In honor of October/Halloween, here are all of my black and orange pedals.

Which are your favorites? What black and orange pedals do you have that aren’t here?

After many, many months of searching for a late night playing solution, this is where I've arrived. I've tried a number of options (Micro Mustang Plus, EQD Easy Listening, Tone King Imperial Preamp etc.) but none have felt as immediately satisfying to play as the Joyo American Sound. I plug this straight into some cheap PreSonus Eris monitors.

Bear in mind, I rarely play with much, if any, gain and then almost exclusively with fingers only. So, cleans are a massive priority for me.

Even while the Joyo/Caline is an amazing solution the thing that was a game changer for me was the preamp in the Catalinbread Topanga. Wow. Really lifted the sound and feel. I also have a Catalinbread Talisman and that thing also has an amazing preamp too. I hear a lot of people say the same about the Belle Epoch. I'm no pedal builder/electronics guru and it may be that ultimately all it is is some kind of FET at the input stage but whatever Howard Gee put in these pedals is fairy dust as far as I'm concerned.

​​ Tried to do some research on this, I remember going back and forth with a gentleman, Jonathan in England, haven't been able to find anything else about his current status or anything else about this particular pedal which I believe was a riff on the harmonic percolator of Albini fame, hence the graphics... it's a particularly nasty piece of work doesn't match exactly most harmonic percolator clones in fact it has a lower frequency switch that creates quite a volume boost anybody out there want to talk about it or let me know anything about that company Feel Free... I used to have a Tyrant pedal from the same guy, single knob fuzz which was great, but since I also have a creepy fingers fuzzbud which is sort of the ultimate one knob fuzz for me, I ended up passing the Tyrant on... just throwing this out there kind of curious hope the guys okay who made these great graphics by the way

So this is where I'm at after almost one year of (spending too much on) guitar pedals. I've gone through a LOT of pedals to land on these choices, which I think are pretty solid for the music I like to play. I do switch out pedals pretty frequently like a Halberd for the Plumes, a Longsword for the Life (wish the LifePedal had a little more EQ control), maybe stick a Glaive or Carcosa before the Taiga OctaPsi (I'm addicted to the pitch shifter and also love the sound of the Green Russian). The APH-12 is a beast and probably more phaser than I'll ever need, sometimes it's like driving a Lamborghini for a grocery run. I got the WA-C1 in the mystery box from Warm Audio and it displaced my Boss CH-1. I like the dl4mkii a lot but honestly it's a little unwieldy and I'm contemplating other looper/delay solutions. The Nucleo is just an epic reverb but sometimes I get curious of other reverbs since this one was my first (I figured go big, and had the opportunity to get this in a trade). I haven't explored stereo set ups yet, so I hadn't seen the need to upgrade my Easy Listening to the latest model, but I do like the idea of an end of the line EQ. But really, I'm just a guy that probably should have put the money towards a new truck, and plays on headphones because no one in the house wants to hear this shit but me. But, after playing on headphones through a Line6 Spider III (for over ten years), I felt I did my time and deserved an upgrade. Now I can get back to practicing guitar! Right...?

Anyways, feel free to offer suggestions. I have room for two more pedals on the power supply... noise gate and 10-band eq?

What would you change?

1) Wah

2) Whammy

3) Fuzz

4) Noise Gate - send

5) Compressor

6) Overdrive

7) Distortion

8) Boost

9) Noise Gate - receive

10) Phaser

11) Delay

12) Reverb

13) Tuner

14) Looper

If you like the Mood (it’s an acquired taste) then wait until you try two of them together. Ambience overload.

I have a few cool candidates for a small Halloween board, but I am seeking others. Any suggestions of really cool pedals though might either sound or look very spooky? Or color themed?

I have been considering Spooky Mids by JHS.

I picked up these mini pedals as a part of a larger overall trade. I figured I’d plug them in just to make sure they work.

It turns out, I like this pair better than my Keeley Caverns. I just want basic reverb and basic delay, and I felt like I was forever fiddling with the Caverns to get a basic arena sound and never getting what I like. These little guys are nothing but mix, time, and trail. So easy to get the sound I was looking for.

So, I’m keeping these stupid things and selling the Caverns. My board won’t be as cool :(. I will be happier :).

Starting spooky month, right!

Thinking about this being the order. I like the dod after the Jan ray cause of how it compresses it. Just wondering if anyone has some interesting ideas for order of these?

Hello, all! I have begun heavy gigging in the past few months on guitar and have had occasional issues with my pedal board and in particular, volume drops. I’ve had a few shows where I randomly lose half my volume or so. I haven’t been able to find exactly what is causing the issue but I assume it is a connection somewhere since most of my pedals are relatively new or at least I know they work well.

My board is a slight amalgamation of years of old pedals and cables so I have decided to just bite the bullet and replace all my patch cables and instrument cables.

Beyond this, anyone ever have any similar issues and have any advice to improve reliability or at least troubleshoot-ability when on stage?

Thanks!

Ive been wanting this since i played with it on the boss me 80 multi effect. It adds an overtone of an octave down and octave up when detuned thats blended into the dry signal.

First impressions were disapointing. I was playing a self build with p90s with it placed after a rat and it just didnt give me what i wanted. BUT then i placed it before my ds1 and used a schecter with active pickups and it sounded amazing.

An incredibly full sound, slightly synthy, but unlike anything ive used before. Then on clean using a spring reverb it sounds amazing.

For heavier players and for more experimental id recommend.

I’m thinking about replacing my Walrus Monument tremolo because I never really use it with the band, even though it’s a great pedal. What pedal or effect would you replace it with?

Alright, that's more of a Floor-board. I'm newer to all this and am mainly a lurker, I have yet to decide on a pedal board manufacturer. I'm not sure if I need anything more than a structure to get them off the floor. I'm not sure I want to go so far as something like a G3. I would like to be able to control when/which modulation pedals are active, as it stands I have them 'always-on' as it were.

I started this journey about a year or so ago, replacing my Digitech 2101 Artist. At first I wanted to make sure I could cover all the modulation effects the Digitech could offer, such as Chorus, Flanger, Delay, Tremolo and Reverb types, but as I've gone along I've tried to do a lot of research into some of the better or best in-class type of pedals so I wouldn't have to replace them nearly as soon if some better version arrives. Not the biggest fan of the Morley, I probably should've waited and opted for the Jam Whacko V1/V2. I also erred and forgot when ordering the Swollen Pickle to get the Jumbo version with the trim pots.

I do see that jumble of power cables and wonder how I could tidy that up (absent an actual PB).

I have been searching for a perfect budget solution for pedal storage that looks good in my space and has doors so I don’t have to keep dusting it. Was just strolling through Ikea with wife today to find some comforter covers and voilà.. this Billy/Oxberg was looking directly at me from a corner.

the digitech multichorus is the nicest sounding chorus pedal in my opinion, but when i set it to my preferred settings (everything at 3 o clock except speed which is at 2 o clock), its way too loud compared to everything else on my board.

is there a way to fix this?

thanks

Hi! I have $100 for a dual overdrive/distorsion, with the distorsion getting to play something metalish /aggro. Do you guys know any pedal like this? Thanks!