Serious question about pedals

[VonBonfire]

The crazy part is that dude with that huge board could literally do ALL OF THOSE PEDALS (except for maybe the ricochet) in the one HX Stomp he has.

It's fucking ridiculous.

Pedals are really useful for making your band sound good live, but they have to be used judiciously - they're like cymbals on a drum set. Do you need 12? No, and you can get by with 1-2, but if you use 6 carefully you can make things sound better.

I wanted to take a picture of my 2nd guitarists board last night but I got tied up with other stuff.....he had one pedal, a tuner on it.

Back in my Jimi loving days I had a wah, fuzz, octafuzz, VS J&H, and a univibe with a foot control. I suck with an octafuzz so I quit bringing it. I used the univibe for two songs and it's two pedals, so I quit bringing that. I liked my J&H better than the fuzz so I quit bringing that. By the time I was done all I was using was the J&H. I'm all about a simple gig rig these days. I actually might get a floor tuner, mostly just for the ability to kill the signal to the amp so I can switch guitars. Then I need to start carrying a second guitar....more shit, lol. The downtown scene definitely lends itself to simplistic rigs cause it's a nightmare getting out of there anytime past 11pm....

 

[Greazygeo]

“Stripped down rock and roll band”…..what could go wrong there.

 

[DanTravis62]

I wanted to take a picture of my 2nd guitarists board last night but I got tied up with other stuff.....he had one pedal, a tuner on it.

Back in my Jimi loving days I had a wah, fuzz, octafuzz, VS J&H, and a univibe with a foot control. I suck with an octafuzz so I quit bringing it. I used the univibe for two songs and it's two pedals, so I quit bringing that. I liked my J&H better than the fuzz so I quit bringing that. By the time I was done all I was using was the J&H. I'm all about a simple gig rig these days. I actually might get a floor tuner, mostly just for the ability to kill the signal to the amp so I can switch guitars. Then I need to start carrying a second guitar....more shit, lol. The downtown scene definitely lends itself to simplistic rigs cause it's a nightmare getting out of there anytime past 11pm....

My gigging pedal rig for a long time was a tc polytune, and an mxr carbon copy, and thats it

honestly most of the time i've added pedals, it was because of specific songs that required effects to match up to the sounds on records, or get close - both in original bands, and cover bands. That's how the wah and electric mistress got added. There's 4 pedals right there

I could get by fine with 4 now if I needed to, wah, tuner, delay, and gate - but I'd just be adding footswitches and deleting overdrives and ending up with the same amount of shit to step on

The thing is, if you set your pedalboard up like a non retard, it takes the exact same time to set up as one pedal. I can see the jimi board being a problem because some of those things you can't power with a power supply, right?

 

[VonBonfire]

My gigging pedal rig for a long time was a tc polytune, and an mxr carbon copy, and thats it

honestly most of the time i've added pedals, it was because of specific songs that required effects to match up to the sounds on records, or get close - both in original bands, and cover bands. That's how the wah and electric mistress got added. There's 4 pedals right there

I could get by fine with 4 now if I needed to, wah, tuner, delay, and gate - but I'd just be adding footswitches and deleting overdrives and ending up with the same amount of shit to step on

The thing is, if you set your pedalboard up like a non retard, it takes the exact same time to set up as one pedal. I can see the jimi board being a problem because some of those things you can't power with a power supply, right?

When I had the Jimi pedals I never used a board. I don't think I was aware there was such a thing as a pedalboard so I just threw them in a 'ol tater sack and hooked them up at the gig like Jimi. There's another reason I ditched the vibe. 18v wall wart pain in neck and main unit+foot control requiring the stereo cable connection. The foot pedal was the first thing to go. Everything else was batteries. How many stages have power at the front? 1 in 50 maybe?

That's why I kept bugging Wayne to gimme a 9v option on my boots. More stuff to connect=more points of potential failure. Sort our one bad patch cable on a board with tons of stuff on it at when I'm just trying to make some bucks and hang out. Everything in my gig rig is built around redundancy so 2 of everything I need guitar, amp, pedals, cables. I'm still lacking a few cables and a 2nd ES type guitar.

Bottom line it's just up to the player to decide how much they want to lug. The dirty 6th shuffle with 15 minutes to set up at the next gig after knocking down a 3 hour set already pretty much took me in a hurry from a strat, od-head-4x12 to ES with a Twin and a cable for a few years. Grab and go. I added the boots back in to the mix to make my life easier.

 

[EyesOfTheSouth!]