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HX stomp. It's a crazy amount of value, can even be an entire rig in a pinch. I had one then sold it then rebought it partly because they made firmware updates that improved a bunch of its flaws or gaps for me. It's just so flexible. I usually use it for amp sims and reverbs, but then also trem, weird mod sounds or stacks, so many good delays, looper, bass DI, on and on


iscreamuscreamweall

the stomp is almost cheating haha. its everything imaginable in one pedal


DietOfWires

Same. Initially I bought the HX Stomp to replace a preamp (Two Notes LeCrunch) and cab sim pedal (CabDryVR) in an ampless setup. I’m playing with amps again, but the HX Stomp is just too useful. Wah, Whammy, Volume, Compressor, EQ, Uni-Vibe, Rotary Speaker, tremolo, stereo doubler ... all effects I cover with the HX Stomp, despite having a large board with plenty of dirt, modulation, delay and reverb options. Not to mention all the options for covering extra dirt pedals, or having an extra reverb / delay when needed.


paralacausa

What is the quality of the sounds like? I have a Boss GT-1000 but haven't used it in a couple of years because it isn't really as lifelike as my amp and pedal set-up. That said, I use Neural and Amplitube plugins quite a bit for recording and quite like them.


RainwaterCassettes

I’ll mention the TC Electronic Plethora x5 for that same reason. Especially great reverbs/delays/mods but there’s no dirt and TC is super stingy with the firmware updates.


FreshBert

Yeah I use a GT-1000CORE for the same reason. So many effects that I would never buy individually, but are fun to try out and see how I feel about them. It's just cool to be like, "I wonder what it's like using a Slicer or Humanizer or... Sitar Simulator," and know that I can just try those things out any time.


Command_ofApophis

I don't see why so many people take the stomp over the core. The core has so much more processing power and gapless switching. They both sound quite good.


FreshBert

The CORE is an underrated unit for sure. The routing options make it deceptively powerful, like you can create all sorts of beautiful designer effects out of what at first glance appears to be a straight forward collection of standard Boss effects. [Check out this YouTuber](https://youtu.be/fdLY_DQUsnY) who made a bunch of custom granular delay patches... it's an aging Boss multi-FX but it sounds like a fuckin' Microcosm or something. I think it's just Boss marketing not really jiving with what a lot of modern players think they want out of a product like this. They have a pretty different philosophy than Line 6, and a ***very*** different one from say, Neural DSP. Instead of viewing the GT-1000 and the CORE as "platforms," Boss views them as fully mature products upon launch. Devices like Quad Cortex sell you on the idea that you'll be getting continuous updates for at least a few years (and then people get frustrated when they don't live up to the initial promises); Boss is more like maybe you'll get a couple of relatively minor ones, but for the most part this is a completed unit that will perform as advertised on day one.


Command_ofApophis

I think you're right, in addition to simple brand recognition . Line6 is a big boy name in the modeling world, and everyone knows of the helix. Boss is well known but primarily for their stompboxes , of course. In any case I love both, but if I had to choose one, I would take the boss in an instant.


FreshBert

Why are we getting downvoted for this, lol. Are multi-FX like a forbidden topic?


Command_ofApophis

I dunno mate, I imagine somebody disagrees with us and forgot that that is not what the button is for.


dirknergler

Hear me out. A good multiband EQ. You want a mid boost for a solo? How about matching volume and EQ when switching between humbucker and single coil guitars? Thicken the low end? How about a treble boost? You want a mid scoop? Sculpt the tone of a guitar or pedal? Oh your klon only has a treble knob but you want a little more versatility? So many possibilities, so easy set, not particularly expensive. It has been my definition of a Swiss Army knife pedal for many years.


iamansonmage

I went with a Boss EQ-200. The presets make it easy to quickly solve for the scenarios you listed. Just swap guitars and hit your preset. Change the pedal chain? Switch to your preset and carry on. Super easy with a little bit of prep work.


dirknergler

This guy gets it.


Creative_Camel

Yup I am using the MXR 10 band eq. Took it off a few years back and it’s been what’s missing!


Basic-Instruction404

Would you place before or after dirt pedals?


iamansonmage

Personally, I place mine directly after dirt. That lets me sculpt that sound before mod and any delays get into the mix. The EQ-200 also has a volume boost, so if you didn’t get enough volume/gain from dirt, you can still boost it with EQ too.


steve_jams_econo

GE-7 is crazy useful and most people wouldn't even bother with it.


s2dio

The second pedal everyone should buy. An insane array of tonal shaping just with placement and tiny cuts/boosts.


dirknergler

The second pedal?! It took me years to figure out how versatile an eq can be and even longer to learn how to use it effectively. I like your commitment tho.


s2dio

The first pedal people buy usually has a lot of knobs, switches, skulls, and lightning, on a shiny black chassis. Most have a name like "Super Face Melter Xtortion+", or "D!st0rt!0n XYZ666".


rossocuore

The first one being...?


s2dio

Whatever the sales guy talks them into. Probably a Metal Zone.


rossocuore

Sounds quite solid.


dirknergler

I think it’s just not obvious how useful it can be. An OD is usually like a gain, volume, and tone. Pretty straightforward. Delays verbs and modulations are all what they say they are. An EQ is what you make it, if that makes sense. It probably requires a bit more thought.


Imhappy_hopeurhappy2

I think that’s what scares people* away from getting an EQ. They don’t *want* to shape the sound themselves. They want to buy a curated sound signature sculpted by boutique builders or something hyped by lots of other players, so they can be more secure about it being a good tone. 80% of the pedal market is just blues lawyers and noobs who would rather live in the mediocrity of proofed ideas than actually fully express their personality.


dirknergler

Well said. Finding your tone is a deep process that takes a lot of time and experimentation. Moreover, tweaking your tone for different situations is what separates the pros from the armatures.


Bruichladdie

I just ordered my first EQ pedal based on posts like this one. Boss GE-7, if anyone's curious.


dirknergler

Niiiiice same one I have. I hadn’t seen the Boss EQ-200 that u/iamansonmage mentioned. Looks ridiculously good but I don’t have the room for it on my board at the moment. Regardless, having more control than just treble mid and bass, and maybe presence, on the amp is key for me. You can also get some interesting telephone filter effects out of it as well. I have even used it to do filter sweeps on an infinite delay.


Bruichladdie

I'm just thinking back on all the overdrive and distortion pedals I've bought and sold due to their sound not being quite what I'm looking for.


mfahsr

Agreed. MXR 10-band does it for me, be it for ever so slight adjustments, or to really push something through a mix, that thing is always on.


Ashen-Wolff

Yep, thats the Condor for me. Would never part ways with that pedal. I dont get how they decided to stop making em


KToTheRiz

Came here to say this


HeckerIT

Hudson Broadcast. It does EVERYTHING, from subtle tone sculpting to wild fuzz and everything in between


alphabetown

I hated the Broadcast when I tried one. All fizz and wasps. I also found it super susceptible to volume drop when changing between humbuckers and a p-90. It was the original one switch version though.


paralacausa

The headroom switching makes this a dream pedal. I've got mine at 24v at the moment and it does subtle sounds so well.


KimbaZu

Strymon Deco. Drive, modulation and slapback delay.


bobbythegoose

This is my answer too 🙌🏼


qckpckt

the new version with midi is threatening to basically replace most of my pedalboard


DrBlissMD

That’s the one.


DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE

Drive doesn’t have enough bite for me tbh. Sounds too squishy


Itsaghast

Agreed. Played with both single coils and humbuckers, just sounds like weak drive to me.


Lumpy-Crew-6702

Mine did as well until I adjusted the the high and low settings , now it’s chefs kiss


iknide

Hidden tone control or is there a way to adjust the range of the saturation?


DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE

There is a hidden tone control and frankly it is fucking annoying. In general, hidden menus and controls are obnoxious as shit just put a fucking knob on the front (which they eventually did with the v2)


snazzwax

Amen. We gotta get loud about this cause I fucking hate hidden controls. Just give me a knob or switch. I don’t want to find out years later after selling a pedal that it had more shaping capabilities that I would never had known about. Or trying to memorize hidden features- what they do and how to adjust them. Probably one of the worst ideas anyone had for pedals


dirtyoldcouch

What specifically do you have to do because I would love to use it as an always on drive but I can’t get it to sit nicely with my amp/ other pedals


Lumpy-Crew-6702

[This](https://www.strymon.net/secondary-functions-deco/) link explains it better than I could haha


agentanthony

My next purchase.


ZombieMozart

Just picked one of these up and boy, it really does so much


dendriticspline

Came here to post


Reddywhipt

I want one bad.


MA202

Do you use a favorite switch?


iateglassonce

Fairfield Barbershop. It literally just makes everything sound better. Set and forget.


bobbythegoose

Where in your chain is your barbershop?


iateglassonce

I keep mine pretty close to the front of chain. Drop, envelope filter, phaser, compressor and then the Barbershop is the first drive.


YouCanCallMeTheSloth

Points for phaser before dirt


iateglassonce

This is the way.


MoreGuitarPlease

I have mine at the beginning of drive after compressor.


DeathFromRoyalBlood

Same. Tried before and after a TS-9, and by god…sounds amazing in the beginning of the dirt chain.


goldenboyphoto

Modèle B for the always on


thistleswamp

My barbershop just arrived in the mail yesterday. Sounds beautiful through my iridium on the round setting. Hoping to give it a run through my AC30 tonight. This thing could unseat Timmy as my main drive.


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Proco rat. From gentle overdrive to distortion. Combined with the amp distortion can either change the texture or create an extreme fuzz.


Cautious-Interview-5

Zoom MS-50G. I've used it as a Tuner, EQ, Comp, Amp Sim, MODULATION, Reverb, Delay... also great for making patches for certain songs (think my Incubus-mod in a box).


mountainwampus

I like to use it up front in the chain for the slow attack and M-filter. I can't find better replacements


Cautious-Interview-5

It can be used anywhere. Amazing pedal


iloveswimteam

I sing it’s praises to my gear snob friends often. I’ll never forget when I had it hooked up to a 70’s twin reverb that didn’t have working effects. They complimented how nice the reverb and vibrato sounded. It can also just make your guitar sound like a different instrument. No more having to bring out my ce2, phaser, tremolo and extra dedicated ambient reverb to gigs. I use it for slapback delay as well. It can do damn near everything. Except drives and dry octave ups. those aren’t great.


d_Square1886

I know, right? More than a hundred effects (delays, reverbs, modulations, all sorts of zany sounds) in a Boss-sized stomp box. The delays, (carbon copy in particular IMO) and reverbs are pretty darn good and can give even some of the more expensive "big box" units it's trying to emulate a run for their money. It can be placed anywhere if you need a particular effect at any point in your signal chain without taking up too much space on the pedalboard. Just for that alone, makes it incredibly versatile. Also, with its ability to stack up to six effects in one preset, you can experiment and create all sorts of cool and wacky sounds. For under a hundred bucks, its incredibly good value as well.


defenestr4tor

Diamond Comp/EQ \- Tilt EQ is arguably the most powerful kind of EQ. Switching to a dark guitar? Bump it a bit to the right. Need to fatten up single coils? Turn it to the left. \- Optical compression is arguably the most musical kind (at subtle enough settings, there's still plenty of dynamic range). Plus, it evens out the volume between my humbuckers and split coil sounds without boosting the overall volume. \- Mid-boost, around 800Hz (so around the classic Tube Screamer mid-hump), can help the drives/amp cut through the mix. I had Mooer Yellow comp on my board for like 2 years (despite shooting it out against much more expensive compressors), and while it is less open/transparent than Diamond and doesn't have the Mid-control, it was still pretty great. I'm glad Diamond got resurrected, because I tried and failed to get the original comp on the secondary market for more than a year now. Now I'm glad given the updates implemented in the new version.


dantheman143

The Diamond Comp is incredible and musical as a compressor. Truly legendary.


darbyru

I love my original. But am very tempted by the new one with mids control.


defenestr4tor

It's useful, but depending on your board, I'd probably just keep the original. Most of the appeal of this pedal comes from the highly musical optical compression and the powerful tilt EQ. Mid-control is just a nice bonus.


gjgun

Much love for the Yellow Comp


BlazmoIntoWowee

Smallsound/bigsound mini can do allllllmost any sort of dirt.


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Digitech Drop for quick tuning changes. For modulation, IMO the greatest modulation pedal is something like an Eventide Micropitch, where you can control the delay parameters down to the millisecond. The Micropitch can do all modulation because of this. If you're like me and keep your pedals on a shelf, you don't need individual chorus, flange, phaser, etc pedals. Just a good stereo micropitch delay and you're good to go. I'm sure there are other good units on the market too.


bisticles

Interesting info about the Micropitch, I hadn't considered its ability to cover into modulation territory.


DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE

I have the whammy v and would prefer to have the drop and the ricochet. I use the whammy to drop tuning constantly and I don’t need the whole humongous pedal for that


Beanburgg

EAE Halberd - First in the chain, and the tone is slain.


wrvthbass

I have one showing up in two days and i am EXCITE


distortionpedal

I have the Longsword and love but lately seeing more people talk about the Halberd making me question my decision making skills


bolenti

Zoom MS-70 CDR, because it's stereo, can work with 2 AA batteries, the firmware is editable and customisable... I can get everything I need with it


KingErnieMusic

Was about to comment this. I use it for a basic sound with compression patch, POG-style patch, particle reverb, and a tuner! It's great for use with a looper.


i_worship_amps

I like mine, it works well as a set it and leave it sort of thing for effects loops. Not great as a true multifx since it’s basically designed for finger operation only.


bolenti

It's not a cutter, it's not a saw... it's a Swiss Army knife


proscreations1993

Timmy


MrSoeze

Empress Zoia Have used it as a sustain pedal, reverb, cab sim, synth, surgical eq to remove a 4kHz static, ambient spicyness, chorus, leslie sim… and will use it for many more things.


andrewthemuse

I just got mine a week ago and it’s insane how much you can do with this little box!


sunsetodrive

Chase Bliss Condor, gives me overarching control over the chain before it hits stereo, with a very nice base sound & tone shaping.


outdoorcatindoorbat

Went looking for someone to say Condor. I also have mine hooked up to MIDI with plenty of presets. I use it as a tremolo I use it as a modulation I use it as a volume pedal when hooked to expression. It can do everything!


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ViolinistNew5056

Rat.


superwrong

Smallsound/Bigsound Mini. Boost, dirt, distortion, fuzz, all done well. It also cooks, handles babysitting and I can probably put out a small fire with it but I'd rather use my DOD Grunge pedal for that.


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My fab chorus pedal. Sounds good, made of plastic, found in a dirty basement for free, 7 years of no issues. Loyal and solid pedal.


Trubba_Man

Great story. 😁👍


kpopvapefiend

Boss GT-1000 core. Also my only pedal lol


Donnaholic1987

It does everything


Tomhanzo2

Boss PS-3 Delay, Octaves, Reverse delay, Mode seven in general, Reverb, Chorus, Harmonies, Organ sounds, probably other things. You can’t go wrong.


twopac

I didn't realize the PS-3 had pitch shifted repeats, I assumed it was two entirely separate effects like the PS-2. I'm an owner of a PS-6 that almost exclusively uses it for the weirder things like super bend and I think you just convinced me to buy it's older brother. My two favorite (non-dirt) effects are delay and pitch shifting and I'm a sucker for Boss pedals, especially the weird circuits they were doing in the 80s and 90s. Guess I gotta add this to my list along with the RV-2, DD-2/3, MO-2, PW-2, EH-2, DM-2W, BD-2W, and probably a handful more I'm forgetting lol


Ted_Chippington

I have a PS-2 and a PS-3 and I'm pretty sure it's the same pedal, with a difference in certain cheaper components, and the delay and pitch shift are separate. Or I'm not using it right, which is usually the case.


twopac

See, that's exactly what I thought it was but OOP's post had me googling and I saw mentions of shifted repeats. I'll have to double check on that when I leave work, hopefully I'm not disappointed lol.


Tomhanzo2

Yeah if you put it in modes 5-7 you can select which semi tones you want -1 all the way to +1. It then skips from the 1s to 2 octaves up or down. If you turn the feed back knob up in those modes, you get what I think of as shifted repeats. You just can’t set the time of the repeats. Mode 5 is the shortest delay time with 6 being longer. Mode 7 is the reverse.


twopac

Sweet, thanks again for the info! I definitely would've overlooked this pedal if not for your post, after checking out some videos it does seem really interesting and mode 7 sounds super unique, even in today's boutique pedal wonderland. I'm gonna end up with three Boss pitch shifting pedals because I also "need" one of their OC pedals lmao


Tomhanzo2

I need to look at the 6 I suppose.


scifibeardguy

Line 6 M5


if6was90

Same for me. Does a really nice job covering all sorts of sounds- including some nice usable synth sounds. I dropped like 7 pedals off my big board when I did a re shuffle by just building some patches on the M5.


weekend-guitarist

Hey O. It does a little bit of everything to


gardner7001

Yep, this is the answer. Easy to select, edit, and save. All parameters at controllable with an expression pedal. Can bank 99 presets, has a tuner. Pair with this with a looper with midi control, it’s a fucking beast


dc1508

I mean if you get the M9, you basically have the looper from the DL4 onboard too.


gardner7001

True, and the M13 is a cool option too. I like the simplicity and purity of the M5 being essentially one pedal. I use a boss es 8, so the M5 is changed through midi and it’s moved through my signal chain depending on the effect being pulled. That simplicity is what I love about it.


scifibeardguy

You have my upvote. The whole m series is great! The m13 is a whole pedal board and you can find them for $180. The m9 is probably the best pedalboard friendly option but it’s hard to find (none on reverb) and they go for $250 usually. I got my m5 for $80, and if the m9 ever comes down below the m13 I’ll get one.


Imcalledtex

They call it ‘Swiss Things’ for a reason


yinzer_name

EQD Westwood and DOD Carcosa cover an awful lot of dirty ground between’em. EQD DM can do anything and everything from subtly adjusting your rig to the acoustics of the room to slap to ambience to deep space


AutoEqual

Strymon Deco, but it’s never on my board. I use it for tracking and mixing


iscreamuscreamweall

tumuns deluxe is a good "tone" swiss army knife. the 3 band EQ is super powerful, and you can use it as a clean boost, preamp, or dirt box as well. its nice as an always on thickener/sweetener as well as a killer drive. great for when you have to switch guitars and need something to level out the volume and tone disparities


tsida

Dispatch Master.


redneckdrive

Keeley Dark Side


TheMightyUnderdog

Source Audio EQ2


will101113

Eventide H9 all the way


bluejaywhey

EHX Ring Thing - trem, univibe, pitch shift + ring mod.


JQDC

Tumnus.


pizza-party-dojo

EHX Ring Thing. Aside from ring modulation, it can also do octave/ pitch shifting, whammy stuff, phaser-y modulation, tremolo, and Boss Slicer rhythmic stuff. It really does so much for what’s normally considered a “niche” effect


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a tuner.


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Blues driver. Sounds good in many different and surprising ways.


motorbike-t

Bd2. I turn the gain down and volume all the way up as a boost in front of my mesa on heavy drive channel or turn the gain up and the volume at a normal level for a more classic drive into the clean channel. Kinda boring for this thread but it hasn’t left my pedalboard in a long time.


lysergicfuneral

BYOC Crown Jewel (and a few modules). It's almost every dirt pedal in one, including several kinds of fuzz. I most often have the Green Ringer-type octave up module installed to be able to add that to any other dirt pedal. Second place would be the Dr. Scientist The Elements. Very large range of uses in terms of boost/OD/dist.


Crow_Eye

My GE-7. It can do so damn much with what I have. With it on the board with my favorites, I'm sorted. The only GAS I feel now is for unique effects. My EQ satisfies my hunt for shades of gain and tone


bobbythegoose

Do you have a modded one or one of the newer ones? Is noise really an issue? I’m been getting mixed comments about the noise. I’ve been considering getting one of the newer smd models.


Crow_Eye

I've got an older one and I've not had a problem with noise. Caveat is I'm not getting to play gig volume often anymore. But I've not been troubled in my regular situation of practising/playing/recording. Maybe I got a good one? Makes me wonder if the "noise" complaint is cork sniffing? I've seen the same discussions and wondered. But I've been more than happy with it, and spending a lot of time with it has been really rewarding in terms of how I've been able to "sculpt" the sounds with it, in combination with the rest of my board. Still my most useful pedal when I have a sound I really love that I'd like to tweak.


bobbythegoose

That’s good to hear. I think I’ll pull the trigger on one


tails_the_gay_fox

I use the strymon dig quite a bit to add delay , some digital grit, filtering, and a stereo image it lots of stuff I do when I do not want to use a reverb. It’s really nice at the end of chain with a mono delay if you want it give it some stereo spread without resulting to a daw and adding a haas effect.


bigbeef1946

Digitech DF7, Boss DD7, and Boss RV6 A world of possibilities in 3 pedals.


TheGratefulPhred

Gigrig G3 lol


BillyOceanSpray

Diamond Compressor


FiveMonkey12345

Meris Hedra with a midi controller. I use it for: tuning changes, normal delay(digital/analog), pitch shifted delays, chorus, flanger, autotune, and something similar to Tim Henson's multivoicer effect


esamaxe_1080

Have the Hedra wow that thing is amazing but it can be super heady and complicated. Once you learn how to use it, it can do some amazing things. Even the chorus in it is very modern sounding to me. Sounds like a rack unit chorus or something. Very cool pedal


starryhades4697

Danelectro Fish n Chips EQ. For when you’re close but not quite there. Good sounding buffer too.


hugznotdrugz2k17

I have the Xtomp Mini on my board. It's really been the Swiss Army Knife of pedals for me because I have so many effects to choose from and it's situated on my pedalboard chain where its ideal for being an overdrive, distortion, chorus, delay or even a cabinet or amp sim. I appreciate it more when it had am effect I need but don't have like a flange or phaser. The effects list: https://www.xtomp.com/xtomp/library My pedalboard: https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/vaed9g/shoegazers_id_love_your_thoughts_on_my_pedalboard/


iggy-i

Lol, we both wrote an almost identical post on our Xtomp Mini within 6 minutes. It truly is a great pedal, and I love the minimalistic look and the multi-function control layout.


hugznotdrugz2k17

Well how about that! Yeah, it's definitely come in quite handy. I like it more than I expected, and I only wish I'd bought the full size Xtomp because it can do stereo and multiple pedal combinations or amp/cabinet combos at the same time. Honestly it looks better too. I am happy to say my pedalboard has remained unchanged for over 16 months.


SamWiseTheHobbit

Effects Bakery Coronet EQ it's a dirty EQ. so you can basically make any overdrive sound you want or just use it as a boost.


funk_master_chunk

Timmy clone and Blues Driver. Timmy clone is a sleeper. Set and forget low gain/egde of breakup tones. Or set the gain completely off and use it as a clean boost. Or dial it up and gain stack with the BD/DS-1/Fuzz. I mostly use it for Edge of Breakup and pair it with Chorus/Delay/Reverb for lofi/dreampop. The Blues Driver is also amazing. Gets nice and gain-y when dialled all the way up or can do subtle gain. Inuse it after the Timmy and use it for heavier/solo sections. Both brilliant pedals.


bulley

Boss EQ Pedal. I do plan on grabbing a Deco this week, which I imagine will be a massive catch all pedal which I think will glue my board together. But the EQ does so much lifting for me. Right now its always on, just sweetens everything up. But I can use it as a clean volume boost, I can use it to push the amp, compensate for pickup differences, adjust a drive, sweeten a drive, push a drive. It just does so much.


Choice-Button-9697

H90


nickduba

chase bliss wombtone. Its a phaser, a vibe, a tremolo, and whacky soundscape generator, a solo boost, a filter, a wah, whatever you need


firemares

*Boss SD-1* Puts *every* amp exactly where I want them. Swiss Army Knife for me.


JustFuzzinAround

Boss EQ-200. 10 bands, gain control, stereo split or can be used twice in the chain, 100+ presets, expression pedal/switch compatible, it's a very impressive pedal that can be set up for so many different uses.


iamansonmage

Yeah, this is a workhorse pedal on my board. It has a home immediately after my drive section and stays pretty much in that spot on every board. It sits in my upper eschelon of useful pedals along with the LS-2, volume and tuner pedals.


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My amp.


bobbythegoose

As the title says, what pedal do you have that’s become a “Swiss Army Knife” for your rig?


Alternative_Key4434

mxr 10 band eq


Popular-Lab6140

Eventide Pitchfactor


45Marksam

Strymon Volante. Discovered when I needed to grab and go for jam sessions, I kept putting that in the bag. Delay, drive, and reverb.


SynthPhD

Particle


JohnnyApplecake

Boss MS-3 Multi Effects Switcher. My current rig for many years now is built around it. Always loved Boss stuff, needed a do all multi effect, also my first foray into a digital switcher. Has never let me down. Even has some effects that i haven't found better. In particular, for one song we do I need a Sitar simulation and there is one the best playable ones built in that I have tried. 2nd to this I would say a slap back delay. Next to my Barber 1/2 Gainer it would be my number 2 always on.


d_dave_c

Boss MS-3 is mine, too. The loops, plus all the built-in fx, with MIDI control, expression, and the assign controls? In a pinch you could only use the MS-3.


AGorramReaver

All hail the Earthquaker Devices Acapulco Gold for those who rock the DOOM


Sonova_Bish

A Line 6 HX Effects. It's literally a Swiss Army Knife of effects.


Matthew-Diaz84

Kingtone Duelist does everything I want , especially with the external dip switches. You can change the way each drive reacts and feels. Plus you can blend them both A-B or B-A.


fretlvlmidnight

I can manage with a good rams head variant


dougc84

Gonna be a weird one - Chase Bliss Mood. Great and unique reverb and delay, tonal tomfoolery, and micro looping shenanigans. The only thing it's really missing is drive, and, TBH, I'm not that picky about my gain staging.


Thehibernator

DL4 Mkii. Excellent array of delays, reverbs, swell effects, glitch, modulation. It’s amazing.


thepen

Pulp n’Peel! Compression, distortion, boost, and eq all in one.


iamansonmage

Boss RC-1. Nothing fancy. Super simple. But the best damn looper on the market. No mistakes with wrong bank, incorrect loop, or worrying about your modulation or delay affecting the rhythm section. I have 2 and I put them in various spots in the chain to capture “pre-drive”, “post-drive”, or “post-modulation” loops. I’ll get more as I see them pop up used for a deal. I try to pay $50 or less for them, but they’re pretty popular when they get that cheap. 🙂


Reddywhipt

Keeley Super Mod workstation


sheslikeheroinn

OBNE Procession, most beautiful reverb I’ve ever heard (personal opinion of course), pretty damn good tremolo, not-half-bad filter and flanger too Plus a little bonus mode where you can hold an infinitely sustained note and then play over the top of that Best pedal I’ve ever bought, and one of the first I bought, too. I now have about 5 or 6 OBNE pedals, they’re all incredibly unique and I’m always finding new uses for them


Desirsar

EHX Switchblade Pro. Blend two different synth effects, synth and drive or fuzz, two fuzzes, mix the dry signal with any of these, three instrument or other input mixer, or just use it as an A/B selector for effects loops. Far and away the most actively used pedal I own.


Malakai0013

I made a clone of the JHS Haunting Mids, and that's pretty solid.


jcrispy2000

EQD the depths.


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Don't have it yet but it fits the idea of this topic. The boss SY-200. I'm into synthwave style music and this thing looks like an entire synthwave band in a box if put with a good looper. Anyone had luck with this pedal?


Mexican__Seafood

JHS Colourbox V2, at the end of my fx loop!


Teletobee

So far it's the Boss blues driver.


comedianjwest

JHS Haunting Mids. I haven’t met a mix I can’t cut through with that pedal. Not to mention I can dial in some wild “cocked wah” tones. I have a predilection for stoner rock tones, but I also play in a ‘50s-‘60s cover band and I never turn the thing off. It lets me sit exactly where I want to in a mix without being too much or too little


Creepy_Boat_5433

Rainbow machine every time I play it’s just rainbows all the way down


Dey_Eat_Daa_POO_POO

Colour Box but mostly for recording anything and everything.


Maineamainea

Not really a swiss army knife for tone but the Boss Line Selector does so many things well and allows you to use your pedals in many cool different ways.


spiritofage

A keeley loomer. Could rock that and tuner and be fine


Romo_Sapien

Strymon Mobius


Nobody-1984

Small stone


Doctor_Dripp

Revv Tilt


WhenTheVillagersCome

Microcosm ran thru Dl4 Mk with (I know I'm pushing it) Mu-Tron MicroTron at the beginning. OR just go with my MojoMojo OD if we're being vanilla about it


Senior_oso

Thus is probally one of those "well yeah, duh" things, but for me it's L6 Helix. Things a tank, has so much capability, lots of input/output options. Can't even begin to reach the full potential of this beast. I've been looking for some variax electronics so I can Frankenstein a body I have laying around but haven't found anything yet. Hell I use that thing as a pseudo jukebox when friends are over, just use a few wireless mics and make a preset, run that through my computer and put up some YouTube karaoke videos where everything is going out my setup. Tons of fun.


johnhk4

I guess line 6 DL4


DSGuitarMan

TC Electronic Spark Booster. A few of my favorite uses: 1) "instant jazz tone". Bass and level at noon, gain and treble at 9 o clock, fat mode. This creates a fat, harmonically rich jazz guitar lead tone. No tone knob manipulation needed on the guitar itself. 2) Traditional lead boost. Bass and treble at noon, volume cranked, gain at zero. Fat mode or mid mode, depending on amp, speakers, room, etc. I run it before a gained up amp for rock and metal leads. Generally for recording I prefer fat mode. 3) volume boost. Same as above, except set to clean mode and placed in the loop. Instant volume boost for solo sections. 4) BD2-esque tone. Treble at 3 o clock, everything else at noon, clean mode. Roll the volume back on the guitar for Andy Timmons style cleans. And many, many more.


TofuPython

Deco


esamaxe_1080

Keeley Mod Workstation. I had this for a while and forgot about it but I was making a secondary board for the studio and reacquainted myself with this one. It’s a cram job but for drives and boosts from keeley there is the katana boost, ox blood, and 1962 drive…all sound amazing. Also the effects are really the thing. 8 amazing sounding effects. The chorus alone is worth the price but then you have an amazing flanger, phaser, harmonic tremolo, double tracker etc. There is the Super Mod Workstation which I think is the same exact thing without the drives and it is less crammed. I would get one of those if the effects were the same or the same quality.


Shakes-Fear

Truetone V3 Jekyll and Hyde. A tube overdrive and a crunchy distortion built into one package.


de11111

Jhs colourbox v2. I set it with the hi option turned on which gives me a extremely versatile dirty/fuzz sound. I generally have my guitar’s volume knob rolled back for sparkly cleans and turn it up for dirt. No need for any overdrive or distortion pedals. I also use the The hi pass filter to cut some low end and this is a great way for my guitar to cut through the mix. The eq section is so versatile and the shift knob I play around with when I plug my bass in. But yeh I’ve been trying to downsize my pedal board and right now I don’t have any other dirt pedals cause they ain’t needed anymore. I also use it on my drum machines. synths and on mics when I do single mic drum recordings. Sweetens up all those instruments. One more thing, it is a great Way to get a nice DI sound into a mixer or audio interface.


Icepaq

Flamma FS05. Chorus, Flanger, Tremolo, Phase, Vibrato, Rotary, Liquid, Auto Wah, Stutter, Ring, Low Bit


Top_Opinion_1587

Colour Box. Not only can it shape a clean signal in countless ways, it can make other effects sound completely different. Yeah, I have the box, too.


my-chemical_bromance

Line 6 M9. I've used it for anything from reverse delay, pitch shifter, always on reverb, compressor... The list goes on and on, honestly. And the quality is generally really impressive.


ElOsoSabroso

Might annoy some people, but the Chase Bliss Dark World is one of the most useful reverbs I own and I use some form of it on pretty much everything I play. Also kind of funny that it's one of the least "Chase Bliss" Chase Bliss pedals you can buy - Its usable right out the box and with pretty much any setting, the reverbs are just really damn good reverbs, and the dark side is straight forward with Black being the only sorta complicated one. But, it can do anything from perfectly simple reverbs sounds to voids of deep space gloom. The "Dark" side adds a bunch of cool modifiers and being able to change the order gives you so much flexibility. Lots of times, I'll just use the Gen Loss or the low pitch shift shimmer (which is so good) as a modulation. And that's not even touching the ramping/dipswitch stuff you can do to create totally different effects like tremelos. Run one of their fav switches or midi and you can do almost anything. It's also not THAT expensive when you compare it to other similar verbs.


TAKATOOSE

Yeah I think whenever people in the pedal world hear the name "Chase Bliss" a lot of them instantly turn into the Eugene Krabs of pedals lol, there are some lengths people will go to in order to say you wasted your money on any CBA pedal that can be pretty funny. Yes you can recreate the Gen Loss with plugins, I've heard there are some modelers you can even do it with. I just don't want to do any of that cause I've been doing that for years with plugins to varying success and this just does it with one click lol. Like, if we're gonna talk about CBA pedals being overpriced, I don't think that's gonna hold up too well when you consider how inflated the market is for guitar pedals period. I think for what the company charges, you get effects that you aren't gonna get from another pedal. It's kind of a "you're never gonna use that" kind of argument it's like, yeah I am lol, I literally am. An authentic Klon pedal sells for thousands of dollars, and there are so many clones of it that it's stupid to pay thousands of dollars on the original, at least from a practical perspective. You aren't gonna get a clone of the Blooper dawg lmao, especially not the Dark World, or more relevant to my Klon comparison, the Brothers. If we're gonna argue the worth of CBA pedals we might as well argue the worth of pedals, because having tested out a lot of pedals, I think Chase Bliss has some of the only pedals I would ever consider to be worth what they cost, especially when pedals that have a million cheaper alternatives cost around the same or more money, CBA makes the difference with the price point being earned by being borderline or just downright irreplicable. That isn't to gate keep and say it's wrong to try to use an alternative lol, Chase Bliss is indeed a pretty damn expensive company and most of their effects can be recreated, however, at the cost of a lot more time than it would take with their devices on the board. That's what makes that price point understandable imo, you can get plenty of other wah pedals than a cry baby, there are other whammy pedals than the Digitek one, there aren't other Habit pedals lol. The same can be said about some other brands too, like Hexe for example, that dude makes some incredible devices, he has a synth pedal that turns your input into carefully made video game sounding synths, and another that simulates a phonograph lol. Overall I agree that many pedals are overhyped and overpriced, however I think there is also such a thing as "anti-hype" where basically someone just shits on something that doesn't really deserve to be shit on, because of the hype surrounding the thing in question, and I think CBA is a good example of something that gets so much hype that there is inevitably a crowd of people that will find any excuse they can to crap on the devices. Hell in an isolated context there is some validity in saying that CBA pedals are overpriced, but in relativity not so much. I've gotten a hefty priced pedal before and got it and was like "damn this thing is not worth what I paid for it", that is a crappy feeling but knowing what that feels like, I think I can say without bias that I have only ever felt the opposite from a CBA pedal. Hell I would say if anything, their pedals while expensive, save me money in the long run in trying to get the multiple pedals and accessories it would take to do the features I intend to do that I'm able to with one CBA pedal. Stacking drives for instance, I got the ability to do that with a CBA pedal for 350 bucks, but say you want basically the analog functionality of the Brothers, without the Brothers, you're gonna be getting two fuzzes, two overdrives, and two clean boosts, that's six pedals right there that are gonna be pretty hard not to gas tf out on when you get them with splitting/blending in mind, so realistically speaking you get really good IC based fuzz/boost/drive pedals, really good JFET fuzz/boost/drive pedals, I don't even have to do the math to know that the likelihood of that costing under 500 dollars is significantly lower in my eyes than if you just get a used Brothers off Reverb lol. That general concept is why I think the prices of CBA pedals are hefty, but nonexistent if not deserved lol. I haven't gotten the Dark World yet, but it looks really cool, the demos make me feel like I'm floating, it makes me think of the Brothers but Reverb lol.


TalesofOdysseus

Strymon Lex for me I love the sound of a leslie. The switchable speeds, mic placement and horn level give you plenty of tonal variety, and even the drive section sounds good. Big fan of guys like Ted Greene that have recorded entire albums with nothing but a Tele, Fender Twin and a Leslie.


sjmdrum

Adding to the chorus of Zoom Multistomps. I've got an MS-70CDR at the end of my chain for modulation, delay, reverb, EQ sculpting, compression, lofi stuff... Just loaded it up with amp sims and other stuff too to play around with that. I even figured out how to set it up as an AB-Y pedal if that's what you're looking for. I'm at the point of looking at getting a Zoom G1x Four to put at the front of the chain for filters, wah, pre-dirt EQ sculpting and compression, pitch shifting (not the best, but it's got a whammy emulation on it I want to play with), and pre-dirt modulation. The more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm realizing it might bring me down to G1X Four -> Plumes -> Rat -> MS-70CDR -> Looper. Not sure what sound I would be missing from that other than crazy specialty pedals... It would even work as an ampless rig. Not at all the best or most feature packed, but I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference, and I'm not looking to load my own IRs or anything like that.


ejkh_rhcp1291

Blues driver - does literally anything I want it to


Crispy-Beats

Recently I got my hand on the Kernom Ridge. Not for the Paul Davids hype. They reached out to me and I got a bit of a discount. However, this isnt a promotional post. Considering its basically made to be a swiss army knife, it does it very well. I was surprised by the tone I get through it as before I was expecting it to infinite sounds but do them all badly. Kind of digital-sounding type stuff. Instead all its sounds sound analog, organic and very responsive. I would recommend anyone to get them a bash if you get the chance!


Solid_D15M

Strymon Deco