Anyone Ever Raw Dog a gig?

[Killcrop]

This is my definition of playing a gig with no pedals.

I realized I was in a band in the late 90s and played close to a 100 gig with no pedals. I used a Bogner shiva and plugged straight in. I have a hard time imagining that these days even though I don't use a lot of effects. Might be liberating.

 

[RaceU4her]

i would never play a gig without a tuner so im gonna at least be plugged into that, and most likely a gate cause who needs noise between parts and songs, but other than that i never used any kind of effects live

 

[marvcus]

Yep. Wedding. Wolfgang + IIC+ combo. No problem the whole night!

 

[ZEEGLER]

I used to do it frequently. Tuner doesn't count, because it could just as easily be a clip-on. I played a lot of shows plugged straight into my JCM900 4500.

 

[DanTravis62]

I didn't use pedals for almost 15 years of my gigging career, including some of my biggest shows

 

[Brandonrz]

Never used to, at most I use a boost.

 

[Findthetone1]

Alost none. A chorus pedal for 1 song and a GEQ-7 for leads. My amp didn't even have reverb.

 

[Dale B]

I played every one of them that way. I was only playing rhythm, so it was just guitars, cable and amp.

 

[TheBiggestJerk]

This is my definition of playing a gig with no pedals.

I realized I was in a band in the late 90s and played close to a 100 gig with no pedals. I used a Bogner shiva and plugged straight in. I have a hard time imagining that these days even though I don't use a lot of effects. Might be liberating.

I only gig on bass… so yep!

 

[japetus]

I used only a Ibanez De-7 for a long time.

 

[Music&Chaos]

This is my definition of playing a gig with no pedals.

I realized I was in a band in the late 90s and played close to a 100 gig with no pedals. I used a Bogner shiva and plugged straight in. I have a hard time imagining that these days even though I don't use a lot of effects. Might be liberating.

Straight in most of the time is the way to do things if you can get you rsound that way. That is what I do 99% of the time.

When we are talking about gigging as opposed to sitting in a home studio and recording or something like that, the conversation leans even more to "straight in".

That being said, I never used effects during any of my studio sessions until recent years. Before then, everything was added post.

 

[romanianreaper]

We just did a gig a few weeks ago and I had my Keeley Noble Screamer as a boost and Keeley Halo Core (that I keep on constantly at a lower level) and Spark Mini boost. Fairly simple.

 

[LPMojoGL]

My inner 6th grader wants to say, "I raw dogged your mom last night. Your dad says hi."
But I would never do that. So tacky, immature, crass.

 

[cobrahead1030]

After years of running a multi channel midi switching rig with all the fx I could ever want, I switched to running a VHT deliverance straight in & loved it. Used my volume knob to silence in between songs.

I was actually annoyed some years later when I joined another band that called for a more intricate setup.

 

[Sixstringflannel]

I guess I'd call it a gig, it was a "tan pants gig" in front of 1,200 ish people? First time moving just to guitar for the 4 sets but my pedalboard or power supply was adding a ton of hum so I just went straight into an old AC30 and it was awesome... until my g-string snapped on the last song of the last set and then I didn't have a tuner. I almost wish my pants fell down instead.

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

Is it better to raw dog a gig, or after the gig...that is a more fitting question.

 

[Techdeth]

I did this a lot . But I used a noisegate .

 

[IHateRap]

Of course I’ve eaten raw dog at a gig.

 

[JiMB]

Yes. I prefer plugging straight in and just using hands, pickups, volume and tone knobs. I have a small 5 pedal (1 being a tuner) fly board I use but if I never stepped on a pedal again I d be happy.

 

[DISTORT6]

If it's a great amp, I have no problem going with this, minus the MXR GT-OD. And I have.