heavy distortion when feeding into a crunch setting on your amp.
My favourites, no particular order: Deluxe Memory Man, Boss DD3, Boss CE 2, Zendrive, Archer, Peterson Tuner, Boss CS2 compressor, Petrucci Wah, Strymon Bluesky, Tube Screamer Ibanez, Friedman BE Deluxe, and Big muff triangle (the new one is fine). Honorable mantions, Carbon copy, Boss Flanger, Strymon timeline, and of course the almighty Eventide H9
1 Strymon Riverside with noise gate set, EV5 expression,and Boost switch for 8 discernable sounds and blending any level of gain from On Switch and Favorite for infinite Gain blends. It's a beast. 2 New Ocean's 13 is wicked.. 3 Old standby? MXR Phase 90
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.
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.
Electro Harmonix Ocean's 11 Reverb sounds like what music I would make in my dreams, I love this pedal especially with Echoplex Delay, ahhhhh refreshing.
Done. Ibanez CS 505, chorus, circa 78. Ibanez/Maxon Bi-Chorus. Wilsons Stoned Grasshopper (OG). MXR, 2000 series stereo phaser and flanger. DLS Echotap. And a couple of cheapies, Zoom MS70CDR, for my synthesizers. And you can't beat a great loopstation, for instant gratification and songwriting. I also used to take my loopstation, down to my clinic. When I was working as a music therapist. I'm sure it's somebody else's turn by now. Lol. But there is more but yep that's enough. If I could only keep one pedal. Probably be the Wilsons. 1 interesting question which I've never found the answer too. I wonder what an acoustic guitar modeller, sounds like on a analogue synthesiser? 🙏💜🐈
Love my Pigtronix Octava…it is so much more than just a fuzzy octaver (though it does that great). It’s a clean boost, a clean octave, a light overdrive, nice fuzzy goodness,etc. Sitting near the front of my chain it is just so flexible and useful! My favorite pedal, though, is my Sherlock Amplifiers V3 two channel tube drive. It is the core of my tone. 🎶🎸
I feared before i got a BD-2 i would be disappointed cause i had been hyping it up to myself for like 6 years. but now that i got it, it honestly exceeds my expectations. favourite pedal
Lovepedal Super Six for low gain but monstrous tones. Also nice paired with the Lovepedal Invisible Man dirty boost. I definitely want to check out that Walrus reverb pedal, sounded lush and drippy. The Octava sounded great too.
Just got the lunar phaser! Took few seconds to dial it in. Absolutely awesome. Always had king Edward's phaser. This destroys it! Thanks for suggesting it.
That’s akin to choosing my favorite child. But I’ll give you a few. Boss CE-2W: Two of the best chorus circuits in one enclosure. Amazing. Just adds such a brilliant shine and makes your playing feel alive and lush. EHX Deluxe Memory Man/Stereo Memory Man: I don’t have the deluxe big box memory man yet but eventually I’ll get one. The percussive sounds when strumming, the unique way the repeats fade. I own a vintage stereo memory man and a deluxe memory man xo, I have the winning bid for a big box dmm so far, hopefully it wins, the demos I’ve heard are gorgeous. Keeley Loomer- Shoegaze in a box without having a signal chain that’s a mile long. You know it’s legitimate when Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine has one on his board. RYRA Klone- My favorite overdrive. I’ll never be able to afford a legitimate Klon but this is a fantastic recreation, best Klon Klone out there that stays true to the OG. Ram’s Head/Op Amp Big Muff- I own the reissues and I must say, they are the best fuzz pedals you can buy under $150. Wow. The raspy voice of the Ram’s head sounds so aggressive yet smooth. The op amp is smashing pumpkins Siamese dream in a box, what’s not to love?
My personal favorite pedal is my OCD, I’m not a great guitar player so I tend to play rhythm when I get to. I have an SG with a dirty fingers bridge pickup going through a Bugera V22 that I put a Mesa Black Cat (Celestion built) into with Russian tubes, it’s so crunchy and I love it!
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
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 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....
Top 12 of mine in no particular order: 1. GFS greenie classic 2. GFS brownie classic 3. MXR custom comp 4. Boss DD-5 delay (had it for 20 years still the best) 5. Prescription Electronics Experience pedal (I have a clone) 6. Boss LS-2 line selector (not the most fun pedal but really functional) 7. Morley classic wah 8. MXR talk box 9. Axion Tubulator 10. Pigtronix Infinity looper 11. Nektar Pacer midi controller 12. Boss HR-2 Harmonist
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.
Beetronics ROYAL JELLY! Four OD / Fuzz pedals in one box with the Queen & King sides and blue or red option for each side. Light overdrive / fuzz to full-on King BUZZ!
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.
The slow with the iron horse was just an insanely good tone
Ya my favorite
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.
Man so glad we made it on your list!!!! You rock!
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! 🤘🏼😎🔥🔥
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 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Boss CE-2W I had a CE2 when I was a younger. Can’t find it at my parents house anymore. Also had a Morley wah/volume/distortion. Loved it too.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
After A Tuner, my Favorite Pedal is the EQD Dispatch Master.
Because when you have an Amp you mostly have Gain and other stuff, but the Dispatch Master gives every sound Hall, Delay, Room, reverb and gives HiFi quality to your sound, no matter what you are going to play, it makes everything sound High Quality even Hums.
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. 🤘🏼🤠
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😁
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
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…❤️🔥🤘🏼😎👍🏼
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!
The riff at 11:05 sounds like a Frusciante riff, it's so beautiful
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.
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
6:25 that was the most epic power chord i've ever heard
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
I recently received my Boss HM-2W Heavy Metal Waza. Love the Swedish chainsaw!
i absolutely LOVE my death metal digitech pedal. absolutely magnificent
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
I lost track of this channel for years
Great to find it again
4:59 man absolutely nailed the lick
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)
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! :)
You should do a classical guitar vid
Ditto on the Revv G3. If I had to add another "never leaves my board" pedal to the list, I would say the JHS Morning Glory. That thing sounds great with any guitar or amp, or stacked with another drive, especially with all controls set at noon.
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 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.
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!
Analogman King of Tone, Diamond Memory Lane Junior, and honestly the Digitech Drop. Just so handy when playing tunes in Eb and I don't want to use a capo.
TC Electronics MojoMojo. Super useful and sounds great with a variety of settings. Personally, I dime the volume, kill the drive and treat it almost more like an EQ/compressor that is always on. It makes my clean tones really pop and makes it easier to have consistent volume from clean to dirt. I run it into a Tube Screamer followed by a distortion and this setup gives me all of the levels of dirt I need. I throw a wah in front, an EQ that I use as a boost in the back along with a delay and sometimes a phase right before the delay. Really happy with this setup. The MojoMojo specifically lets me get my sound through a wide variety of amps. Great for gigs where I won't be bringing my own backline.
Awesome video… that last PRS is stunning!!!
You play beautiful man. You have so many guitars bro just wow is all i can say. I am picking up guitar at 30 and its a lot but I am enjoying myself and having fun and not taking it overly serious. Thanks to you and other youtubers for putting these types of videos and tutorials out to help evryone. I learned a lot. I had to watch it twice, i would love to put some of my synths on those pedals lmao. I could get lost in those pedals for days. Really resisting the urge to load up my cart on sweetwater. Must resist... must be mature...
@5:52 I need to understand how the Epiphone broadway and the pedal combo work so well together!
The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Deluxe is my personal favourite pedal of all time. Just the way you can use it not just as a fuzz pedal for killer grungy Smashing Pumpkins tones, but it also makes for a filthy metal distortion pedal as well. It's the very first proper guitar pedal that I've ever had since I was a little child.
Digitech used to make a drive pedal called the “bad monkey tube overdrive” pedal. yes, that’s the actual name, look it up. they haven’t made it for years but you can find used ones floating around ebay and reverb if you look. worth checking it out if you find a video of it, it’s a nice drive that isn’t too aggressive, but just strong and sweet enough to nail a sweet 70s rock tone
Joyo Vintage Overdrive. Quality 25 dollar pedal for a beginner performer! Also I love playing around with the DITTO looper. Never gets old...
my favorite pedal right now is my big muff triangle reissue, it’s loud, it’s heavy, it’s the classic muff.
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 🤷
The Lex when he turns up the Rotor speed is just sexy, that’s the adjective, it’s so good
The guitar faces at 8:45 really say it all!! 😂
My favourite is Fender Pugilist Distortion. It's got so much range from beautiful, saturated overdrive and near fuzzy tones to nice heavy distortion when feeding into a crunch setting on your amp.
My favourites, no particular order: Deluxe Memory Man, Boss DD3, Boss CE 2, Zendrive, Archer, Peterson Tuner, Boss CS2 compressor, Petrucci Wah, Strymon Bluesky, Tube Screamer Ibanez, Friedman BE Deluxe, and Big muff triangle (the new one is fine). Honorable mantions, Carbon copy, Boss Flanger, Strymon timeline, and of course the almighty Eventide H9
1 Strymon Riverside with noise gate set, EV5 expression,and Boost switch for 8 discernable sounds and blending any level of gain from On Switch and Favorite for infinite Gain blends. It's a beast.
2 New Ocean's 13 is wicked..
3 Old standby? MXR Phase 90
Currently my fav is definitely the Jam Pedals Rattler. Sounds absolutely fantastic.
In the ones that I actually own, probably the BD-2. Classic but completely nuts!
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.
My Korg tuner. Had it for 20 years and still tunes my guitar perfectly
The slo in general sounds amazing but pair up with that intron horse, damn!! That will take you into a new dimension!!!
Electro Harmonix Soul Food Overdrive Pedal - brilliant for that Santana-esque saucy smooth drive
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.
My favourite MIW vid. Need the Petrucci wah bigtime baby. Yeah!
Electro Harmonix Ocean's 11 Reverb sounds like what music I would make in my dreams, I love this pedal especially with Echoplex Delay, ahhhhh refreshing.
I love the DL4 MkII. it has so much possibilities, delay, reverb, looper, and so much more
Done. Ibanez CS 505, chorus, circa 78. Ibanez/Maxon Bi-Chorus. Wilsons Stoned Grasshopper (OG). MXR, 2000 series stereo phaser and flanger. DLS Echotap. And a couple of cheapies, Zoom MS70CDR, for my synthesizers. And you can't beat a great loopstation, for instant gratification and songwriting. I also used to take my loopstation, down to my clinic. When I was working as a music therapist. I'm sure it's somebody else's turn by now. Lol. But there is more but yep that's enough. If I could only keep one pedal. Probably be the Wilsons. 1 interesting question which I've never found the answer too. I wonder what an acoustic guitar modeller, sounds like on a analogue synthesiser? 🙏💜🐈
Wow, the MXR 2000 series stereo phaser and flanger are my faves too. Rarely considered as such, i'm glad you agree,
Love my Pigtronix Octava…it is so much more than just a fuzzy octaver (though it does that great). It’s a clean boost, a clean octave, a light overdrive, nice fuzzy goodness,etc. Sitting near the front of my chain it is just so flexible and useful! My favorite pedal, though, is my Sherlock Amplifiers V3 two channel tube drive. It is the core of my tone. 🎶🎸
I feared before i got a BD-2 i would be disappointed cause i had been hyping it up to myself for like 6 years. but now that i got it, it honestly exceeds my expectations. favourite pedal
Lovepedal Super Six for low gain but monstrous tones. Also nice paired with the Lovepedal Invisible Man dirty boost. I definitely want to check out that Walrus reverb pedal, sounded lush and drippy. The Octava sounded great too.
My fave pedal? The Boss Blues Driver into a Fender tube amp with a touch of reverb. Classic and 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.
Just got the lunar phaser! Took few seconds to dial it in. Absolutely awesome. Always had king Edward's phaser. This destroys it! Thanks for suggesting it.
That’s akin to choosing my favorite child. But I’ll give you a few.
Boss CE-2W: Two of the best chorus circuits in one enclosure. Amazing. Just adds such a brilliant shine and makes your playing feel alive and lush.
EHX Deluxe Memory Man/Stereo Memory Man: I don’t have the deluxe big box memory man yet but eventually I’ll get one. The percussive sounds when strumming, the unique way the repeats fade. I own a vintage stereo memory man and a deluxe memory man xo, I have the winning bid for a big box dmm so far, hopefully it wins, the demos I’ve heard are gorgeous.
Keeley Loomer- Shoegaze in a box without having a signal chain that’s a mile long. You know it’s legitimate when Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine has one on his board.
RYRA Klone- My favorite overdrive. I’ll never be able to afford a legitimate Klon but this is a fantastic recreation, best Klon Klone out there that stays true to the OG.
Ram’s Head/Op Amp Big Muff- I own the reissues and I must say, they are the best fuzz pedals you can buy under $150. Wow. The raspy voice of the Ram’s head sounds so aggressive yet smooth. The op amp is smashing pumpkins Siamese dream in a box, what’s not to love?
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
My personal favorite pedal is my OCD, I’m not a great guitar player so I tend to play rhythm when I get to. I have an SG with a dirty fingers bridge pickup going through a Bugera V22 that I put a Mesa Black Cat (Celestion built) into with Russian tubes, it’s so crunchy and I love it!
I gotta get my hands on that copper sound lomma prieta
Impressive list! My primary pedals are the TS9 and the sky surfer
You have taught me much. Like, when I have my own channel, I need to take the battery out of my analog wallclock when recording.
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
That Revv g3 petal gave me chills down my spine
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.
Good stuff. You have a great broadcaster's voice.
Colour Box V2 is my favorite pedal on my board. I can sculpt so many different tones.
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....
Probably the chase bliss blooper... It's inspiring as f***, you'll wanna create just by looking at it.
Top 12 of mine in no particular order:
1. GFS greenie classic
2. GFS brownie classic
3. MXR custom comp
4. Boss DD-5 delay (had it for 20 years still the best)
5. Prescription Electronics Experience pedal (I have a clone)
6. Boss LS-2 line selector (not the most fun pedal but really functional)
7. Morley classic wah
8. MXR talk box
9. Axion Tubulator
10. Pigtronix Infinity looper
11. Nektar Pacer midi controller
12. Boss HR-2 Harmonist
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.
Earthquaker hoof/reaper. Absolute most evil fuzz in existence. Also the lick spotted at 4:58
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.
Ok, I never knew the PH-3 could do that. That's brilliant.
I use a joyo noise gate with a joyo vintage overdrive and love the tone !
Beetronics ROYAL JELLY! Four OD / Fuzz pedals in one box with the Queen & King sides and blue or red option for each side. Light overdrive / fuzz to full-on King BUZZ!
My God that tone at about 6min and 10 seconds I NEED THAT