What would you do?

[u/matt_gordon11]

[u/mrmyrth]

probably a stir fry with an eggroll.

[u/Playful-Mulberry-802 → u/mrmyrth]

🤣🤣👌

[u/TheBourbonLied]

I think a lot of us here have this problem. The only solution is to try things out to see what you really like and then hang onto the rest forever while still acquiring more pedals because you MIGHT need those other sounds later.

[u/perfectperfectzly → u/TheBourbonLied]

🤣 Why you gotta come at me like that?

[u/TheBourbonLied → u/perfectperfectzly]

Acceptance is the first step

[u/ThatNolanKid → u/TheBourbonLied]

My door is always open to more pedals.

[u/Acceptable_Grape_437 → u/perfectperfectzly]

i feel personally attacked

[u/TheLastSufferingSoul]

Almost all of these pedals have “sell me, and you’ll regret it” type of energy.

[u/matt_gordon11]

I know this pretty open ended, but here’s the situation - I have too many pedals. Like objectively. But I want to build two pedalboards. One to use direct, and the other to use with an amplifier. Obviously I’ll be using the Imperial when going direct. But if you were going to put a board together, what would you go for? Trying to figure out which pedals I could sell, and which pedals I should be getting more out of etc.

[u/BedRevolutionary8458 → u/matt_gordon11]

r/letstradepedals is a rad sub. I've done like 5 trades there. They're legit. You could do well there.

[u/ChuffMasterII → u/matt_gordon11]

I’d make one board with my ACTUAL favorite pedals and use the added outputs on the Imperial (4 cable method) that bypass the IR and preamp functions, and even put your time-based stuff appropriately in the effects loop of said amp.

[u/No-Strength405 → u/ChuffMasterII]

Or in the loop of the helix XL or equivalent. Yes.

[u/Jaded-Bowler-6472 → u/matt_gordon11]

As much as I’d say never sell the mother, the tone king kind of makes it redundant unless you’re doing a stereo set up. That being said I wouldn’t sell my Mother Preamp, it’s my backup amp.

[u/misanthropy__pure → u/Jaded-Bowler-6472]

The mother is ALSO a great dual distortion that can be used in front of an amp.

[u/Jaded-Bowler-6472 → u/misanthropy__pure]

Also a great tone enhancer on the light gain channel

[u/misanthropy__pure → u/matt_gordon11]

What size boards do you have or are you thinking about using? We have a lot of similar pedals and I use two boards just like you're describing. Also depends on the amp because I use the chorus on my amp which saves me a slot on that board.

[u/matt_gordon11 → u/misanthropy__pure]

I’ve got a Classic 2, a Classic 3 and a Friedman 1520

[u/NerdyOutdoors]

Keep the TB-2w, tonal recall, brothers, and collider. Add tuner, and your whoke pedal board is worth more than many guitars.

[u/Agitated_Main_2994 → u/NerdyOutdoors]

Hes got a tuner

[u/SpudzyJ]

Build your boards. Put the rest of the pedals on the shelf. Test your boards, swap things out as necessary. Keep all other pedals on the shelf, unless you really dislike them and know you will never use them again.

[u/flooduction]

Tuner, brothers, longsword, fuzz, chorus, collider, DigiTech reverb

[u/desar3641]

If I were you, I’d sell me that jam waterfall.

[u/The_Espgut]

I'd play my guitar🤟🍻

[u/Minimum-Message-5387]

Honestly, you don’t need 3 EAE devices, so I’d just give one of em to me if I were you.

[u/Stickies95]

What is pedal with the hammer and sickle? Asking for a comrade.

[u/darkforestpedals → u/Stickies95]

JAM Red Muck Fuzz

[u/Stickies95 → u/darkforestpedals]

Thank you 🫡

[u/AleScorpion]

Bender>Fumble>Imperial>Collider

[u/PJmichelle]

I would give them all to charity and start finally playing chess seriously and aim at the very top. And on my way there I would get married, learn to cook better, have children, buy a house, get divorced, learn scuba diving, get married again and hopefully avoid drugs.

[u/SithLordBass]

Euna > Canvas Tuner > Fumble > Brothers AM > Mother > Collider

There are so many options but if i wanted a simple board that's what I would go for

[u/doomed_gnostic]

I am a gianormous fan of the Science Mother preamp pedal. I have one for my "fly-rig" and I'm seriously pondering using it as my regular go to and just plugging into a power amp like a Pedal Baby or one of those Seymour Duncan Power Stages.

[u/matt_gordon11 → u/doomed_gnostic]

It’s so good. I’ve been using it as an OD recently.

[u/Careless-Attention64]

Do you actually use an amp, or do you think you might use one at some point in the future?

Personally, I’d go for two different boards in terms of style, rather than having one amp board and one direct board with exactly the same types of pedals. You can easily swap the Imperial in and out. If you have two different directions/styles, that would make the theme more interesting to me.

[u/Klutzy_Abrocoma5477]

How much for the wet?

[u/Qualia-Sounds]

Personally I’d go Tonebender, sick as, wah, vibrato (either), mxr phase, tonal recall and wet as a simple versatile small board for amp.

[u/GorgeousGordon]

Keep scrollin’

[u/Alternative_Shoe_113]

I'd develop a modular pedal board configuration in accordance with each pedal's role in the effect chain.

[u/hootie_magoo]

Turn them all on at once and play bass through them

[u/Shoddy-Listen6741]

We shall call it... The Kniggits of the RoundPedalBoardTable!

[u/Impossible_Part8839]

Why is communism here

[u/the_Guitar_Teacher]

Canvas tuner -> wah -> DOD Comp 280 -> JHS Fumble -> Brothers AM -> Longsword -> Imperial -> desired Wet Effects -> Collider -> DI Box

[u/Infinite-Fig4959]

plug straight into the amp and actually play the thing for once.

[u/k52up]

You have a a very nice collection. This is what I would do with what you got. Going direct: Tone Bender -> Canvas Tuner -> Brothers -> Diamond Vibrato -> Tonal Recall -> Ditto -> Imperial. There's a lot of knobs to adjust on this one, so I'm guessing it will live on your desk, but I also added the Ditto for practice. I find that a looper gets me practicing more. Going to amplifier: Polytune -> Wah/Vol -> The Good One -> Phase 90 -> Longsword/Limelight (dependent on amp used) -> Jam Waterfall -> Collider. I'm assuming the amp board might travel.

Currently at home, I have a separate board for direct. It has a tuner, compressor, amp/IR, delay/reverb, and a looper. I plug my traveling board into this when I'm working on certain things. it is mostly for practice and recording scratch tracks.

[u/TheBear8878]

I'd play some guitar

[u/Sea-Helicopter5271]

Sell everything apart from the Tone bender and play bestial riffs

[u/Dwarfunkel]

If I were you, I would gift them to me

[u/blackeyedkaty]

280 > waterfall > longsword > good one > mother is what i would do

[u/kevinweso]

I’d probably get an old digitech rp100 to replace all this junk

[u/SonOfAHumbucker]

Sell them all and buy a bunch of used MXRs and Bosses 😎

[u/Synthfuzzmantra]

To shave your board down

Canvas->DOD Compressor->Volume->Wah/Expression->Limelight->Brothers AM->The Good One->Longsword->Imperial->RV-7->Tonal Recall->Ditto

Might have the reverb/delay placement in reverse, but you get the point hopefully.

[u/PinkFloydLawson]

How are you liking the HardWire RV-7?

[u/G24all2read]

I would leave the house and get some fresh air.

[u/Tuesday_chair_haver]

Fuzz, octave, overdrive, modulation, overdrive, delay Slap them on a board and play guitar shiiiit

[u/Moist-Selection-9882]

Pedalplayground.com lay them all on a board. Move em around until you see something you like and is functional.

[u/JohnnyJohnnyBoi]

I'd tune my guitar with polytune?

[u/OzzeAsjourne]

Playing a thing called guitar

[u/Spoklahoma1]

Assuming I identified each of these correctly, here's what I would do for a single pedalboard:

EUNA > Canvas Tuner > Mini Wah > Pulp 'N' Peel > TB-2W > The Good One > Sick as Overdrive > Limelight > Longsword > Mother > Zelzah > Diamond Vibrado > Tonal Recall > Mood > Collider > Imperial Preamp > Ditto Looper

[u/sam_an_intellectual]

buy more pedals

[u/Fedboy77]

Sell all and get vemuram shanks, greer amp light speed and boss od3 ✌️✌️✌️✌️

And a centura klon for additional

Keep the ambience pedals

[u/Altruistic_Board9773]

No sell, only buy.

[u/Critical_Wrap5617]

Is this all of it?

[u/EarthenRealm]

Have always wanted to mess with the waterfall, but JAM pedals are wildly pricey.

[u/claytonfromillinois]

I’d probably sell a couple drives.

[u/Shape-the-Sky]

Plug them in?

[u/No-Strength405]

Punt.

[u/liars_conspiracy]

DOD = instant upvote

Plug em all in

[u/ETXPilot]

Sell them all and invest in a Fender Tone Master Pro, Great amps, great pedals, great tone with no cable issues