If you could have only one stomp-box, which would it be?

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:26 am

oh god, that is almost impossible.
If we are just talking distortions, I used to say my Rat box (deucetone). But I got a DBA Fuzz War and it kills everything.
Outside of the realm of fuzz, I'd have to say my Moogerfooger lowpass.
Its jsut way too cool, way too versatile. It has so many damn knobs! I love it! I need the control processor!
Or the new footpedal!

jpmorris · Post by **jpmorris** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:16 am

I'm not a guitarist so I don't use pedals too much. My absolute favourite is the H&K Rotosphere which my Hammond XM-1 is permanently attached to, but at a pinch I could use the internal leslie sim.

For vocals, everything I do now (except narration, obviously) is always done through a Watkins Copicat tape echo, which I adore. But since it's basically a small briefcase, I'm not going to count that as a stompbox :P

Recently I wanted to try a chorus effect on vocals for a particular song, and since it was just for the one song, I went for the cheapest I could find, which was Behringer's FX600 digital multieffects pedal for the obscenely low price of about ?16, basically an impulse purchase. It is cheap, nasty and plasticky. I doubt it would surivive a gig.
However, the chorus mode immediately gave the precise effect I was aiming for and it has 5 other effects in just the one pedal.

So while nominating a crappy Behringer pedal as my one-and-only stompbox is unlikely to win me any friends, if I could only have one, it would probably be that.

GooberNumber9 · Post by **GooberNumber9** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:31 am

Any wah. I gotta have wah. First pedal I ever got, and the one pedal that has been in every non-acoustic rig I've ever had. I've never used anything other than a stock Dunlop Crybaby, but I'm not that picky about it, as long as I have it.

Todd Wilcox

kayagum · Post by **kayagum** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:38 am

SansAmp original. I have played every theater stage gig through it.

Honorable mentions: Maxon CP101 compressor, SIB Varidrive.

Marc Alan Goodman · Post by **Marc Alan Goodman** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:46 am

For guitar my favorite stomp box is my zvex super duper two in one (although I think I may still prefer my keeley Java Boost that got stolen years ago...).

For mixing I'd say echoplex. That's a stomp box, right?

-marc alan goodman

ladewd · Post by **ladewd** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:53 pm

MXR Phase 90 for live guitar playing. Back in the day of analog synths, a delay was the single most important FX for me. I used everything from an echoplex, to a Memoryman.

Now that all keyboards come with FX, I don't need the delay stompbox anymore. When I play guitar the phase shifter is my favorite FX. I don't like distortion or overdrive pedals and prefer to get my distortion from a tube amp and if I need reverb, I'll use the one in the amp.

CA

Scodiddly · Post by **Scodiddly** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:34 pm

Does this mean I have to start using a stompbox?

eh91311 · Post by **eh91311** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:46 pm

First of all, I'm a bass player who plays at guitar.

Bass; Tech 21 Bass Driver DI. Instant SVT-in-a-box.

Guitar; ProCo Vintage RAT distortion box. You can dial in something workable, from OD to heavy, with some semblance of the original guitar tone.

eh91311 · Post by **eh91311** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:48 pm

Scodiddly wrote:Does this mean I have to start using a stompbox?

Yep.

Haha.

bobbydj · Post by **bobbydj** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:56 pm

Probably a Front Line delay - analogue. A '70s euro budget brand - used for vocals; slap, longer repeats and that kind of thing. Very clean sounding considering its age. I like it a lot, although not on guitar. I suppose really it's a poor man's memory man. I also like the Front Line compressor - the older version in the orange casing. Couple it with the echo and crank the pres on the 424 and you can get some very trad vocal sounds.

Scodiddly · Post by **Scodiddly** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:45 pm

eh91311 wrote:
Scodiddly wrote:Does this mean I have to start using a stompbox?
Yep.

Haha.

OK, I do have this sort of multi-FX thing made by Boss. I just need to figure out how to plug my mandolin into it.

layez · Post by **layez** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:25 pm

assuming I can still use the amp distortion, I would keep my Memory Man of course.

Sean Sullivan · Post by **Sean Sullivan** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:01 am

This is tough one, but I'd have to go with a simple overdrive pedal, and since the MI Audio Blues Pro is what I have right now that would be my choice. They make really great pedals, I have a Crunch Box that sounds great in front of my Bluesbreaker. The fact that they are affordable makes them all the more appealing.

mikeyc · Post by **mikeyc** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:20 am

Um... a channel switch. I guess that's it.

>Mojave_Gary< · Post by **>Mojave_Gary<** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:00 am

I would have to take the guts from my MXR Distortion Plus and integrate them into an Electro-Harmonix Smallstone so that I could have a DistortionStone Plus. I think i could live with that........for a while anyway.

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